How do you make the color so virbant like in this screenshot?

[wasserkool 1]

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/maximum_pc_2009_gaming_awards?page=0%2C1

Arma2 got the Maximum PC 2009 award but if you look at the screenshot, the color is so much more vibrant than waht you see in the game. How did they do that or its photoshopped?

[enad 11]

Boosted the contrast or gamma levels..? Not sure, but it sure is ugly. I don't like neon green grass.

[Alex72 1]

Photoshopped or by using the color scripts. You can make ARMA2 look like you taken LSD. Color, contrast, brightness, blur and more effects can be applied to any mission through the editor/scripts.

[Binkowski 26]

Photoshop, maybe messing with the post processing effects in game.

[Deadfast 43]

You might want to check your monitor's color configuration, on mine the grass looks like it's been irradiated, not really that pretty ;)

In any case, there is the colorCorrection PP filter.

[Richey79 10]

I was experimenting with ATI Tray Tools and set 'alternate pixel centres' (it's in 3D -> Additional Options) on and got a similar effect; only it set the gamma to silly levels as well.

[maturin 12]

Chernarus may look dull in most weather conditions, but that's hideous.

[Fudgeblood 10]

I better question is; Why would you want to?

[kklownboy 43]

I find that lowering my ingame Gama(8~9), and Brightness(~9), and lowering my CCC color/Gama to .85, the game colors are rich and nice.

[SASrecon 0]

Hmm a bit like this video I saw the other day;

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How do you get it like this?!? tried gamma and brightness but it still doesn't look as vibrant as this...

[rstratton 0]

turn up the digital vibrance in the nv control panel

[Flaxpants 10]

It's not common knowledge, but most if not all monitors these days are setup by default using the sRGB IEC 1966 colour profile. This profile is designed for web viewing and well suited to corporate computer displays, it is also compatible with all consumer digital camera colour profiles. However, sRGB (the 's' stands for standardized) is the smallest colour space available, in other words its colour pallette is the most limiting. Using a color profile such as Adobe RGB gives you a much wider range of colours and more colour depth, programmes such as Photoshop allow you to choose the colour space that you wish to use within it, but you can also change the colour profile of your monitor via properties-settings-advanced-colour management.

I use Adobe RGB pretty much all the time and I can get much richer colours than sRGB could ever get. It makes a big difference.

[Rayers12 19]

That video is INTENSE.

[Meatball0311 79]

yes increase your digital vibrance on nvidia control panel like to 60 and it does wonders

[BoxiouS 10]

The screenshot is fugly but the video looks great!

[Steakslim 1]

Hmm a bit like this video I saw the other day;

How do you get it like this?!? tried gamma and brightness but it still doesn't look as vibrant as this...

If the person is familiar with the color curve manipulation in his NLE when he made the video, he could easily achieve that look in post. You can make pretty convincing cross-processing type colors (method in photography by giving the film a bath in the wrong chemicals) by messing with the color curves, just to name an example.

Edited January 15, 2010 by Steakslim