#i do not know how to use photoshop

[aweirdbugcreature]

Tempted to make a Tumblr blog where i post stuff but from a bug's perspective. Like saying "OMG GIRL DINNER" and is a bunch of small spiders, or saying "UGHH I'm molting again 🙄🙄" and like a crappy edited image of weird dead exoskeleton skin on the ground.

[hurtingbuck]

[skellitonz]

single handedly getting all the mystery files to 3 million views so we can get that ryan/shane foot race

[tortibomb]

Johan & North | Fourever You | Episode 11

So that was 1,000, right?

[sadiecoocoo]

Jayce: I call my wife “the missus” because when she’s at work I misses her

[vaggieslefteye]

CHARLIE MAGNE from HAZBIN HOTEL (2019): Pilot - "That's Entertainment" ↳ "So, I've been thinking: Isn't there a more humane way to hinder overpopulation here in Hell? Perhaps we can create an alternative way to change souls through... redemption?"

[mothric]

I caved

[egophiliac]

Hello! Sorry to bother but do you have any digital art tips? I’m quite new to it and any tips, tricks or advice would be helpful! Your coloring style is very beautiful and I love it a lot!

thank you! 💚💚💚 sorry this is a bit late, hopefully there's still something helpful in it!

(also, it got pretty long, sorry!)

I think the biggest thing is to just take things slow -- digital art feels different than drawing traditionally, and it's SUPER easy to get overwhelmed by the billions of cool features that the digital world offers. (I say, as someone who spends a lot of time downloading cool brushes and textures...and then never using them ever.) there is a ton of really cool stuff you can do digitally, but because there's so much, I think it's really important to take time to figure out what is and isn't working for you. spend some time doodling without any intent to do a finished piece, figure out how you like to hold (or not hold) your tablet, what keyboard shortcuts you end up using a lot (and therefore might want to map to your pen/tablet buttons for quicker use)...that kind of thing!

everyone's workflow and preferred program and style are different, so it's hard to give hard-and-fast general advice. but the things that I think of as the essentials for learning digital art programs, and what I think of as a good order to focus on learning them in (although YMMV, especially depending on what kind of art you're doing):

brush customization (e.g. flow, opacity, softness)

layers and layer masks

selections and transformations (e.g. scale, rotate, flip horizontal/vertical, skew) (skew is underrated and I will die on that hill)

blending modes (e.g. multiply, screen)

adjustments/adjustment layers (e.g. hue/saturation, curves)

and I think most stuff after that is gravy! often very good gravy though! but yeah, as overall advice I recommend just taking things one little bit at a time, spending some time just drawing and messing around with each feature and what you can do with it. whether or not you end up incorporating any of it into your workflow, it's always good to try things out and just see how they feel! :D

and just so there is at least a little more concrete helpfulness in here, here's a few more specific things that I think are super important to keep in mind!

use! your! tablet/pen buttons! I mentioned this earlier, but they are extremely useful for keyboard shortcuts that you use often! most programs will also let you create new shortcuts for other things -- personally, I use the magic wand tool to fill in big color blocks a lot, so I made shortcuts for 'expand selection' and 'fill' and then mapped them to my tablet buttons.

flop your work horizontally often! when you're working on something, you get used to the way it looks, so seeing it mirrored is a quick way to see it with fresh eyes! in my experience, it often feels like this:

(a common thing is to find that everything is sort of 'leaning' too much one way, which is where skew really comes in handy!) (seriously, I love skew, it is my savior)

if you're working with color, keep a hue/saturation adjustment layer (or a layer filled with black or white and set to Color) on top and toggle it on occasionally to check your values! a lot of people who know a lot more about color than me (and are better at putting it into words) have written about why values are so important, so all I'll say is that the rule of thumb is that your image should still be readable in greyscale:

there are some exceptions and grey areas (do ho ho), but it's a good general rule to keep in mind! (some programs also have a colorblind mode, so you can check to see how your work will look to someone with colorblindness!)

and finally, here's some digital art programs I recommend, if you're still looking for a good one!

free: krita, FireAlpaca

paid: ClipStudio, Procreate (iOS/iPad only)

[quaranmine]

On Wednesday before I gave my presentation I confessed to a new employee that I was worried it would be too long and she brightly told me her life hack was to just let AI rewrite things for her. She said I should put in all my talking points and ask ChatGPT to give me a five minute exactly presentation. I was like....how is the most polite possible way (since this is a new colleague I shouldn't get off on the wrong foot with) that I can express that I will Not be taking this advice. Ever. I told her that I didn't think we were allowed to use ChatGPT at this job (we most certainly are not, it is a nightmare for any type of protected information) and also that I prefer to write all of my own work. Despite my best efforts the last part of that was still passive aggressive, lol.

Something about being a writer makes it so that it's almost offensive to me for someone to suggest I use AI to do my work instead? Like, the day I reach the point where I let AI write something for me is the day y'all need to be checking me for brain damage because clearly I'm losing it

[cozylittleartblog]

hey girlies should i get clip studio paint

[iucemon]

get your big ass boots out of the damn caption

[sillyabtmusic]

(240209) dOpamine - KB

[niidsch]

How do you make the transparent vg gifs?

I used this website! Load your gif, set the background color to the color you want to remove and then play with the percentage until you get the shade you want gone (if the bg is one shade of green, then 1% will do the trick, if it's multiple shades of green, you'll need to go higher). Also turn off and on the Alpha Channel Preview to make sure you're not deleting any pixels of the character

BIG warning tho, I used this on gifs that had a very simple background, with one specific shade of violet and another specific shade of yellow, so I was able to colorpick the code of both and then set the percentage at 1% to only target those colors (I had to do this with one color, then save the gif, then load it again and finally delete the remaining bg color)

If you are working with something more complex, it will be more difficult, and you'll probably need to do some color adjustments in Photoshop to make the background colors different to the character's (for ex, if you want to delete the background of a gif with Mario in it, you'll need to make sure the bg doesn't contain red, orange or blue)

Otherwise you can remove the background with Adobe After Effects or do it in Photoshop frame by frame, but obvs that takes more time. Couldn't find anything more efficient than these methods sadly :(

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

Making some chocolate, but for who?

[kraniumet]

i think image gen can be used like any other artistic tool but I don't really think the big commerical proponents of "ai" are advertising it as a tool, they're adertising it as a solution. I also think it's intellectually dishonest to argue that image generation is exactly like "using photoshop/taking a photograph" because of some generalized "those were also criticized at their conception for being new and scary and disruptive" soundbite. they were not even really criticized for the same reasons. find a better argument.

[empress-of-snark]

now I got someone to hold

to keep me warm when life is cold

a little sun to melt away the gray

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