Background release thread updated on 14/1/09 Mirage

[Lauli]

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Please don't tell me you ripped those sprites. They look f'n awesome! (Violet Bittersweet)

[Silverthorn]

Now it's the epic awesomeness, nothing to say about, it's just great!

[Marshall]

partially ripped... Involved quite a lot of photoshop on the sky. Thanks for your appreciation and feedback, it is most helpful [=
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16/5
added the latest M&M -- Nachtmystium

[Silverthorn]

Pretty cool, but there is one thing (like usually) that I don't like...
The floor looks kinda pixelated... like if its original size was about half as small... can you fix that?

[Marshall]

I know, and I did not intend it to be enlarged that much... Had it not been the contest rules, it would look fairly similar to this:
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1175/...ncekk2.gif
definitely less pixelated...

[Silverthorn]

yea, that looks way better, still a bit inflated, though, but by lengths better than the contest one


woohoo, post #2^8 =D

[SirFrog]

This is great!
but this makes my pics that i´ve made in photoshop feel... like rubbish... You are awesome...

[Lauli]

This one looks ways better compared to "Nachtmystium". I just like the brown-purple theme much better.

And why don't you just resize the pics pixelated and then use a noise-removal filter? Shouldn't look that ripped then.

[Marshall]

@Lauli
what is a noise removal filter? Is it in Photoshop?
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Many thanks to Yuan who have improved the light pillars of this background so it looks more natural

[Lauli]

Kayz, the noise removal thingy is somewhere in photoshop and looks something like this:
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Filter > Noise > Reduce Noise
(Click to get on an information page, which I just googled)

I tried sth myself (Not with photoshop though, due to some limitations...)



Artwork from World of Warcraft

Maybe some detailss are gone, but it looks ways better than pixelated.