De Danaan desktops

Belisarius · Post by **Belisarius** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:15 pm

Any good desktops of the de Danaan any where?

Damn, I wished the USN would start a new design, A submarine aircraft carrier.[/i]

Post by **Taurec** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:53 pm

nope as far as i know .. not .... as soon as i get my hands on a artbook that has i'll gonna make a nice one

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:41 pm

When ADV originally launched their FMP! page, I REAAAAAAAAAAALLY
wished that CG 3/4 shot of the Daanan they had floating towards the top
left they made available as a downloadable desktop (oh, 1280x1024+
rez preferably)

...anyway we can bug Ghost-01 about making that possible?

Regards

RussianFox · Post by **RussianFox** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:29 pm

can't you make a wallpaper out of a screencap? it'll take some time to fiddle with the resolution and such, but it can be worth it.

Belisarius · Post by **Belisarius** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:10 pm

Okay, I/m generally computer illiterate, so what in the H E double hockey sticks are you talking about, RF.

Oh BTB, what in the hell is causing all the noise in Japan's summertime. Sound like static or traffic but usually it's the woods in the anime I watched. It's in Tenchi, Eva, Gunparade March.

Jae · Post by **Jae** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:24 pm

Do you mean the cicadias? (they're bugs, like grasshoppers kinda, and make a chirping type noise with their legs or their wings..., I think)

Using a screencap to make a wallpaper? TV resolution is alot smaller than computers, it would be tough to clean one up enough to make it viable for a wallpaper, if you wanted to enlarge the image size, that is.

Circle · Post by **Circle** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:38 pm

Yep, cicadias. They're there in Taiwan also in the summer whenever I go visit. Though not in the cities, they spend like 7 years as larve underground and live for 1 more year in in/on trees and die. Something like that.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:14 pm

I can tell ya, trying to double an image's size using bilinear or bicubic
filters (most common enlarge filters in image editor packages) will get
you as close to zilch as you can. You MAY be able to clean the image up
some, but alot of the fine details are going to end up washed or blurred out.

...anyone know where we can book time at the CIA's Imagery Specialists
facility?

Regards

RussianFox · Post by **RussianFox** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 1:36 am

"Using a screencap to make a wallpaper? TV resolution is alot smaller than computers, it would be tough to clean one up enough to make it viable for a wallpaper, if you wanted to enlarge the image size, that is."
exactly my point

PookaKitten · Post by **PookaKitten** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 3:46 am

RussianFox wrote:"Using a screencap to make a wallpaper? TV resolution is alot smaller than computers, it would be tough to clean one up enough to make it viable for a wallpaper, if you wanted to enlarge the image size, that is."
exactly my point

Depends on the show, I'd imagine. My boyfriend made me a Chrno Crusade desktop from a screencap, and it came out quite well, if you ask me. It's from the second opening, Chrno standing next to a biplane. He edited out the snow artifacts (they looked horrid when screencapped), and did something to "remove the artifacts on his braid."

Samantha

Belisarius · Post by **Belisarius** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 1:26 pm

Oh, Screen Captures. I'm a dumbass.

Cicadas make that much noise? We have cicadas here in the Georgia (USA) but they ain't that bad of a noise maker. Hell I thought that cicadas had a 17 year to mature. Must be different in the West Pacific.

Tanks

Post by **Taurec** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 1:32 pm

Can you post a link samantha ?

Anyway my standard resolution of creating wallpapers is 1280x960

i tried a few times to fill it up with caps from a DVD but it has almost no use. heehehe i'm a spoiled highres scan bastard...

Jae · Post by **Jae** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 8:00 pm

Bel-
Saw this yesterday. Have fun out east there, this summer <g>

Different species ...

ZyreX · Post by **ZyreX** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 8:25 pm

woha crazy stuff!

PookaKitten · Post by **PookaKitten** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:21 pm

Taurec wrote:Can you post a link samantha ?

Anyway my standard resolution of creating wallpapers is 1280x960

i tried a few times to fill it up with caps from a DVD but it has almost no use. heehehe i'm a spoiled highres scan bastard...

I would post a link, but he hasn't given his OK to do so. Also it's a 1024x768 image. He used Adobe After Effects to get the screen cap (though I think Premiere would have been easier), and Photoshop to clean it up. He didn't do much editting--just removing some artifacts and adjusting the contrast a bit. I think he used a combination of the clone and paintbrush tool to clean it up. (There was snow on the original image, but it showed up as horizontal lines on the screencap.) There's no added text, just the screencap.

Samantha