I make pretty pictures - HSV + Other Edits, BRZ Preview [9/29]

[el fayce]

nice update

 

[Solo]

Very nice work, showing off the 2.0 features really well 👍

 

[StoneyNUFC]

Love these 2, mood in the first one is great and great use of the avatar, lighting in the second shot is splendid 👍

 

[Jacob]

Very nice, the Schulze GT-R @ the 'Ring looks great.

 

[akuyuku]

[delete]

 

[Solo]

Very nice again 👍 and that bloom does look good

 

[gtfan4life]

The shots of the GT-R are outstanding!

 

[bys]

dude love your pics. inspiring me to get back into the photomode. keep it up.

 

[el fayce]

is that real photos ???

 

[akuyuku]

Alright, alright. I know I said I'd update this last weekend and that fell through. But I can guarantee a HUUUUUUUUUUGE update coming this weekend. I promise! For now, here's a promotional poster I made to Spec 2.0 as a preview.

 

[ashes619]

Great shots.

 

[Jacob]

Gotta love that slogan.

 

[akuyuku]

Gotta love that slogan.

It's actually from a song by St. Vincent.



Anyway, update coming in a couple minutes. I'm planning to redo the first post layout and take out some shots as well tomorrow.

 

[akuyuku]

First up is the Nurb GTR that came with the update. If you've seen the previews, then you've seen most of these pics already. Whoops!

Coupled with some avatar shots...



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[akuyuku]

And the second half of the update is another incarnation of the GTR...

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[Solo]

Very nice 👍 Great use of the 2.0 features and an awesome poster!

 

[akuyuku]

And now... THE RESURRECTION.

Just a quick update and a few shots for the next set. I'm planning to enter the 2.0 competition with a Stratos, but I really suck at taking pics of standards.

(LOOK BELOW!)

Also, I'm extremely disappointed that they took away the bloom in 2.01. BRING IT BAAAACK!

Oh and one more thing, can anyone tell me why my some of my photos have TERRIBLE compression? The second Stratos shot had it pretty bad when I opened it up.

 

[nanabu]

the Stratos Pictures are insane mate

 

[akuyuku]

Glad you like 'em because I have more. These are all potential entries for the 2.0 comp.

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And some others...

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I might rework some of the Stratos shots.

 

[akuyuku]

Moving on to another set preview now...

[look below for the set]

And two re-edits of Stratos shots that I think are competition worthy.



I'm considering those two and the fifth shot in the Stratos set. Tell me what you guys think.

 

[Jacob]

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Amazing. 👍

The red tones are fantastic. Great composition in the 2nd one as well.

 

[SMfan]

Soo so pretty. 👍

 

[Primus Ortus]

Wow - nice stuff here. Love the tones and composition. The partials of the GTR and F1 are my favorites. Great work. You asked about the compression in one of your posts above - I was having a bit of a problem with it in Gimp, particularly when using layers. What editing program(s) are you using?

 

[akuyuku]

Amazing. 👍

The red tones are fantastic. Great composition in the 2nd one as well.

Soo so pretty. 👍

Wow - nice stuff here. Love the tones and composition. The partials of the GTR and F1 are my favorites. Great work. You asked about the compression in one of your posts above - I was having a bit of a problem with it in Gimp, particularly when using layers. What editing program(s) are you using?

Thanks guys! As for the compression, I'm using Photoshop CS (yep, just plain 'ol CS). When I transfer them over to USB and open them up on my computer, some pics are already kind of pixel-y. No editing at all. :/

 

[Primus Ortus]

I don't know what to tell you about Photoshop CS. Perhaps try saving in a different format, such as RAW or TIFF. I'm assuming you've saved them in JPEG. Or, see if CS will allow you to change the degree of compression. When saving JPEG files in GIMP, you can set the percentage of compression, which is denoted as "picture quality" by GIMP. Or perhaps CS has a default setting you can change.

 

[akuyuku]

Actually I've been saving my edited photos in PNG. Like I said, the picture's already compressed even before I open it up in Photoshop, and then when I open it, it says something like "The file looks damaged. Proceed with opening?". I'm aware that GT5 exports as JPG files, but the compression shouldn't be this bad.

Oh and flickr uploads my stuff in jpg, but at a smaller resolution.

 

[akuyuku]

I'm planning to update this post tomorrow, so stay tuned for the full set!

I tried a more hard-edged, high contrast look for some of them.

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And non-RM'd cars.

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[akuyuku]

Some leftover shots that I just edited.

 

[akuyuku]

Greetings... again.

Here's a miscellaneous batch that I'm planning to update sometime later this week. I tried to use less layers and some of the default camera angles for most of these.

[check the next page]

 

[SMfan]

Wow...
they look so...
real...