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July 20, 2020, 04:53:11 AM
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Hi everyone
Been having a go at the dream card generator app but finidng it quite hard to find good images. Does anyone have any tips for good places to get images for dream cards?
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So what I did is get the movie files ripped onto my computer, so I just pop into VLC and scrub around for good stills.
Menace
has had decent luck just amassing a small library of clips from the movies on YouTube and doing the same thing there. And then there's Google, which can work decently well and can find you fan art for things PJ didn't do anyway.
Also (and this is tangential but related), I would stick to Double resolution as those are easier to provide. Huge is so monstrous that a full 1080p blu-ray rip doesn't actually fit in frame and has to be scaled up. Double is much more reasonable to fill.
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July 20, 2020, 02:50:51 PM
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I also digitally touch-up every single image I source for a card. I slice the subject out of the frame and do a number of lighting edits to pull focus onto, well, the focus of the card. Ultimately, no image I source is 100%-from-the-film.
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Thanks for the tips guys. One more question while I'm here. How do you get the pictures to fit the box perfectly? Mine always seem to be either too wide or two thin and I end up with black lines either at the top and bottom or the sides of the picture.
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The documentation (included as a PDF or
at this google doc here
) includes a table under "How do I...decide what size to make my portraits?" that tells you exactly what dimensions to use for a given size.
Also there is a portrait_templates folder that contains examples of each portrait variant, which you can use a guide. I myself often just paste these images in as a new layer over my chosen image, reduce the canvas size to fit the new layer, then delete it and export the precisely-cropped image.
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