Contest Advice: Editing Questions
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Crestent,
Posted on: 2008-10-03 21:43 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
I wouldn't worry about adding names or anything in. In fact, blatant photoshopping might be a distractor. I just put my character's name in the file name of all the shots ("Midnight flux front.jpg", and the like) to help whoever's sorting them out. For those that make the finals, I'm sure the pictures will be presented in such a fashion to prevent confusion about who's in the picture. Just crop it down to a good looking picture that shows the character well.
I've never yet taken a hit from a bad guy skidding across the floor on his keister.
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I think you are suppose to put the name of the character in the email.
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There's a whole list of information you're supposed to put in the e-mail. He was just asking if there's anything he should add into the actual photos.
I've never yet taken a hit from a bad guy skidding across the floor on his keister.
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Learn the knockback, live the knockback, love the knockback!
Thank you, Midnight_Flux, that's exactly what I meant. Sorry if I was unclear originally. Now that I've cropped them down to how I want them, there really wouldn't be room to add anything anyway, to be honest with you.
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I wouldn't worry about adding names or anything in. In fact, blatant photoshopping might be a distractor. I just put my character's name in the file name of all the shots ("Midnight flux front.jpg", and the like) to help whoever's sorting them out. For those that make the finals, I'm sure the pictures will be presented in such a fashion to prevent confusion about who's in the picture. Just crop it down to a good looking picture that shows the character well.
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Besides cropping to various sizes, the only thing I did to mine was to bump the gamma a bit -- screenshots from CoV tend to come out dark -- to bring out a little detail in the image.
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I'm curious about something as well... it says "800 x 600 resolution or better", and "Entrants should crop their screenshots so that only the main character and the immediate background are visible." My screenshots are coming out at 1280 x 1024. Should I crop it to 800 x 600, or is that only the game resolution desired? IE: are there any restrictions on the final size of the image? 
I believe the resolution thing is for the in-game setting, just so the judges can actually see the image. Anything less than that will be hard to make out. (Although I don't even know if the game does go lower than that, as I've never looked. Anyone play CoH with it looking like Castle Wolfenstein?)
Cropping the image so that it isn't a full-size screen cap is all you really need to do, probably. Getting your character completely in the frame means that there's a lot of wasted space. Trim it so that the picture shows the character and hints at the background. In a 1280x1024 image, that means jettisoning at least 75% of the screen cap.
My character Sergeant Shield in full size screen cap. As you can see, I'm zoomed in as close as I can get while still showing off the entire character. But most of that is wasted space.
Sergeant Shield cropped. It gets the same idea across as the full size shot because it keeps the important elements, but it saves space and makes it easier for the CoH judges to download.
This is how I interpreted the instructions.
The Alt Alphabet ~ OPC: Other People's Characters ~ Terrific Screenshots of Cool ~ Superhero Fiction
How do you get a picture of your ID? I can't figure it out or find it anywhere...
The directions are in the contest rules.
Simple answer -- use Print Screen, open an image program (Photoshop, MS Paint, etc.), then Paste it there.
If you have Vista this won't work because for some reason Vista takes screenshots of what you did five minutes ago.
The Alt Alphabet ~ OPC: Other People's Characters ~ Terrific Screenshots of Cool ~ Superhero Fiction
Thanks for clarifying. 
I hope you were right.
Hey there, everyone! I'm entering my main for the "create a character" contest, and am wondering what you folks think about what to do in post. They were taken at a very high res on a widescreen monitor, so I definitely want to crop them down, but I'm not sure what else to do.
Do you think it would be a good idea to add things like the character's name in the corner? I've never really done anything like this before, but I do have basic photoshop skills. Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer! (I really wish they would've given an example of what they're looking for...)