Some glee for a change! (No, not the show)
May. 6th, 2011 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmadisonSo, I now have a new laptop with which to do stuff with. The laptop came with a bunch of programs, including Adobe Photoshop Elements 9. I haven't used Photoshop since middle school! But of course, I got so used to GIMP that I figured it wouldn't matter much.
Then I got to making icons based on a scene from Jade Palace Lock Heart. It was going along OK in GIMP until I tried to do this effect:
When I originally tried it in GIMP, Yang Mi's character Qing Chuan looked all blue due to the color of the original crop, so I decided to give it a try in Photoshop. After messing with some enhance options, I squealed out loud because OMG, it looked 1000 times better!!
To get a better visual, this is the original crop:
And this is what it looked like after applying "Auto Levels" on Photoshop:
SEE THE DIFFERENCE?!?!
I'm sure it can be done in GIMP too, but that would involve messing with a whole bunch of options that I would be guessing at. Looks like I'll be using Photoshop to "fix" my screencaps from now on. =D
Then I got to making icons based on a scene from Jade Palace Lock Heart. It was going along OK in GIMP until I tried to do this effect:
When I originally tried it in GIMP, Yang Mi's character Qing Chuan looked all blue due to the color of the original crop, so I decided to give it a try in Photoshop. After messing with some enhance options, I squealed out loud because OMG, it looked 1000 times better!!
To get a better visual, this is the original crop:
And this is what it looked like after applying "Auto Levels" on Photoshop:
SEE THE DIFFERENCE?!?!
I'm sure it can be done in GIMP too, but that would involve messing with a whole bunch of options that I would be guessing at. Looks like I'll be using Photoshop to "fix" my screencaps from now on. =D
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