Thought y'all might... (big graphics!)

[rivergoat]

want a look at what I've been doing... I'm mailing my sister 5 CDs that I put together of U2 stuff (mostly music, some video and whatnot). I decided that I was going to make some covers for them as well, so naturally, I went overboard. After banging my head around for a while, I decided to just keep it simple and make them with two-tone pictures. So I took a bunch of pictures and played with them a bit, and I now have four of the five covers done.

Some of them are more detailed than others, because I went in many different directions at once (as always). I couldn't use everything I had created, so rather than letting them go to waste, I figured I'd share them with y'all... maybe they'd make a decent base for wallpaper (they're not the right dimensions right now though), or just be amusing for a little while, or whatever. So here's a bunch of them:

(and yes, green is my favorite color!)

goat

 

[rivergoat]

 

[rivergoat]

All Adam

These first two are the same - just different colors:

(Some look better in light-on-dark, some look better in dark-on-light - I just used my editor's Invert function, and green became purple!)

goat

 

[rivergoat]

 

[rivergoat]

Sorry about the size, the original was very small

 

[beli]

How do you make these images? I like the green Adam Poptart one the best.

 

[rivergoat]

Edge's turn

 

[rivergoat]

Now Larry

I can't decide if I like the mouth on this one or not.. I may have to edit it some more...

I don't really like this one

 

[rivergoat]

How do you make these images? I like the green Adam Poptart one the best.

Yeah, that's my favorite one too - ought to be, took me over an hour. I use Micrographix Picture Publisher (which is a royal pain in the tail most of the time, but I can usually whip it into shape).

Some of these pictures were very easy - convert to greyscale, max out the contrast, convert back to RGB, add color (smartfill). I did this one that way:

But for most of them, if I did that, the features would get twisted like this:

Notice Bono's hand and Adam's glasses? I have to redo this one (I like the picture!) but I don't know if I am going to get around to it...

Some of them skipped the greyscale step and had to go an manually fill in a lot of tiny areas. This is the first one I did that way:

 

[rivergoat]

Scenery...

 

[rivergoat]

 

[rivergoat]

I think Macphisto about does it.

goat

 

[miss becky]

Very cool! I love the purple Macphisto!!

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Very good!!

 

[U2Kitten]

Thanks!

 

[MooMoo!]

lol! so thats what U2 would look like on a gameboy...

 

[neutral]

These are fantastic, thanks so much!! Many new wallpapers here.


Adampopgreen!!!

 

[Queen Bee]

Cool!

 

[rivergoat]

Y'all are welcome! I noticed though that some of these are looking a bit fuzzy or pixelated - if you want me to fix it, let me know. I'll see what I can do. I still have one disc to make a cover for, and I don't know what I am going to put on it, so I'm offering to do a request or two if y'all like - I prefer pictures at least 12.5cm wide and 12cm high }: )~

Hey, anyone got a good pic of Larry standing at the drums on the b stage? It's hard doing him live because of all the daggum drums in the way. With just two colors, he tends to get lost in those pictures. Anything else would be cool - and I don't have to do the same colors, you know (neat little command called color mapping makes it all very easy!)

goat

 

[miss becky]

Will this work, goat?

 

[AtomicBono]

That's my new desktop this stuff is seriously tight! and good inspiration, we're doing printmaking in my art class...awesome job goat

 

[rivergoat]

Will this work, goat?

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you on this, I've been very busy and I spent a good deal of time trying to work with this pic, but it's just not working. I don't think screen caps are good for me, they are just not sharp enough. I think I am going to make do with what I have - Larry will just have to be left out! But thanks for trying anyways!

goat

 

[rivergoat]

I finally found something I could use and here is the result:

I felt bad because I had not put him at all on two of the covers, so he got the inside of the last one all to himself. Now I am done with the covers, just have to finish getting all the audio in the same volume.

goat

 

[roelie]

 

[RedLiteGreyMorn]

Those are very very cool!

 

[verte76]

These are great rivergoat! Thanks so much!

 

[U2MaNaIcWeIdO]

This is nice artistry man! Very cool indeed.

 

[DPrinceNY]

great pictures