A bit of a lazy post today, so I’ve cut straight to the chase. 🙂
I was inspired after seeing this post of someone’s Saber Lily mod. Since I have zero skill in painting my own figures (well, that’s not true, but it might as well be), and I most certainly wouldn’t want to risk taking apart my Saber Lily for this, I decided the next best thing would be to make a photoshop version. I got lazy this time, and ended up using one of the shots previously posted in the Omake, but I probably would have gotten a similar result had I done a re-shoot anyway.
Here’s a youtube video of it being made:
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And also, here’s a 1280 wallpaper!
Enjoy!
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Amazing as always. How did you change the color to black?! I’ve doing some make ups in photoshop for photography but I always have problems with blacks, can’t use it right don’t know why. I noticed that you started with a black colour in a multiply layer but the next step got me confused.
Thanks! Blacks are hard to achieve on any shiny surface, since if you do a brightness/contrast adjustment on it, it dulls the shine, or creates too high a contrast. What I did was create an Overlay layer (not multiply) with solid black. Using a soft airbrush, I brush the areas I want black.
Then I duplicated the layer, and turned it into Saturate. This makes it gray so that I can apply my own colors to it on a Color layer.
Yeah I noticed it was overlay after I tried it 😛
ooh, so this is what you meant by sticking with photoshop.
Really impressive work too! But I say take saber lily apart! Just for the heck of it!!!
I’m still trying to decide if I’m going to paint mine into a dark saber or keep her as she is…
Well, I’ve got plenty of time to decide!
But she’s so pretty in pearly white! While the Dark Lily looks cool, I still prefer the white one. It just seems to fit more. ^^
You’ve got the skills to take her apart, but I certainly don’t. It would definitely be a waste of a “kit” for me. lol!
Can’t be bored of those videos, even if I prefer Saber as she is, “nomal” or “lily” ^^ That’s incredible to see all those changing so much. Thanks for the entertainement!
Thanks lu-k!
I might end up submitting this one to AFN photo contest, dunno. lol!
As always your works is impressive! I find Saber Lily Black version very great ! Congratulation ! I love !!
Thanks Leonia! Did you check out the post of that modded one? It looks so amazing! I wish I was that skilled. ^^;
wow, the mod looks really awesome and so is your photoshop work, very cool!
Your skill with photoshop will always surprise me. 🙂
Here’s a awesome Dark Saber without disadvantages of paint and risk of misdoing.
I would love, if it’s possible, that you made a banner for Lylibellule i would put once celebrations are over.
That would pleases me a lot.
Thanks Lylibellule! Sure! I can make a banner for you! What do you have in mind?
Thanks, i’m glad you accept. 😀 😀
I don’t have much ideas, i let you decide and make me a surprise. I can just help you by saying that i love wings and stars.
I loved your work about the colors for this Dark Saber. I also saw the customized GK and I was amazed too. I guess I will train my photo editing abilities 😉
Two points I would have improved (if I could):
-I would have erased the ahoge (in fact, Dark Saber haven’t any).
-I would have customized the sword modified with a red color (Dark Saber’s Excalibur is different from Saber’s Excalibur). For example I would have put a luminous red instead of the blue on the sword.
Keep going on ! =3
There is such thing as an Alter Saber Lily? I didn’t know that! :O
Hey yah, haven’t been here quite sometime. Another one of Saber work and amazing tutorial as always. I agree – the modified Dark Lily is really cool, but I wouldn’t risk painting her. You just showed me another idea of what we can play around with our collected figures. Thankx!
Thanks onsenturtle! It definitely has been a while! Good to see you here again! ^_^
I think that if I stumble upon a cheap bootleg, I might have gone for it and taken the risk, but not to the original – unless I had the skills and knew that’s exactly what I wanted to do with it – which is probably what the modder had intended in the first place.
That’s very impressive. I completely sucks with photoshop (well i can barely use the most basic functions and never i would be able to create something from scratch)
It always amaze me what you can do with a little knowledge and imagination.
Concerning the figure itself, i think Saber looks great in black. After all she’s has a very dark side as seen in the games.
Good job ^^ like it
Thanks Katsura-chan!
It took me a while to get a handle on how to use photoshop. But one day I just decided to pick up a photoshop book and learn from there. It’s not as hard as I thought! If you ever feel inclined to learn photoshop, then taking up a book is highly recommended!
I do agree that Saber looks good in black too! I’ve still never watched the series or played the games, but I do get that feeling that she’s got a dark side. ^^
The normal saber lily is great but the dark version is simply cool! Great photoshop! ???
Thanks very much, Chappy! I agree with you – Normal Lily is elegant and sweet, but Dark version is so badass – just a color change makes such a difference!
Love it 🙂
I also loved that figure when it got posted. Awesome mod.
But where is my 1280*1024 version? It seems 1280*900 🙁
it’s 1280 wide, but unfortunately not 1024 tall. It’s from a photograph, and that’s the aspect ratio of it. Something to do with film type and whatnot. ^^
Honestly i think you are one of my favorite photographers o.o
your Photoshop skill are amazing and your eye for color is just outstanding 😀 I love your work :3
Hey thanks for the comment! I’ve still got a lot of photoshop ideas that I haven’t done yet, so expect more in the future!