DGS Week 31: Sunset

[Ryzza5]

Congrats to Ozzmcom aka BadBadWhiskey for winning last week.

 

 

 

 

* Stick to the implied theme (don't look for technical loopholes)

* Images must not exceed 5MB, and be at least 990px wide by 340px tall.

* Each person who enters must cast a vote in the same week to remain eligible. You may not vote for yourself.

* Winning image must not be of TDU2 as you risk account suspension.

* Winner picks the next theme, unless winning consecutively, in which case the runner up decides.

* Winner has 48h to PM a new theme to me or another member of staff if I'm away, if they fail to meet this then the theme will be a free round.

* Competition is limited to games on all platforms of any age that are classified as driving/racing games. (i.e. FPS games that have cars in them wouldn't be eligible). Please mention what game your screenshot is from.

* Minor non-enhancing editing permitted (cropping, addition of your name, etc) is permitted, as long as the actual screenshot isn't tampered with. Just like all these other comps.

 

 

 

 

Week 31: Sunset

 

 

 

 

Please don't link small images to larger ones - just post the large one here!

[Ryzza5]

1. T1M

 

2. Ozzmcom

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3. Andreaz1

 

4. Mr Softie

 

5. TDU2FREAK500

 

6. Ryzza5

 

7. Milli

 

8. Mercedes-Benz

[T1M]

 

For now...

[Eudemon]

Great starting entry that T1M.

[TIMELESS]

I'm new to this so don't judge...

 

[broken screenshot is broken]

 

Also.. does it look as if I don't have an FXAA or whatever? :hmmm:

[Eudemon]

Yeah but it looks like there's some serious compression too mate.

[TIMELESS]

Yeah but it looks like there's some serious compression too mate.

 

The original bitmap (I saved as png before uploading) looked exactly the same... until I uploaded and it looks like this now. :confused:

[The Compensator]

I think it's more of a in-game graphics issue (lack of AA I assume) than an image compression from uploading it somewhere.

[Ozzmcom]

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[iNotACactus]

@Mb

I normally play without AA (potato graphics card) and I've never seen it that bad. Maybe try and compress it in Photoshop before uploading, so Imgur doesn't have a field day with it? Might be worth putting the image on Flickr too, because I've heard its compression isn't as bad. I don't have pCARS though so I'm not sure how that plays on lower settings. :hmmm:

[The Compensator]

Ah... Dunno then. What about the screen resolution? I think we'd better wait for Mr. pCARS to chime in, though. :hmmm:

 

@Flickr: I think it even makes my screenies look better.

[superhyper]

Scott's problem is definitely down to image compression if you ask me. What are you using to save the screenies? :hmmm:

[Andreas¹]

I have entered this before but it didn't win so I'm guessing it's okay to use it again.

 

Best theme evar btw.

[TIMELESS]

Scott's problem is definitely down to image compression if you ask me. What are you using to save the screenies? :hmmm:

 

I was just using the in game screenshot button thing. Tried using Fraps, don't think it was any better. Did fix the AA issue though but it still looks like there's loads of compression :hmmm:

[superhyper]

Odd :hmmm: As suggested, try uploading it to flickr and see if it makes any difference, I'm afraid I don't know any other options at the moment :(

[Ryzza5]

My pCARS pics tend to come out all compressed as well, I've never bothered to check if it was the game, FRAPS, or Google PicasaWeb doing the dirty deed

[superhyper]

Picasa tends to compress the images but not too much, especially if you use the original sized ones. I use fraps to take screenshots, never even tried the ingame key and don't have any problem with compression before the upload :nods:

 

If you use fraps, make sure you set it to save as PNG, JPG tends to look really nasty.

[Ryzza5]

Yeah mine is JPG because that's what the WMD forums asked for and I'm lazy to convert - although now that I think of it I'm sure PicasaWeb always converts PNG to JPG anyway

[Milli]

Try imgur.com. Just make sure you uncheck the "resize" option.

[TIMELESS]

Picasa tends to compress the images but not too much, especially if you use the original sized ones. I use fraps to take screenshots, never even tried the ingame key and don't have any problem with compression before the upload :nods:

 

If you use fraps, make sure you set it to save as PNG, JPG tends to look really nasty.

 

Cheers! Forgot to change that as I only just got the full version. :)

 

Try imgur.com. Just make sure you uncheck the "resize" option.

 

Already been using imgur ;)

 

Still looks a bit compressed but at least I can enter! :D

 

[superhyper]

That's nowhere near as compressed, looking great mate :)

 

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Picasa kinda ruined it and I found no sensible way of cropping it but it'll have to do :lol:

[Ryzza5]

This would've been nice to enter but it's compressed way too much

 

 

 

So I'll go with this:

 

 

 

About 6 hours until entries close

 

 

 

MrSoftie, yours looks great but doesn't totally look like a sunset - I'll leave it to Ozz to call

[Milli]

 

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, almost lose to entry for this one! :lol:

[The Compensator]

 

I have got so many sunset photos that I can't choose the best one. :/

[Ryzza5]

Poll is ^