IMAGE MANIPULATION 4: the 1 that came after the other 3
Welcome to the Image Manipulation thread! This is the place for MSPA-themed manips; edited images from the comic and outside images edited with an MSPA theme are fine. Sprite edits are welcomed so long as they are of existing characters; any edits based on your own characters most likely belong in the Trollslum thread.
(Most of the credit for compiling this list goes to Walliard)
SCRATCHIFICATION
Have you ever thought to yourself, man I wish I had an awesome scratch avatar like all the cool kids
i guess they're kind of retro now or something but that's okay i guess
WELL NOW YOU CAN, THANKS TO TESSERACT'S TOTALLY RAD TUTORIAL
First and most obviously, you need a sprite. You may or may not want to remove certain facial features.
If you're wondering, Doc Scratch's colors are white, #BDBDBD, #08FF4A, and #19A519, though you'll probably end up adding different shades of gray. Becquerel is just white with a black outline.
Make sure to leave lots of space around the sprite.
Frame 2:
Make a copy of frame 1 and fill it completely with black. Add yellow lightning around the edges. It's much easier and will probably look better if you copy the lightning from frame 2 of the Doc Scratch sprite linked above rather than drawing it yourself.
Frame 3:
More lightning, in the same spots as the lightning in the previous frame. This time use the normal sprite you made in frame 1 rather than the black one from frame 2.
Frame 4:
More lightning effect, using the normal sprite.
Frame 5:
The exact same thing as frame 1.
Frame 6:
Make a copy of the main sprite, scale to 105%, and fill with white. As with all image manipulations, it helps if there is no anti-aliasing.
Frame 7:
In-comic, this is a transparent (I haven't bothered to figure out the opacity) version of Frame 6 on top of a black sprite. However, if you want to save headaches, it's usually better to do it a different way. Create a copy of the original sprite and fill with #292929. Now select the pixels in frame 7 and remove from the selection all the pixels in frame 6. Fill the selection with black. This normally will only affect a few pixels around the edges of the sprite.
Or if you aren't obsessive about this you can just fill the sprite with #292929 and be done with it. But if you're like me, and you probably are, you have to do it perfectly.
Frame 8:
This is where the hard part starts. Make another copy of the original sprite, scale to 108%, and again it helps a lot if there is no anti-aliasing.
Now you're going to need to find a flicker effect. This is often extremely annoying! It's pretty hard to piece together the actual effect, and even harder if you're not using a smaller sprite like Doc Snout. I personally use the one here.
Use the sprite you just scaled up to make a cutout of the first frame of this animation.
Frame 9:
Create yet another copy of the first layer, scale to 105%. Use this to cut out frame 2 of the flicker animation.
Frame 10:
New copy don't scale frame 3 cutout.
Frame 11:
Keep doing what you've been doing.
Frame 12:
Yep.
Frame 13:
Do the same thing again, except this time set the opacity to 67%. Create another copy of the original sprite underneath.
Frame 14:
Do the flicker effect one last time, this time set the opacity to 33%. Create a copy of the original sprite like you did in Frame 13.
Now crop the image, and make sure you didn't cut off anything or you'll have to do all that over again.
Set the delay for all frames to .05 seconds, except for frames 1 and 5. These can have any delay you want. For reference, Doc Scratch's introduction panel uses 1 second for both, Doc Snout uses 2 seconds for both, and the wiki uses 3.5 and 4.5 seconds.
And you're done! Yay.
ALTERNATE TUTORIAL BY ARCANA
GIMP TUTORIAL BY STROKEND
The first thing you need is the image you want to scratchify. It helps to either give it a solid-colored background, or to remove a background. Right click the image, go to IMAGE, then MODE, then click RGB so that you can use all colors available.
The second thing you need is the green lightning, or whatever else you're using to make your flashy effect. I have it ripped and stored at http://i52.tinypic.com/4l1xtu.gif for your convenience.
Now, make sure your picture has enough empty space to support the growth that will be applied to three of the frames--if you aren't sure if it's big enough, make it bigger just in case. You can do this by right clicking the image, going down to IMAGE, and then clicking canvas size. The layers will not change along with it, so make sure you right click the layer and then click "Layer to image size". This will leave some blank space that may be a different color than the background you want--if it does, just use the eyedropper (on the left) to pick up the background color, and the paint bucket (also on the left) to fill it in. Something to keep in mind is that if your image has a side (top and bottom included) cut off, you DON'T want to leave blank space beyond that side. Also keep in mind that this ruins it if the image is cut off on two opposite sides--try to find one that at most has a corner cut off (ie. left and bottom).
The next step is to duplicate the layer until it says "Copy #12". Since the first two layers don't have those numbers, #12 is actually frame 14, which is what you need (unless you're already a pro at scratching and enjoy making longer flashy fazes). To help, you can go through the frames and rename them Frame 1-14; this will especially help on frames I'll be telling you to jump to in this tutorial.
Once you're ready to start editing the layers, you can follow the tutorials that guide you frame by frame or use my 'shortcuts.' Since you're reading this, I guess you want the shortcuts.
Turn off view (they eyeball on the right window) for all layers. It's not necessary, but it REALLY helps you out here. A quick way to turn them all off is to click the top or bottom layer, hit left a few times, then hit space-down-space-down (replace down with up if you clicked the bottom layer) until you hide them all.
Turn frame six on, then right-click on it on the right window. Click on "Scale Layer." Make sure the chain is connected--if it's severed, click it to connect it. Next, look at the dropdown box. By default it's probably "Pixels." Change it to "Percent." Change the width to 105 and then click on the height box. You may get a funky value just a little bit above or below 105--don't worry. It's just fine. Click on "Scale" and then center the layer (use the move tool on it--you can also select the image window once you select the move tool and then use the arrow keys to move it pixel by pixel. This is useful for counting how far it is from side to side and top to bottom, so that you can center it if it isn't centered by default).
When centering images with sides cut off, keep in mind that for those sides, being 'centered' means being against the canvas edge. For example, if the bottom is cut off, move it up until the bottom aligns with the bottom of the area where you can actually see the layer at (since below there it turns invisible). You may need to zoom in to get it pixel perfect. "Corner Cut" images are actually easiest here--no counting, just side matching.
Turn frame 6 invisible (if you're following my advice on this, always turn inactive layers invisible unless I say otherwise), then turn frame 8 visible (again, active layers become visible unless otherwise stated). Do the same thing you did with frame 6, only this time set the percent to 108 instead of 105.
Repeat with frame 9 at 105%.
If you want, you can add a tiny suffix to layers 6, 8, and 9--"Frame 6-105" "Frame 8-108" and "Frame 9-105" for example. This helps you recognize layers that you need to ignore on the next step.
Go to frame 2 (visibility rules apply here so you can see it) and use the COLOR SELECT TOOL on the left window (it's a hand pointing at either a red square or green square on a square tower of green, red, blue from bottom to top) on the background (even if the background is transparancy). Set your foreground color to black if it isn't already--you can do so by clicking on it and moving the sliders around, or by clicking the tiny black and white squares right next to the bigger color squares. Right click the image, go to select, and then INVERT. This will make you select everything BUT the background. Click the pencil icon (or hit N), set the 'brush' to Circle 19, and scale to 10. This helps you color it in REALLY fast--just color the whole thing. Since you only selected the thing you're scratchefying, nothing else gets colored
Keeping that area selected, 'activate' frame 8. Now, switch over to your GREEN LIGHTNING (you should have both pictures opened). Select all (CTRL+A), then click on frame 3 of it. Copy it (CTRL+C) Go back to your scratching image, and click on the upper left brush tool in the bottom of the right window. It'll be the green lightning. Set your pencil scale to 1 and see if the rectangle covers the whole of your scratch item (NOT the background, just the image). If it doesn't try scale of 2--and keep upping it by one until it's big enough. You SHOULD be able to make it big enough, otherwise your image is too big.
Once you make it big enough, activate layer 10 (yes, without having put lightning on layer , find a 'center point' (ie. the tip of something like a fang or tie) where you will click for each lightning application. (Note: if you don't actually click on frame 10 in the right window, you'll draw on whichever layer is selected. Make sure you don't do that. If you DO, though, you can simply undo it, fortunately)
Activate layer 11, COPY green lightning's layer 4, click on the center point on the scratch picture.
Activate layer 12, copy green lightning's layer 1 ("background"), click the center point of the scratch picture.
Activate layer 13, copy green lightning's layer 2. Set pencil opacity to 67, click on the center point of the scratch picture.
Activate layer 14, copy green lightning's layer 3. Set pencil opacity to 33, click on center point of the picture.
Activate layer 8. COLOR SELECT the background, invert selection. Copy green lightning's layer 1, set opacity to 100. Click scratch picture's center point. It wont be the same pixel as the other layers, but that doesn't matter.
Activate layer 9. Color select the background, invert selection. Copy green lightning's layer 2, click scratch picture's center point. Again, different pixel, but that's okay.
Activate layer 6. Do NOT deselect, or you'll have to reselect it--since it's the exact same area. Switch to Circle 19 and scale 10 again, set color to white. Color the whole selection.
Activate layer 7, color select background, invert select. Set color hex-value to "292929". Color selection. Activate layer 6, use magic wand (or color select if needed) and CONTROL+click the white. Activate layer 7 again and color the selection black.
Activate layer 2, set brush to Circle 3, set scale to 75, and edit the color. Increase RED and GREEN scales to max, and lower BLUE to minimum. This gives you yellow for the lightning--just draw it in place around the edges where you think it'd look neat.
Click layer 3 but do NOT make it visible--you should be seeing layer 2 still. Try drawing over the lightning, perhaps off of it a little, and bigger.
Activate layer 3 and click on layer 4. Draw 'broken' bits of lightning where layer 3's lightning is (this is why you're viewing layer 3 and not 4). If you think you messed up on either of these steps, you can simply undo--GIMP supports a lot of undos.
Right click, go to IMAGE, MODE, then INDEXED. 255 colors should be more than enough. SAVE AS, change the name if you want, but make the extension .gif if it isn't already. Even if it was already a .gif and had the name you still want it to have, you still need to SAVE AS for the next few steps.
If it asks you to crop layers, agree. Save as animation. When you reach a screen where you can add a comment, go to where it says how many milliseconds to show each frame and change that to 50. Also, where it says "Frame Disposal where Unspecified," set it to "One frame per layer (replace)".
CLOSE the image, then open it back up. This renames all the frames so that they're numbered, show how long they last, AND so that they replace the previous frame. Go to Frame 1 and change it to something like 1500ms (1.5 seconds), then Frame 5 to something like 1000ms (1 second). That's it!
In order to get here, four people must nominate your image. This basically means quoting it and saying "nominated".
Tesseract doesn't have a problem with nominations (and this is copypasted from his post) but apparently some people do for some reason, so if something you nominate gets added and your post is nothing but the word "nominated", try to delete it.
The best of thread is a distinction reserved only for SUPER COOL DUDES, so only nominate something if its PRETTY MUCH EXTREMELY AWESOME
Originally Posted by waningCrescent
This needed to happen.
And now it did.
Originally Posted by Jurassic Lark
Sprite edits count right?
So Cool.
Originally Posted by SirRhombus
Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
Intermission
Making this was quite fun actually
Originally Posted by Fusion the Cat
Originally Posted by MayorSillyBiscuits
> Aradiabot: Continue to tap that asscard
Looks like she's finally all tapped out
You laugh at your nice one-liner.
You are now Bro.
You captured this WHALE on your recent journeys with CAPTAIN AHAB. You took MOBY DICK as a trophy and figure ARADIABOT could make a pretty awesome housemaid if you reprogram her.
What will you do next?
Originally Posted by 001010
Someone has probably done this already but it wasn't in the first post so I'm just going to put it here anyway:
Originally Posted by Jurassic Lark
ribbit
Originally Posted by Pick Yer Poison
Originally Posted by RLabs
Originally Posted by Ocfos
Originally Posted by Tesseract
Originally Posted by The One Guy
Originally Posted by Pick Yer Poison
yes im gonna kill shit with this sword. no i wont go get a bigger one. no i wont take yours. I can't even lift the goddamn thing. now thats just fucking retarded, are you even listening to yourself. chill bro, i got this. this is a fucking deadly sword and it has a fucking sharp edge, shits cash. oh just shut up, im leaving.
... Wow I suck at coming to this place now that it's not in the main thread.
Anyway, totally not in memedom or theme anymore, but I worked on a couple Sprite Scratchifications out of boredom and figured I'd post 'em.
Karkat does NOT like being Scratched.
HoNk
Originally Posted by Pick Yer Poison
Originally Posted by 8oy Skylark
Originally Posted by RLabs
also more silly rpg stuff
RS: What a marvelous specimen.
RS: This should go very nicely with dinner tonight. A few lemons can make anything a better meal.
ZW: Hunny, we're back!
RS: Shut up, Zelos. Lloyd! Tell me why lemons give a burning feeling when you suck on them.
LI: uhhhh...
LI: oh, i know! it must be because lemons are imbued with fire!
LI: man, i must be a genius! is that why they're yellow?
RS: Lloyd, did I teach you anything at all? Lemons contain citric acid, like oranges but in greater amount. When citric acid touches your tongue, it causes a burning sensation.
RS: Lemon juice also contains significant amounts of vitamin C. Did you know that's what pirates used to stay healthy on long voyages?
LI: wait, so if pirates are made healthy by fire, then why do they go across water so much?
LI: i suddenly understand nothing.
PC: lloyd..........
PC: ...............
ZW: Come on, man, that's not important! Tell us what you found.
LI: oh yeah, it was so cool! i found all of the ruins.
RS: 0_0
RS: You... you found... every ruin? All of them?
LI: yeah!!!!!!!!
LI: every single ruin, ever.
LI: man i am so cool!
LI: raine? hello?
Tales of Symphonia. Yes. xD
Especially that Raine face.
Nomming that.
Congratulations, 8oy Skylark. Your avatar and word choice made me think of this:
Raine is completely smitten with the Nepeta nomming on her head!
Originally Posted by Malleus Inferni
Originally Posted by Gjarble
Originally Posted by Sprinkles
Originally Posted by Gjarble
So, I was helping my girlfriend with citations for a research paper, when the name of an editor for one of her sources caught my eye: Andrew Hass.
I knew then what I had to do.
If you give it the turning head, it'll become Andrew Hussie himself! (aka match his avatar)
Sprinkles: Done and done.
Originally Posted by Sprinkles
Originally Posted by Tesseract
This is incredibly silly, and you're not sure how it fits into your campaign against your mother, OR getting your computer back online to escape your doom!
But it's hard to resist getting a little silly sometimes. Especially when you are absolutely positive no one is watching.
Okay that was probably a bad idea.
Originally Posted by RLabs
CC: SOLLUX! We're under attack by Shadows!
TA: really?
TA: look2 liike thiing2 are about two get....
TA:
TA: PER2ONAl.
Originally Posted by Z1P~PZpQ
Originally Posted by underlyingAugment
IT KEEPS HAPPENING
Originally Posted by Toast
They're eating him...
and then they're going to eat me...
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!
Originally Posted by McKnackus Theoneth
Posted this on the discussion thread not long ago.
wasting time to make gifs is fun.
Originally Posted by Znex
Originally Posted by Pick Yer Poison
What have I done
It looks like Terezi is trying to seduce Eridan with her licking while the rest of the trolls look on.
Karkat is somewhat mad that this is happening, as Aradia is free to vouch for. Equius is proud of this display of bravery and strength. Vriska is understandably weirded out by this. Kanaya plans to go ashen with this. Nepeta is gleeful to be able to add stuff to her shipping wall. Tavros is unsure what to think about this. Sollux recently gained an addiction to sopor slime thanks to Gamzee and currently believes he's watching a rainbow's flight from the moon to the pot of gold. Eridan is appropriately oblivious to her efforts and is awed by her magical licking. Feferi missed the occasion because of it being audition night for the Troll Undersea Glub Choir. Gamzee is just chillin'.
Also, DD.
Originally Posted by BouncyTEM
If that were to rotate colors, it'd so be the perfect acid trip.
Hmm...
Yep, sure enough.
Edit: Bigger one.
Originally Posted by Yukari
Hey look who came back with the shitty sprite edits and the self deprecation.
Alas for poor Kanaya. She can merely dream.
And then this nightmare happened.
Christ on a cracker, I don't even ship these two.
More stuff except with links to the posts because there are too many awesome images for the post to handle.
Re: Image Manips 4: the 1 that came after the other 3
Ok! So, here's something I need to figure out. It's not so much a request actually. I guess a request for ideas? I need to figure out something from any MSPA that looks like a 1. Something preferably larger than 150 pixels height wise. Any ideas? I was thinking one of the thorns of oglogoth.
Re: Image Manips 4: the 1 that came after the other 3
Here's to another thread of awesome manips, kicking ass and taking names.
Sigquotes, or, The Metaflare Appreciation Station.
Originally Posted by Metaflare
Originally Posted by icu2jimy
So, Dave is Ironman?
TG: i
TG: am
TG: ironman
TG: danananananana duh na naa
Originally Posted by Metaflare
Originally Posted by rampantVariable
What the hell is going on in this thread!? And don't say "mIrIcLeS!" or "Magic" or any possible permutation of either.
Shenanigans
Originally Posted by Esrever
Just change "Sigquotes" to "Metaflare Appreciation Station."
Originally Posted by Metaflare
Originally Posted by Esrever
I am just not an RPG kind of guy.
I know, right? I prefer rocket launchers myself.
...OOOHHH, you're talking about games
Originally Posted by The Orange Man
Science is what you call magic once you figure out how it works.
Originally Posted by Esrever
Oh, wait.
My avatar is SCIENCE.
Originally Posted by redRevolvers
Well.
FUCK.
Originally Posted by BALLS AND ASHWALL
I just woke up and I had a dream last night where MSPA updated. Too bad it didn't update for real.
Originally Posted by Drillgorg
Oh a laptop, why didn't you say so? Just set the cookie on the keyboard and close the laptop.
Originally Posted by icu2jimy
Bouncy.
Originally Posted by A Salad
Originally Posted by Drillgorg
Also Salad you can stop posting the Batman, we get it.
Good, I had almost fully exhausted my folder labelled 'Joker Boners.'
Originally Posted by FieryBlacksmith
Originally Posted by Captain Lhurgoyf
Whoah, wait, that's it! Billous Slick is a frog who is also the universe...therefore, he's a universe-sized frog...universe-sized....
Gurren Lagann. I watch too much of it.
I've said it once, and I'll keep saying it until it happens.
:33 < Even when trapped by karma's cycle,
The dreams we left behind will open the doooooooor!
Evven if the univverse stands in our way,
OUR SEETHING BLOOD WILL DETERMINE WHAT WE'LL BE.
wE'LL, uH, bREAK THROUGH TIME AND SPACE.
And DEFY 4LL THOS3 wh0 w0uld 2top u2 TO TAK-E hOlD oF Our Path!
TENGEN TROLLPA GURREN LAGANN
Re: Image Manips 4: the 1 that came after the other 3
Originally Posted by Shadow of the Lotus
Ok! So, here's something I need to figure out. It's not so much a request actually. I guess a request for ideas? I need to figure out something from any MSPA that looks like a 1. Something preferably larger than 150 pixels height wise. Any ideas? I was thinking one of the thorns of oglogoth.
You could use Bro's sword... *sob*
Sigquotes, or, The Metaflare Appreciation Station.
Originally Posted by Metaflare
Originally Posted by icu2jimy
So, Dave is Ironman?
TG: i
TG: am
TG: ironman
TG: danananananana duh na naa
Originally Posted by Metaflare
Originally Posted by rampantVariable
What the hell is going on in this thread!? And don't say "mIrIcLeS!" or "Magic" or any possible permutation of either.
Shenanigans
Originally Posted by Esrever
Just change "Sigquotes" to "Metaflare Appreciation Station."
Originally Posted by Metaflare
Originally Posted by Esrever
I am just not an RPG kind of guy.
I know, right? I prefer rocket launchers myself.
...OOOHHH, you're talking about games
Originally Posted by The Orange Man
Science is what you call magic once you figure out how it works.
Originally Posted by Esrever
Oh, wait.
My avatar is SCIENCE.
Originally Posted by redRevolvers
Well.
FUCK.
Originally Posted by BALLS AND ASHWALL
I just woke up and I had a dream last night where MSPA updated. Too bad it didn't update for real.
Originally Posted by Drillgorg
Oh a laptop, why didn't you say so? Just set the cookie on the keyboard and close the laptop.
Originally Posted by icu2jimy
Bouncy.
Originally Posted by A Salad
Originally Posted by Drillgorg
Also Salad you can stop posting the Batman, we get it.
Good, I had almost fully exhausted my folder labelled 'Joker Boners.'
Originally Posted by FieryBlacksmith
Originally Posted by Captain Lhurgoyf
Whoah, wait, that's it! Billous Slick is a frog who is also the universe...therefore, he's a universe-sized frog...universe-sized....
Gurren Lagann. I watch too much of it.
I've said it once, and I'll keep saying it until it happens.
:33 < Even when trapped by karma's cycle,
The dreams we left behind will open the doooooooor!
Evven if the univverse stands in our way,
OUR SEETHING BLOOD WILL DETERMINE WHAT WE'LL BE.
wE'LL, uH, bREAK THROUGH TIME AND SPACE.
And DEFY 4LL THOS3 wh0 w0uld 2top u2 TO TAK-E hOlD oF Our Path!
TENGEN TROLLPA GURREN LAGANN
Re: Image Manips 4: the 1 that came after the other 3
Originally Posted by rampantVariable
Originally Posted by Shadow of the Lotus
Ok! So, here's something I need to figure out. It's not so much a request actually. I guess a request for ideas? I need to figure out something from any MSPA that looks like a 1. Something preferably larger than 150 pixels height wise. Any ideas? I was thinking one of the thorns of oglogoth.
You could use Bro's sword... *sob*
I suddenly pictured Bro impaled with a giant educational tv "1"
Re: Image Manips 4: the 1 that came after the other 3
Also RLabs, you might wanna remove the "Every time someone uses a scratch avatar I come one step closer to world domination" thing from the template part.
God I can't stay mad at Noir.
He's just.
He's like when a tiny puppy murders a squirrel and brings the corpse into your house as a present to you and it's wagging its tail and is SO PROUD of itself.
Then it goes into your house, tears your couch apart, and shits on all of your carpets.
Re: Image Manips 4: the 1 that came after the other 3
Already made one, melon!
The true source of Bec's power, revealed!!!
Damn people jumped on that template fast.
Sigquotes, or, The Metaflare Appreciation Station.
Originally Posted by Metaflare
Originally Posted by icu2jimy
So, Dave is Ironman?
TG: i
TG: am
TG: ironman
TG: danananananana duh na naa
Originally Posted by Metaflare
Originally Posted by rampantVariable
What the hell is going on in this thread!? And don't say "mIrIcLeS!" or "Magic" or any possible permutation of either.
Shenanigans
Originally Posted by Esrever
Just change "Sigquotes" to "Metaflare Appreciation Station."
Originally Posted by Metaflare
Originally Posted by Esrever
I am just not an RPG kind of guy.
I know, right? I prefer rocket launchers myself.
...OOOHHH, you're talking about games
Originally Posted by The Orange Man
Science is what you call magic once you figure out how it works.
Originally Posted by Esrever
Oh, wait.
My avatar is SCIENCE.
Originally Posted by redRevolvers
Well.
FUCK.
Originally Posted by BALLS AND ASHWALL
I just woke up and I had a dream last night where MSPA updated. Too bad it didn't update for real.
Originally Posted by Drillgorg
Oh a laptop, why didn't you say so? Just set the cookie on the keyboard and close the laptop.
Originally Posted by icu2jimy
Bouncy.
Originally Posted by A Salad
Originally Posted by Drillgorg
Also Salad you can stop posting the Batman, we get it.
Good, I had almost fully exhausted my folder labelled 'Joker Boners.'
Originally Posted by FieryBlacksmith
Originally Posted by Captain Lhurgoyf
Whoah, wait, that's it! Billous Slick is a frog who is also the universe...therefore, he's a universe-sized frog...universe-sized....
Gurren Lagann. I watch too much of it.
I've said it once, and I'll keep saying it until it happens.
:33 < Even when trapped by karma's cycle,
The dreams we left behind will open the doooooooor!
Evven if the univverse stands in our way,
OUR SEETHING BLOOD WILL DETERMINE WHAT WE'LL BE.
wE'LL, uH, bREAK THROUGH TIME AND SPACE.
And DEFY 4LL THOS3 wh0 w0uld 2top u2 TO TAK-E hOlD oF Our Path!
TENGEN TROLLPA GURREN LAGANN
Re: Image Manips 4: the 1 that came after the other 3
Looking for some 75x75ish image to put at the end of the new banner, try and make it representative of the thread.
PS: If you scratchify something I'll cry.