User:Bladedge


 * DDO Since 2005
 * Main Avatars: Bladedge, Illyria
 * Location: Fernia and/or Ghallanda
 * Premium player
 * DDOwiki Pet Project: DDO Store
 * Current: Armor, Consumables, U15, U16, possibly Druid spells

Misc
Bladedge Sandbox Template:Sandbox/Bladedge

Focus Orb Gallery - Focus Orb Gallery

http://www.palettebuilder.com/ -Color Scheme Maker

Clean up" (remove unnecessary data) to produce smaller file sizes from .png .jpg images.:

PngOptimizer - http://psydk.org/PngOptimizer.php - I been using this one for a few years already since png was brought to my attention.

JPEG Optimizer - http://download.cnet.com/JPEG-Optimizer/3000-10248_4-10015278.html - still use this when posting jpgs. Yes it works in Win 7.

Use "Item:" for armor and weapons pages moves and creations.

Item Description templates - Item Description templates

- 0 Charges (Recharged/Day:)

Pre-Update 14 version were not retroactively updated and have to be reacquire.

Pre-U14 version has

Pics
Create Page for:

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How to take good DDO pics
How to make your images look good before uploading to DDO wiki.

If possible max the following settings Including :

DDO's in game .jpg screen-shot feature is more then sufficient for captures which Do Not contain text.


 * DO focus your image on what the item is being show
 * DO not use a busy or distracting background

Monster

 * DO crop the image of anything that is not related to the monster ex party members.
 * DO avoid taking the image when spells, players, pets, hit numbers are in view of the monster.
 * DO avoid taking the image with the monster hp bar.
 * DO ZOOM the camera in as close as possible to take a full body pose of the monster.

Gear
Weapon: Use the attack stance (auto-attack)
 * DO use good lighting.
 * DO crop the image of anything that is not related or needed show off the weapon.
 * DO NOT include your full body armor, helm, shield, location, party members for a picture of a dagger.
 * DO ZOOM in as close as possible to the weapon. But make it look heroic.

Goggles, Helmet and Armor: log out of the game and take a screen shot of the character in the armor from character selection screen. Zoom in for helms and goggles. But the back of the armor/helm is just as impressive as the front. Take picture of back and front and in the image editor, put both Images together.

Shield pan the camera and focus on the shield in blocking or the relax stance (the few seconds after active shield block). Try to find a area that has nice lighting which can be reflected on the shield. Since shields scale with the race being used Half-orc or Warforged will provide a bigger viewing area of the shield.
 * DO Crop you image and focus more on the shield.

Item Descriptions
Item description: DDO's in game screen capture uses .jpg which uses lossy compression and is poor when use for Item text descriptions. The description text loses color can make the image look wash out and faded.

If possible use a 3rd party screen capture program like Fraps which would save image as .bmp and in a image/photo editor save as .png this will retain the colors of the text.
 * DO crop off the wings
 * DO increase the Canvas size NOT the Image size to 420px.
 * DO NOT cut or crop off the color borders beyond the wings.
 * DO NOT resize the deception image. all UI images in DDO regardless of your screen resolution does not change.
 * DO NOT lower the default settings when saving the image. Use auto detect or leave at the default settings. Lowing the save settings will cause the image to become graining and blurry.
 * DO NOT cut off any information this includes cost, weight, durability, favor text.
 * DO NOT Take the image with a lock Icon, players name, yellow or red warning text unless it is absolute necessary to get the image.
 * DO NOT use any color other then black if you feel the need to omit a player's name.
 * DO AVOID using a transparent skin that allows you to see thru the items text box and see the game world.
 * DO AVOID using skin that changes the borders of the item unless it is absolute necessary to get the image.

File Type

 * DO NOT convert .jpg to .png
 * DO NOT use gif.
 * DO convert .bmp to .png
 * .bmp to .png yes
 * .bmp to .jpg yes
 * .png to .jpg situational (with text: no) (smaller file size with no text: yes)
 * .jpg to .png no (unless it results in smaller file size and does not include text)

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