My entry...

Storms a'brewin...

havent entered this competition for a month or two... I know this aircraft has been featured heavily in the comp, but lets face it, you can never have too many beaver shots?! ....

Comments and criticism appreciated,

and good luck all

Deano 

All freeware default except HDEv2.

Beautifull!  Nice use of the big cloud covering most of the horizon!  Really brings out that snowy sky effect!  And nice job on some of the scenery!  You sure can put those beavers through a lot.


If you want to listen to a rant on my attempts:
Though in my attempts I seem to be constantly focusing on trying some of my diffrent G21A Goose paints around smith mountain lake.  But sadly, they end up so big and high quality, that I have to do MAJOR quality reductions to get it within the 155kb limit, and by then, it looks HORRIBLY pixelated.  But anyway, you can find some neat stuff around there, for example.  And if you want to see something cool, search around a certain part of the lake and you'll find something quite unusual.  Let's just say, in the real world, there's a dam at the top, and I wouldn't want to be a FS boater there.
Again, sorry to rant.

todayshorse wrote on Sep 16^th, 2011 at 5:37pm:

I use the print screen request button, then paste into Paint.NET, save as jpeg, then use the quality slider to reduce it to the closest under 155kb as possible.  And it doesn't get pixelated until really low, but thing is, somewhere around 75% and below, you really start to see a big color and blending reduction, for example, one patch of sky will be one color, and then the one right next to it will be completely diffrent, certainly not contest quality. And mine tend to end up needing it at around 60-75% quality to get it below 155kb, becuase they tend to start anywhere from 300-700kb at 100%.

hyperpep111 wrote on Sep 16^th, 2011 at 5:54pm:

I don't resize my screenshots.  Only ones to be used as thumbnails in my paints.

todayshorse wrote on Sep 16^th, 2011 at 8:33pm:

Actually, I just got bout 10 good ones that I'm able to keep in th 90-100% range.  So nevermind with all this stuff.  Problom now is, choosing which to enter!

BTW cantflywontfly, my favorite shot so far. Good job....

hey, thank you all for the kind words and comments! awsome shots so far in the contest!

as for resizing/screenshot grabbing, I tend to just hit 'V' several hundred times a minute till i get a nice shot  ...takes up several gigs of diskspace lol

then just a quick re-size using an old version of photoshop, great JPEG compression without loosing much detail. of corse there is a price to pay... (unless u get it free from college/uni    )

Deano 

Club508 wrote on Sep 18^th, 2011 at 4:50pm:


No it isn't. Some people play at 1366x768 like me and I just use BDsizer to get them down to 1024x768 .
I think you're not allowed to edit, resizing might be fine.
You should talk to a moderator about it