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you know when you do your skins and it seems they have a bunch of pixelation in them just making then look blocky and rough, well, im going to show you a simple trick to smooth that out and also clean your skins up making them more clean looking.

first off im going to assume your using photoshop and you have your skin already done before we do this procedure. there should be no need for pics in this cause its a very simple thing to do.

first open your stock .dds in photoshop. do everything you want to the skin editing wise and save it as you normally would. instead of injecting your modified skin reopen that modified skin back into photoshop and try the following..

go to filter > noise > reduce noise



and a popup will be there wth settings for this.



now look at that image closely. you have to first check the "advanced" spot. after that click the tab that says "per channel" right next to overall. now we see a marker for "channel:" and red being the first one. move the strength all the way to 10 and bring preserve detail down to 0.

after you have done this click the drop down box where red is and move to green. apply the same settings as we did for red. then go to blue and do the same yet again.



by this time the skin should look blurred and somewhat faded. thats ok, were going to correct that.

now click the overall tab again and make your settings like this.



max the strength
zero the color noise
i usually keep the sharpen details to about 75 and set "preserve details" to your own personal liking.

click ok to save these changes and then resave your skin again. so how much differance did this tiny little step make?

(png image used for quality comparison)

so yeah. very simple and very slick. its nice finish to your skin when its all complete. just mess with the sharpen details / preserve details on the overall tab like i said and im sure youll find something right for you. this should also kill thoes comments about "looks pixelated, to sharpened" and what not.

enjoi

-pep

this will come in very handy for skinners.

now i have one question, how come the skins get like that when you inject them and open them back up for editing? is it a loss of quality? or brightness/contrast increased?

mine dont usually. it think it might be something with the injection process in hmt. but this technique helps me curb alot of that "loss of smoothness".

Nice tutorial, but you kinda got rid of the "Warthog" look that we're all used to after.

pepsi

im going to do that with all my skins. thanks man.

nice tut

yes thats the default grass skin >_>

anyways pepsi. thanks. sexy.