IMAGE MANIPULATION 13: The Good, The Bad, and the Nom

[ImperatorMortis]

Oh neat, I never knew you could do that

that makes it much easier

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Man I hate GIMP.. When my Photoshop was down, I tried on multiple occasions to get used to GIMP. Needless to say I gave up, and was angry.

[DoctorIcePopCat]

Man I hate GIMP.. When my Photoshop was down, I tried on multiple occasions to get used to GIMP. Needless to say I gave up, and was angry.

I had trouble at first, too. But when you actually get to understand it, it's a good tool.

[The One Guy]

Thanks a lot for the help, but sometimes there still chunks of white still remaining, is there any way to fix this without zooming in and deleting each white pixel one at a time?

It's likely you're dealing with a .jpg which tends to mess up precise lines. Fortunately, there's a way to get around this for this particular situation (unless the quality is too terrible):
When you have the fuzzy select tool selected, there should be an area like this on the bottom of the toolbox:

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Increase the threshold value (which I drew an arrow to) and try again (undo your initial deletion first and it's a good idea to uncheck "Antialiasing" too). Just be careful not to set it too high or you'll select parts of the image you want to keep too.

Alternatively, use the eraser tool to get rid of those white spots (though it's probably best you check the "Hard Edge" checkbox, which shows up in that same area of the in the toolbox when the eraser is selected first).


And for future reference, avoid .jpgs if at all possible when precision is a concern.

[Yaridovich23]

I tried that and I can't notice any more white spots! Thank you very much!

[Bfahome]

Ah, Mister Bond. Thank you for joining us. Please sit down. We may be able to negotiate some sort of agreement. If not then, well, you might end up all washed out.

[ImperatorMortis]

I found some amazing things on Tumblr.







Also...



From: http://crypticcataclysm.tumblr.com/

[Yaridovich23]

Of course as soon as I resolve a problem, another one pops up. So, I'm trying to go to Step Two of Scratchifying Sollux, and it won't let me use the Bucket Tool on him, it has the circle with a slash through it symbol when I put the bucket icon over him. :<

[ArtemisTheHuntress]

Rounding out the set for now - SOLLUXRESPONDERSPRITE!


aaaaand in red because I can only imagine Dirk getting this sprite:

[ShieruKouto]

Hello Manip thread! I come to you with a dilemma. I'm working on a fanventure and I've been using Flash to make some animated pages. However, whenever I export my GIFs, they come out looking like this:


Is there anyway to export animated GIFs from Flash without this happening? Or is there some other image format I can export in that would do the job??

[ArtemisTheHuntress]

... and you know how I said I was done with these? I guess I lied. Gosh making sprites is fun.

And for this one, as has been semi-popularly theorized, JAKESPRITE!



Or, for the first step towards the-fever-prince's really interesting and excellent theories, have a slightly... less innocuous Jakesprite:

[xqz]

Hello Manip thread! I come to you with a dilemma. I'm working on a fanventure and I've been using Flash to make some animated pages. However, whenever I export my GIFs, they come out looking like this:
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Is there anyway to export animated GIFs from Flash without this happening? Or is there some other image format I can export in that would do the job??

If you're asking about the grainy colors, it's because GIFs have to be indexed, which limits the amount of usable colors. As far as I'm aware there's no way around this other than to manually tone down the amount of different colors? Someone else probably knows better than I, though.

[OrangeAipom]

Hello Manip thread! I come to you with a dilemma. I'm working on a fanventure and I've been using Flash to make some animated pages. However, whenever I export my GIFs, they come out looking like this:

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Is there anyway to export animated GIFs from Flash without this happening? Or is there some other image format I can export in that would do the job??

keep them as flashes. :U

[unbridledExüberance]

Export as a sequence of PNG images (there's an option to do that under Export as Movie or whatever it's called), then use GIMP to make them into a GIF.

Alternatively, use animated PNGS instead of GIFS. The only "downside" is that Internet Failsplorer doesn't understand them (big suprise), but it eventually will. Works in Firefox and Chromium perfectly fine though.

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Can exported Flash animations be looping?

yes

can they be embedded on the forums?

no (at least not currently)

[ShieruKouto]

keep them as flashes. :U

Can exported Flash animations be looping?
Also... can they be embedded on the forums??? ((I'm sorry I'm new to Flash and GIFs and generally just bad at things))

[ds1210]

I love my little ponies
(spoilered because biggest thing ever)

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Twilight Spakle

Rarity

Rainbow dash(this one is the best )
<-- that's a rouge, btw
Pinkie Pie
dat codpeice
Fluttershy

Applejack

Luna & Celestia

Twilight is the witch of blood because blood=Friendship
Rarity is sylph of time because she's always busy lending her time to people

why did this take me so long

[BenBen]

I've started making altbloods. Heres some Terezis.



Yeah, I'm not that good at this.

[Karp]

It seems like this business venture has been...cut short.

[mysteriousOutsider]

Wow. Okay.

I would like to nominate that for being the greatest thing ever.

Utter genius.

are those good reasons

[Matrix]

I love my little ponies
(spoilered because biggest thing ever)

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Twilight Spakle

Rarity

Rainbow dash(this one is the best )
<-- that's a rouge, btw
Pinkie Pie
dat codpeice
Fluttershy

Applejack

Luna & Celestia

Twilight is the witch of blood because blood=Friendship
Rarity is sylph of time because she's always busy lending her time to people

why did this take me so long

RD as the Rogue of Breath.... She does BREATHTAKING STUNTS to help her friends?

[ds1210]

RD as the Rogue of Breath.... She does BREATHTAKING STUNTS to help her friends?

eeexactly. also because it would make sense for her to do the windy thing

[BenBen]

Gog I'm making these so fast. Here's some of my patron troll now.

[Peeka13]

HUSSIESPRITE: I knew this was a terrible idea.

The colors somehow got messed up when exporting, which is weird because that NEVER happens with pngs, at least for me. :U

[Eagle0600]

I may have worded this like a dinugs. Let me show you what I mean.

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I need to get rid of that whiteness.

First off, ensure your source image is not a jpg. If it is, burn it and salt the ashes. Once you have a png or bmp or gif source image, do one of two things, depending on if the image is aliased or not.

Antialiased image (harder):

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Create two copies of it. Give the top layer an alpha mask, all black.

On the bottom layer, use colour->colour to alpha, and select white. Then put it against a bright background so you can easily see everything transparent.

Using a white brush, paint in the top layer's alpha mask wherever a part of Sollux is transparent, to "un-erase" him.

Aliased image (easier):

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Select the magic wand, set threshold to zero. Click white area. Hit delete.

[Matrix]

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HUSSIESPRITE: I knew this was a terrible idea.

The colors somehow got messed up when exporting, which is weird because that NEVER happens with pngs, at least for me. :U

Edgestuck is way ahead of you, Peeka. :P

[mysteriousOutsider]

(I posted a Hussprite in the last thread. Not that it matters.)