For those of you out there with some skinning talent I could use some of the following relativly easy skins:

Orc Settler
Orc Longbowman
Orc Crossbowman
Orc Chariot

I could also use a decent picture for Falamar. He is supposed to be a pretty boy swashbuckling pirate. Im not very happy with the current picture. Let me know if anyone can find a better picture that matches the current style (such as it is).

What's that game called again you got most of the leader pics from?

Will an Orlando Bloom pic do?

I'll see what I can do Kael.

Do you want an Orc with a massive two hand sword aswell Kael? :p

I could also use a decent picture for Falamar. He is supposed to be a pretty boy swashbuckling pirate. Im not very happy with the current picture. Let me know if anyone can find a better picture that matches the current style (such as it is).

what about this one?

http://ic3.deviantart.com/images/i/a/3/6/Saffron_Skies.jpg
if you cant see the picture click this link;
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/2776243/?qo=4&q=by%3Aazhrarn+sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps

The creator is this guy; http://azhrarn.deviantart.com/ (thats his deviant art space)

The all-encompassing red X might represent my feelings towrads him quite well, but perhaps a humanoid is in order? :p

Translation: I can't see the picture.

I dont even see the X :dunno:

Update: the picture can be found here:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/2776243/?qo=4&q=by%3Aazhrarn+sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps

Ah, nice. He looks the part. Too bad he isn't solo.

what about this one?

http://ic3.deviantart.com/images/i/a/3/6/Saffron_Skies.jpg
if you cant see the picture click this link;
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/2776243/?qo=4&q=by%3Aazhrarn+sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps

The creator is this guy; http://azhrarn.deviantart.com/ (thats his deviant art space)

That guy is about perfect but it would be hard to rub out the people around him. I will have to see avout some creative chopping.

I could give it a go if you want. (I'll go make an attempt)

Ah, nice. He looks the part. Too bad he isn't solo.

Well he's supposed to be a Don Juan.

I could give it a go if you want. (I'll go make an attempt)

Go for it.

He IS surrounded by ladies in that picture, which I don't find all that unfitting...

Of course, the most polite way would be just to contact the author and ask if they'd be willing to create a version without the extra characters.

Maybe you could ask the artist? I'm sure he has the original photoshop files still, seeing how this is a digital painting, and removing the guy from it should be very easy.

Also, it'd be, like, proper and all to ask the artist for permission (even if it's just for a not-for-profit mod). I could ask him if you'd like me to; I have a dA account.

Maybe you could ask the artist? I'm sure he has the original photoshop files still, seeing how this is a digital painting, and removing the guy from it should be very easy.

Also, it'd be, like, proper and all to ask the artist for permission (even if it's just for a not-for-profit mod). I could ask him if you'd like me to; I have a dA account.

Thats okay, its not a big deal to remove the women.

Thats okay, its not a big deal to remove the women.

I'm almost halfway done! ^_^

I could give it a go if you want. (I'll go make an attempt)
Could you just rub out the weapons the women are holding and that way make them look like his girlfriends?

Could you just rub out the weapons the women are holding and that way make them look like his girlfriends?

I could do that aswell, but since I'm almost done with erasing the girls from the picture already, I should finish that first and see if people like the result.

Also, if you read the background story of the picture, the "she" on the left side holding the gun is actually a "he". ;)

*edit* Upon further reading, it seems all three are male. I love it when artists include stories with their work!

Will an Orlando Bloom pic do?

That one gave me a hell of a laugh.:clap:

I'm done!
http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/7968/pirate.jpg
( 50% size jpeg )

pirate.rar (1.1 mb) (http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/7968/pirate.rar)
( 24-bits BMP full size )

EDIT: oops, noticed I removed the ropes on the left side but not the right, well, tell me if you want em gone.

I'm done!
http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/7968/pirate.jpg
( 50% size jpeg )

pirate.rar (1.1 mb) (http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/7968/pirate.rar)
( 24-bits BMP full size )

EDIT: oops, noticed I removed the ropes on the left side but not the right, well, tell me if you want em gone.

Thats an amazing job. Im adding him right now. I wouldnt worry about the ropes until I get it cropped and then see how it looks.

And I just got a very nice Orc Chariot model and skin from Toltec. It looks great, you will have a whole new reason to hate barbarian chariots.

Nice, that picture will look awesome in FfH.

I'm amazed at how you got rid of the two women there - it looks as if that was the way the picture was drawn! What did you have to do? Was it manually done or did a computer program fix it?

Great work! How many hours did you spend together with your good old pal photoshop?

I'm amazed at how you got rid of the two women there - it looks as if that was the way the picture was drawn! What did you have to do? Was it manually done or did a computer program fix it?

Thanks, what I did was open the image in photshop, make a copy, increase the size of this copy 4 times. The image had 4800 pixels in height after this. Once I done that, I saved it, copied the part of the image that included the woman to the right and made a new temporary image. This to make the work smoother, since working on a large image can be slow for the computer.
Then I started painting, copying parts, using clone tools. But mostly I just painted with a brush and used the blur tool.
When I was done with that part, I did the same for the left side.

Great work! How many hours did you spend together with your good old pal photoshop?

I'm not sure how many hours total, since I didnt do it in one sitting, and I was surfing the internet while I was doing it and other stuff. A guess would be about 8 hours or so.

NICE WORK!
-Qes

that is pretty damn amazing :O

it's hot.

good work