Some Doctored Photographs. . .

Some newly cropped, brightened, and sharpened photographs taken during the recent Battle of Doltz. Enjoy! Now, if only my new 2" roads from Hotz Artworks would arrive.

-- Stokes

Comments

Peter Douglas said…

Good work on the photoshop Stokes.
Great looking game.
Peter

2:15 PM

Archduke Piccolo said…

Superb!

2:42 PM

Neil Moulden said…

I love seeing photo's of your armies in all their glory. I really like the command and civilian vignettes as well. They add a lot of atmosphere.
Cheers.
Neil.

3:28 PM

Wellington Man said…

Fooling about with the brightness controls is hardly photoshopping, Stokes! Your troops are looking as marvelous as always. WM

12:16 AM

Graham C said…

Very nice indeed nice seeing the armies deployed. Lovely collection
Graham

2:44 AM

Big Andy said…

Now thats better- I can see whats going on ... Nice work.

3:16 AM

Phil said…

A very fine array Stokes.
Best regards. Phil

3:54 AM

WSTKS-FM Worldwide said…

Thank you for your kinds remarks, everyone! They make getting started this early Monday morning (5:45am -- Ugh!) just a little easier.

Best Regards,

Stokes

4:46 AM

Independentwargamesgroup said…

Stokes,
Even better looking than before. I love the 'Austrian' grenadiers, well done.

10:49 AM

Chris Gregg said…

Thanks for setting such a good example with bright clear photos. Your special painting style shows up really nicely. I love the effect of the really big battalions.
Chris

6:28 PM

And We're Off!!!

Arrrgh! Gotta go back into camera settings on my iPhone to bring all of the frame into focus. Blast! Painting is underway on the 60 or so Minden Austrians, which are slated to become my version of the Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment of AWI renown. More or less indistinguishable from Austrians of the era really, right down to the red facings and turnbacks, but the eventual flags (already in my files) will set them apart. I went ahead and based-coated all of them over a couple of days lthe last week of August, using a mix of light gray and white acrylic gesso, before next applying my usual basic alkyd oil flesh tone to the faces and hands. In a day or two, I'll hit that with Army Painter Flesh Wash to tone things down a bit and bring some definition to the faces and hands. As usual, the plan is to focus on about 20 figures at a time, splitting the regiment roughly into thirds along with the color party and regimental staff. Depending on ...

Sunday Morning Coffee with AI. . .

A rmed with a second cup of fresh, strong coffee, I messed around a bit this morning with artlist.io using its image to image function in an attempt to convert my hand-drawn map from September 2006 to something that more resembles an old map from the mid-18th century. And just like my experiments with Ninja AI in June, the results are mixed. The above map is pretty good, but Artlist keeps fouling up the place names and has trouble putting a faint overlay of hexes across the entire area. Hexes, admittedly, are not likely to be found on any genuine maps from the era in question, but there we are. Frankly, I prefer the appearance of the Ninja map, but there were problems getting it to correct its errors. Grrrr. As is the case with so much having to do with the various AI's out there now, the output generated is a direct result of the prompts entered. For text alone, and when you develop a lengthy, highly detailed prompt, it is...

Continued Regional Map Revisions. . .

F ooled around a bit more with the revised map just before and after dinner this evening, using the Fotor app to reinsert missing text . I also removed a few other things using the 'Magic Eraser' function, which works surprisingly well. Now, we're getting somewhere. I just have to figure out how to ensure that the text is all a uniform font style and maybe figure out a way to add a few bunches of trees to suggest forested areas, Ninja AI is not always entirely cooperative to the tune of "I'm sorry Dave. I can't do that." -- Stokes

The Grand Duchy of Stollen

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