The John Wayne load screen?

[m10bob]

Hi guys.....A few years ago I located a really neat still taken during the filming of They Were Expendable, and Cobra Aus was able to convert it into a nice load screen..

That was 2 computers ago and I no longer have that file.

Does anybody else still have it, and would you be willing to re-share it?..

FYI, Cobra Aus has not been in the forums since 11/07 and he last told me he was taking time off for his grand-kids.He was born in '43 (IIRC)..
I miss our friend from Geelong.

[drw61]

Remember his avatar? Oh My she was mesmerizing!

[m10bob]

ORIGINAL: drw61

Remember his avatar? Oh My she was mesmerizing!

[witpqs]

You beat me to it! [:)]

[m10bob]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

You beat me to it! [:)]

[:D]

[m10bob]

This is the pic, if anybody can convert it to a loading screen.

(Cobra's version was tinted kinda brownish, like parchment??)

[Reg]

That scene is from the John Wayne film "They were Expendable" (1945) and the brown tint is called Sepia which is supported by most graphics editors as a special effect.

Unfortunately the picture you supplied is a JPG and looks terrible when blown up to the size needed for the load screen. Does anyone have a better/larger original out there??? (Preferably a lossless format such as BMP or PNG though a GIF would also be OK as this is a black and white picture). I looked and couldn't find one.

[Reg]

Hi M10bob,

Thinking about it, it will be unlikely that you will find any pics bigger than 640x480 (NTSC video capture) so I had a go to make you up a load screen (after smoothing out the jpg artifacts a bit).

There are three alternatives below. See what you think....

Just unzip and copy into your art folder.
(It would probably be a good idea to save or rename the existing "OpenLoadScreen_1024.bmp" file first!!)

[Reg]

Alternative 2

[Reg]

Alternative 3

[witpqs]

Just a thought - you could use the original size pic as the center of a collage, or just overlaid on the center of the current loading screen (maybe tilted a bit).

[m10bob]

ORIGINAL: Reg

Hi M10bob,

Thinking about it, it will be unlikely that you will find any pics bigger than 640x480 (NTSC video capture) so I had a go to make you up a load screen (after smoothing out the jpg artifacts a bit).

There are three alternatives below. See what you think....

Just unzip and copy into your art folder.
(It would probably be a good idea to save or rename the existing "OpenLoadScreen_1024.bmp" file first!!)

Thank you much Reg...You are valuable to your friends!

[m10bob]

ORIGINAL: Reg

Hi M10bob,

Thinking about it, it will be unlikely that you will find any pics bigger than 640x480 (NTSC video capture) so I had a go to make you up a load screen (after smoothing out the jpg artifacts a bit).

There are three alternatives below. See what you think....

Just unzip and copy into your art folder.
(It would probably be a good idea to save or rename the existing "OpenLoadScreen_1024.bmp" file first!!)

Reg, I settled on the second one you provided and it works PERFECT!..The border was a great idea..Thank you..

[Reg]

You're Welcome.

It only takes a couple of minutes when you have the right tools...






(That come at the right price [:)])