Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion FoLC Productions Fanfic Poster: Addicted

Okay, I finally worked up the nerve to try making a poster for someone else's fic. So... here it is:



Btw, does anyone have any brilliant ideas for how to make the lines smoother around pictures when you cut them out?

ML

Oooo! That looks nicey!

I forget exactly how to do it (I'd have to look at the program) but when you select the tool you use to cut something out, there's a feather feature under... edit? You just put in a couple of pixels, and it makes the edges smoother. That's what you're thinking of, right?

And that's in photoshop. Not sure how other programs work

That's pretty cool, MLT!

Oooh! Great poster! I recently read the sequel to Addicted, but I hadn't gotten around to reading Addicted. I think I might just have to go do that. Great job.

Smooth. Excellent imagery!

There's a blur tool in Photoshop that I'll use sometimes. Maybe Digital Image has something similar? I run it along the photo edges a couple of times, and it's just enough get rid of the hard lines.


JD

Great poster! I love the story and I love the poster you did for it.

There is indeed a blur tool in most photo software that you can use like a brush to softening the edges of an object. There is too, sometimes, another tool, that soften the edges adding a little shadow. The results are often better than just the blur line thing, but I don't know the name of the tool. In PhotoImpact, they call that "burn", but I don't know for the other softwares.

Okay, I played around with the blur function and it sort of worked. Of course, it requires a steady hand and with my drinking problem... Oh! Wait! I didn't say that! No drinking problem here. Nope, none whatsoever.

Anyway, I'm just glad that there is an 'undo' option under edit . Anyway, I finally got it a bit better. I'll update the poster with the new edges when I get back home. Right now I'm in a hotel and the internet connection comes and goes here, so updating from here would probably be difficult.

Anyway, thanks for the help - and the feedback. I'll probably have lots more questions in the future

Oh, and when I get a chance, I'm going to look for something called 'shadow.' I tried the feather feature, but I made it too blury So I'll have to play with it a bit more, too.

ML

Great poster!!