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I've been meaning to do this for ages.

Check it out here:
www.corbydesigns.com/forest

Enjoy!

Nice tutorial. For graphics neophytes like myself, it holds out the hope that I may be able to draw decent backgrounds despite my abysmal graphics skills.

Please continue your great tutorials, they help me sooo much.

That's pretty good Corby, I shall endevour to now draw a picture of a forest that doesn't suck.

I think somone should sticky threads like these, they are so usefull.

It's a really great tutorial, It helped me a lot.

That picture does not work. Upload it to www.imageshack.us  ;)

What you mean it doesn't work? I'm seeing it with my own eyes.

I see it too.  Nice job for your first attempt!

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Sadistyk wrote:What you mean it doesn't work? I'm seeing it with my own eyes.

It was not working a few hours ago, oh well.

Its a nice atempt but you need to use less blur, notice the leaves are nice and crisp and the rest of the background is blurier (sp?)  :lol  ;)

you have a good grasp of using colors to affect the mood.

Looks very nice! Some rocks could spice things up a bit though. Here's a neat trick: In photoshop, go to: Image - Mode - Indexed Color, then set the number of colors to 256. This is if anyone wanted to use the same palatte that sierra used. I just started doing this, and I think it really adds to the sierra like atmosphere. You can really notice the differences when viewing in full screen.
BTW, the red mountain looks pretty cool!

Thanks for the tips, and the critics.

*bows in honor* Thank you! I have wanted to learn how to do this for such a long time!!!!

*bouncy* this works!

Corby... you officially 0wn my z0ckz.
I logged in for the first time in months just to say that.

I'm very happy with this forest scene, from someone who in real life can't even draw a tree. Having given up on AGS games because I can't draw graphics, I now have new hope. My life is changed forever. And so on and so forth.





Edit: In my initial enthusiasm I forgot to ask, can you give advice for drawing a cave? With my new-found leet photoshop skillz I can probably work out something that looks vaguely okay, but a tutorial or anything would be nice ^.^

Wow, I love those bushes man! You just need to make the trees more detailed and less blurry like the bushes. Overall great work!  ;)

Thanks for the feedback...
I had a lot of fun tweaking the colour balance with the bushes, I highly recommend that colour balance tool...
I was kind of going for a blurry effect on the trees, sort of a 'things are spooky and indistinct at night' feel, but maybe that's just me pulling a typical "OMG IM ESPRESIN MYSLEF PLS DUN CRITISIZE ITS GOOD K THX BYE"

Anyway, thanks for the reply =)

You wouldn't happen to know where I could find a cave tutorial would you? =P


Edit: Touched up the foreground foliage a bit... I think the background foliage is already ok, but you can't really see it. As for the blurry mess of green where I didn't paint anything... that's supposed to be that way. So there.




Edit 2: I seem to be taking over this thread... uh... just take these as examples from someone with no artistic talent of how awesome the tutorial is. If I make anything else remotely worth posting, I'll make my own thread and take up unnecessary forum space that way instead.

Looks pretty sweet! Glad you enjoyed the tutorial. Maybe I'll make a quick cave drawing tutorial tomorrow night. Add some rocks, some more details to your tree, set it at 256 colors, and reduce down to 320x240 and you got a very sierra looking background.

Thanks, forgot to texture my tree...
You're too slow on the cave tutorial, I got bored and tried a pic without it =P
Here it is:



Meh... I guess I should scale it down if I want classic sierra style.. but it's so much more prettiful this way...

I think you'll be fine on your own  :)
Very excellent cave. You're certainly good with colors!

Corby wrote:I think you'll be fine on your own  :)
Very excellent cave. You're certainly good with colors!

Thanks... took me a lot longer than the forest though, which turned out better anyway... tutorials are cool. I think I've got the hang of it now...

As for the colours, they actually looked really messy for a while, but I tidied them up by realising that they're a reflection of the fire, albeit a skewed one... so I copied, transparencisified and skewed the fire, and... viola. Or possibly violin, I think it's smaller than that...
Graphics are fun... I need to learn to do indoors now, and characters... hmmm...

Edit: Oh, and water... my water is stupid.
Don't take these as requests or anything, I'm just rambling. I do that on occasion. Did you notice already? I thought you might have...

this tutorial is definatlely really helpful, i managed to do my first honest looking vga background =D

640x480:


and the 320x240:


i gotta check out the other tutorials as well and maybe once i've practiced enough i might throw in an image or 2 on that Space Quest project

EDIT: i just realized i should have saved it as 256 color format >w<

It looks great, the only thing that bugs me is that one of the branches are bigger than the trunk.  ;)

yes now that you mention it i notice but i need to practice more, i'm also thinking it might be a good idea to take photos of a scene and transform it into a vga background