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Marcus Kane - Submissions - Cut Out Player Faces Megapack

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This image is part of a pack: Glentoran
Pending by Side Splitting Pass on 12 Dec 2020 09:34:35
In Progress by enziocosta on 21 Sep 2021 18:17:59
Completed by mons on 21 Sep 2021 19:37:09
Jason Browning
9 years ago
2 weeks ago
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Hi @Side Splitting Pass.

Any reason why this was rejected? I'm trying to learn, that was my first attempt at cutting the image etc. I've noticed a few of the Glentoran players images are old and outdated in the megapacks so just wanted to try to contribute. Any feedback is appreciated. Cheers.
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
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Hi @Side Splitting Pass.

Any reason why this was rejected? I'm trying to learn, that was my first attempt at cutting the image etc. I've noticed a few of the Glentoran players images are old and outdated in the megapacks so just wanted to try to contribute. Any feedback is appreciated. Cheers.

This thread contains the guidelines for cutters, so do keep all that in mind when making a cut.

I recommend using remove.bg and following the process in the below tutorials to do the first bit of the cut.

https://streamable.com/rt6u8e

https://streamable.com/tgfkx1

Here's another video for sources where the person is tilted to one side, which need rotating so that the final cut is as upright as possible; it looks much better in-game. I appreciate that's not the case for this source, but it may be that future sources require you to use this:

https://streamable.com/k3tbjz

Finally, every cut must contain a collar. At the same time, the ideal cut only contains 2-3 pixels beneath the chin. Since in some sources, the person in the image may have a longer neck than usual, this would be quite difficult to achieve naturally.

Watch this video to see how you can nudge the collar upwards and ensure both above requirements are maintained:

https://streamable.com/yvx80y

With all the above in mind, the source in question should have been cropped much closer to the chin and to the top of the head, and the collar possibly nudged a few pixels upwards.
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This image is part of a pack: mixed #1
Pending by enziocosta on 21 Sep 2021 19:36:47
Completed by mons on 21 Sep 2021 19:37:09
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This image is part of a pack: Glentoran
Pending by nehix on 13 Aug 2022 01:32:07
Completed by mons on 13 Aug 2022 07:40:30
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This image is part of a pack: NIFL Premiership
Pending by nehix on 14 Aug 2023 05:37:33
Rejected by mons on 17 Sep 2023 19:53:47
mons
17 years ago
8 hours ago
86,208

The lighting and the blue snow on the ones I've rejected meant they would have taken a little while longer to cut, and would probably only have produced alternates rather than improvements @nehix. Classic cases of why newer is not necessarily better.