Skin Gallery Read Through

Ok I am trying to combine some of these stickys because it looks ugly and floods the forum.

Rules: Some brief rules I thought I should specify
- Do NOT post or vote in old threads please check the date before you post.
- Do NOT spam or post useless replies
- Do NOT flame another member

DaemonKillar
Skin Gallery Reminders
1. You are posting your skins in order to receive criticism(constructive), so if your skin lacks quality, don't be mad if it's getting a little picked on and is not appreciated.

2. Do not post TGAs or BLPs of your skin, we won't even bother watching it. People are lazy about this and so am I. Post an in-game screenshot of the result. There are tons of tutorials explaining how to implement your skin in a map, anyone can do it.

3. Learn from the criticism you receive. If you've been told over a hundred times to shade your skin and you haven't yet understood, then you've got a problem. Wether try to find a new hobby or stop posting in here.

4. Let's make it clear once and for all: Unshaded skins ain't worth crap, so please don't post that kind of thing. How hard is it to use the burn/dodge tool?

5. Let's make another thing clear: reskins and recolors.
Recolor: To change the colors of a skin without modifying anything (30 seconds work, rarely good)
Reskin: To make a new skin starting from scratch.(This is what this forum is all about actually)
C'n'P': To take parts of a skin and put it on another (30 seconds work too, worthless)
Anyone can recolor or C'n'P', try and be more innovative and make something new out of an existing model!

6. Don't make totally blurry skins where we can barely recognize anything on it. First: it's not good. Second: how do you want us to find positive points to it?

7. Good skins are added to the staff's favorites, so do your best if you want your work to be recognized. Recolors and CnPs are definitely not going to be accepted.


P.S. I can understand not everyone is good at skinning, but some have the will to persevere. To them, I say continue to improve and someday your work might be added to the staff's favorites. On the other hand, some have done over a hundred skins and no signs of amelioration were found. To them, I say stop wasting our time and wasting the site's bandwidth if you,re a desperate case

kuramaRoze
How to Take a Proper Screenshot
Go into Warcraft 3, go to Options>Video and set ALL of it to high.

Once you are in WE, you will notice the following:

-The normal camera buttons don't work
-There's terrain! Ack you want a colored background so it looks neat!

First of all, lets get rid of the terrain:
Go to View>Terrain>Hidden
Go to View>Grid>None

Good, a black background! You can change the bkg later in photoshop using the paint bucket, but black is the best to contrast colors IMHO.

Now, you want to get the cool camera angles that most pics have, but first you must learn what everything does:

-Hold right click and go up/down/left/right to move the camera in the appropriate direction.

-Hold ctrl+hold right click and go up/down/left/right to rotate the camera in the appropriate direction.

-This next one has two controls:
Center mouse scroll up/down to zoom in/out
-OR-
Hold shift+hold right click and moce up/down for zooming in/out.

-Press L to toggle lighting on/off (best screens off unless you intend it to be darker.)

Now, you have the basics down. Find some good angles, and go crazy expirimenting! Take a shot with PRINT SCREEN button, open photoshop/etc, go to file>new and make the size your screen resolution (usually 1024x768) and ctrl+v (paste) them in! take about five shots total, then crop them using square selection, and paste them all into one big image. Here is an example to give you some ideas:

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