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RNZAF 757 over Ohakea air base NZ. FSX Full settings. hope u like! :-)
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GOOD LUCK ALL!

Good shot...could live without the cloud and those jags are crazy.

Needs to be resized to 800 wide before the mods remove it.

nice attempt..?

Sorry for not commenting on the shot in my first post - I just wanted to get the message across quickly.

I like the colouring here, but as previously mentioned jaggies are rife, sadly. I also think that the shot could do with some more cloud below the plane.

Other than that this is quite a good entry.

thanks, its my first entry. you may think im stupid but how do you resize it? and what do you mean by jaggs?

thanks, its my first entry. you may think im stupid but how do you resize it? and what do you mean by jaggs?

Jaggies are what we call the edges of a plane when anti-aliasing is not turned on - they look like a series of steps and can really put paid to a good shot. A good example, taken from this shot, is below;


I mentioned anti-aliasing earlier - this is what most people use to get rid of jaggies; if you have a high-ish spec graphics card, you should be able to support it. I can't really tell you what you need to do to turn it on - I don't have a high-spec card, my shots are smoothed out using a program called irfanview which I'll get onto in a minute - you need to ask around to find out.

As for resizing, I use Irfanview, a freeware piece of software that has an improved resize feature called resample - it simultaneously resizes your shot and smoothes it out - this feature also has a handy 'aspect ratio' feature which will keep the width proportional to the height no matter what resolution you resize the shot to. Irfanview also has a facility for compressing your shots when you save them.

Resizing your shot should solve those issues you seem to be having with compression as well - having a smaller shot means less compression is necessary to get it under the filesize limit.

Irfanview can be downloaded here - all you need to do is navigate to the download page.

Hope I've helped!

P.S. I don't think you're stupid at all - when first I started taking screenshots I didn't know how to resize properly either and had to resort to using MS paint, which wasn't pretty...

Thanks, it was a big help 8-) il do that for the next comp...  i wonder what the theme will be?!

I've resized it for you 054heavy.  ;)

Good luck in the comp  :)