@Baja Respectfully, I think we have differing opinions of this particular cut. Per previous advice, I now submit 180x180 whenever I feel the cut warrants it, and in this case, I didn't.

#619523 Günther Schröder

LFCYNWA

11 years ago

1 year ago

8,513

17 Feb 2021 16:38:46

I don't think this is the picture of a 63-year old physio….

#618072 Mateo Ramírez

LFCYNWA

11 years ago

1 year ago

8,513

09 Feb 2021 19:20:24

Outstanding recovery of my original botch job. ;--)

#618069 Mateo Ramírez

LFCYNWA

11 years ago

1 year ago

8,513

09 Feb 2021 19:11:07

You bet. As you can see, it's that stupid blue border that's the problem.

#616552 Blaine Hughes

LFCYNWA

11 years ago

1 year ago

8,513

01 Feb 2021 04:13:32

By weeniehutjr On 30 January 2021 - 22:55 PM UTC

@LFCYNWA This source would make a better quality cutout 🙂

100% agree!

#615951 Federico Pinessi

LFCYNWA

11 years ago

1 year ago

8,513

29 Jan 2021 17:22:38

Funnily enough I did do that--guess I didn't shorten the dude's neck enough! :-)

#611487 Dramane Koné

LFCYNWA

11 years ago

1 year ago

8,513

06 Jan 2021 21:08:16

By mons On 06 January 2021 - 21:01 PM UTC

Some comments @LFCYNWA. It's better if you leave even less space above the head. Moreover, this cut is tilted slightly to the right and the source should be rotated (probably around 3-4 degrees anti-clockwise, I would think) before being cropped. As you can see, the colouring of the cut isn't very realistic. I know you sometimes have to work with the source you have but in this particular case, using auto-contrast and adding the yellow in the color balance menu helps to make it look a bit better 😉

Heck, it looks a LOT better now. Thank you again for the tips!

#581151 Ababacar Paye

LFCYNWA

11 years ago

1 year ago

8,513

08 Dec 2020 17:26:12

By mons On 08 December 2020 - 17:23 PM UTC

I'd just finished fixing your previous one, as it happens! In general, faces looking straight at the camera are preferable 👍

That's cool--looks good!

#581144 Ababacar Paye

LFCYNWA

11 years ago

1 year ago

8,513

08 Dec 2020 17:18:03

By LFCYNWA On 08 December 2020 - 17:04 PM UTC

Yes, I can see that now--sorry!

Resubmitted with better pic!

#581135 Ababacar Paye

LFCYNWA

11 years ago

1 year ago

8,513

08 Dec 2020 17:04:17

By Baja On 08 December 2020 - 14:37 PM UTC

@LFCYNWA you should really visit this thread before making more cuts.Don't forget to check all your cuts on dark background before upload,since this one for example have a white outline all the way around.

Yes, I can see that now--sorry!

#580620 Malick Sambou

LFCYNWA

11 years ago

1 year ago

8,513

07 Dec 2020 04:39:35

By krissmed On 06 December 2020 - 23:21 PM UTC

@LFCYNWA Your cuts would be much better if you rotate it. Use this guide or the one below it

Generally, I do try to rotate to get the face completely vertical. Guess I missed it for this one!

#580014 Genaro Rossi

LFCYNWA

11 years ago

1 year ago

8,513

05 Dec 2020 15:27:31

By mons On 05 December 2020 - 12:29 PM UTC

@LFCYNWA, good work but you should only leave 2-3 pixels above the head and below the chin. Anything more is unnecessary because we want the face to be the focus of the cut-out. Additionally, all cuts must have a collar. If like in this case, the collar is quite low or the neck is quite long and to include it would mean you have more than 2-3 pixels beneath the chin, then there is a very simple technique demonstrated in the tutorial thread which allows this. Essentially, you lasso the collar and nudge it upwards 😉

P.S. Instead of uploading multiple cut-outs one-by-one, it's much quicker and efficient to upload them as a mixpack which sees them automatically assigned in the respective person's timeline anyway. You'd also save me time having to download them manually to add them to the megapack 🙂

Understood on all counts (the pixels rule, the collar & mixpacks). I can see that mixpacks would be easier to handle on your-all's end; I just don't know how to submit cutouts that way. (I also sometimes don't know when I'm going down the rabbit hole of searching for faces, whether I'm going to get one guy or the whole team!) 🙂

#573312 Joe Halsey

LFCYNWA

11 years ago

1 year ago

8,513

20 Nov 2020 15:54:07

By mons On 20 November 2020 - 13:14 PM UTC

@LFCYNWA, good attempt at this source.

Allow me to give you some pointers, however 😉

a) In sources where the image is tilted to one side, it looks much better in-game if the cut-out is upright as possible. So rotating the image before cropping it, in this source by perhaps 6-8 degrees clockwise would help a lot.
b) You seem to be aware of our rule to have only 2-3 pixels beneath the chin. Just so you're aware, we make an exception in cases like this where the hairstyle is a bit large. In these cases, we aim to have as much of the width of the hair included as possible. Since this may mean that the distance between is a bit bigger than the ideal distance of 2-3 pixels, we then try to have a little bit of space above the hair and the same amount beneath the chin
c) I know you only recently start cutting but I'm afraid the fine hair details aren't very clear. What program and technique are you using? Have you had a look at the guidelines to cutting thread? Putting the source from the above link to remove.bg gives a great cut with loads of hair detail and very little work required. All you'd need to do is rotate it, crop it and resize it. And in the case of this particular source, some judicious stamp of the clone stamp tool to recreate the missing bit at the top of the hair. I'll provide a cut of this guy when I get home from work later today to see what I mean. With remove.bg doing all the hard work for you, you can spend less time to improve better cuts, so well worth considering its use, which is most importantly free 😉

GREAT tips, especially about remove.bg! (I've been using paint.net all this time, and I'm trying NOT to calculate all the hours wasted scooting my mouse along a pixel a second.)

#572845 Amari Miller

LFCYNWA

11 years ago

1 year ago

8,513

18 Nov 2020 23:15:13

By mons On 18 November 2020 - 18:35 PM UTC

I appreciate your work @LFCYNWA but please try to avoid side images like this one. I understand sources may not be widely available for the more obscure players, but we aim to have front-looking faces in the megapack whenever possible 🙂

Thanks for the guidance, @mons! (You could call it the Picasso rule: if you can't see both eyes, don't submit the pic.) 😉