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Skins & Accents: Never be unpleasantly surprised by resizing ever again

I'm making this as a separate post in addition to a reblog reply, in the hopes more people will see it.

So, you've worked on a skin and you've poured your heart into it, worked at a high resolution, and rendered all the nice details... and then you resize to 350 x 350 px and half your details disappear, others look pixellated, and some things that looked great at full size are now way too cluttered.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a way to avoid this pain entirely, all while working at full size and never having to zoom out while you're in the flow to check on the details?

Well, I've got the hottest tip for you.

Start by upscaling your canvas to 2800 x 2800 px. When zoomed out to 12.5%, the canvas will appear as 350 x 350 px. You can also choose other resolutions, the important bit is that one of those resolutions results in an image appearing as 350 x 350 px when zoomed out at one of the default percentages (50%, 33%, 25%, 12.5% etc). We are not going to zoom out on the working file, however.

(This is my accent Thought we had a deal, which you can find in my accent shop)

Then it's magic time. This works in Clip Studio Paint and Photoshop, I don't know about other programs.

Window > Canvas > New Window in CSP:

Or Window > Arrange > New Window for [file name] in Photoshop:

This will open the exact same image in a different tab. Click the tab, hold to drag and it will float above your working image. Zoom out to 12.5%, grab the bottom right corner (it will appear where the green arrow is) to scale down the excess frame:

And voila, you will have a live version of your accent at its print size, regardless of how much you zoom in in the larger version:

Yes, that's right, live version, it will update as you draw! You can tell right away if a detail you add will show up at print size or not, if it will be readable or not.

Never be surprised by resizing again!

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Full metal alchemist!

(full metal alchemist)

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this is how thomas can still win

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When the other head is really embarrassing and there is nothing you can do.

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Harvest Lord - [outfit=1725750]

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loving this years april fools i wont lie

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figurin out somethin to do with new apparel

outfit 1862641

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If I could have my way with any breed and change them, I’d probably make wildclaws more dinosaur-y…

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please know that I am not even in the general vicinity of fucking around

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Thomas

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OK TWO THINGS

first, the tidelord is NOT down there. the earthshaker and ANOTHER DEITY is

second, the newest chest is full of wages. you know what cost money (besides everything)?? CHANGING FLIGHTS

could it be? the reveal of a new flight and dragon deity????

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who is thomas?? what is going on

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he’s down there.

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parallel genes stitched and patchwork for thomas, with new thomas-exclusive ducks tertiary

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I just spent 3 hours in MS Paint putting together a random badge/banner/whatever you want to call it for your dragons spotted on the front page.

I have no idea why I felt compelled to do so, but there it is!

Feel free to plop it in your dragons’ descriptions if you like. Just fling a link back here or to my profile ( #157735 ) and we’re cool.