I made a few title screens. They are nothing spectacular, but I'd like some criticism anyhow. What do people think?
It's bad to just cut off the logo.
Keep in mind that PSP WotL draws at the same resolution as vanilla PSX, just a bit wider. It's software stretched after the fact to fit the PSP screen. You can use a live hack (talked about here (http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=8449.0)) to switch to correct ratio and then use a screen capture from -that- to get the correct WotL title screen. Or you can use this image (http://static4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100721024646/finalfantasy/images/1/1b/Final_Fantasy_Tactics_Lion_War_logo.jpg) as a base to cleanly scale down in Photoshop.
Edit: I quickly resized the above in Photoshop to this result...
The problem is that the video plops the logo down right where the title is supposed to be. So I'd have to separate the logo from the title. I'm not a talented enough artist to redraw the missing artwork bits behind the title by hand in order to reduce and reposition it.
Does that make sense?
Does Agrias's head look weird all cut off in the box art screen?
If you have the background itself to use, I can put the logo where it needs to be.
And yeah, severed heads is why I had such a problem making that box art work as a wallpaper on my PSP. I had to heavily edit and freehand it.
So, I managed to find a clean version of the WotL graphic. I cleaned up and resized the text a bit more so that it matches its positioning with the opening movie. I got rid of the bad map version I had before and I added two options for the box art graphics. Which titles do people like best and which version of the box art do people like best 1 or 2? The last one is kind of an experimental attempt at combining the original title screen with the new graphics. Using the Dodge tool to lighten the screen made things look crazy saturated. Does anybody know how to do this with less intensity?
You can adjust brightness and contrast, as well as hue and saturation from Image -> Adjustments. Another trick I use frequently is creating a duplicate layer and changing its blending property and opacity from the drop down on the layers window, but you'll likely want to change the contrast and saturation first, regardless.
What I'm trying to do is recreate this title screen using the original one, so that it doesn't look weird when the opening movie plays. What would be the best way to go about pulling out all those yellows and replacing them with earth-tones. I'm beginning to think that what I'm trying to do is actually not possible.
Like this?
Edit: added an even more extreme version.
Wow both of those look really good. I'm really impressed. Thank you.
No problem!
There's nothing that's impossible to do in Photoshop. I did sorta go to college for it, so...