First, thanks everyone who posted all the nice comments, that is very encouraging.
@sanderman2
I have not planned that but if there is an interest in such a thing, maybe I will. If I make cards for another faction it will probably be Gundabad and then the elves. Generally, I doubt if I can do better than much of the mods ui, which I think is very good. Especially Mordor and Harad have great cards in my opinion.
@Northman75
I'm very glad you liked it. Red eyes to the people! I had my doubts about that picture since it is so big, but then wargs are, compared to all the goblins so in a way it makes sense that they appear overwhelming for that faction.
@ALHIMIK
There is absolutely no secret behind this mod. I'm flattered that people ask.
1) No, everything is based on in-game screenshots. I don't have milkshape at all, actually. I know it is very popular to make cards from but you can get along fine with the game itself as well.
2) The light source is the morning or afternoon sun itself. I took shots of many units with the light coming from the side or front to increase contrast and illuminate things. It is especially hard, and necessary, with the goblin elite units whose grey and brown armour just blends into a dark mass otherwise. It is much easier with the shiny gondorians.
@alleycat
I use GIMP for editing. The most important tools are the sharpness thing or whatever it's called and the setting of brightness and contrast. I copy a picture of the unit from an unedited screenshot and increase sharpness and then contrasts and erase and smudge out some too bright pixels.
If you use the sharpness thing very much you get very clear details but eventually wrong colours. A good example here is the Ithilien ranger card where the bowstring has those annoying white dots along it. Something I will clean up in the future by the way.
If you use increased contrast more/earlier you will often get smoother lines at the expense of detail. A good example is the Blackroot Vale archers whose bow is quite visible and looks relatively un-pixilated while the face is less detailed than the Ithilien guys. Shields and metal armour with light on usually benefit tremendously from much contrast but moderate increased sharpness. The marines and goblin heavy infantry have very clear shields that really stand above the rest of the picture in detail.
Goblin chieftain: Shiny shields!? Whose idea was this? We can't have shiny shields! We have a rep' to protect! We are primitive scavengers, by Melkor!
I'll post a picture with some hopefully helpful notes later.