As a afterthought, it might be esier to paint the gun with a transparent backgound and only add the blue one just before indexing the image. It happend that for some reason photoshop decided to change the blue color from 0.0.227 to 0.0.255 and later inside JA2 it appeard with a bluebackground. But its was easy to mend it.

By the way a newbie question, how do you fire the NADE launcher?

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By the way a newbie question, how do you fire the NADE launcher?

put ammo to weapon , thus loading , then shoot ! If you mean an attachment (talon) to a rifle , then press burst fire till it's on grenade launcher .

Coolberg, I don't mean to be rude, but how do you do the lighting effects in the photoshop layers?

I really liked the lighting of the Revolvers and especially that P99 you did recently (gave a wicked metallic look ). It's something I am trying to learn but failing miserably with

Ok then. I use Photoshop 7.0. Let's see your original image (i suppose you already cut it from it's own background).

You need to remove those glitches. Take a black soft brush, hold CTRL and click LMB on the layer pictogram (nr. 1 on bottom image). You selected the area of your work (you could also use standard selective tools, if you want) and now create new layer (nr. 3) and apply a mask to it (nr. 4). Now you can work on that layer without any selective tools - you will never touch anything that's not in your working area. It's especially useful when working with border pixels. So you created layer, applied mask to it, named it "Brush" and did some cleaning work:

Now it's time to play with brightness and hue. Dont touch standard menu tools - they will work directly with layer, while we want to preserve our original layer without any touch. Just select your working area (CTRL + LMB on layer 1) and then click "New adjust level" (nr. 4 on bottom image) and select "Brightness" or "Hue/Saturation" layer. Original image is quite good, so i only changed hue for a little.

Now it's the most problematic part - lighting. Again, select your working area, create new layer, apply mask to it, name it "Light" and doubleclick on pictogram. You'll see layer's blending options. Select "Blend mode: Overlay" and click ok. Now take a very big soft white brush with opacity around 5-15% and make a large spot of light in the center of image. Then select small brush and make all relief parts of image shiny. In similar way do the shadows - large black brush to darken big parts, small brush for relief parts.

For the clarity, that's what you'll see if you make your main layer invisible. In that case, all layers will take effect on background layer. You can also see here, that i've changed hue for a bit more reddish tint.


That's all folks