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Post by Cerrita on Dec 8, 2007 3:58:17 GMT -5
I've been working on this for a while, but I finally got it how I wanted. It's a shame Mike didn't get Brain Guy into the theater in Jack Frost, or he'd be here, too. Oh well.  |
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Post by samtaco on Dec 8, 2007 7:25:58 GMT -5
It's a shame Mike didn't get Brain Guy into the theater in Jack Frost, or he'd be here, too. Oh well. He did get into the theater for the MST3K’s Summer Blockbuster Review. |
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Post by Cerrita on Dec 8, 2007 11:57:25 GMT -5
It's a shame Mike didn't get Brain Guy into the theater in Jack Frost, or he'd be here, too. Oh well. He did get into the theater for the MST3K’s Summer Blockbuster Review. True, but I don't have that on disk. And anything on youtube is too small and fuzzy to use. Him and Bobo would have rounded out the lineup perfectly. |
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Dec 9, 2007 0:25:31 GMT -5
That's awesome. I like Robot Mike a lot.
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Post by Donna SadCat Lady on Dec 9, 2007 1:13:30 GMT -5
Now, Pearl was in the theater twice, wasn't she? During Delta Knights and the "Review." Or is she in your pic and I just misidentified her?
You put that together from DVD captures? However you did it, that's awesome!
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Post by Cerrita on Dec 9, 2007 1:14:14 GMT -5
Thanks. Mike was gonna be a human, but watching Prince of Space again, I decided to break up the monotony of three humans right in a row. And the Mike Robot is darn cute.
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Post by Donna SadCat Lady on Dec 9, 2007 1:20:40 GMT -5
Oh, so that's Pearl next to Crow. I get it now.
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Post by CBG on Dec 9, 2007 1:26:06 GMT -5
Nice job, Cerrita!  |
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Post by Cerrita on Dec 9, 2007 1:42:51 GMT -5
Now, Pearl was in the theater twice, wasn't she? During Delta Knights and the "Review." Or is she in your pic and I just misidentified her? You put that together from DVD captures? However you did it, that's awesome! It was a slow and tedius process. However, if someone can get me some screen captures of Brain Guy and Bobo (he was in the theater for a review special, right?), I'd make a new version. They'd have to be shadowed against very light shades, like white or gray, so the shadow is easily distinguished. Making a motion towards the screen would be good. Any takers? |
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Dec 9, 2007 17:09:56 GMT -5
If you still have the original, you might want to try saving it as a .png file. I just noticed that there's a fair number of .jpg artifacts in the image as it is right now.
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Post by ijon on Dec 9, 2007 19:10:42 GMT -5
Impressive, Cerrita! They'd have to be shadowed against very light shades, like white or gray, so the shadow is easily distinguished. Have you tried pushing the curves to extremes on your source images? That might let you crack out from a wider range. |
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Post by Cerrita on Dec 9, 2007 20:34:14 GMT -5
Have you tried pushing the curves to extremes on your source images? That might let you crack out from a wider range. ...  I don't think I know how. All I've used is a semi-demo version of Photo Suite for size adjustment, and MS Paint for everything else. If you still have the original, you might want to try saving it as a .png file. I just noticed that there's a fair number of .jpg artifacts in the image as it is right now. I have no idea what that means. Why is it like that, and how do you know  |
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Dec 9, 2007 21:05:35 GMT -5
Too much information, unless you really care:
A .jpg file is a type of picture file that is compressed, losing some color information for the sake of having a very small file size (or something like that). It's great for internet pictures, but you lose a lot of quality. Look at the speckling you get everywhere there is gray near black - those are the artifacts I was talking about, and those usually appear when you save a picture as a .jpg file. It may not matter at all to you; I'm just very anal about that on my pictures. The problem with this is that, if you want to go back to edit the file again, many of the colors are subtly changed, and it's much harder to work with.
To avoid this using MS Paint (like I do, a lot of the time), work with your original black and gray picture and save it as a 24-bit Bitmap (.bmp) file. This type of file saves all the color information but is often very large and not suitable for posting on the internet.
Then, when you're done editing it, you can save it as a .PNG file (that's in one of the file type options in MS Paint). The file will be a bit larger than a .jpg, but much smaller than a .bmp, and the colors will remain exactly as they were originally, with no artifacts.
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Post by ijon on Dec 9, 2007 21:37:12 GMT -5
I don't know MSPaint, but in Photoshop the curves command lets you do what are essentially much more targeted contrast adjustments. With something like the black silhouette it should be pretty easy to make it stand out from most backgrounds.
Cerrita, if there's any image you've really wanted but just couldn't get it to work, send it to me and I'll see if I can make it a bit more usable.
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