I did a little fooling around with some screenshots I took in-game last night.
In-game, they were taken using high quality GPU shadows, depth of field, ambient occlusion, and flora enabled. My video card was rendering frames with 4x anti-aliasing and 8x anisotropic filtering.
Post-process, these have a contrast of about 35:1 applied, resampled from 1440 to 1070 at 16:10 ratio (bicubic alg.), duped, with a Gaussian filter on the back layer, top layer at 65% opacity, flattened, and cropped by about 5 pixels all around, to remove traces of “the magic.”
It’s a simple process, takes about 30 seconds per picture, and makes everything sparkle like a Mormon’s tween vampires.
The Baubleshire is far and away the best of the Qeynos villages (Castleview Hamlet and South Qeynos come close, I think) and it’s where I decided to make my newly born ratonga swashbuckler build his nest … err, home. The halflings are surprisingly accepting!
I love the Baubleshire; that’s where my ratonga swashie refugee found a home when she first came to Qeynos. The day SoE buldozes it for the glorious Qyenos revamp may well be the day I let my subscription to the game lapse.