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    Dreamstate's - 4K and 8K - Realistic Vertical MAME Overlays

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    Posted · Edited by Dreamstate

    On 4/4/2022 at 1:38 PM, BlackTiger said:

    interesting point of view,

    have you consider to make a video tutorial for image editing maybe someone may learn something

    and help you support this project

    Yes, not only interesting but proper and correct unless you are 20 feet away and photographing the cab with a zoom lens. And then the entire cab looks funny and 2 dimensional. Depth and a sense of reality are lost when you squish everything into the confines of a 16:9 frame. I make my overlays look like the viewer is looking at a cab from a normal playing distance or a few feet away. If you want to see what i mean, download some photos of arcade cabs straight on like my overlays look. Take those photos and zoom in when you have a vertical 16:9 view until the edges of the bezel touch the sides. I'll bet that the sides of the cpo and marquee are cut off. That's because both the cpo and marquee are closer to you. And In fact this is what i usually do to get the proper perspective for cabs, I use photos as reference under my work so my work looks realistic. Check out the photos I've attached for reference. Doing this prevents my work from looking off. For example, there's a better chance my joystick ball tops will be the right size, that they won't be the size of tennis balls like i see on other peoples overlays. That everything will be the proper size and look like it's existing in a real 3 dimensional environment rather than in some fantasy world where things look wacky or off.

    Also keep in mind my purpose for creating these isn't to provide marquees for others creating vertical overlays. I've noticed that some people out there are literally taking my marquees, cutting and pasting them onto their own vertical overlays and taking the credit for all my work and not crediting me at all. These overlays here are strictly for my own amusement. I am sharing them as they are because they're meant for me. So be glad I'm sharing what i do and that i thank and credit others who provide reference i use in these overlays. I could just decide to start taking everything others create and never credit them at all.

    I really don't have the time to instructional videos, and pretty soon I won't even be able to regularly post overlays here. There's mountains of instructional PS tutorials out there that will give you volumes more skills than I could ever possibly teach you anyway.

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