#picrew tutorial

[drowninnoodles]

So I tried to make Picrew tutorial, This is what I managed to figure out myself because the tutorial is a bit confusing on the website, so I tried to make it simpler

If something is too pixelated because tumblr screws up the quality as usual, I'll try to fix it somehow or smth but yeahhh

[fxlmine]

Bulk part recoloring for Picrew: a guide

Hi! Some of my friends asked me about this and I figured I'd make a tumblr post instead of writing it all in a discord message never to be seen again.

This guide covers how i personally quickly recolor parts for my own picrews, to use with picrew creator's bulk uploading tool. This likely isn't going to work for everyone, especially since I rely on Clip Studio Paint very heavily.

Using this tutorial will give you the files you need to bulk upload with picrew creator a bit faster than if you were to recolor everything by hand. Especially if doing a bunch of parts and colors.

Tutorial under the cut!

What you'll need

Clip studio paint (or another art program with animation features that lets you export each frame to a separate layer. I only will be showing CSP however)

Your artwork. Each color needs to be on a separate layer. (Sorry for those who like to paint everything on the same layer! This won't work for you)

(optional, if on windows) https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/ to speed up one specific step

Let's do this

1) open the animation timeline, with CSP pro you can do 24 parts at a time due to the frame limit, which is still plenty to speed the process up.

2) say you're doing the shirts like i did. make an animation folder for the shirt fill color, as well as the lineart. if you have any more layers that are recolored with the same color each time, make an animation folder for those as well (so say, shadows. or secondary colors)

3) put each individual shirt part in it's own animation cell. make sure the frames for each part line up. you'll want to be able to go through the timeline with each shirt on a separate frame

Your layers should end up looking somewhat similar to this

4) now for recoloring: clip a layer to each animation folder. so clip one to the shirt fill folder for instance. fill that entire layer up with the color you want that part to be. Check the frames in your animation again, now every part should be recolored with the colors in the clipped layer.

Your layers should now look something like this

5) Shorten the timeline so only frames with an actual item in them are included. (Otherwise you'll end up with a bunch of blank images later that you're not going to do anything with)

6) Hide every layer other than the animation folders and their clipped layers. So only the part is visible. Go through your frames one more time to make sure they look alright and nothing is out of place.

7) Time to export! Go to file -> export animation -> image sequence (you might want to set a shortcut for this so you don't have to go through 3 menus haha).

Make sure you're exporting to the correct folder. Set file name settings to anything you like, but make sure the start number is 1 (there might be exceptions to this, I'll go over that later). Set the image type to PNG, make sure the canvas size is correct and that the framerate lines up with your timeline's framerate.

8) Export it! You should have some files in your folder that look like this now. We'll want to rename them to just 1.png, 2.png... etc.

9) You can rename them by hand, but this is rather slow to do each time and I'm lazy. So here's how you rename them in the bulk rename utility. Open your folder in there, and then copy the settings I have here.

Yes, this is EXTREMELY overwhelming. I know. The first box (RegEx) is the only one you'll need to touch. Set the Match field to something like "Recolors_0{0,3}". Replace "Recolors_" with whatever your files start with. Also check the v2 box.

Replace can be left empty, since we're essentially removing anything that matches the regex (which is a text pattern matching syntax. We're essentially matching "Recolors_" with up to 3 zeros after it)

Select all the files in the top panel, then hit Rename in the bottom right! It should rename everything to just 1.png, 2.png... etc in one go.

10) Go to your part page in picrew. Make sure your colors are set up and you have created the amount of parts you'll need. Go to the Bulk Upload tab (there's a link in the top right).

11) Select the color you're uploading, then select the files you're uploading. Make sure the filenames match with your part ID numbers. This is important. 1.png Will match the first part, 2.png will match the second. Note how I said ID numbers, not the display order.

This means in the exporting step, you might need to change the starting number of your files. If you messed this up since you didn't read the tutorial in full before following it (I get it. I've been there before), just export and rename again.

12) If everything looks good and you got your files previewing no problem, hit upload, then wait a few seconds while picrew uploads your files.

13) YOU DID IT!!! You successfully added a recolor for your parts. Now go back to your file in CSP and fill each clipping layer up with a different color. You can now repeat the process from step 7. (export, rename and upload) to upload all parts for the other colors.

How much time does this actually save?

I never timed myself, but from experience, once you have set everything up and get the hang of it. It's pretty damn fast! Granted it does take a bit of set-up to get working. It gets more efficient the more parts you recolor at once.

I'll often go ahead and recolor the next color while the previous color is still uploading. Usually a single color only takes me a minute max to create and upload, instead of several minutes recoloring every single layer and saving each file separately.

For bulk rename utility, I set it to allow overwriting files. Which means I keep every color in the same folder and just overwrite the files whenever I rename. It's the fastest for me and saves me some storage space on my PC as well. Just make sure to click out of and then back into the folder to reload the files in there.

Hopefully this should help someone! Creating your own picrew is a daunting task and this made it a little easier for me at least ^^

[angiestown]

I'm working on another dress up game rn and like ~2 years ago when I made my last one, making all the colour variations took soooo long. then right near the end I remembered that I knew how to automate things like that. since I had to get it set up again anyway, I figured I'd record myself doing it and make a tutorial to hopefully save some other people some time

[ceiling-karasu]

Are people uploading their drawings to their computer and digitalizing/editing them somehow, or is everyone just really good at drawing smooth lines via practice?

[squiiji-3d]

I'm tired of seeing AI generated and Creator TOS-violating PNGtuber models 😠

PLEASE let me help you make your own free model w/ Picrews that allow commercial use‼️

I've got 70+ of them for ya here, PLUS a set up tutorial, it's so easy my guy

[kohlkopfus]

Picrew help, overview of limitations.

(Edit 27.03.23: I added something else to the bottom about folders and colors/the batch upload.)

(Edit 10.04.23: About Release status added to the bottom.)

Hello, I noticed these questions coming up regularly, so I wanted to provide an overview for people who are thinking about getting into designing their own picrew on the website.

First off: Try and use a browser that translates websites for you, like Google chrome, and look at the support/how to page on the website itself. A lot of things are explained there:

But, here are the basics:

Once you have an account you can create your own character dress-up maker (or randomizer).

On the main page is an overview of your parts and their settings. The preview image, if they're visible and how the user can manipulate the parts.

Inside each part section are buttons for the individual items and the settings. The settings are mostly for the positioning of the parts and to add new layers and colors.

On the top left of the website (in a fly-out menu) is your overall number of items and on the bottom/right side is your number of layers and their order.

Now to limitations.

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50 Layers - That's how many different layers you can stack (think layers in an art program). For example: background (1), body (1), ears (left and right, 2) would be 3 "parts" categories but 4 layers in total, since you divided the ears into two separate layers. I don't know how many layers one part can have, but you can change the order of the layers independently of the parts position (so if your picrew order is "body", "ears", "background" then you can move the background layer to the bottom, ear 1 next, then body and then the second ear so they show up properly).

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750 Items - That's the items you add to your parts. The different variations of hairstyles for example. I don't think there's a limit to how many items one part can have, but 750 is your overall maximum. I started running out of item slots and instead used the color slots to add different items instead. So there's not 1 item with 18 different colors but 18 different pictures with a similar theme on 1 item slot.

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18 Colors - In the settings of each part there's the option to add a total of 18 colors to the parts, so they show up as color spots to upload your pictures to. I, for example, wanted to have natural skin color and fantasy skin colors, but had more than 18. That meant either reducing colors or making a second set of 18 colors available, which would also double every other bodypart. So I went with 10 natural and 8 fantasy skin colors instead. Keep this limitation in mind.

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File dimension - The picrew canvas is 600x600 pixel big. Not much to work with and the quality won't be very good. If you want people to be able to resize the parts you need to save the picture as double size, so 1200x1200. Also consider saving preview pictures of small parts (dunno, moles?) in a bigger size so the preview isn't all pixelated.

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File size - If you want to upload a very colorful png you might have a file bigger than 500kB, which is the limit. Tinypng.com and similar services can reduce the size losslessly.

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Self imposed limitations:

You can add your own filters based on color palette (changing hair to red changes the bangs to red as well), or undesirable item combinations (selecting horns removes hats and vice versa).

I like to have users figure that out by themselves, in case they want unusual combinations.

And that's it. Hope it helps.

Edit:

Batch/Bulk Upload - there are also limitations to the batch upload function. Instead of uploading every single picture at once you select one of your colors and fill the spots that way (You can switch over to that after going to your setting or item window. It'll show up as a third option on the top right).

Let's say we have the "Mouth" part with 4 items (neutral, smiling, pouting, screaming) and 5 colors. Black, Brown, Red, Pink, and Blue. To give every different mouth expression a different lipstick you first need to draw them and then divide the pictures you drew into folders sorted by color.

So your folders are called "black", "brown", "red", "pink" and "blue". Inside each folder are the four different pictures in the corresponding color.

(You can only upload 10 pictures at a time, in case you have more items than 10.)

For Picrew to know which picture to add to which item you need to name them according to their displayed number on the website. Ideally those would be "1.png" for the neutral expression, "2.png" for smiling, 3.png" for pouting, and "4.png" for the screaming mouth.

You can rearrange the order of the items by dragging them to different positions. The first can't be changed.

If you want to change the assigned number of the items to match their displayed position you gotta apply that in the advanced settings. I suggest experimenting a bit with those settings to not accidentally mess up.

Edit 2:

Releasing your Picrew - Picrew has two modes of viewing your maker. One is over the "Preview" tab and is only visible to you, the creator.

The preview version is always up-to-date and displays whatever you uploaded last to the website, but the published version (Where you pick from either public, secret or private publication mode) needs to be released every time you want a change to be permanent. So if you want the people with the link to your maker to see the newest edits, you have to make sure to press the "Release" button again.

"Public" is visible to everyone, "Secret" is only available to those who have a link (and the URL has "secret" in it) and "Private" is basically just the preview version (you can't check how your maker looks on the website).

[yonasanerihhi]

Como fazer um PNGtuber ANIMADO no PC TUTORIAL COMPLETO | Veadotube Mini

Neste tutorial vou ensinar a como fazer um PNGtuber animado no PC utilizando um programa gratuito chamado Veadotube Mini, ensino a como baixar o programa, criar um PNGtuber, importar o PNGtuber para o programa, configurar as expressões do PNGtuber e como salvar e carregar. Além disso, dou várias dicas extras para melhorar os vídeos de lives do seu Vtuber PNGtuber. Esse é um tutorial simples e completo de como utilizar o VeadoTube Mini para animar o seu PNG tuber.

Programas pra baixar (Lembrando que todos são gratuitos):

Veadotube Mini (Programa de animação de PNGtubers): https://olmewe.itch.io/veadotube-mini

Winrar (programa para extrair os arquivos):

https://www.win-rar.com/start.html?&L=9

OBS Studio

(Programa para gravar e fazer lives com suporte a várias coisas):https://obsproject.com/pt-br/download

Streamlabs

(Programa para gravar e fazer lives idêntico ao OBS, só que mais simples):

https://streamlabs.com/pt-br/

Canal do Moderador Rick Komori com várias dicas e tutoriais de qualidade de Vtubers e PNGtubers:

https://www.youtube.com/@rickkomoribr

Vídeo relacionados no Canal:

COMO FAZER UM PNGTUBER TUTORIAL COMPLETO NO PICREW https://youtu.be/dQHsH9UEex0?si=a69CL7XgvTkAc3ty

COMO FAZER UM PNGTUBER NO CHARAT ME CELULAR E PC TUTORIAL COMPLETO https://youtu.be/zh4MzxYA6lk?si=lyPVylA_5sF1pj7F

EXPRESSÕES que todo PNGTUBER DEVE TER! Tutorial de como fazer emoções no Picrew https://youtu.be/7hCDtaO9a14?si=qOhzUX1p6Htql-cZ

Como eu virei um Vtuber PNG Tuber https://youtu.be/gll_zh_y9p0?si=SVZowt9YnnWfeh14

[starfruitslush]

i’m trying to make a picrew and im like does this even Look good

[coolkaius]

Furby Resources!

Last updated 9/30/2024 | All new additions are labeled "New!" + broken links are fixed

I added/removed a lot of things since originally posting, so you may want to delete your last reblog and replace it!

Please suggest additions & corrections!!

Incredible Google Drive folder with a huge variety of Furby content and history

Guide to Furby Fandom Tags

Tips For Buying Furbies

Adult Furby Price Guide | Furby Value Guide For Dummies

Archived Furby content on archive.org

Colorful Google Doc to track Furby projects and collections

Furby Certificate Of Adoption | Furby Adoption Certificate

Images ripped from flash games

Official Furby Tiled Backgrounds

Furby Carrier Pattern | If that doesn’t work patterns are sold on Etsy

All Official Furbys

Eye colors on official models | Common 2005 Furby Eye Colors

Differences between Curly Furby Babies and Sheep Furby Babies

High Quality Transparent Furby Masks

Furbtober Prompts

Pixel Furby Page Dividers

Furby Sticker Scans

THE FURBY ORGAN, A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MADE FROM FURBIES

New! FURBY SITES (See also the tabs linked on the left)

New! Furby Junction Discord Server (ACTIVE)

New! Furby OCs + Resources World on Toyhou.se (open for submissions)

New! Furby Subreddits

Lore

Furby Paradise Manga - 1 chapter scanned and translated

Desktop Furby - 2005 Burger King Freeware

A Deep Dive Into The Furby Fandom

Furby Island Movie Free On YouTube

Printable furbish-english dictionary | Official PDF Dictionary | All Known Furbish Words

Official Furby trainer's guide

Furby Songs YouTube Playlist

Dancing Furby Gameplay & Interacting with Furby - Game Boy Color Japan

Unofficial Guide To Furby Species And Biology

Furby Lore Zine

Every printable from Big Fun In Furbyland (contains lore, Furbish words, phrases, coloring pages and photos)

Make A (non-plush) Furby

Furby Bases Collection on deviantART | Extra Furby Base | Furby Bases on Toyhou.se

Design A Furby Shockwave Game (pictured above , also has a few old Furby mini games) | Can be played through Flashpoint which archives old web games

Official Coloring Pages

AdoptAFurby.com Coloring Pages | List Of Official Coloring Books

Color A Furby Online (pictured above)

Furby's Design-o-Matic (pictured above) | Works with Ruffle’s browser extension

Make A Furb Game (pictured above) | Preview Video

Furby Creator Games on Picrew

Origami Furby Tutorial

Big Fun In Furby Land CD-ROM has a very limited Furby maker pictured in a gif above (works with Windows 10, just right click, click “Mount”, then open Furby.exe it’s an application file)

Furby Patterns on Etsy

New! PRINTABLE FURBY BABIES ‼️‼️‼️ Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3

New! Furby Boom Paper Crafts Orange | Lightning Bolts | Colorable

New! Cursed Furby Paper Craft

Real Life Furby Mods

FURBY TUTORIAL MASTERPOST

3D Printable Face Plates and Furbys

1998 Furby Pattern

Long Furby Pattern

How to Long Furb |  Longifying Your Furby

How To Skin A 1998 Furby

Eye Chip Tutorial

How To Make Accurate 1998 Eye Chips

Furby Buddy Pattern

replacing a 1998 furby’s speaker

~ furby beret - crochet pattern ~

Curing Me Sleep Again (when you’re Furby won’t stay awake)

How To Skin A Shelby

How To Dye Furby Fur

Real Life Furby Care

How To Find Your Furby’s Birthday

Furby Name Generator | Another Furby Name Generator

How To Brush Your Furby In Depth Guide

How To Clean A Tilt Sensor

Sync Screw Adjustment

[mspreciosa]

I made a picrew for a desk/bullet journal setup! If you make one and feel like posting it, I would love to see what combination you come up with :) I also definitely used bujo themes from actual sticker packs in my shop lol

This is my first time making one and I ran into some stuff that wasn’t covered on the tutorials I used, so if anyone is interested in a couple of tips I’d be happy to share

[angiestown]

I finished that dressup game I said I was working on !! would very appreciate people giving it a go because I spent literally a week on this. like 7 days off work doing nothing but drawing clothes lmao

in order to make the different body types work without ballooning up the file size way more than it already is, I had to make it so you choose your skin tone twice. in meiker you can't arrange the order elements appear in, but I recommend starting with these two options to pick out your body type and skin tone first, since some options look better on certain bodies imo

also !! meiker !! I don't hear people talk about it much, but it's really cool I like it a lot! it's like picrew, but instead of uploading a bunch of pngs, you arrange and label your layers in folders and upload a single psd file. personally I liked the process a lot more than picrew because I'd rather work with one big file than a million tiny image files, but that's just me. plus you can make the images bigger than you can on picrew too

also posting this again since I can attach it to a post with the game, but I made a tutorial on how to create a bunch of colour options super fast if you want to make your own dressup game. there's no way I'd have nearly as many options if I didn't know how to do this. once you understand the actions feature you can do so much stuff so much more efficiently it's insane it's like my favourite photoshop feature

[starscatteredsky]

Hihihi!! Could I have some tips for a tv kin pls?? Ty and have a nice day c:

tips for a tv

pt: tips for a tv end pt

make a tvhead! there are tons of tutorials on youtube!!

get an old tv, or collect them!! they may not work but they're super neat to keep around!

use technology/tv/etc themed neopronouns!

use objecthead picrews to show what you look like!

if you’re an older tv, wrap some wire around a headband to make some antenna gear!

wear lots of clunky or boxy/ square shaped clothing!

try doing some pixely/square/tech themed makeup!

watch some of your favourite shows or movies!

wear something holographic to look like tv static!

hope these help! -🩸

[ID in alt!]

[space-blue]

The recom OC picrew is here!

After weeks of suprisingly tedious work, the picrew is finally done! I'm so, so glad it's finally off my shoulders and into the wild! I've gained a lot of respect for picrew makers, as it was definitely a challenge on my patience!

Massive thank yous to :

@livisart for the actual tutorial that enabled the madness. @straydaddy for the amazing painted backgrounds and atokirina seeds @bombshe77 kindly contributed the bite and wire tattoos @exxorciusxxx on twitter did the Mansk tattoo @Killveous on teitter contributed the Quaritch and Lyle tattoos!

Many thanks as well to everyone on the Deja Blue server for keeping the hype alive as I struggled through this one! Feel free to drop me a ko-fi! <3

Instructions and tips!

Any OC goes, but for the moment the gear and haircuts are recom only! Makes icons and pfps! Just, don't edit, don't crop the watermark, don't use for commercial purposes. Please try and credit me (here or the picrew) if using.

The ears do not match the skin colour automatically, due to the stripe colours needing to blend. Sobe sure to check the ears! The wrap around queue current has two settings, and only one goes with a jacket (the one with a knife). Please feel free to DM if you see any bugs. I'll be polishing it for a while.

[kohlkopfus]

I can't add any more pictures to my tutorial, so here's a little extra. Don't mind me.

50 Layers - That's how many different layers you can stack (think layers in an art program). For example: background (1), body (1), ears (left and right, 2) would be 3 "parts" categories but 4 layers in total, since you divided the ears into two separate layers. I don't know how many layers one part can have, but you can change the order of the layers independently of the parts position (so if your picrew order is "body", "ears", "background" then you can move the background layer to the bottom, ear 1 next, then body and then the second ear so they show up properly).

The overview of the parts (with the thumbnails and info, first image) is the area where you change how users see the part options in the selection menu of your finished picrew.

Separate from that is the "Layers" section, where you change the display order of the "parts" layers like you would in an art program (second image).

[princelythirsts]

How to Get Selfship Merch and Art with Low or NO Budget

*Okay, kinda misleading title as many of these are DIY but they can be cheap or free depending what materials you have access to. These are just some basic ideas I hope will inspire people to try their own things.

Feel free to add any ideas you have, too!

Things you can get/make for free

Picrew / Dressup games

I’ve seen some couple/romance picrews before!

I don’t always find the options I want in Picrews (ie body type) but you can always edit them using free software like Autodesk sketchbook, gimp, etc

Wallpapers

If your f/o is popular, you might be able to find some good phone/desktop wallpapers by searching online

Edits

There’s free apps for editing selfies where you can put in a photo and add in filters, stickers, etc. (Not my area of expertise, also may not work as well with animated f/o’s)

Free apps for video editing - I see a lot of edits on Youtube and Tiktok for example

Making silly edits where you put your ship into existing memes

Free art?! - Artists doing art requests / free art for experimental purposes

(Search for “art requests: open”, only ask if people offer first)

Free art?! - You can draw whatever you want, whenever you want

Apologies if that sounds condescending, but that’s often the thought that motivates me to draw selfship art when I do. No one can stop me from drawing myself kissing my f/o!

If this is daunting, try breaking it down into smaller steps. Search for tutorials on how to draw your f/o, or how to draw romantic scenes, etc.

Misc arts & crafts!

Whatever you have on hand you could make - especially in your f/o’s colors! Or things you associate with your ship

Sometimes schools and libraries have free events where they let people make things free of charge - check out your local library’s site! They’re always open for feedback, you can email suggestions for events.

I’ve seen events where they let you paint, make friendship bracelets, make buttons with their button machine, etc

For example my uni had a “destress from finals” event where you could make bracelets with plastic beads (like kandi?), and I made one with my friend’s f/o’s name and color scheme. 

Things you can get/make for cheap

Keychains! Get one of those keychains where you can put a photo in, print out or draw a pic of your beloved, and put that bad boy in there

A lil character shrine! It doesn’t have to be huge

A good place to start could be a photo of the character and little trinkets you associate with them. Like an eraser shaped like their favorite animal or a candle in a scent that reminds you of them.

[atypical-dysphoria]

Dealing with Dysphoria: Dead Edition

pt: Dealing with Dysphoria: Dead Edition

1) using makeup!

using a paler foundation than your skin color, or adding white foundation to your regular one to make it lighter

using dark shadow under and around your eyes, giving them a sunken look.

^ similar but with your cheeks/cheek bones

there are even some really cool makeup tutorials to help you achieve this!

dead glam by roxette arisa

wearable dead makeup by mirrorsandhaze

easy dead looking makeup by anoushka

some other ideas!

making an OC or sona who is dead , undead or died/dies

creating art of oneself appearing dead/undead

or using picrews & other doll creators for it!