Hey here's a Minecraft tip, if you use f3 + c it will copy your location and where you are looking. Then, you can paste that into chat and it will teleport you to where you were. This would let you get the same angle as the rest, if doing more than one screenshot.
Little tip! If you go into your Photoshop preferences -> General -> Image Interpolation and set it to Nearest Neighbor, it'll preserve the hard edges of blocks in Minecraft screenshots when resized in Photoshop, so the Magic Wand Tool will select ALL of the green colors with no additional cleanup needed.
just a lil tip with the greenscreen texturepack: if you change the base block to something emissive like glowstone or sea lanterns it ensures that it will be the same shade of green everywhere on all sides, and so there is no ambient occlusion. this means you wont get the darkening in the corners it is super useful and id really recommend it!
Hey Kratzy, here's the best hint for you! Please lmk if you end up using it. Instead of winging the angle. Make a layer in OBS for it with the photoshop image overlayed with 50% opacity over Minecraft. You can now see the world live with an overlay of the image and get the angles perfect 100% of the time.
Considering you rarely use modern blocks, there's several minecraft "producer" mods that straight up add a green screen block which doesnt get effected by shading alternatively, you can use a resource pack that replaces the end gateway overlay with green screen and the beacon beam with it just being transparent so you can just build out of concrete or smt, and go with a /fill [coords 1] [coords 2] end_gateway replace: green_concrete command to get absolutely no shadows with a normal rendering mode
Nice video! I was curious if the greenscreen block would work better if it was a retextured a lighting block such as sea lanterns? I have virtually no experience with this so I have no idea.
Awesome images and great idea! If you use Zedaph's greenscreen texture pack it turns glowstone into greenscreen but it's also lighting so ... way better. Love the shadow trick btw, I'm gonna steal that 100%.
These are great, but there definitely is an easier way to do these in a faster way. You could just get the assets as FBX files import the image into blender as a reference. Align the camera using fspy and perfectly place the objects on the surfaces. You can also get realistic shadows by creating contact planes and setting their texture to transparent but still get a shadow cast. Render out with a transparent background and do any other corrections needed in photoshop. No need to keep moving better minecraft and photoshop, no need for the lasso tool, no need for greenscreening and no need for creating your own shadows with air brushes.
very interesting, but i think you could benefit from using a mod called "Isometric Renders", which lets you cut out parts of the world and render them as high quality images without background, and with adjustable angle and perspective, which would probably make this process much faster and easier!
@@Krtzyy surprised you never heard of it! this just shows how useful it can be to just browse through modrinth and see if you can find anything interesting, i never would have thought to use the mod in this way before seeing your video.
You should be able to use pure ref to get the perspective to match the image perfectly. You can put the image in pure ref, pin it to the front, lower the window opacity and then line up the minecraft scene that way. I haven't tried it myself but I would give it a go.
I’ve eaten a few mics in my lifetime, it really depends on the material of the mic. Kratzy’s mic is highly special, foam, especially delicious, I would love to get my hands on one, one day. But it’s far too valuable.
You can copy coordinats with camera angle (F3 + C or just open F3 menu for check angle) and paste it after rebuilding for perfect match with previous position
Tip: with F3+C you can copy the exact location with facing direction and all that stuff to safe perspectives via Command and BASED take about Twitter and Elon you got my sub for that alone!
For someone who learned photoshop in school, you're using it wrong. You have to remove the green part of a layer with a layer mask. You first do a color selection and then while selecting the layer you press the mask button under the layers panel. You can then in a non destructive way add or remove parts from the image by painting on the mask
Solution to the perspective problem use one of those draw on screen apps to mark some straight edges, and then line them up in minecraft. The lines shouldn't show up in screenshots, but if they do, you can usually hide them temporarily in the drawing app. You shouldn't have to mess with fov all that much except for the sake of resolution. The only thing that actually matters for perspective is where you put your feet
PRO TIP SECTION: 1. Using Generative Fill instead of Content-Aware can give you way much better results 99% of the time 2. You can create way much better shadows using fill layer and painting on mask with different flow percentage of a brush 3. You can match those minecraft items with the environment better by playing around with exposition to match lights and darks with the scene
When I first saw one of your photoshop pics I LOVED it! I'm so glad you didn't listen to the people that were over it, coz I just wanna see more and more! Designing a home in Minecraft and in real life is so fun, so mixing the two together is funny af. And I really like videos that break down the process and go over all the numbers, so thanks for sharing :)
You can use the mod called “Essential” which adds A LOT of quality of life things, such as copying the screenshot after taking it, showing it in the top right corner, and the ability to edit screenshots in game
Thought for you, make an OBS scene that overlays your image at a low opacity on top of Minecraft, and you’ll get a live preview of finding the right angle.
Fun fact instead of just turning off the smooth lighting you can /give yourself light blocks with the data of 15 and it will output the most amount of light so all of the green will be the same shade
to save your location once you get a good angle, do f3+c. it will put a command that will tp you to the exact same point on your clipboard which you can paste into notebook or something like that.
Thank you for making this video. I've always loved these images, and its nice to see the BTS of the process. After watching this video, I tried making a few. They're really fun to do. However, getting the angle right is so annoying
I'm not sure if this is a silly recommendation, but you might be able to use a mostly blank OBS scene to check the perspective for your edits in real time. You could add the image and have your minecraft capture, then use the color key filter to turn down opacity on one of them and line them up from there. Not sure if it'd be at all quicker but it's a thought! Love your work
I know something that could make your workflow a bit easier: Mine-Imator It has all the blocks you need, and the best part? It generates a picture of whatever you want without a background, no need for green screen shenanigans.
I think you should use invisible item frames (IS IN VANILLA MINECRAFT) to put on the images because if you make a table, you should put food on it and invisible item frames do just that! I hope you take this comment into consideration!
(just a suggestion that may work) instead of green screen try a background block that matches the actual bg color, in this case quartz wall block or bone block, this will help avoiding that step to invert 1px layer
I made one of these and it turned out pretty well. I did the same thing you did, modeled in Minecraft, but it definitely didn't go viral 😂 I've seen your work and never knew who was making them but it's cool to see!
U Should Try A Resource Pack Called 'Croakma Keys' As It Turns Froglights Into Chroma Key Blocks (Green Blue And Red) With The Added Benefit That These Are Unaffected By Any Form Of Ambient Occlusion Or Face Specific Shading Or Any Other Form Of shadows Or Lighting!
You could mayhaps use shaders and light blocks for better shadows. Also if you use multiple screenshots per edit you could copy the direction and position and then teleport to it. Maybe there is even a mod for this. Anyways very cool :>
I'm surprised that you don't use a mod like freecam to fine tune the angle of the camera. I feel like that would make it a lot easier to get the perspective right and also keep it for changes with the tripod feature
bro you needed a way lower fov with the bed and ender chest, and also the angle is a little off, you should definitely use smth like fspy to get a camera angle that fits the image better
Heres a dumb idea for your perspective, have a second account, get your angle right then use first account to build once the perspective is right. So you don't got to move your camera.
Oh cool I love these edits. Thanks for sharing your process
I love your superflat series as well
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I have been watching your superflat vids for 8 years now love them ❤
@@exio6938 what's the reference?
The amount of your edits which get crossposted to instagram is unreal 😭😭😭
they even get stolen on facebook it's a cruel world out there
@@Krtzyy you should put a watermark or something
@@Krtzyyadd a water mark!
No its unREEL(Im so sorry)
@@Krtzyyadd a watermark. Maybe add something that says “GET AWAY FROM DIS PHOTO 😡” But at the same time they could just cut it out in Photoshop
Hey here's a Minecraft tip, if you use f3 + c it will copy your location and where you are looking. Then, you can paste that into chat and it will teleport you to where you were. This would let you get the same angle as the rest, if doing more than one screenshot.
Replying to this so that it gets pushed further and so the creator has a higher chance of seeing this. Thank you DankGas
I need to screenshot this comment or something tysm
You have to hold it for 10 seconds
I just googled, it does actually copy your location and stuff, HOWEVER, if you hold it down for 10 seconds your game crashes. Your welcome.
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Little tip! If you go into your Photoshop preferences -> General -> Image Interpolation and set it to Nearest Neighbor, it'll preserve the hard edges of blocks in Minecraft screenshots when resized in Photoshop, so the Magic Wand Tool will select ALL of the green colors with no additional cleanup needed.
ohhhh I will defo try that out next time!!
just a lil tip with the greenscreen texturepack: if you change the base block to something emissive like glowstone or sea lanterns it ensures that it will be the same shade of green everywhere on all sides, and so there is no ambient occlusion. this means you wont get the darkening in the corners
it is super useful and id really recommend it!
Did you just create your own texture pack and changed glowstone/sea lanterns to solid green? Just want to confirm lmao
@@jazzm786 yeah pretty much :) it was a while ago now but i dont think there was anything more to it than that
Placing maps filled with lime blocks in glow item frames works well too, and the blocks won't get lit if you don't want them to
@@Dolphin002parts of blocks will get cut off though
@@Dolphin002you don't be able to place blocks instead use light block
Hey Kratzy, here's the best hint for you! Please lmk if you end up using it. Instead of winging the angle. Make a layer in OBS for it with the photoshop image overlayed with 50% opacity over Minecraft. You can now see the world live with an overlay of the image and get the angles perfect 100% of the time.
Im screenshotting a lot of the comments on this video these tips are too useful what the what
@@Skeeppppy i'm saving this video to a separate playlist, all these tips are so useful
I see your photos on Instagram literally every single day. I can’t escape it
you can't escape me
@@Krtzyy you cant escape me 😊 vs you cant escape me 💀😈
😂 yes it's awesome!
as someone who 3D models frequently the eyeballing hurts me 😭😭
ur not alone lmaoo
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Pro tip: You can actually overlay the original image over minecraft with OBS that'll let you get it near perfect!
Considering you rarely use modern blocks, there's several minecraft "producer" mods that straight up add a green screen block which doesnt get effected by shading
alternatively, you can use a resource pack that replaces the end gateway overlay with green screen and the beacon beam with it just being transparent so you can just build out of concrete or smt, and go with a /fill [coords 1] [coords 2] end_gateway replace: green_concrete command to get absolutely no shadows with a normal rendering mode
Nice video! I was curious if the greenscreen block would work better if it was a retextured a lighting block such as sea lanterns? I have virtually no experience with this so I have no idea.
honestly a great idea, never thought of that!
I've started making these because of you and I never thought to use a greenscreen
I've seen those photos literally everywhere, crazy that it was you.
This kinda reminds me of the artist who makes the paintings for Minecraft.
these are so funny for some reason
Awesome images and great idea! If you use Zedaph's greenscreen texture pack it turns glowstone into greenscreen but it's also lighting so ... way better. Love the shadow trick btw, I'm gonna steal that 100%.
These are great, but there definitely is an easier way to do these in a faster way. You could just get the assets as FBX files import the image into blender as a reference. Align the camera using fspy and perfectly place the objects on the surfaces. You can also get realistic shadows by creating contact planes and setting their texture to transparent but still get a shadow cast. Render out with a transparent background and do any other corrections needed in photoshop. No need to keep moving better minecraft and photoshop, no need for the lasso tool, no need for greenscreening and no need for creating your own shadows with air brushes.
I’ve seen a few comments about blender and now I really wanna learn it 👀
very interesting, but i think you could benefit from using a mod called "Isometric Renders", which lets you cut out parts of the world and render them as high quality images without background, and with adjustable angle and perspective, which would probably make this process much faster and easier!
omg I'm looking at the mod rn this will be so helpful wtf thank you!
@@Krtzyy surprised you never heard of it! this just shows how useful it can be to just browse through modrinth and see if you can find anything interesting, i never would have thought to use the mod in this way before seeing your video.
For lining up the image, you can use the scroll wheel to change your flight speed in spectator to have finer control of the camera
You should be able to use pure ref to get the perspective to match the image perfectly. You can put the image in pure ref, pin it to the front, lower the window opacity and then line up the minecraft scene that way. I haven't tried it myself but I would give it a go.
you took a bite out of your mic why??
Yummy 😋
So he can feel the words
I’ve eaten a few mics in my lifetime, it really depends on the material of the mic. Kratzy’s mic is highly special, foam, especially delicious, I would love to get my hands on one, one day. But it’s far too valuable.
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What...
its good to see the bloke behind these post, great video.
You can copy coordinats with camera angle (F3 + C or just open F3 menu for check angle) and paste it after rebuilding for perfect match with previous position
for greenscreen ucan also just change a light block like glowstone to green so its always lit and flush
Honestly this whole video is awesome. Honest and straightforward. Respectfully.
Tip: with F3+C you can copy the exact location with facing direction and all that stuff to safe perspectives via Command and BASED take about Twitter and Elon you got my sub for that alone!
For someone who learned photoshop in school, you're using it wrong.
You have to remove the green part of a layer with a layer mask. You first do a color selection and then while selecting the layer you press the mask button under the layers panel. You can then in a non destructive way add or remove parts from the image by painting on the mask
Solution to the perspective problem
use one of those draw on screen apps to mark some straight edges, and then line them up in minecraft. The lines shouldn't show up in screenshots, but if they do, you can usually hide them temporarily in the drawing app. You shouldn't have to mess with fov all that much except for the sake of resolution. The only thing that actually matters for perspective is where you put your feet
PRO TIP SECTION:
1. Using Generative Fill instead of Content-Aware can give you way much better results 99% of the time
2. You can create way much better shadows using fill layer and painting on mask with different flow percentage of a brush
3. You can match those minecraft items with the environment better by playing around with exposition to match lights and darks with the scene
I noticed you were having trouble getting a nice angle for the ladder. I’d maybe suggest upping the FOV for the right perspective
i loved seeing those photos!!
7:05 for such a little object the "spot healing brush" is much faster :)
Thats crazy
15:20 add a short jingle that can be copy pasted onto the start to make it longer without actually making it longer
When I first saw one of your photoshop pics I LOVED it! I'm so glad you didn't listen to the people that were over it, coz I just wanna see more and more! Designing a home in Minecraft and in real life is so fun, so mixing the two together is funny af. And I really like videos that break down the process and go over all the numbers, so thanks for sharing :)
Oh the essential mod has a copy function for screenshots but also a crop feature too for it!
I also sometimes do these stuff but from piscart mobile editor. Not the best but better than alot of people
Honestly pretty impressive, keep up the good work! :D
You can use the mod called “Essential” which adds A LOT of quality of life things, such as copying the screenshot after taking it, showing it in the top right corner, and the ability to edit screenshots in game
Thought for you, make an OBS scene that overlays your image at a low opacity on top of Minecraft, and you’ll get a live preview of finding the right angle.
I think you should make the greenscreen texture emissive so it doesnt have shadows
Fun fact instead of just turning off the smooth lighting you can /give yourself light blocks with the data of 15 and it will output the most amount of light so all of the green will be the same shade
I love to see you being successful Dave! Congrats on going viral!
im pretty sure theres a app that lets you put low opacity images ontop your screen that would make the perspective way more accurate
to save your location once you get a good angle, do f3+c. it will put a command that will tp you to the exact same point on your clipboard which you can paste into notebook or something like that.
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Thank you for making this video. I've always loved these images, and its nice to see the BTS of the process. After watching this video, I tried making a few. They're really fun to do. However, getting the angle right is so annoying
I'm not sure if this is a silly recommendation, but you might be able to use a mostly blank OBS scene to check the perspective for your edits in real time. You could add the image and have your minecraft capture, then use the color key filter to turn down opacity on one of them and line them up from there. Not sure if it'd be at all quicker but it's a thought! Love your work
I know something that could make your workflow a bit easier: Mine-Imator
It has all the blocks you need, and the best part? It generates a picture of whatever you want without a background, no need for green screen shenanigans.
You should defo check PureRef, you can just overlay image on your screen, so you would take room and match exactly angles in Minecraft
This isn't really my kind of content, i was interested specifically in the topic.
But great video and thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience!
bro sold the bag on every platform 😭
I think you should use invisible item frames (IS IN VANILLA MINECRAFT) to put on the images because if you make a table, you should put food on it and invisible item frames do just that! I hope you take this comment into consideration!
These edits are always so cool! Thanks for showing how you make them 😄
(just a suggestion that may work)
instead of green screen try a background block that matches the actual bg color, in this case quartz wall block or bone block, this will help avoiding that step to invert 1px layer
I made one of these and it turned out pretty well. I did the same thing you did, modeled in Minecraft, but it definitely didn't go viral 😂 I've seen your work and never knew who was making them but it's cool to see!
love the video man! really interesting to hear about your experiences at the end
Haha, well done! How awesome that your 'just for kicks' work is so fun for The People Of The Internet!!
If you make the texture of the diamond ore emissive, you won't have to deal with the shadows.
Apparently it's a normal thing now that lesser known creators do something that makes them famous all of a sudden
U Should Try A Resource Pack Called 'Croakma Keys' As It Turns Froglights Into Chroma Key Blocks (Green Blue And Red) With The Added Benefit That These Are Unaffected By Any Form Of Ambient Occlusion Or Face Specific Shading Or Any Other Form Of shadows Or Lighting!
Instead of replacing diamond ore, replace it with sea lanterns or glowstone instead so the green is always lit up :)
You could mayhaps use shaders and light blocks for better shadows. Also if you use multiple screenshots per edit you could copy the direction and position and then teleport to it. Maybe there is even a mod for this. Anyways very cool :>
Someone should make a mod so you can put the reference image on minecraft and lower its opacity to match the angles easily
its good and all but u forgot a lil detali (Ender chest have its glow that emits light 7 blocks) but still looks good.
personally haven't seen these yet but this looks sick !! sad to hear people steal it, what a world we live in :(
It’s called art. 🖼
HE WAS THE ONE HE DID IT
I'm surprised that you don't use a mod like freecam to fine tune the angle of the camera. I feel like that would make it a lot easier to get the perspective right and also keep it for changes with the tripod feature
You might want to use blender and fspy to make it easier
i was thinking the same thing
i'm sure there's a similar alternative mod for minecraft too
What really happens: **Minecraft glitches into real life**
tip: you can change the speed of the character in spectator with the scrool wheel
If it was 2019, you could use Minecraft Earth to do it
or try a minecraft earth apk (if it works)
@@RafiRo1 that wouldn’t work sadly because when you try to launch it, it just says stuff about the sunset of it
The Ender chest having a shadow doesn't make sense since it emits light
Try using the "Perspective Warp" tool instead of fighting with the FOV.
You can use something like ontopreplica to get the angle right.
bro got that auto tune 5:25
Thanks for sharing, these edits are awesome!! :D
6:15 yeah, fuck the pen tool! I always use the polygonal lasso.
You know you cant get an exact angle and fov with a protractor image, right? position you may wing it but angle can be spot on
This is so cool!
0:34 alecrim pensamentos mentioned
so CGI but even people who dont know super complicated softwares can do it too
bro you needed a way lower fov with the bed and ender chest, and also the angle is a little off, you should definitely use smth like fspy to get a camera angle that fits the image better
It was youuuuuu!!!! :0
For the angle issue... On the ladder atleast... Why dont you just use the transform feature?
Btw for the angle i think there are apps so tou can put images on top of your game
Was this one day ago? What? Nice video Btw, and you got some skill with Photoshop
so glad this vid is doing well :D
you could make glowstone greenscreen. it won't cast shadows.
Ender chests emit light. The fact that you shadowed one ruined my day 😡
Really? THAT ruined your day? People like you are embarrassingly sensitive 💀
@@Sunset-Marcus What are you instigating right now lol? Obviously a large part of that was satire.
@@TacoMeister2 did.. not… ask. Still sensitive
you should of replaced the light switch with a lever or button
Heres a dumb idea for your perspective, have a second account, get your angle right then use first account to build once the perspective is right. So you don't got to move your camera.
i thought this would have been done in blender, not PS
These are tweets that actually deserve all the likes.
once u get the cords and the -x x y -y facing and then tp to those cords
It’s you? Omg I loved the Twitter edit I’ve seen so many of them
DAVE YOU WERE BEHIND THIS??
Man this is so cool
wow very insightful