One shot + screenshots of cropping + rotating/cropping

[DK8290]

I thought I'd post these in a new thread since Carlos asked "what is cropping". Most graphics software will be able to crop and I think it can allow one to find a new arrangement in a raw screen capture (eg , so the plane or other item of interest is off-centre or in an interesting place). I prefer Ulead's PhotoImpact ( http://www.ulead.com/pi/runme.htm ) to anything for most of my graphics work (including FS2004 screenshots).


So here's a finished shot;

http://www.the-airfield.com/aaaa_mis...r50_dubai1.jpg


Here are some screenshots of cropping and also resizing and finishing with a bit of tonal effects

http://www.the-airfield.com/aaaa_mis.../YAFSS_001.jpg


Drawing the crop box

http://www.the-airfield.com/aaaa_mis.../YAFSS_002.jpg

New cropped area before hitting the crop button

http://www.the-airfield.com/aaaa_mis.../YAFSS_003.jpg

New cropped image before image resize

http://www.the-airfield.com/aaaa_mis.../YAFSS_004.jpg

Going to image resize

http://www.the-airfield.com/aaaa_mis.../YAFSS_005.jpg

Image resize parameters ... I set my images to 780 pixels wide (with the aspect ratio set so the height is altered relatively).

http://www.the-airfield.com/aaaa_mis.../YAFSS_006.jpg

New cropped/resized image

http://www.the-airfield.com/aaaa_mis.../YAFSS_007.jpg

Adjusting some tonal values (highlight/midtones and shadows) and adding a bit of sharpening and a vague lighting effect. I have these effects saved in an FS2004 spot in the 'easypalette'.

http://www.the-airfield.com/aaaa_mis.../YAFSS_008.jpg

"Expanded the canvas" with a certain colour to give a quick frame for finished shot

http://www.the-airfield.com/aaaa_mis.../YAFSS_009.jpg



On these next ones I started over with the raw screen capture and rotated the raw screen capture as the first step.

http://www.the-airfield.com/aaaa_mis.../YAFSS_010.jpg

Cropping out a new image from that rotated shot.

http://www.the-airfield.com/aaaa_mis.../YAFSS_011.jpg

Resizing again

http://www.the-airfield.com/aaaa_mis.../YAFSS_012.jpg

Finished shot. New angles are possible by rotating the raw shot first. Horizons don't have to be horizontal ;-)

http://www.the-airfield.com/aaaa_mis.../YAFSS_013.jpg


Many graphics software will be able to rotate and crop and adjust things a bit. PhotoImpact , Paintshop Pro, Photoshop, Corel PhotoPaint (Corel Draw suite), Corel Painter are some examples.

Here's a few free (legally) graphic softwares in case anyone doesn't have software



Gimp ... http://www.gimp.org/ I haven't tried it in a long time. Seems to me it didn't like my graphics pen and tablet back then.

Photoplus 5.5 http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/ser...share.html&SP=

Irfanview ... http://www.irfanview.com/ from testing it, it allows rotating, cropping and tonal alterations


Hope this post is of some use.

[crashking]

Cool!!! Awesome post!

Crash

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[yv35p]

Wow! Thanks a lot David, thats very helpful:-) I use Photoshop, but mainly for my repaints..I've been experimenting, pushing buttons lol...to edit my screenshots, your tips are great:-jumpy

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[lazlo123]

That certainly helped me a lot!

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[DK8290]

thanks guys .... glad it was a bit helpful to some. You'll have to dig about in whatever software you have I guess.

[Vilk]

if you rotated first, resampled later, you'd have more information to work with, no?
;-)

great post--wish we had more like this

[LVBer123]

Nice post! Love the shot :9

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[DK8290]

Thanks vilk and Joe.

"if you rotated first, resampled later, you'd have more information to work with, no?"

I did rotate the raw screenshot first. The above are two examples starting with the raw screenshot although maybe the line between them isn't obvious.

[meine]

Hey that's great, having the time and and preparation to do that for us ;) Thanks a lot man, really appreciate it...IrfanView is a GREAT compressor, it barely makes you lose any quality when compressing the pic (unlike Photoshop, etc)