How to make badass awesome backgrounds for your AGS game.

[Miez]

You add character by pressing button Poser

That a shot from DolphinBuster 2, modsy?

[Danman]

aww the poor dolphin. Animal cruelty Mods I am going to report you to the animal rights. Cause you don't have the right to put a dead dolphin on your background

[Haddas]

[m0ds]

LOL! No giant mushroom? It's not complete.

[Domino]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/skeith2572/funnyBG.png

This tutorial has really helped me a lot, as you can see in my almost finished product. 

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I hope people realize i am just kidding around, and would never make something this horrible, just trying to be funny!! Also, I did not draw the sea life, I used stamps from Neo-Paint.

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Your Friend.
Domino

[Danman]

It is unbelievable how Progzmax hasn't even put this in the tutorials index. All our super evil awsomest backgrounds for nothing. All our very simple basic art tutorials on how to go from pixel art to Masterpiece.
it is sad  :'( how other people wont even get a hell of a laugh experience on art that we all had.

[NsMn]

NO HADDAS! Not enough colours, not enough colors! Besides, where's the lens flare?!
Seriously, will you never learn?!

[Tuomas]

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I hope people realize i am just kidding around, and would never make something this horrible, just trying to be funny!! Also, I did not draw the sea life, I used stamps from Neo-Paint.

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Duh

[CShelton]

I'm going through these steps, and while I was highly skeptical before, I'm now a believer.

I've only gotten to Step 3 so far, but when I'm feeling brave, perhaps I'll add the texturing and lightning. I do have to admit that making the bed is beyond my capabilites. I think you'd need a 4d program to do that.

[Danman]

I decided to make your guys backgrounds better




I basically added as many colors as possible and added the cool awesome lens flare.
Also the cool tile filters.

Don't thank me. Thank "I stole ur car" For this art tutorial.

I know that the sea-life with lens flare. Is a great logic. Cause the light reflects on the water surface of the wall. 

WOW!! You still need filters though Shelton. But that is on the later steps  . I am enjoying destroying bad art making masterpieces. 

[NsMn]

Hey, you should be ashamed of yourselves. You all saved it in a suck-ass format.
Here, I modified Shelton's background a bit to show it off:

[Danman]

That is amazing Ns.
OH that's another thing we using bad formats. Don't use PNG,GIF.
Got to use Jpeg. Cause it give a automatic filter gives a super awesome effect  .

[Dataflashsabot]

Image File Formats And How They Apply To You
PNG: A very poor file format. Poor compression, limited colours, usually large filesize, will mess up many images. Do not use!
GIF: Better. Perfect colours, supreme compression, and allows cool animation effects (adding a frame that contains an inverted or tinted version of the original and setting it to flick rapidly between them is a great way to show contrast!)
JPEG: An excellent format, especially for small pixel-art images! Even has a built-in anti-aliasing filter!
BMP: One of the best. Most suited to large, detailed images. Use where possible!

[i stole your car]

It is unbelievable how Progzmax hasn't even put this in the tutorials index. All our super evil awsomest backgrounds for nothing. All our very simple basic art tutorials on how to go from pixel art to Masterpiece.
it is sad  :'( how other people wont even get a hell of a laugh experience on art that we all had.

As the author of this topic I was happy to let it run and see where you guys have taken it. I'm very pleased with the result and I'm glad you had so much fun. In regards to adding it to the tutorial database, I think that might potentially be a bad idea, even in jest. Something like this, while fun at first, might possibly become a little tedious and later be filed under the 'What the hell was I thinking?' category. I feel it's better to enjoy it while it lasts and forget about it when it's gone.

Now on a more serious note: Back to you guys.

[NSM]

If you're going to make an underwater picture, you have to use the photoshop "ocean ripple" filter.  If you don't, your picture won't be of the ocean.  People will also laugh at you and call you fat.

I fixed this for you, and added a lens flare with a smiley face.  Smiley faces help those playing your game to relate more to your backgrounds.  I hope this helps!

[Domino]

Hey you totally ruined my badass background, what gives??  : : :

Also I used the Neo-Paint version of Water Special Effects.

Thanks for at least trying, I'll give you that much credit.

woops, I forgot the 

[Matti]

By the way, what happened to our Interprete-the-clouds-thread, Domino?

Here's what I see: A car, a T-Rex-bird and some wasted guy who's brain peeks out..

[Domino]

Yeah, I am trying to forget that I ever posted that Cat in the Clouds Picture. That was kind of embarrassing. 

(Well, it was kind of funny. Remember, I had mentioned it wasn't a sober post, ha ha)

[Danman]

The actual meaning of the picture formats.

PNG: Poor Not Good

GIF: Great if Fat

BMP: Brilliant Mint Picture

Jpeg: Just Please Eat Game  ( I couldn't thing of a funny comment)

I hope this teaches you to use the correct formats 

[NsMn]

Jpeg: Just Please Eat Game  ( I couldn't thing of a funny comment)

JPEG = Just Perfectly Enough, Genius!