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Mar 20^th, 2010 at 6:24pm

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see the world.

Thanks for looking.

Edited:

Ok machineman9, I tried to clean up the edges a little more, but I think it looks a little blurry now. I darkened the aircraft and added contrast, then added the lighting again. Better? Undecided

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #1 - Mar 20^th, 2010 at 6:28pm

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Wow!
Is this a photo or terragen?

"We joined the navy,
to see the world.
What did we see?
We saw the see".

Yea, I'd rather join the air force.

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Reply #2 - Mar 20^th, 2010 at 6:31pm

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Frequent Flyer wrote on Mar 20^th, 2010 at 6:28pm:

Wow!
Is this a photo or terragen?

"We joined the navy,
to see the world.
What did we see?
We saw the see".

Yea, I'd rather join the air force.

It's a photo. I will never get Tgen looking that good. As to the phrase, I just 'borrowed' it because I could not think of a title. Roll Eyes

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #3 - Mar 20^th, 2010 at 6:32pm

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"Join The Air Force, You'll Get High All The Time!!!"

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30,000ft high that is! Grin

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Reply #4 - Mar 20^th, 2010 at 6:48pm

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My only criticisms are that the edges look a tad rough and that the lighting doesn't quite match. There's a load of sunlight shining down but none of it seems to be hitting the aircraft. You may want to try and brighten up some areas of the aircraft and darken others to give it a nice shadow. Often to do that I create a white patch, use gaussian blur to smoothe it out and set that as a light area. Then I create a dark layer and in similar fasion draw on the shadows, blur them and it leaves slightly better contrast.

But besides that, it looks rather good Cool

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Reply #5 - Mar 20^th, 2010 at 6:53pm

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machineman9 wrote on Mar 20^th, 2010 at 6:48pm:

My only criticisms are that the edges look a tad rough and that the lighting doesn't quite match. There's a load of sunlight shining down but none of it seems to be hitting the aircraft. You may want to try and brighten up some areas of the aircraft and darken others to give it a nice shadow. Often to do that I create a white patch, use gaussian blur to smoothe it out and set that as a light area. Then I create a dark layer and in similar fasion draw on the shadows, blur them and it leaves slightly better contrast.

But besides that, it looks rather good Cool

As to the edges, that's about as good as I can get with the tools I have. It may have something to do with my video card, which I hope to have solved soon. I took the shot over water with the sun in as close the same location as I could, then added light from the general area the sun is in with a lighting addon in PSP where you can change the color, focus, angle etc. Guess I just did not do enough.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #6 - Mar 20^th, 2010 at 7:14pm

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Are there no smoothing/smudge options? Usually I use a really light version of that to run over the edges to try and smooth out the aircraft.

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Reply #7 - Mar 21^st, 2010 at 1:00pm

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machineman9 wrote on Mar 20^th, 2010 at 7:14pm:

Are there no smoothing/smudge options? Usually I use a really light version of that to run over the edges to try and smooth out the aircraft.

That's what caused the edges to look blurred in the second one.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #8 - Mar 21^st, 2010 at 9:27pm

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Just get them smoother to start with Patchz. A faster finger on the 'V' key might help Cheesy

. They didn't have that plane when I was in the Air Force.

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