Image Manipulation 12: FREE NOMINATION INSINE

[VeritasUnae]

And that's why I don't manip a lot. So I'll just host! Hey there, this is thread number 12 of Image Manipulation. Did you start with one image and finish with another? Is it MSPA related? Then it can belong here! Of course, Image Manipulation of a less than MSPA related nature still has a place in the General Image Manipulation thread.

However, we know that not everyone gets along. If you have issues, follow this helpful advice:

and visit the Argument Thread.

Previous Threads:
IMAGE MANIPULATION THREAD : What's the ??, ??
IMAGE MANIPULATION 2: This One Goes Out to All the Ladies
IMAGE MANIPULATION 3: An Itch to Scratch
IMAGE MANIPULATION 4: the 1 that came after the other 3
IMAGE MANIPULATION 5: Layer Transparent
Image Manipulation 6: Sovereign [S]layer of Ponie[S]
IMAGE MANIPULATION 7: Starting from scratch.
iMAGE MANIPULATION 8: uHH, tAVROS'S TURN,
Image Manipulation 9: This thread is now a meme and can't be nominated
Image Manipulation X: he is already here
Image Manipulation 11: Think Inside the Box

Prepare for the jimmying of resources from the previous thread!

FAQ:

Q: Does my manip belong in this thread?
A:


NS;DL (No Speakers; Didn't Listen):

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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:
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Single thread index by VeritasUnae:

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Demon Mobster English: Final Battle - The alpha kids, on the Prospitan ship, face off against DME, involving many power ups manipped from Problem Sleuth superbly.
A Sprited Karkat - Karkat combined with Crabdad the sprite. This post also includes several John sprite [ASSET]s in links.
Banners and an Old Friend - A banner for this thread with the Condesce, based on a different Betty Crocker themed Img Manip 12, plus a cleaned up version of the Sugar Krinkles clown.
Kringle Scratch - The previous post's Krinkleface was put onto Doc Scratch's head. Hilarity ensued.
WV: Help Jack - A repost from thread 11, WV has gotten the ring from PM and is ready to assist. Manipulated from the prototyped PM image.
Ace Dirk - Ace Dick is looking a little more ironic in this edit of his sprite to look like Dirk. Also includes reposts of Calplacency of the Learned (Cal instead of Calmasis) and Rainbow Dirk (Dirk manipped to look like Rainbow Dash) from thread 11.

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A Boring Game - A combination of a Skaia-esque Minecraft still and the Sburb interface. The adventurer is seemingly preparing to deploy an Alchemiter.
LARDIS - psychedoutTheoretical suggested this image be known as the Lazyness and Retroactive Dickness In Sleuthing. Ace Dick running through a time stream.
CD's Best of Thread - A manip of the BoT ribbon from Thread 11 to have Clubs Deuce as the main image. Coloured black.
Dirk and Eq - A slightly suspect edited base (base here) to have Dirk standing over Equius.
Good Dog, Best of Thread - A Bec version of the BoT ribbon. Green.
Minecraft Map Pack Assets Cont - More Image Manipulation relevant Minecraft assets.

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Dirk: Read MSPA - A manipulation of Dirk's television screen to show panels from Homestuck.
Minecraft Map Pack Assets Cont - More Image Manipulation relevant Minecraft assets.
I'm a Pretty Girl - Dirk wearing the Dress of Eclectica. Moving on.
Husstopher Paoloni - A version of Andrew Hussie manipped to look like Christopher Paoloni, the writer of Eragon. Includes fan-art of characters.

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Invisible Network of Trolls - Almost as lame an acronym as OWCA (Organisation Without a Cool Acronym), it's a manip of a character from I.N.K. that looks like Terezi.
John Egbert v The World - No, it's not a legal trial, it's the Scott Pilgrim movie posted manipped (in a Dave/Terezi style) to be Homestuck characters.
Authority Redsprite - AR as a sprite guide.
Jack: Collect Spoils - A continuation of the scene where Jack kills Dave - he collects the spoils of his kill in the form of gushers and blood drops.
Poppopsprite - Poppop if he were a sprite in a similar fashion to Nannasprite.
Troll Jade: Spring Into Action - And by action I mean Karkat's thoughts, obviously. Karkat dreams of a badass Troll Jade kicking something.
Nepatton - Parody of Patton with Nepeta's head.

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Nepeta Eighty-Four - A Big Brother poster from 1984 manipped to have Nepeta's hat and '3' mouth.
Nepetaspers - Jaspers is looking decidedly like Nepeta in this manipulation. Eyebrow raising and lowering version under spoiler.
Bases. Bases Everywhere. - A great number of templates, including baby Dave, Kanaya masking the computer, formed into one image.
I Am Unsure How To Feel - Eyebrow manipulations of Roxy, her shirt cat, and Frigglish. Other versions: x x, plus a role reversal done here. Fixed by OrangeAipom in the next post.
An Alpha Rose By The Same Name - Manipulation of Mom's sprite to look like Rose as a hypothetical adult version for the alpha session.
Owlternia - Manipulation of images of owls to look like trolls. Hilarious results about.
Dave Gets I.N.K.ed - Another INK character to Homestuck character transformation, decidedly less Terezi in nature; Vin has been turned into Dave, forming 'Davin'. Or something.

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Workin' At the Carwash - Dad's car is washed by a number of less than reputable figures, included a female Ace Dick, two whores from Problem Sleuth's Whore Island and a March Eridan. Dad is alert; John, confused.
When The Pimp's in the Recooperacoon, Lusus - Manipulations of two panels to be more 'pimp' (through way of decidedly pink clothing): Karkat hugging Gamzee and Vriska kissing Tavros.
Refreshing Sfurban Koolaid - Koolaid man bursts through the wall of a forum adventure's unsuspecting character. Forum adventure it is from linked in post.
[TEMPLATES] Roxy and the Cat - Two templates in this post: What are you throwing into the window, Roxy? and Where are you falling, Mutini, from the panel of Roxy smashing Mutini into the fenestrated window.
Petswap: Roxy Takes A Trip - Roxy and the cat she throws through the fenestrated wall have a strange switching effect occur to them, likely due to paradox space's whims. The cat, now large, throws tiny Roxy in the blue block into the wall instead.

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You Gottle A Bottel - Manip of the "What are you throwing into the window, Roxy" sprite to have a green shirt. Roxy holds a bottel bottle* of milk that she got from a chest. Background is from Legend of Zelda.
Bady Dave Into The Void - Roxy throwing Baby Dave into the window, using the template.
Paradox In More Ways Than One - Roxy throwing her own baby into the window, using the template. Also includes a larger version of the March Eridan sprite used in the Workin' At the Carwash manip on page 6. It's extended to have all the alphas holding their baby equivalents.
Begin Testing - Roxy manipped to have the generic Aperture Science orange jumpsuit.
Oh Expoltible Exploitable* - A Roxy exploitable from the falling through windows panel of Homestuck, where she has both arms and one leg raised, as if she were a ninja. Used to effect here to have Roxy behind Vriska's DOOF slide after being punched by Kanaya, implying she was the cause of attack.
Petswap: God Crocker and gGCAT - A swap of Jane and GCat, having GCat being humanised and sitting in the chair, with Jane as a cat on the arm of the chair.
All Of The Irons! - No, Vriska isn't removing kinks from clothes, she's been placed into the ever popular 'ALL THE ____' meme, from Hyperbole and a Half. Here, she has 'ALL THE IRONS'.
Summon the Summoner - Hypothetical Prescratch sprite for the Summoner. Redglare Sprite 1 a little farther down the page.
Portal Void Hopping - A manipulation of the Roxy falling between two fenestrated windows to reference Portal. Includes a Wheatley in the plush pile, along with blue and orange outlines, the orange jumpsuit and a portal gun on Roxy's arm. Credit given in post.

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[VeritasUnae]

Templates (Assembled by The One Guy)

Warning, large list below spoiler. You have been warned.

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Babydave and Derivatives

The Original:

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Sitting Babies:

• Dave
• Jade
• Rose
• John
• Jane
• Mom
• Bro
• Jake

Vectorized Baby Parts by Seafish:

• Download Link

Heycharlie's Clingy Babies:

• PM
• WV
• AR
• WQ (White Robed)
• Ms. Paint
• Prototyped PM
• Prototyped Jack
• WK
• CD
• DD
• HB
• SS

Wigglers

• Karkat (Alteranate)
• Equius (Sweating)
• Nepeta
• Gamzee (Alternate)
• Troll Dave (Hornless)
• Aradia
• Eridan
• Feferi
• Sollux (Alternate)
• MSB
• Kanaya
• Tavros
• Vriska
• Terezi
• Disciple
• Grand Highblood
• Cal
• Sufferer
• Generic Template
• Alternate Style Generic Template

Others:

• Babydave with Shades
• Babyjade Riding
• BabyScratch (Outlined Head)
• GodTierBabydave
• GCat:
  . Frame 1
  . Frame 2
• Babydavesprite:
  . Floaty
  . Clingy
• Pony Eridan
• Hussie

Base Sprites & Objects

All Sorts of Homestuck Spriting Resources:

• Link

Alpha Kids Sprites:

• John
• Rose
• Dave
• Jade

Sprites for Sburb/Sgrub, PesterChum/Trollian, & Homestuck Game Mechanics:

• Plenty of Sburb/Sgrub Resources
• Sburb Alpha House
• Sgrub Interface
• Large Green Spirograph (Blue)
• Echeladder
• Trollian
• Trollian Window
• Dave's Kernalsprite (Dissected) (John's Dissected)
• Dissected Harleyquin Prototyped Kernal
• Sprite Tail

Unprototyped Creatures & Medium Dwellers:

• Imp
• Ogre
• Basilisk
• Lich
• Rook
• White Side
• Black King
• White Queen
• Black Courtyard Droll

Problem Sleuth Sprites:

• Main Trio
• Female Bases

Hero Mode Bases:

• Equius Based
• Karkat Based
• Gamzee Based
• Aradia Based
• Hussie Based
• Feferi Based (Without Fins)
• Terezi Based
• Kanaya Based
• Sollux Based
• Vriska Based
• Rose Based
• Jade Based
• Terezi Based #2

Others:

• Doc Scratch (Animated)
• Cairo Overcoat
• John's Intro's Background
• John's Room (Alternate)
• Blank Room
• Kanye Glasses
• Various Custom Hairstyles:
  . A
  . B
  . C
• Large Bec Sign
• Some Mannequin Thing
• Horses
• Horoscope Clock:
  . Horoscope Part
  . Clock Part
• Scratch Lightning:
  . Frame 1
  . Frame 2
  . Frame 3
• Scratch Effect
• God Tier Symbols&Colors - Incomplete
• Lord English Eye:
  . Large
  . Medium
  . Smallish
  . Small
• Alternian Alphabet
• Floating Sprites

Flash Rips

All Sorts of Walk/Talk/Battlesprites from the Flash Games:

• Download Link
• Just Talksprites
• Just Battlesprites

Others:

• [S] Wake. Resources
• Horrorterrors:
  . A
  . B

Exploitables

What's in the box Jack?:

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What’s on the screen, ____?:

• MSPA Reader:
  . Panel 1
  . Panel 2
  . Panel 3
  . Panel 4
  . Panel 5 - Optional
• Troll Andrew
• Karkat:
  . Distressed Version
  . Disgusted Version
  . Cow Version
  . Angry Version
  . Spades Version
• Kanaya:
  . Panel 1
  . Panel 2
• Kanaya Hiding Version
• Vriska:
  . Sly Version
  . Embarrassed Version
  . Feedback Version
  . Intense Staring Version
• Sollux
• Gamzee
• Equius
• Dave
• Tavros
• AR
• Slick
• Jack
• Doc Scratch

Kissing/Shipping:

• Who/what are you kissing, John?
• Who/what are you kissing, Jake?
• Who/what are you kissing, Eridan?
• Who/what are you kissing, Vriska? (Forcing Version)
• Who wants to kiss you, Tavros?
• Generic Kissing Base (Alternate)
• Quadrant Template
• Who is in ?
• Who/What are you kissing PS?
• Who/what are you Shoosh-Papping, Karkat? (Clean)

What are you holding, ____?:

• Extracting Kanaya (Optional First Panel)
• Eridan
• WV
• Vriska:
  . Mocking Version
  . Sad Version
• Jack
• Jade

What are you thinking, ____?:

• Tavros (Small Version)
• Jade:
  . Daydreaming
  . Remembering
• MSB
• John:
  . Panel 1
  . Panel 2
• Karkat
• Daydreaming Jane

What's on/in the ____, ____?:

• What's on your note to Karkat, Terezi?
• What's in the bag, Terezi? - Shocking Development:
  . Panel 1
  . Panel 2
• What's on the ground, Terezi? - Upsetting Discovery
• What's in your chest, Witness?
• What's in the ball, Vriska?:
  . Panel 1
  . Panel 2
• What's in the wind pipe, John?
• What did you doodle on the parking ticket, Jack?:
  . Panel 1
  . Panel 2
• What's on the board, Terezi?
• What's in the Great Grate, Nepeta?:
  . Panel 1
  . Panel 2
• What's on your towel, Equius?
• What's in the crater, Aradia?:
  . Panel 1
  . Panel 2
  . Panel 3
• What's in your diary, Jack? (Closeup Version)
• What's in your arms, Feferi?
• What's on the ground that you're borfing, Hussie?
• What are you riding, Andrew?
• What's on the note, Dave?
• What's displayed on your glasses, Jade? Also, what's your expression?
• What's in front of you, young Kanaya?
• What's in the clown cloud?
• Who's in the driver’s seat, John? (Alternate)
• What's in your Portal eyes, Sollux?
• What's being projected upon you, Scratch?
• What's in your Scrapbook, Doc?
• What's displayed in your head, Scratch?
• What's in your neck, Poppop?
• What's in the new universe, John and Jade?:
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• What's emerging from the Green Sun, Trolls?
• What's above you, Jane?

What are you ____ing, ____?:

• What are you licking, Terezi?
• Who/what are you high-fiveing, John?
• Who/what are you peeing on Karkat?
• Who/what are you eating, Gl'bgolyb?
• What are you spiking, Andrew?
• What are you licking, Halley?
• Who/what are you offering alcohol to, Mom?
• What are you pointing at, John?
• What are you pointing at, Feferi?
• What are you Genociding, Vriska?
• What are you kicking, John?
• What are you looking at, Dave?
• What are you raging at, Jade?
• Who/what are you punching, HB?
• What are you looking over, WV?
• What are you walloping, Terezi?
• What are you looking at, Jade?
• Who are you slashing, Jack?
• Who are you stabbing, Jack?
• What are you observing, Gamzee?
• Who/what are you booting, Vriska?
• Who/what are you doofing, Dave?
• Who/what are you doofing, Feferi?
• Who/what are you poking, Karkat?
• Who/what are you shooting Eridan?
• Who/what are you bonking, Slick?
• Who/what are you punching, Scratch?
• Who/what are you shooting, Jade?
• What are you windy thinging, John?
• Who are you brooming, Scratch?
• Who/what are you shooting, Jake?
• What are you pofing, Jane?
• Where are you tossing the bucket, John?
• What are you manipulating, ____?
• What are you throwing into the window, Roxy? NEW

"Meme" Style:

• Derp John
• Raeg Karkat
• MSB

Other Reaction-based:

• What do you disapprove of Bro?:
  . Panel 1
  . <Make your own panel 2>
  . Panel 3
• What's making you so nervous Lemonsnout?:
  . Panel 1
  . <Make your own panel 2>
  . Panel 3
• What's making you "bluh," Andrew?:
  . Panel 1
  . <Make your own panel 2>
  . Panel 3
• What's glowing, Aradia?
  . Panel 1
  . <Make your own panel 2>
  . Panel 3
• What's freaking you out, John?
• What do you approve of, Dave?

Others:

• What has you worried, Karkat?
• Who is messaging you, Terezi?
• What is surprising, John?
• What manner of creature is emerging from the sea, Eridan?
• What do you see, Dave?
• What's your new haircut, Gamzee?
• What is breaking Trollian?
• What has been tossed off of John's house?
• What does Karkat's face look like?
• What's DISTACTING Hella Jeff?
• Nak Nak Nak
• What's hitting you in the snout Terezi?
• MST 3000
• Who's that Fiduspawn? (Clean+No Text Version)
• Who's dead?
• Who's doing the windy thing?
• Rewrite the first SBaHJ
• Who/what just punched Jack?
• Homestuck Dinosour Comics (Meta Version)
• What's in the box, Slick?
• What's dooking you, John?
• What does Gamzee's face look like?
• What's bonking you, Doc?
• What's mindboggling, John?
• What are you hysterical about, Karkat?
• Where are you falling, Mutini? NEW
• What are you afraid of, Zaffa? [Forum Adventure] NEW

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Others

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Characters Lurking:

• Equius (Clear Background)
• Jack
• Prototyped Jack
• Gamzee:
  . In Front Version
  . In Background Version
  . In Bottom Corner Version
  . In Top Corner Version (Blurry)
• Eridan
• Nepeta
• Traumatized Karkat (In Darkness Version)
• Vriska (With Green Sun Glow)
• Dead Vriska
• Mitsuo

Corner Blurbs:

• Gamzee
• Eridan
• Equius (Animated)
• Karkat
• Vriska
• Tavros
• Sollux
• Terezi
• Feferi
• Kanaya
• Nepeta
• Aradia
• Jade
• Nak Nak Nak
• Generic Template

Derp/Creepface:

• The Original
• Version 2
• Deluxe
• Mini
• Variant 1
• Variant 2
• MouthEye Variant
• Awkward Zombie Variant
• Alternate 1
• Alternate 2 - Inspiration for Version 2
• Alterante 3 - Inspiration for Variant 2
• Awkward Zombie Face - Inspiration for ... Take a wild guess
• Gamzee's Creepface
• John's Derpface

Custom or Memetic Sprites:

• Lemonsnout
• Pouncing Nepeta
• Ultimate Reward Doorknob
• Pumpkin
• Cal's Face
• Vriska's Mind Control Icon
• The Scourge Sisters Mowing Stuff Down
• Duttle
• Dancing John
• Notch
• Frog Thing
• This Thing
• God Tier Hoodie Bases:
  . A
  . B
  . C
  . D
• Some Sort of Knight Base I Guess?
• Zillyhoo Wizard Doll Thing
• Cheese Gamzee
• Little Happy Jack (Filled In Mouth)
• Krinkle Clown
  . A
  . B NEW

Comic Extractions:

• Leaping John
• Grumpy Jade
• Thumbs-up Dave
• Kanaya in the Corner
• Hero Mode Gamzee
• Toddler Kanaya
• Horror Jack Scream
• Headless Eggs
• Sad Karkat
• Scribble Mode Scared Karkat
• Some Nepeta
• Distressed Nepeta
• A Happy Sober Gamzee
• Dead Vriska
• Shaking Doc
• Dancing Hussie (Armless)
• Goatdad Thing
• Jake Sitting
• Vriska Sitting With <33333333
• Dog Tier Jade:
  . A
  . B
• Eyebrow Rose
• Imperial Drone
• Flailing Karkat
• Jane Looking Up
• GCat
• Bent Jane
• Ninja-Posed Roxy NEW

Characters in the Background:

• Terezi
• Aradia
• Dave
• Gamzee
• Jade
• Kanaya
• Rose
• Sollux

Backgrounds:

• Windstorm
• Hero Mode
• Zillycrew
• Handmaid Pattern
• Stained Glass (With Glow)
• On the Ship

Others

• Jack Puts on a Puppet Show (Happy)
• Candy Corn Vampire in the Corner
• Fancy Cal Face
• Something
• NSFW
• Jack Comforting Jack
• Broken Karkat

Reactions

Nominated!:

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Others:

• Sweet Premonition
• Sweet Catch
• Oooh Colors
• Atta Girl
• What Did You Do?
• x4 Nomination Combo!
• :D
• You're Winner! (Alternate)
• You're A Winner!
• This Is Stupid (Alternate)
• This is Incredibly Silly
• Warning: Homestuck Has Not Actually Updated
• HaHaHeeHeeHooHoo

Scratchification

Tesseract's Tutorial:

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How to make the First Guardian effect:

(Doc Scratch Sprite here)

Frame 1:

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.

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Gimp Tutorial by Strokend:

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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:

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[VeritasUnae]

This is where all the best manips in the thread are placed. To get in, a manip must obtain four nominations following these rules:

1) 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).
2) 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.
3) One cannot nominate more than once per page (≈25 posts).
4) 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)
5) 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, and significantly assists me in gathering these manipulations.

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.

>Next.

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Mobster English's ship, the CAIRO OVERCOAT, gold thorn of the skies.

>Next.




>Next.



It's DME's third and final face. He is more fearsome than ever, with THREE HEALTH METERS, and a deadly BLACK HOLE VERSION OF HIS SMUG CUEBALL SELF pulsing on top of his PIMP HAT.


>RL and JC: SERAPHIMIC DYNAMESIS



Due to principles of uncertainty regarding the existence of angels in paradox space, there can only be one at a time. Roxy and Jane combine into a DEMIMONDE SEMIGOBBOSSIS

*GODDESSIS

>DS: SEPULCHRIDUDE



Righteous fires of badass wipe out the weird green shit. The resplendent light of divine PULCHRIDUDE consumes your spirit. Again.

Hell yes.

>JE: ?????



Jake doesn't get a cool transformation because I couldn't think of one.

Really, I am just utterly astounded by how shitty my IMAGINATION is. If my IMAGINATION was a face I would punch it.

In the face.

Thought it would be really funny if this happened whenever someone died in the comic.

Might make more...

yeahhhh

i like wasting time

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Credit goes to TDLBallistic.

[S]KARKAT: SHOW DAVE YOUR MOVES.

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(click it dump asp!)

Welcome to the Image Manip Thread Related Images:

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Why

THAT'S IT

I'M DONE HERE

That basically tripled the file size

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Hey guys, you know how there was that series I was talking about? Well...IT IS NOW READY. Warning: Massive.

>Dirk: Contemplate Alchemical Marvels

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Yeah, no, that's not going to happen so easily. You'd need a lot of grist to even come close to pulling such a ridiculous move.
Which means you may need someone else's help with this...ah well, it's not like there's anyone you know with insane quantities of grist lying around and collecting dust.

>And many hours later...


You met someone with insane quantities of grist lying around and collecting dust.

timeusTestified [TT] began pestering turntechGodhead [TG]

TT: Bro.
TG: huh
TG: oh hey bro
TG: so thats your handle sounds pretty neat
TG: whats up
TT: I know that we just met, but I've found that I need to borrow some of your surplus grist in order to finance an alchemical project of mine. An experiment, if you would, on what happens if you try to make something living with alchemy.
TT: The cost is fuckin' extraordinary, in the way that means HIGH AS FUCK and not the good kind of high.
TG: just HOW HIGH does it even have to BE
TG: no but seriously dude

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TG: ive been stuck on a fucking meteor for three years with a myriad of assholes like vantas here so frankly im glad to do whatever for you or even just talk to you
TG: or anyone other than lalonde kanaya or terezi really ive seriously just been avoiding that fucking clown and vantas the whole time
TG: rose lalonde if i needed to specify
TT: You didn't.
TG: really it gets old when its like
TG: hey whats up
TG: oh nothing just seeing how long i can stare at the horrorterrors without losing my grip on my own sanity
TG: again
TG: that was literally how we spent half of the entire fucking trip
TG: we made it into a fucking game of who could stare at the horrorterrors the longest and it always came down to lalonde and makara for some reason
TG: although im pretty sure he had it in the fucking bag because hes goddamned insane already
TG: so yeah considering i get to chill with my awesome bro again why shouldnt i help you out
TG: obviously i mean that youre my awesome bro here
TT: So you'll spot me some grist?
TG: sure bro why the hell not
TG: how much are we talking here
TT: Well, first of all I want only build grist, the tri-rainbow thing, whatever the hell that's called, and the flashy diamond grist.
TT: Second of all, I want your entire store of those particular materials.
TG: so you want all the grist
TT: All of it, yeah.
TG: alright heres what im gonna do get ready for this
TG: im going to give you all of my grist
TG: but wait theres more
TG: im also giving you permission to take lalondes and the trolls grist as well seriously its not like any of us are using that shit DSFADSA
TG: WHAT ABOUT FOR FUCKING FOOD, YOU LARCENOUS PIECE OF VILE-SMELLING NOOK EXCRETION?!
TT: . . .What.

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TG: fuck no augh dammit stop that
TG: DON'T YOU EVEN TRY STEALING OUR SUPPLIES, YOU FUCKING PRICK! try and stop me asshole UNLIKE YOU, THE REST OF US NEED TO EAT IF WE WANT TO LIVE! FUCK YOU FOR EVEN TRYING THIS, IT'S NOT LIKE IT'S A FUCKING LUXURY!
TT: Hey.
TT: Get the fuck out of this, it doesn't involve you.
TT: And frankly, there's a surplus of food lying around here, it's not like you need to sit around in your meteor and gripe about your empty stomach all day.
TT: By surplus of food, I mean specifically that there's a lot of fucking pumpkins around here.
TT: I hope you like pumpkin pie a la Jane.
TG: SHUT THE FUCK UP, I'M NOT TALKING TO YOU. wow asshole FUCK YOU AND YOUR WHOLE GODDAMNED EXISTENCE! alright sure ill damn you since you asked so nicely YOU KNOW WHAT THE HELL I MEANT. just give me the fucking shades back and i wont hurt you TRY IT, FUCKASS. alright WAIT FU
TT: Has he decided to shut his trap for the moment?
TG: yeah ive resolved that glaring issue for now so just load up grist torrent and start downloading
TT: Fantastic. I'll get back to you after an eternity has passed, then.
TG: youre talking to the knight of time remember

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TG: all it takes is a snap of these godly fingers here and bitch youll be rolling in so much motherfucking grist that youll be left with a ludicrous amount of grist after you use up that ludicrous amount of grist
TG: were talking ultimate alchemy levels of grist here
TG: enough left over that even after you make whatever ridiculous shit youre trying to make therell still be enough to make not one but two giant universe frogs with what im so graciously handing over to you free of charge here
TT: Yes. I get it. It's a lot of grist. Now would you kindly get the fuck on with it?
TG: right sorry just making sure youre getting all of this
TG: i dont know about you but ive got all the time in the world right here
TG: wow that was terrible
TG: anyway here you go UUUUUUUCK YOU!!! yeah im going to go deal with vantas now see ya later
TT: Alright.
TT: Oh, and by the way, you should know that Dirk is extremely grateful that you've done this for him right now and is currently unironically fangirling the fuck out.
TG: wait
TG: what
TT: You don't want to know.

>Yes. Fuck yes.



TT: You really don't want to know.

timeusTestified [TT] ceased pestering turntechGodhead [TG]

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Ok, after many, many, months, I have finally buckled down and FINISHED THESE. I present OZSTUCK, (a few of these I've posted before)



(Since I've posted both the witches before, I've put them in a spoiler to prevent this post from being too stretchy) vvv

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And some added fun:

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WOOOOOOO *thud*

Well it's not a God Tier Dirk, but it still includes Dirk IS THAT OKAY
Anyway yeah Trickster Alpha Kids, check 'em.

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> Jakebot : Reveal yourself.


Behold.
You have paid a great deal of attention to quality and detail in this model. He is perfect.



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Oooh, Mr. English, oooh~.
Be grateful, dear Jake. For the first time in your life you have met a bro with true compassion.

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What now Lalonde ?! And just what do you think YOU'RE looking at??? Keep your drunken, antediluvian judgment to yourself.

Edit : Oh, and, this is the Jakebot I made.

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Jake: Enter

Cascade: Apple Ruse

Dirk: Ascend to the highest point of the building.

Oujia Ghosts: Channel the spirit of Creeper Rose

God Tier Eyes

Terezi: Be absolutely horrible at baseball.

Kids: Summon Captain Hussie

[Redux]

Shit can I cut the ribbon? Is this still a thing that happens? Here's to manipping.

[Ripcord]

>Next.




Mobster English's ship, the CAIRO OVERCOAT, gold thorn of the skies.

>Next.




>Next.



It's DME's third and final face. He is more fearsome than ever, with THREE HEALTH METERS, and a deadly BLACK HOLE VERSION OF HIS SMUG CUEBALL SELF pulsing on top of his PIMP HAT.


>RL and JC: SERAPHIMIC DYNAMESIS



Due to principles of uncertainty regarding the existence of angels in paradox space, there can only be one at a time. Roxy and Jane combine into a DEMIMONDE SEMIGOBBOSSIS

*GODDESSIS

>DS: SEPULCHRIDUDE



Righteous fires of badass wipe out the weird green shit. The resplendent light of divine PULCHRIDUDE consumes your spirit. Again.

Hell yes.

>JE: ?????



Jake doesn't get a cool transformation because I couldn't think of one.

Really, I am just utterly astounded by how shitty my IMAGINATION is. If my IMAGINATION was a face I would punch it.

In the face.

[VeritasUnae]

Oh my word, this thread is off to a smashing start. .-.'

[ImperatorMortis]

That... Is epic. Nommed for being well drawn, animated, and amazing in every way.

[trilbyulatingDungeoneer]

Also nomming because if it was a signature it'd be hidden for exceeding 80 kilocools of energy.

[Redux]

That is very wondiferous way to start off the thread.

Nommed for great editing, wonderful manipulation, completely badass Jane-Roxy and Sepul-Dirk, and a very funny Jake-Dick joke.

[Sandvich King]

I'll give it its fourth official nom because of an awesome Problem Sleuth callback, amazingly badass animations, and Jake being a derp as usual.

I believe that completes the set.

[Rikushadow5]

Holy shit first manip of the thread makes BoT.

And what a wonderful start we've gotten ourselves off to.

[vengeanceCreed]

AHAHA! This is brilliant. XD

[C4Pottery]

That was beautiful. How long have you been sitting on it, Ripcord?

[Ripcord]

It took about three hours to make and I had it lying around for an hour before I saw the new thread was up. :P

(i work fast)

[aeonsleuth]

ALL OF MY NOMINATIONS.

[Vero]

no, ripcord, no!
the first couple threads don't get awesome manips unless they're in the form of msb appreciation.
god, what an awful start to the thread, all wrong.

[shadowedAngel]

Now THAT is how you open an image manip thread! Too bad there are four noms already. I would have given it all my noms. ALL OF THEM. Well maybe not because Jake didn't get a transformation. A SEXY transformation. *HINT

[Anti]

Really old manip that I'm fairly sure I never posted, but only for content to this post.




Now the big reason I posted here is because I've updated my John sprite rips, which now includes almost all of his sprites. Everything I could get ahold of at least. If you see a sprite that's missing from the rips go ahead and tell me so I can add 'em.

Pre-alchemizations and
Post alchemizations and other outfits.

[myu2k2]

i come with gifs..........

hacked up my Betty Crocker cookbook gif and made a signature for the thread:




and.... I spent about 3 hours re-coloring this thing by hand in photoshop just to make it exploitable for the above gif... NOW DON'T SAY I NEVER GOT YOU ANYTHING!

[azhdrake]

Hoppy shit that first minap is amazing. Jake's bit made me laugh so hard. Although I am sure many people would argue that Dirk should have been Ace Dick.

[MasterBlade]

Ace Dirk.

*goes back to lurking the thread forever*

[Kyumorph]

where doin it man
WHERE MAKING THIS HAPEN

[Unclever title]

and.... I spent about 3 hours re-coloring this thing by hand in photoshop just to make it exploitable for the above gif... NOW DON'T SAY I NEVER GOT YOU ANYTHING!

Allow me to express my thanks.

[I am an excellent Post.]

[psychedoutTheoretical]

Posting it again since it's a new thread and no one seemed to catch it up.

WV: Help Jack Noir.

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UU: woUld yoU trUst the fate of the Universe, the fate of life
UU: and, for that matter, the fate of reality itself to the single hand of a lowly pawn? :U
GG: Not a pawn. A hero. A vindicator, if you will.

[Menshay]

Ace Dirk.

Also reposting other bad puns from the previous thread.

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