I enjoyed this World of Warcraft forum thread, “Female Blood Elf Sicken Me” — not because of the predictable accusations made about the original poster in the earlier responses, but because it veers off into some rather entertaining anti-Americanism on page 4 and beyond. There are so many things on which we Americans could be harshly judged, Cheez Whiz is the least of our sins.
A gnomish Fermilab.
Yesterday, I went over how to use Photoshop and other advanced image editors to juice up your game screenshots to brilliant, enviable images. (Part I) The same can be accomplished with intermediate-level editors too, although not as quickly.
The four steps of my quick juice job are: Correct the color, adjust brightness, boost the contrast, and sharpen.
Here again is the unaltered screenshot from World of Warcraft’s Blade’s Edge Mountains, our starting point:
Almost every editor, including the freebies, has an Auto Correct Color or some such function. Usually, the auto color correction is too harsh for game shots and with a lot of the freebies, there’s no adjustment slider or option to to take away some of the correction … ala Photoshop’s opacity slider. Trial and error, aka Edit » Undo, will be your friend here.