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Postby matt2190 » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:35 pm

You may have seen my latest screenshots in the payware section. It was the first time I cropped my shots and I think it had great effects. The cropped version took out all the empty area on the top and bottom of the screenshot and I think it allows you to focus more on the aircraft. Please post your opinion on cropping.



Here is the original straight out of the sim with nothing done but resizing.
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Here is the cropped version from my post in payware.
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Re: What do you think?

Postby Souichiro » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:49 pm

I dunno...

Cropping can indeed be very useful but I don't think you did the right thing by cropping this specific pic.

I think the original shows much more depth and scale than the cropped pic
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Re: What do you think?

Postby CSM » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:15 pm

i much prefer the uncropped version, it gives a feeling as if your lying on the ground taking the pic, however this is lost in the cropped version 8-)
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Re: What do you think?

Postby Immelman » Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:09 pm

I think you should crop the top down since its just gray and then leave the bottom to get the effect everyones talking about.
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Re: What do you think?

Postby Double_Farvel » Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:33 pm

I think you should crop the top down since its just gray and then leave the bottom to get the effect everyones talking about.


I agree  ;)
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Re: What do you think?

Postby matt2190 » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:20 pm

How is this?

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Re: What do you think?

Postby Souichiro » Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:10 am

Ies nice!!! very nice! best one of the three!
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Re: What do you think?

Postby CSM » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:10 am

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Re: What do you think?

Postby Double_Farvel » Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:35 am

Looks great  ;D
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Re: What do you think?

Postby Sytse » Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:12 am

I still like the first one. The second one lost a bit of depth. In the 3rd one, the plane gets pushed into the corner and looks a bit trapped. I'd just crop off half of the ground in the 1st one and leave the sky as it is.
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