[Droid803]

I vote blowfish's. Outer Glow FTW.

[Hellstryker]

Third one on the left, fourth one on the right, and blowfishes are the best, IMO. Shall we hold a vote on internal?

[Hellstryker]

SPOILER TIEM!!1111ELEVENSEVENTY42!!1111

Whoever guesses the name of the bomber in question gets to be the terran in http://s209.photobucket.com/albums/bb317/Tyrkeyz/?action=view&current=22eb06a5.flv
 

[S-99]

Here's another option

That looks great. But, does anyone know how to slightly blur the background image to make the background look better? Just a weak blur setting is what the background image is screaming for and that'll make the tiigran ship more smoothed out.

[Titan]

why are you releasing the Rhea to the public? the team only has one shot to look at!  we want more so we can nitpick

[Hellstryker]

why are you releasing the Rhea to the public? the team only has one shot to look at!  we want more so we can nitpick

Titan, get your ships straight, the Rhea is not a bomber and certainly does not have a beam cannon.

[Aardwolf]

Any of the ones Jadehawk did would look fine, except that they all have JPEG artifacts!

[Jeff Vader]

except that they all have JPEG artifacts!

[Jadehawk]

Any of the ones Jadehawk did would look fine, except that they all have JPEG artifacts!

Hahaha! I remember that STTNG show too!

Well that can be fixed! I only did that layout just for viewing purposes. If one of mine happens to be chosen, then I'll change it to whatever file extension that's needed. I can also blur the background somewhat if that's absolutely needed.

[S-99]

If you save the image as jpg or png. Make sure no compression was applied! The image is quite tiny enough it doesn't need it's quality decreased. Plz apply a small amount of blur to the background layer plz so it get so the tiigran ship in it gets smoothed out a little. Now if blowfish and jadehawk could slightly blur the background image just a little, that'd be great and we could probably choose.

[Hellstryker]

Save PNG as compressed as you can, it's lossless ;\

[Aardwolf]

yes, what he said.

[Stormkeeper]

No one can upload a .psd verson, can they? So I can fool around with it too?

[S-99]

A psd version had been posted on the last page, but here you go.

[Jadehawk]

Here is one I did with the background blurred. Let me know if this blurring is what you want.

 

This is also a uncompressed .jpeg

[S-99]

Too much blurring, try to go with about half as much. Other than that it looks good. This is something blowfish forgot to do. Blurring the background in this picture slighty is the difference to making it look good, too pixelated, or a mirage.

I have another psd file here, it's really the same file except with clear labels for the layers. And instead of two layers is now 3. One with my blurred version, and one with the untouched background. It's really just the same damn psd file i posted earlier except with that extra blurred background layer, but since everyone seems to be forgetting to do that. All other links to the psd file i have posted will let you download the new one. If someone messing around with it forgets about the blur, well then it's there. If someone doesn't like it and wants to do something else to modify it, well the original is in the file as well.

Anyway jadehawk, here's the level of blur that you would want for something. I did this by applying the gaussian blur filter on it's most minimal settings to the background image. And voila, you will end up with a background with not overdone blurring


Also this is me posting my original version as a png. Damn png doesn't artifact like jpeg does. Jadehawk, plz do like what other people in here recommended, save your images as uncompressed png. But, i think you got the message not applying compression anyhow :yes:Holy **** i wasn't expecting that major of a difference (the unblurred text in mine isn't surrounded by artifacts, as compared with my other postings of jpegs).

[Titan]

what do you mean by artifact?

[Jeff Vader]

Sort of graphical glitches caused by (poor-quality) compression. Causes migraine among the hi-fi people. And really doesn't look good on anything.

You could, for example, compare a quality DivX video with its Youtube counterpart. The Youtube one has notable artifacts.

[Titan]

ah, thanks

[Jadehawk]

For your inspection...



Hope this blur is better to suit your needs.

If so, then I'll creat the others.

Also, I'll save the new ones as a .png file