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jedimasta · 19-07-2005, 02:53 PM

I disagree with sandfish, but the reflection in the glass is off somehow. It's hard to tell that the reflection is of a gun, because the shapes are really weird looking. You might want to up the resolution on the image you used for the playing card. If I were to wager a guess, I'd say you scanned in the image of a real ace of spades.

Try instead to recreate the texture as a vector image in illustrator or something similar to get the edges sharper and cleaner. I only metion it because I had the same problem in my image where some objects are sitting on one of those giant desk calendars. I scanned in a part of the calendar and filled in the rest, but the whole thing really looked crappy. When I recreated it in illustrator, all in vector, suddenly I have this unlimited-hi-res image that looks GREAT in the scene.

Before and After:
http://www.media-geeks.com/images/ar...led_pillsa.jpg http://www.media-geeks.com/images/articles/pillsa.jpg

(look specifically at the surface everything is sitting on)

19-07-2005, 02:53 PM	#3
jedimasta Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 23	I disagree with sandfish, but the reflection in the glass is off somehow. It's hard to tell that the reflection is of a gun, because the shapes are really weird looking. You might want to up the resolution on the image you used for the playing card. If I were to wager a guess, I'd say you scanned in the image of a real ace of spades. Try instead to recreate the texture as a vector image in illustrator or something similar to get the edges sharper and cleaner. I only metion it because I had the same problem in my image where some objects are sitting on one of those giant desk calendars. I scanned in a part of the calendar and filled in the rest, but the whole thing really looked crappy. When I recreated it in illustrator, all in vector, suddenly I have this unlimited-hi-res image that looks GREAT in the scene. Before and After: http://www.media-geeks.com/images/ar...led_pillsa.jpg http://www.media-geeks.com/images/articles/pillsa.jpg (look specifically at the surface everything is sitting on) __________________ Films, Games, New, Reviews and More http://www.media-geeks.com Last edited by jedimasta; 19-07-2005 at 03:18 PM.