[VirtAnderson]

Hia, I'm trying to get into Screenshot editing so I could make epic-looking pics in Gmod. Anybody know how to make cool effects and/or know of a website with some transparent-background pics of misc. special effects (explosions, laser beams, those little rays of light that come in through windows and trees, etc.)?

[minilandstan]

Here

[Sweet Berries]

You're just supposed to google things and edit them if you need to. Most effects like smoke, muzzle flashes, explosion etc are on a black background and you can just set its blending options to screen. Really it wouldn't have been hard to find this out. P.S. I get mine from action essentials 2 and adobe after effects and just screenshot it but that's a whole other story that you shouldn't get in to yet.

[Lebowski]

Until you know the basics of lighting, posing, and composition, don't even bother to learn editing.
There is nothing worse than a picture with terrible lighting, posing, and composition that has good editing.

[VirtAnderson]

Er, what exactly do you mean by composition?

[Joazzz]

VirtAnderson posted:

Er, what exactly do you mean by composition?

How you place the stuff in your picture. Can't be arsed to go into detail so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_(visual_arts)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds

That helps a lot.

[VirtAnderson]

Oh, okay. I get it. I learned all about it, just forgot the word. Thanks.

[JurajIsNotPirat]

cgtextures.com

and google.