FunWest Doll "Elise" head review (mirror)

4891d · Post by **4891d** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 9:30 am

I like the first two names.
If you're looking for something elvish but for a human, you could also look at Irish names. They're rare, and they might work for a redhead with blue eyes.

For my head, I will keep the name Trixie. For the moment I don't know any other Trixie, and it's with this name that Saaskiya met her in their story.
She is American and Trixie is a typical Anglo-Saxon name. It goes well with the way I see her.

-Ragnar66- · Post by **-Ragnar66-** » Sat Jul 09, 2022 10:21 am

4891d wrote: ↑Sat Jul 09, 2022 9:30 am I like the first two names.
If you're looking for something elvish but for a human, you could also look at Irish names. They're rare, and they might work for a redhead with blue eyes.

For my head, I will keep the name Trixie. For the moment I don't know any other Trixie, and it's with this name that Saaskiya met her in their story.
She is American and Trixie is a typical Anglo-Saxon name. It goes well with the way I see her.

Thanks for feedback. Might have a look here for further inspiration: https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/m ... -names.php

Trixie is fine and if fits to your imagined story lines, the better.

-Ragnar66- · Post by **-Ragnar66-** » Sun Jul 10, 2022 7:34 pm

Now bits of playing around with compositing. Let´s see what we can make of these.

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4891d · Post by **4891d** » Mon Jul 11, 2022 8:26 am

These big beasts love hugs!

-Ragnar66- · Post by **-Ragnar66-** » Tue Jul 12, 2022 4:57 am

4891d wrote: ↑Mon Jul 11, 2022 8:26 am These big beasts love hugs!

They sure do! Here´s another pic of Elise´s posing test shooting. Have some idea for different composite this time (..of pic below)? Still need practicing.

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-Ragnar66- · Post by **-Ragnar66-** » Wed Jul 13, 2022 10:09 pm

Sooooo..... it´s time to give Elise a unique name and I decided for "Ileana" (ileana). She also gets her own thread very soon and finishing here. Now practicing for a full theme set which will be like in pics below basically. Still got to take some hurdles. One big problem with my phone is it does not save in RAW format. So with JPG format and artifacts I have huge loss in quality even at given 13MP. No way to get rid of it again in GIMP. If anybody knows a solution for Samsung A20s, please let me know. Otherwise I got to live with that til I can afford a reasonably good camera.

Nirodha · Post by **Nirodha** » Wed Jul 13, 2022 10:55 pm

Ileana looks great! Congrats Ragnar

4891d · Post by **4891d** » Thu Jul 14, 2022 1:21 am

Hi Ileana!
We send you tender thoughts.
Trixie, Saaskiya

PS: When saving images in JPEG on Gimp you have the choice of compression (by default it's 90% but you can save at 100% > the image is much bigger but it limits the quality losses).

CF · Post by CF » Thu Jul 14, 2022 2:15 am

The power of redheads is strong and undeniable!

-Ragnar66- · Post by **-Ragnar66-** » Thu Jul 14, 2022 3:55 am

Nirodha wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 10:55 pm Ileana looks great! Congrats Ragnar

Yes she does, thanks! I could even enhance her more, but prefer leaving her in original condition (MU, Eyes, etc) for as long as possible. While I´m tempted inviting her for bed times she´ll remain my photo shooting only gal for quite some time.

4891d wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 1:21 am Hi Ileana!
We send you tender thoughts.
Trixie, Saaskiya

PS: When saving images in JPEG on Gimp you have the choice of compression (by default it's 90% but you can save at 100% > the image is much bigger but it limits the quality losses).

Thanks! Ileana sends her best regards to your gals as well.

Unfortunately It´s the phone that doesn´t store just made pics in RAM or SIM card internally. Seems made hard coded for my cheapo phone I guess. Oh well... In GIMP I use the most HQ settings for posting forum pics, but my phone (photo making app) does not even give me any choice for format selection (JPG only).

In GIMP I tried this one, but just gives me an even blurrier final result. https://winaero.com/how-to-remove-jpeg- ... with-gimp/

CF wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 2:15 am The power of redheads is strong and undeniable!

I´m sensing that Ileana gets some reinforcement very soon?

-Ragnar66- · Post by **-Ragnar66-** » Thu Jul 14, 2022 7:13 pm

Just learned some more important things. Both my phone and cam only store pics in JPG format, but my 8MP Medion uses much better, higher Q compression algorythms. And that I can deal with more effectively in GIMP now. A selective gaussian blur on required single areas gets me rid of most of the ugliness. Also smaller details (single hairs, edges...) remain unaffected this way, giving better overall results. Example below is downscaled 1k and results are acceptable IMO (removed JPG artifacts). Think I can achieve similar results on higher res pics (full 8MP) as well. Got to reorganize some working steps and fine tune cam settings.

All based on this little tutorial: https://winaero.com/how-to-remove-jpeg- ... with-gimp/

and my highly antiquated cam in use now. The lesser of the evils.