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 Post subject: Image lightning out of control
PostPosted: Mon May 22, 2017 9:14 am  (#1) 
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Greetings, this is my first post.

I've been messing for months now with a basic custom 90s vibe game cover that I'm trying to come up with. Currently there are 100 active layers consisting of transformed external images. The problem is, cover doesn't look tight. Resolution is 3200, scaling down the image zooms out all the ugliness. Taking a quick peek at real official covers is such a relief to my eyes in comparison. No matter how much stuff there is it looks like it's coming from a single channel, even the most basic ones with 5 colors look neat, one solid stamp. Whereas mine looks like it's coming from 20 different channels, it takes a little bit of time for eyes to process of what is going on. Layer masks that are duplicated, desaturated, inverted along with various modes,, curves, levels, auto adjustments, all the tricks I've googled do improve the appearance, but none of it matter. It feels like I'm trying to improve the output of my monitor in particular area rather than image itself. This 'digital look' might fit in web design, but it nowhere near resembles paper. It's like battling with an actual monitor lamp giving you physical shadows. It's like spending 15 minutes trying to make a choice between two colors with different settings, but in reality both are invalid. It's like painter mixing his colors and about to deliver that epic touch, but when he does, everything turn into s*it, because regardless of his greatness, it's toilet paper he's trying to paint on that needs to be fixed. I don't know how to fix it, that's how I feel. I can't even work anymore my right eyeball is bleeding...


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 Post subject: Re: Image lightning out of control
PostPosted: Mon May 22, 2017 12:19 pm  (#2) 
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I was expecting to some image along with this post.

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 Post subject: Re: Image lightning out of control
PostPosted: Mon May 22, 2017 1:04 pm  (#3) 
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trandoductin wrote:
I was expecting to some image along with this post.


An image is at least worth 279 words :)

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 Post subject: Re: Image lightning out of control
PostPosted: Mon May 22, 2017 1:05 pm  (#4) 
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279..oh at least..yeah i thought it was 1000...

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 Post subject: Re: Image lightning out of control
PostPosted: Mon May 22, 2017 4:37 pm  (#5) 
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"Your post looks too spamy for a new user, please remove off-site URLs."

"The image file you tried to attach is invalid."

Ok whatever...


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 Post subject: Re: Image lightning out of control
PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 10:39 am  (#6) 
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I went through all the layers and reduced contrast by 20-30. Although, it partly fixed my problem the loss of color is pretty harsh. Basically, layer masks along with blend tool destroyed the whole image. I would describe it as not being able to stare at the image for more than 10sec without feeling heavy load on eyes in comparison to other images.


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 Post subject: Re: Image lightning out of control
PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 11:54 am  (#7) 
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wop - 2 more posts and you can upload an image. Image upload is working now, but you must
have 5 posts. Just replay twice and you will be at 5!


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 Post subject: Re: Image lightning out of control
PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 3:52 pm  (#8) 
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My problem was RGB, apparently gimp doesn't support CMYK colors, which is crucial for print art.


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 Post subject: Re: Image lightning out of control
PostPosted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 4:05 pm  (#9) 
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You could maybe upload an image anyway, people might have ideas...


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 Post subject: Re: Image lightning out of control
PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 5:08 pm  (#10) 
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Zero01 wrote:
You could maybe upload an image anyway, people might have ideas...


unfortunately, I'm not allowed to upload images still.. not a big deal tho since it doesn't support cmyk means all gimp users are amateurs anyway...


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