hi. just a screenshot i made. well, actually, it's a screenshot of my 737-700, placed on a real photo in which i removed an A340. i was surprised by the effect myself! the 737 looks so real, it's just great!wanted to share this work with you, i hope it's not off topic and you like it.amazing what PhotoShop can do if you know how to use it...:-)Greets to all,keep up your amazing work PMDG!!!Stuhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/75929.jpg(Original photo by Ismael Jorda. Found at Airliners.net)

Can you please post the link to the real photo??And btw. I find soooooooooooooooooooo hard to believe that this 737 here is fake, you really did an excellent job! Although, the lights. They really seem like real, that glow. I believe you also photoshoped that, or? :)

No way buddy that's looks like a real plane!If not you've done one hell of a good pic there my friend!Ciao, David

Dauka, not impossible. I've seen some pure FS screenshots of PMDG, that under certain lighting and sky, without clods and such, really showed very very much realism and could be easily mistaken for the real aircraft. So I do think that this is PMDG, especially since it's so dark, and you can't really tell, but for instance, one giveaway is I think the wings that are completely straight. On real 737 I think by now they would have flexed a bit up... And look the engine rings...If you watch really closely, you will see few things that give away that it's a model.But still, amazing job!! Both PMDG and Stu!!

Yepp, and here you see how flight simulation could be if there was a realistic scenery (we already have the realistic aircraft:-hah ).CheersThomas

Great picture :) One other point that show the "fake" is the heat blur on the far left of the pic. (engine number 4 of the original A340) I wonder what it would look like using a 2 engine aircraft original pic... again.. looks GREAT! Bye, Luca

Yeah I just discussed that with a friend of mine. How the technology goes, we can wait up to 20 Ghz (if we stay on the HZ side), and that in about 30-40 years to see something like that. Sooner? Probably not...

Btw, this is the original:http://www.airliners.net/open.file/463666/L/CheersThomas

sure, you can see some evidance of a fake if you look close. but my intension wasn't to make a perfect fake. it was just for fun, and the result makes me love the 737 even more...:-)for those who are interested, here's what i did:1. took original pic (see link above), and used the stamp tool to eliminate most parts of the A340.2. with a printout of the original with plane, i used a clear sky enviroment in FS9, slewed the 737 up to FL200, and positioned the outside cam to fit with the angle of the original shot. it's helpful to see how rudder, gear and engines are related to eachother to get the right angle.3. screenshot. important to have the CLEAR blue sky in the background for next step.4. i pasted the screenshot into photoshot. mow eliminated the background (which is easy, 'cause it's totally blue and simple to select). the inverted selection to copy only the plane.5. pasted plane into real photo. optimized size and position.6. here's where the magic hapens: modifications added to the layer of the plane, such as reduction of saturation, optimized brighness & contrast, blurred edges (used total blur effect. that depends on the quality of the original picture. both have to fit eachother.), and used "add noise effect" to simulate the natural photo grain (again, the amount of noise depends on the original).7. added lens flare effect (the reflecions on the runway were already there, so leaved tehm untouched). important here: less is more.that's it. and it's fun. just fun...:-) :-) ;-)cool that you like it,have a nice one,stu

Hmmm, interesting!!I thought it had something to with the blur. I think when we start seeing hardware blur in the FS, that's gonne bring hell lots of realism.

Very good one!Now if only the runways could go that far in FS ;)Anyway to be perfect:lights should have been more amber (yours are too white)plane i think should have been pointed a little more to the leftplane should have been a lil darkerAll in all i think you can update that to airliners and they would show it ;) :-hah

according to moore's law computing power doubles each 18 months. that means, we should see computers able to add so much more realism to our hobby in about 8 years (speed would then be comparable to a 28 Ghz cpu, of course development could use other means to reach a similar amount of power (i.e. multiple pipelines in the cpu, like apple does today already, etc.)

Great Edit :-)Andr

Wow...that is one amazing edit!

Nice job. One thing that gives it away, though, it the lack of wing flex. A REAL NG with winglets would have some serious flex at that point. :)