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May 5, 2020 at 12:02 am #1522796

blinky465

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@crazyredcoat – merging pics also has the effect of making your painting look half-decent again! A few times I’ve painted a mini and thought “that doesn’t look too bad” and taken a picture of it. But the digital photo shows every brushstroke, every blemish, every bit of unsmoothed paint – the thing looks horrible! Yet in your hand, you know the mini looks ok.

So put a couple of photos together into a montage and rescale to about 800-1000px across; this reduces the image so that it’s big enough to show the details, but not so HD-like that it picks up every single blemish and wobbly line!

Add in some Gerry-screen-blur and you’ve got the perfect photo 😉

I too love the original 80s “metal” – not so much the dungeons-and-dragons, Iron Maiden warbling though; more the sleazy, nasty trashy “hair metal” of bands like TigerTailz and Danger Danger.