Some New 800x600 Celestia Splash Images

[ElChristou]

Well the tutorial is for Photoshop and by analogy also for Gimp, but as I don't know Paint Shop Pro I don't know if this will be helpfull for you... My advice: try using Gimp (freeware) cause this is a real "Pro" software.

Bye

[ElChristou]

The post for the Mini Tutorial HERE

Bye

[t00fri]

Hi,

since it's January 1st 2006, and since we are currently working on a new splash for all OS versions, I had another quick shot using an old Celestia image of mine as a basis:



The present "official favorite" involves the same heavenly bodies, but looks entirely different . Among other things, the present image involves more light and shadow...

Happy New Year!

Bye Fridger

[ElChristou]

Fridger,

Can you post an URL of the shot?

[t00fri]

Fridger,

Can you post an URL of the shot?

I sent you the 1600x1200 original by email.

Here it is :
http://www.celestiaproject.net/~t00fri/images/ ... i-text.jpg

At least with Firefox, one only has to move with the mouse on an image and push the right mouse button....then you can copy the URL yourself.


Bye Fridger

[ElChristou]

Ouups sorry, I was checking the forum waiting for my mails!!
Got it, but anyway, you don't have any URL? for the last plash, I had to take several shots and remerge the elements for the final result... I want to do the same here...

EDIT: I was talking about a Celestia URL (cel://)

[t00fri]

Ouups sorry, I was checking the forum waiting for my mails!!
Got it, but anyway, you don't have any URL? for the last plash, I had to take several shots and remerge the elements for the final result... I want to do the same here...

Sorry, Chris,

that URL talk, I did not understand. Above I gave you the URLof the image. That's all I got.....Wait a minute...

You don't mean a cel://url?? That's something quite different from a URL of an image in general...

EDIT: Just saw that indeed you meant a cel://url. No unfortunately, it's 1 1/2 years ago that I made that image...nothing left anymore, not even a decent PNG format. I could always redo it, of course...

[ElChristou]

Ouups sorry, I was checking the forum waiting for my mails!!
Got it, but anyway, you don't have any URL? for the last plash, I had to take several shots and remerge the elements for the final result... I want to do the same here...

Sorry, Chris,

that URL talk, I did not understand. Above I gave you the URLof the image. That's all I got.....Wait a minute...

You don't mean a cel://url?? That's something quite different from a URL of an image in general...

champagne... I still have some trouble to fix my ideas...

[ElChristou]

... I could always redo it, of course...

Leave it to me, I will find it... say tomorrow

[t00fri]

ElChristou...

and a cel://url would not help too much in this case since the image involves both my hires Jupiter texture and my 8k Europa texture! Without such a hires Europa the forground would be entirely unsharp from the present perspective. Also my 2k Jupiter is very probably the best one available...

Bye Fridger

[ElChristou]

Well you're probably right, but the last plash originally for osX is designed for 1024 screens, so at this scale even my poor textures are not so bad... The problem is that both Europa and Jupiter have textures pretty dull (low contrast) so I had to higher contrast and shadows (and a bit of satration in Jupiter) to make the whole scene more "punchie"...

[t00fri]

Well you're probably right, but the last plash originally for osX is designed for 1024 screens, so at this scale even my poor textures are not so bad... The problem is that both Europa and Jupiter have textures pretty dull (low contrast) so I had to higher contrast and shadows (and a bit of satration in Jupiter) to make the whole scene more "punchie"...

Well you will be surprised, once you have reconstructed the above perspective with the default textures! Note that I specially reduced the above splash to standard 640x440 size to let you see how it would look for small 1024 screens...It looks amazingly better, of course in 800x600 size which I take as my personal standard given my 1600x1200 resolution.

Bye Fridger

[ElChristou]

I will do some more tries, but unfortunatly for an "official" splash, I must work in an approx 500Ko file... As the splash use an alpha channel, the file is in tiff or better in png, but still heavy; a bigger splash is not really recommanded for the average config...