FMP Game Screenshots

Game Screenshot 1

The image below is the original image that I took while I was with me parents at the weekend. I used this to base my game screenshots around.

I then started taking out the blurry background from the main tree frame (skeleton) and so that I could get a clear picture of just the branches and not the leaves or surrounding trees.

I completed removing the background from the main tree and drew over the main structure of the tree with the "Pencil Tool", to give it a rougher more natural look to it and because the branches of the tree were blurred and I couldn't see them very clearly.

Once I made a basic outline for my the tree, I zoomed in and started working at at a higher level of detail, removing the grey parts of the tree and making the branches bolder.

I then started to use my imagination to create the rest of the branches and smaller twigs after that.
This was the thing that took the longest in my project because I found it quite hard to make the tree look realistic and almost like I never edited any part of it and because of my high attention to detail; the final product for my tree was created (which it the image below).

I then used the "Magic Wand Tool" to select all the white around the tree so I could drag and drop it into another file.

I then created a A3 page that I was going to use to display my work (after turning it from Portrait to Landscape).

After turning my background sideways (Landscape), I pasted the image of the tree into the new document.

I can clone (or duplicate the same image by holing the Alt key and then clicking dragging the image I want to make more of.
If I wanted to clone more than one image, I could select the two images I want to duplicate and simply press and hold Alt whilst clicking and dragging.

I then used the same technique (Alt, Click + Drag) to make six of the same image and sized them so they'd all fit on the background.

I then set about making each and every tree individual, to emphasize the natural, original look to it.
Making them different sizes and shapes and even putting more branches on some more than others.

Also, a fellow student noticed that each tree was leaning slightly to the side, I didn't notice this when creating my tree, but once I noticed them; I didn't try to re-make or modify the trees so that they looked straight rather than leaning.

After a few more modifications to the size, shape and positioning of the trees I started working on the general background of the image. Creating the ground that the trees would lye on and the colour of the sky wasn't made by the paint bucket tool, the background is actually an image take of the sky, in the early morning time. This is how I managed to get that colour, I took the image of the sky purposefully because I didn't like any of the colors that Photoshop had to offer.

I did however make the ground below the trees a strange grey colour.

The image of the sky I took is below, I had to make a few adjustments because part of a tree branch what sticking into my photo, something I didn't notice until I started editing it in Photoshop.

The below images I what I did to get the image of the sky into Photoshop and size it so that it fits right.

I then took an image what I'd sketched out and scanned in and edited in Photoshop. I called the image "Dave", this is because it is the main character and I wanted to be able to put "names to faces", as it were.

The image below is my final piece, I added a sun to the world and a health bar in the top right hand corner,  

Game Screenshot 2

Game Screenshot 3

Below is the final image that I made on Photoshop of my third game screenshot.
After adjusting the colour of the background, and changing the size of the rectangle at the bottom, changing the font of the "Robot Master" and adding laser bullets firing from the main character's gun.

Peer Feedback: Linda- I find these images very creative especially the top one as the blue background makes the image stand out more and also the trees are very unique. Also I really like the stars which adds more detail to it as it makes it clear that it is night time. to improve I believe Dan should add more colour to his character such as the face of it. Overall his work is great.