image ripping?
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Printed Date: 23 February 2026 at 7:45pm
Topic: image ripping?
Posted By: Kryppers
Subject: image ripping?
Date Posted: 11 December 2007 at 10:22am
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First of all, I'd like to say 'hi'. I've been lurking for a long time, silently appreciating the pixel art here, and have only recently decided to sign up and host some of my own works.
Which brings me to the main topic, one of my favourite methods of producing a pixel piece is 'vectoring' a picture (not always one I've drawn myself) using AA techniques.
a recent example:
 original image: http://uk.games-workshop.com/imperialguard/tallarn-background/images/art-commissar.jpg - http://uk.games-workshop.com/imperialguard/tallarn-background/images/art-commissar.jpg
Ignoring the text, which was placed with GIMP, the main image is hand pixelled.. but does this constitute image ripping, which I know is against pixeljoint policy? Or is the technique generally frowned upon?
I thought I'd better check this, before trying to submit any pieces like this (minus any details I may insert with GIMP as a finish).
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 11 December 2007 at 10:33am
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So glad you've come out of the shadows, welcome :) If you mean using a reference to trace by hand and color/pixel. With ref link this is not a problem. Some are colorists, some design others do both. Ripping is using pixels placed by someone else and passing them as yours. Fonts as you have them here are a grey area. If possible draw your own. ------------- |
Posted By: neota
Date Posted: 11 December 2007 at 4:59pm
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excellent AA quality. btw.
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Posted By: Larwick
Date Posted: 12 December 2007 at 4:50am
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With 205 colours, there's something wrong with the picture there. Most probably the text right? Fix that up as soon as you can.
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Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 8:18am
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the text shows up to 198 colors, alone, and that's non-pixel art.
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 8:23am
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Originally posted by Kryppers ...Ignoring the text, which was placed with GIMP, the main image is hand pixelled... *cough, cough* ------------- |
Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 9:04am
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Originally posted by Metaru the text shows up to 198 colors, alone, and that's non-pixel art. he wants to submit this the the gallery ain't him? ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: Platnium
Date Posted: 13 December 2007 at 12:51pm
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Is that Auto AA?
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Posted By: Kryppers
Date Posted: 14 December 2007 at 1:22am
if someone wants to check the colour count on the version without text:
 should be 12 colours, I don't usually use so many, but I wanted a pallette that stretched from black to off white through brown.
It's not auto AA.. I'm not even sure how auto AA is done, everything you see on this image is hand placed.
The text, as I mentioned was generated with GIMP, hence your high colour count. But I said I would only submit a blank version to the gallery.
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Posted By: neota
Date Posted: 14 December 2007 at 1:42am
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Originally posted by Kryppers The text, as I mentioned was generated with GIMP, hence your high colour count. And hence, the claims of automatic AA -- which are accurate claims. You didn't disable antialiasing for the text, so GIMP automatically antialiased it. ------------- absolutely. |
Posted By: lil_lee
Date Posted: 21 December 2007 at 11:08pm
| i don't think that image has 12.. it has a lot more.... and i don;t htink you made that.... |
Posted By: neota
Date Posted: 21 December 2007 at 11:43pm
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Originally posted by lil_lee i don't think that image has 12.. it has a lot more.... and i don;t htink you made that.... The image has 12 colors. ------------- absolutely. |
Posted By: Larwick
Date Posted: 22 December 2007 at 5:47am
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lil_lee, don't bring up an old thread that has already been resolved with non backed-up claims. It's pointless and annoying.
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