Hello and welcome to the eleventh image manipulation thread! This is the thread for any MSPA related images you have edited or images you have edited to make them MSPA related. If you have a manip that is not MSPA related, it belongs in the General Image Manipulation thread. For any questions or concerns about this thread and it's policies not addressed in this post, or just any off topic argument that will clog up the thread, please go to the Argument Section.
Basically, if you take a preexisting image and alter it in some way, and either the original, the result, or both are in some way MSPA related, it belongs here.
Q: What about my fantroll or other fan character? A: While a sprite of a fan character is technically a manip, you're better off posting it in either the Trollslum or Chumroll thread.
Q: Am I doing this right? A: There is no wrong way to manip an image.
(Well, unless of course it's against forum rules, but that's a given.)
Q: What is all this nomination stuff I keep hearing about? A: If a manip is nominated four times, it is put in the Best of Thread. Please refer to that post for details.
Q: I want a better image editor than MS Paint, but I don't want to have to pay for Photoshop. What are some good free image editing programs? A: I would suggest Gimp; the UI isn't the most user friendly, but once you get things figured out, it's probable the most capable free editor out there. Paint.net is also popular and is more user friendly, but can't handle gifs.
Q: What are people talking about when they say they make images in Bondage? A: It's a little in joke from a couple threads back; they're talking about Gimp.
Q: When I saved my image, the quality diminished in a way worthy of Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, what happened? A: It's called Jpeg compression, and happens when you save an image as a .jpg file. Save your image as a .png or .gif instead.
Q: I'm working with gifs and the colors are acting strange, what's going on? A: Gif images save colors in "Indexed" format, which prevents you from adding colors that aren't already in the picture when editing. Your editor should have a way to change the color settings to RGB (in Gimp go to Image->Mode->RGB); do this and your troubles will likely be gone. If you're using MS Paint, you'll have to copy and paste the picture into a new image.
Q: Why is my image not showing up? A: Did you make sure to use the direct link? If the url you are using doesn't end in the file's extension (.png, .gif, or .jpg), you are probably using the url for the hosting site's page for the image and not the image itself. If you can't find where your hosting site has the direct link, you can always right click the image, select properties, and find the value for the "address."
Manip Thread Archives:
Want to be able to see all the past manips in one convenient location without have to trudge through all that text and all those spoilers? Well now you can, and in two convenient flavors! Well, once they're finished, that is.
Jake gets a new hat – Jake makes a hat out of a deceased Tinkerbull. Occupy Vriska – Vriska is attacked by a police officer using blue tear gas. Misconstrued Identity – ChemIisan accidentally sees the people in the what pumpkin store with their arms links. Manips an image of them to illustrate. What’s in the Box Jack? 1 – It’s that face. You know the one. The creep face. He was already here – Diamonds Droog hiding in Problem Sleuth’s Office Opening a New Thread, Manip Thread Style – Creep Face makes his second appearance already, chewing at a new thread ribbon. Jane Succumbs to the Creep – Creeper Face on a Jane Panel Brobot and Jake Celebrate – Exactly what it says. They celebrate the fresh killing of a Tinkerbull The Matricks – Brobot and Jake, looking decidedly more realistic, as if they were actual humans from the Movie the Matrix with faces shooped over them. IDE for Brobot / Jake confrontation. Mouthswaps – A selection of hilarious mouthswaps of the troll characters from Alterniabound.
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Cave Story Stuck – Image manipulations of characters from Cave Story in the style of Homestuck. Lil’ Creep Sebastian – Robobunny showcasing his most glorious Creep Face. Tavros Reeses – Ideas put forward for the MSPA manip archive avatar on dA Baby Dave Clings To Avatar for all Eternity – Baby Dave avatar suggested for dA. A Steep Price For Pie – Vriska died. But now we find the real culprit and his sopor related motives. Curse that dastardly scratch. A Pony Based Illustration of Creeper Face v1.0 – Ponies. Creeper Face. Baby Dave. Why haven’t you clicked the link already? Poppop’s Head – WHY JANE WHY? It’s OK, Poppop’s head. The image manip thread will take good care of you. Until you’re Creeper Faced, eventually, I suppose.
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Sig Bann-oh god what – Yeah I think you just need to see it. I can’t describe this signature. JOHN. RISE UP. (Alternate) – Different versions of panels from the [S] JOHN. RISE UP. flash, as if John were similar to Dave. Vriskirby – Pretty obvious what this one should be. Skyrimstuck – Banners and icons of a certain natu- oh blast, I can’t finish this recap of these images, I just took a meme to the body part. (no there are no arrows or knees present) The Derp of Herp – God Tiers + Creeper Face. Previously done to some degree here. Doc Scratch Infringement 1 – The beginning of the Doc Scratch version of the Infraction banner.
Nominatiowned – Ashdenej’s finalised Image Manip and Nomination banners, featuring the Don putting the hurt down on Coasterman. Candle Cove Stuck – Banana King – The Banana King from Candle Cove, in Homestuck form. Master Gamzee, I presume? – A manipulation of a far more in control Gamzee sprite. See the post following it for jpeg related hilarity. Paradoxius redid it and made a slightly better version on the same page here. Hussie Body Pillow – Not much else to say here. It is what it is. Jake Musclebeast – Complete with accompanying parody of ‘What A Daring Dream’ text from that panel of Jade. You know the one. Random Collection Of Manips – A consort with a seagoat, John talksprite with mouth movement and Karkat falling in hate. Nominatiowned 2: Electric Scootaloo – See because it’s DJ-P0n3, and Scootaloo is a pony but it sounds like boogaloo! Haha, it is hilarious! But seriously, two different version of the banners with a visit from Mayor Silly Biscuits / Eismo / DJ P0n3!
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Dadkat – It’s Dad. He’s back. In Karkat form. Better version posted on page 9. Skyrim – the Creeper Scrolls – FUS RO DERP – oh wait, Officer Broski makes that comment a little ways down, DARN
Not many here because everyone was all ‘hey let’s nom all of those awesome banners!’
Birds of a Feather – Dave and Bro as birds. Coo coo. caw caw. The Final Banner? – Another infraction manip. This tiem, it involves more elements from the manip world. The First. The Original Creeper Face Black Queen Gets Her Creep On – Jack is not amused. You will be. Blak Queen with Creeper Face and leg twirling, confused Jack looks on. Scratch in the Box – Doc Scratch with the Jack in the Box mascot for a head. I think. I’m Australian, I don’t know! D4V3’S 1N LORD OF TH3 R1NGS? – Terezi shitty manip over an image for Lord of the Rings. Fus Ro Duh – Small manip of a Jake panel, I believe. Comes with overused Skyrim joke free of charge!
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Lord of the Rings Terezi Style – A more elaborate interpretation from the view of a blind Seer. [TEMPLATE] Blam! – Monkeysky is blamed by an odd visage. This post also contains a Hussie base for all your infraction manipulating needs. Fandom, a Present for You – retardokoolaid accurately depicts the fandom’s reaction to the announcement of the Homestuck book’s release. I Am Literaly Going To Use What Ashdenej Said – John has removed his BEAGLEPUSS to reveal his TRUE FORM. It is horrifying. A Steep Price For Pi – 3.14 never seemed so sweet. I Don’t Get It – Just watch. Riddler’s Salmon, but… a twist appears. Again.
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Lord Resee’s – That almost sounds like Lord Faeces. Well. Anyway, it’s LE with a Reese’s cup for a head. Doc Sweet – A primary member of THE SWEET, Doc Sweet is a delicious treat, much like LR above. Lollipop version available here. K4RK4T 1S TH1S YOU? – Terezi draws the parallels between the Sufferer and Karkat Lollipops – Another member of THE SWEET, this time lollipop based. Lollipoppop – Trickster Mode Poppop Computer Sollux Porygon – Sollux and Porygon get their seizure on. Epilepsy warning. On page 12, willgame4food activates OPTIIC BLA2T.
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AH Steals the Car – After taking command of the narrative, Hussie takes command of Dad’s car as well. But first he grabs a weapon. [ASSET] Zodiac Clock – A version of the zodiac clock seen when Aradia pauses Bec Noir. Ashdenej supplies the actual assets here. Fefairy and Cleferi – A clever colour swap with a little extra. Definitely needs to be seen.[/url]
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Land of Baby Daves and Guns - Blaperile’s manip from page 8 gets a revisit in this Land of Stumps and Dismay short. Musketeeridan – An old meme (that I accidentally started, whoops) gets a brief revival with this meme. Inappropriate Ham Grid – More ways to read! My favourite is definitely 7. [REPOST] Pokéstuck – A collection of recoloured Pokémon to look like Homestuck Trolls. Aradi-oh god what – Broski finds a new face. And then this happens. Face from here.
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I See You – A beautiful start to Page 14 has the Seagoat exiting the water page turn into some being with eyestalks smiling in the water. Or perhaps its body is made from blue slime? (who is to say?) Pictured: Inevitability – Another Creeper Face. CreepFace v4. Alternian Hoofbeasts – Equius views the Hoofbeasts of Alternia. D -->I need a towel Goatface: Fondly regard gG – Gamzee dabbles with black paint. Goatface is placed onto the viewing of the CRITICAL EVENT page. John Griffin – John’s head on Peter Griffin. No really, that’s it. Made of Life – It’s like, what is she, maid of life? God Tier Jane sprite-edit. Air of Void – Equius God Tier sprite.
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Witch of Life – There are no alternate names for Witch or Life. Just go look at the Feferi God Tier sprite already. Version with blood coloured wings here Baby PM – Crossposted from dA. Follow the link for the source. IM SO SORRY – I don’t even know. Vacant Boggle – Manip of the “GT: Boggle vacantly at these shenanigans.” page to have Jane instead. Jade is Not a Babysitter – Baby Dave on unimpressed Jade. Heiro Mode – Hero Mode God Tier Equius. I Feel Like Kanaya.
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[ASSET] Crossing the Memes – Baby PM is given a sprite form, and placed on plaid!Dave. From heycharlie’s dA. PEmidan – Say it out loud, it’s a better reference then. PM on Eridan. Soon the PMs multiply. Gif moded here. Rex Duodecim Janegelus – Jane helps out Sollux and Aradia in the fight against the black king by throwing her hat. Herring Mode – Hero Mode God Tier Feferi. [ASSET Baby WV] WVeeridan – Less clever pun, but yet another clinging Baby. Eridan gains two extra children. We soon find out this means Game Over for Eridan. The logical next step here. Tanglebabies – BabyDave, BabyPM and BabyWV all in entangled situations. Lets TRANSLAT SBaHJ – fall down stair IN JAPLAN
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the next LEVEL of Housekeeper Eridan – Creep faces abound in this manip. NEW! Sugar Krinzees – A cereal box manipped to include Gamzee on the cover. Branded to Betty Crocker and Goatface’d here. On page 18, it’s creep-faced and BabyPM makes a visit, before Broski returns with Slime-coated rice and BabyDave. An alternative Terezi drawing Dave version here. M3 413ST4 – Officer Broski has a Me 413sta moment when he catches the 413th post in the thread with a Terezified Me Gusta face.
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[TEMPLATE] Popped Off / Poffed Off – Poppop without his head and Jane throwing something down in disgust templates. First thought? Sugar Poppop Look! It’s Sugar Gamzee! – Panel from Cascade with Terezi pointing to the Green Sun. Everyone is wearing the Sugar Krinkles face. Version without Gamzee’s face manipped here.
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Cease Your Clinging! – Jane has had enough of Baby PM’s shenanigans. Fixed It. – Broski fixed it. He most certainly did. Takes the image before where all have the face except Gamzee and gives Gamzee the Goatfaced Krinzee face. [ASSET] Adorable Regulator – BabyAR, again from heycharlie. Eridan’s feeling a little overladen with children. Jake Loves the Bulls – Jake is overcome with joy from the flock of Tinkerbulls. Cage was not. Equiclown – The only thing more odd than Equius himself is his visage in a clown. Also contains an exploitable version. FEFER-E – I know it says Fefer-I. I don’t care. WALL-E manipulated to be pink and wearing Fef’s goggles.
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[ASSET] Goatdad – Isolated image of goatdad. Used as a clingy thing to Eridan here. Aradia Unearths an Ancient Relic – Manipulated panels of Aradia going to the crash site to include goatdad and the clownface. [BANNER] PM Chain – I’ve heard of a daisy chain but this is ridiculous. Various PMs clinging to each other to a lovely background of varying colours. Sugar Coated Bees! – Sollux variation of the clownface manip. Clowngoatface – Goatdad with clownface. All of these portmanteaus… Neverending Story? Nope. It’s Chuck Goatdad – Gamzee riding Goatdad in place of the Neverending Story dragon in that one panel where Dave!Hussie takes down some bullies. Equius, A Mighty Gua- oh. – He took an arrow to the knee. Skyrim guard manipped to have minimal Equius features. [ASSET] Jake Sitting Down - … It’s Jake. He’s sitting down. PM Clownfaced – It’s more frightening than IT. Maybe. Slight transparency issue fixed here. Run From IT, Sollux! – Goatdad clownfaced following Sollux and the beeth. Attack on the Exiled – Goatdad makes an appearance years in the future (but not many).
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Yo soy un excelente anfitrión – Yes, I used Google Translate. Doc Scratch dancing gif from a previous thread made more Mexican with the addition of the Mexican flag and some maracas. A Very Eridan Musical – A gif of Voldemort from AVPM, manipped to look like Eridan. A Single Tear of Liquid Fear – The Baby PM with the ClownFace clinging to Death.
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D4V3 4R3 YOU BR1NK? – Disney’s Brink Terezi manipped to look like Dave. Vriska x Jake – A small image of Vriska and Jake, with accompanying <33333333 [ASSET] Baby Windswept Questant – Baby WV, in both grey and white robed variations. Also another Eridan swamped with children. Foolish Air Breathers! – Eridan is indecisive in whether his love for pizza will win out over his dislike of land dwwellers. Manipulated from a Marvel comic of Namor included in the post. A Kindred Creep – An image edited from this. Now the two are locked together for all eternity (or at least until the host of the image gives out). Entei is Watching – Manipulation of the Jake running from Tinkerbulls page. I have no clue as to why Entei is there. None whatsoever.
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Jade Switches To Alpha View – Jade using her Compusooth Goggles to view Jane’s death. That’ssss a Nice Mailbox – Creeper manipped in as Jane goes to open the mailbox. Jade Switches To The Clown Side - Jade using her Compusooth Goggles to view Clownface. Possible seizure warning. Hussiebot reads Hyperbole and a Half – A [blank] ALL the [blank] meme, with Hussiebot touting his want to ‘Kill ALL the characters’! The Mayor Ascends – Mayor WV ascends to the Tab Tier. Pink Recolour of WV’s wrappings, plus a ‘Tab’ ensignia. Hold On, Baby Dave! – Baby Dave clinging to Hussiebot’s Nanosecond watch. [ASSET] Full 3 Nanoseconds – The hand goes all the way around on this version of the watch provided by Arram. Standing Eldritch Princess – A variation of the Eldritch Princess Doll in Rose’s house. This one is standing up, and sees use in ashdenej’s adventure, “The Sunshine Crew” as Chamomile, the Technician. Trickster Cal – A variation on Lil’ Cal. Slight seizure warning for his eyes.
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Maid of Life – A version of Jane looking more like Aradia’s dead sprite. NOOOOOOOOO… – Dad holding his dead daughter in his bear claws. Original image it was manipulated from in the post. More Realistic Nanoclock – Running at 15ms, this gif is a far more accurate representation of time flow. Clownfriended | Jane’s Okay! – A version of the Infraction banner with the Clownface over the top of the security officer. Non-repeating. | Jane is perfectly fine! A little chargrilled and smoking, glasses broken, but fine! Blinking sprite. We Only Got Three Nanoseconds To Save The Shipping – Various characters are linked in OTPs and OT3s on the “Hussiebot checks off the already killed character panels” page. Feferi and the Goblet of Fire – A manipulation of a creature from the lake in Hogwarts to look like Feferi. Also a sweet catch of the total number of views on the Sugar Coated Bees Manip is hidden in a spoiler in this panel. Protozoic! – Monkeysky’s microbial characters as ‘kids’. Witch of Space – A cleaned up version of the sprite mode God Tier Jade. Baby Dave’d here on the same page.
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Genderbend – Genderbend versions of all main trolls and humans from the beta session. [ASSET] Baby Ms. Paint – Eridan can’t hold all these children. Another Baby character. Begin Intermission 3 – A manip of Problem Sleuth (Prospitan Snoops) to look more Prospitan. Followed by ashdenej making Pawn Investigator. Prankster Gambit Lost – A manip with the Prankster Gambit reducing over the exploded mailbox image. Affronting Hustler – An exiled version of Andrew Hussie, following his slew of other mediums of representations. Baby PM: Cling To Davesprite – Baby PM clinging to Davesprite’s chestsword. Reaching The Baby Threshold 1 – Eridan has his own grub, duplicated, to deal with now. But it only gets worse from here, as soon on the same page, he has to deal with all of the grubs and babies.
Last edited by The One Guy; 01-10-2012 at 11:04 PM.
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!
Gimp Video Tutarial by Underlyingaugment:
Last edited by The One Guy; 01-22-2012 at 11:13 PM.
This is where all the best manips in the thread are placed. To get in, a manip must obtain four nominations following these rules:
Anyone can nominate any manip that they themselves did not make (or, in the case of a colaboration of some sort, that they contributed to less than 1/4 of the manipulating).
Any valid image manipulation (see FAQ above) can be nominated whether it has been posted on this thread or not (so long as is not already in a previous best of thread), however re-posting something from a long time ago solely to gather more nominations is discouraged.
One cannot nominate more than once per page (≈25 posts).
You must provide a reason with your nomination as to why you think this manip deserves to be here.
Reasons such as "I love it" or "because of what he said" will not be accepted (note that you can have the same or similar reason to someone else, just don't blatantly say "what he said," copy and paste, or something similarly lazy).
In the case of nominations getting out of control, I reserve the right to change these rules.
If a manip gets four nominations, there's no need to collect them all and quote them in one post, but it certainly doesn't hurt to do so.
Remember, there are a lot of good manips, but not all of them belong in this post, only nominate those which you believe to be significantly high quality.
You are one of the best Prospitian Snoops in the city. Solicitations for your service are numerous in quantity. Compensation, adequate. It is a balmy summer evening. You are feeling particularly hard boiled tonight.
YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL YOU HATE TIME TRAVEL
Kanaya: Demonstrate the third visitor your skills of hosting excellence.
Your hosting ability levels skyrocket through the paradox space.
Originally Posted by RLabs
Originally Posted by Bfahome
Jordan: Turn around.
Oh. It's the WEIRD CAT again. You guess that explains it.
==> Just look at that aloof little bastard. He doesn't give a shit about anything, does he?
You guess you should feel grateful toward him for saving your life, but you know he's just as likely to rescue you from an explosion as he is to randomly teleport you across the city, forcing you to call your squad and ask for a ride home, while you spend all day standing in some random street under heavy fire while you wait hours for your squad to come and pick you up after they get detoured because they couldn't get through a locked door.
Jordan: Call G-Cat down from the tree. Even if you were inclined to do that, he wouldn't respond to that name. You're pretty sure he doesn't have a name. You and your friends just call him the G-Cat for lack of anything else to call him. Everybody has opinions, but nobody can agree on a good name. You think he probably doesn't want a name. He's just a feisty stray who likes to meddle with your life, then vanish for weeks at a time.
Originally Posted by MultiversalInk
The Got Tiger.
Originally Posted by Drillgorg
John: Go Grimdark
Alright.
==>
Phlarb.
Originally Posted by ImperatorMortis
Originally Posted by Redux
Originally Posted by Skies
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Speak to me, Doc Scratch.
Oh god what have I done. Scratch? Please tell me that's just cotton candy. Please just be cotton candy please just be cotton candy please just be cotton candy. Haha, ok, make-believe time is over! Oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god.
I wish I had had narrating skills like you, Scratch. And how I wish you could have been my host. You were so much better than that bad-narrating, bad-host piece of shit Cal who can't even say three words other than "Hee", "Haa", and "Hoo".
I'm so sorry, Scratch. I'm sorry I stole your candy. I'm sorry I called you pompous. I'm sorry I bapped you in the head with a broom. Please don't make me sorry for killing you. This is all my fault. I'm sorry.
AH: Revive.
THIS
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IS
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STUPID
Last edited by The One Guy; 01-15-2012 at 11:20 AM.
I often find myself questioning my sexuality. I can't help but imagine Scratch emerging from the burning tinder of his room with all his clothes burned off...
Leaving only the black carapache.
does this mean he reached Love Doctor?
Originally Posted by vanquishedValiant
Originally Posted by Rational Absurdity
What divine wonders have I missed in today's comic discussions?
Basically every time something silly happens I produce REALLY SHITTY images VERY FAST
It's like the whole reason I exist in this thread
Originally Posted by Clairvoire
Morality is how we bitch about things we don't like, and pretend to back it up.
Originally Posted by mythmonster2
Also, my return to eyes closed stuff! Surprise: It's a fic!
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Oh good God what have I written. I love how I started off with perfect grammar and everything, but then it devolves into random caps and slashes and brackets.
OK. I was also asking whether bloodswaps count as manips. Sorry! Just got excited is all.
No worries. I hadn't expected anyone to respond so quickly!
Well, I just refreshed and found the thread up, so I figured I might as well post. And I didn't intentionally mean to put "First Post." Again, sorry about that. (OK, I should probably stop apologizing)
Also, I still want to know if I can post bloodswaps here. (And don't bring out the song.) Or is there a separate thread for that?
Mind putting this somewhere in the OP? http://mspamaniparchives.deviantart.com/
I'll hope to cover all the manips in the thread but if anyone notices something missing that they've made, feel free to submit it.
OK. I was also asking whether bloodswaps count as manips. Sorry! Just got excited is all.
No worries. I hadn't expected anyone to respond so quickly!
Well, I just refreshed and found the thread up, so I figured I might as well post. And I didn't intentionally mean to put "First Post." Again, sorry about that. (OK, I should probably stop apologizing)
Also, I still want to know if I can post bloodswaps here. (And don't bring out the song.) Or is there a separate thread for that?
Oh, right, I forgot to answer you (derp). Yes bloodswaps are indeed considered manips.
Originally Posted by Inconspicularity
Mind putting this somewhere in the OP? http://mspamaniparchives.deviantart.com/
I'll hope to cover all the manips in the thread but if anyone notices something missing that they've made, feel free to submit it.
Once I get the chance to write up the OP, I sure will!
Edit:
Originally Posted by VeritasUnae
Oh fiddlesticks. Ah well, I'll start compiling a linklist anyway, and send it to you periodically?
That will work. I'll be sure to give give you credit in the post.
Last edited by The One Guy; 11-30-2011 at 09:05 AM.