A plea for help from the experts :)

[ElQuapo]

I have managed to find good quality pictures (actionshots) of 6 teams from the danish league, and have now been trying for 2-3 hours to get them to look good in the game - but I simply cannot manage to get them good.

I would like to get them to have the "blue blur" that the default picture in the game has - and like Minstrels NHL backgrounds.

I have tried changing the saturation and adjusted the blue in RGB, but to no avail.

Could anyone perhaps type a step by step guide to do this?

Or better yet, if it is not to much work, would anyone be willing to give the pictures the "blue blur" if I put them up on imageshack and link to them?

It would be great to have these backgrounds, but I am just to much of a novice to figure it out

[CatchUp]

I have managed to find good quality pictures (actionshots) of 6 teams from the danish league, and have now been trying for 2-3 hours to get them to look good in the game - but I simply cannot manage to get them good.

I would like to get them to have the "blue blur" that the default picture in the game has - and like Minstrels NHL backgrounds.

I have tried changing the saturation and adjusted the blue in RGB, but to no avail.

Could anyone perhaps type a step by step guide to do this?

Or better yet, if it is not to much work, would anyone be willing to give the pictures the "blue blur" if I put them up on imageshack and link to them?

It would be great to have these backgrounds, but I am just to much of a novice to figure it out

CatchUp is on the case.

Send me the link, tiger.

Cheers.

[ElQuapo]

CatchUp is on the case.

Send me the link, tiger.

Cheers.

Thank you very much

I have uploaded them as PNG so as not to make the quality poor, so they are a little big. You can save them as JPG though.


Frederikshavn Whitehawks :
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/8524 ... wksip6.png

Herlev Hornets :
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/2772 ... etsrp8.png

Nordsjælland Cobras :
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/8937 ... rasgw1.png

Rødovre Mighty Bulls :
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/962/ ... llseq9.png

SønderjyskE :
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/5476 ... skehl5.png

AaB Ishockey :
http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/6681 ... keyal3.png

[Minstrel]

I've detailed exactly what I did as far as effects for my NHL logo bkgs in another thread but someone tried it with photos and it didn't work as well so this is definititely a case better taken on by the background master

[CatchUp]

Got em done. Minty, your instructions were pretty much right on. Desaturate-Colorize-Gaussian blur-Radial Blur.

To get the variation from light to dark in the pics, I used a striped gradient on a new layer with the blending mode set to Linear Burn. I then scaled the opacity back to around 50%. Voila! Blue blur BG's.

http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/al ... pic_id=639
http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/al ... pic_id=644
http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/al ... pic_id=642
http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/al ... pic_id=641
http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/al ... pic_id=640
http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/al ... pic_id=643

Cheers.

[ElQuapo]

Thanks alot CatchUp

I will try doing what you wrote on some others and see if I can get i right.