[Tutorial] Making a Poster Overlay

[Randdalf]

The thing that's real difficult to get right in GIMP is the picture. Hence the reason why my gold bars looks like they were drawn in paint. I was going to do a nuclear barrel but I couldn't find a picture good enough.

Out of boredom I just did another one:

[YM]

is that rotation done in the texture or afterwards? should definitely be done afterwards by rotating the overlay

[Randdalf]

I did it afterwards in-game, I have a habit of rotating every single overlay.

[YM]

You shouldn't rotate them as much, it looks a bit odd

[umbratile]

Well, I decided to try it, and just for the heck of it I used the original Redhill Livestock poster as...inspiration. >.>


Mine's on the right. It's very similar, but it is made from scratch.

I downloaded the trial of Flash CS3 Professional, and while I really had to fight with it to do anything (could it be more complicated to tell how big your square is? >_<), I finally got it. Now for some original posters...

[Vander]

Nice work Bread!

[Nineaxis]

Looks good! Nice to see some people have made it through.

I find Flash easy for vector drawing... and it's not that hard to tell the size... it's in the bottom left.

[umbratile]

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Originally Posted by Nineaxis

Looks good! Nice to see some people have made it through.

I find Flash easy for vector drawing... and it's not that hard to tell the size... it's in the bottom left.

D'oh. I used the ruler to find out the sizes.

[Memento Mori]

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Originally Posted by Nineaxis

Now I'm going to make my image 512x512 square. On top of that, I'm going to make a 384x512 rectangle, left justified. I'm going to use the lightest tan color on the palette, the first one in the tan row.

Right I've done this but in Photoshop how do I make the rectangle an exact size?

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To give the poster the propaganda feel, I'm going to reduce the cow to a mere silhouette with some defining features highlighted- the spots. To further give the propaganda look, I'm not going to trace over it with the pen tool, but use the line tool to give a more blocky feel while not turning it into a cubist piece. So, on a new layer, I make this cow "wireframe".


Now just start filling it in with colors off the palette until you get something you like. Just avoid using anything off the team-color row your poster isn't from. Since this is a red poster, no colors from the blu row should be used.

How do I do this in Photoshop? Lost me.

[Benvox2]

Hey I just followed through your tutorial and it worked great, but
CAn you please post some instructions on using VTFEdit instead of that stock valve program? I tried it myself but beccause it locks to 512x512 but the right hand strip is not transparent!?