AWKWARD ZOMBIE

My avatar is watching a tennis game.

ummmm.... I'm not really sure. XD
Maybe I'm planning to hit someone over the head with my book.

Also, Airra should now be called Airra, conquer of forms, creator of actually funny edits, and bagel wizard.

I also demand a new title. From now on, all people lucky enough to meet me will refer to me as "AwkwardSkeleton: Licker of Boots, Creator of Ideas, Lord of Dedede Puns, Husband of Airra's Edit and Crunchy Carrot Cake Consumer". All who do not use this title when speaking with me will have a doctor with a flashlight pull a sharpened bamboo pole out of their fudge factory.

We're not done milking this comic for all it's worth yet

Also my avatar is busy being a very manly adventurer, and is showing the world how manly he is.

I agree with Fordicon98. Keep milking!



I was very hungry when I made this, ok? Also, I finally got photoshop! (yay) Now I can finally move up into the ranks of elite edit makers .....right?

Here's a real simple one

Yay, Popcorn!

I use the GNU Image Manipulation Program, myself. I find it does most everything I try to do just fine.

Yeah, I'm just use to photoshop cause its what my mom uses. But now-adays there are so many programs that you can use it almost doesn't matter.

You seem to have a much easier time with cutouts, how do you do it?
And I ask you because I use GIMP as well and LockeZ's PhotoShop advice is gibberish to me.

i don't think the scenario in my avatar needs explaining. the engie is exasperated or perhaps wistfully wishing something.

Okay, here's what you do.

On a solid backdrop, use the FUZZY SELECT tool to select the whole background. Use additive select (shift+click) to get any bit of Background that didn't get selected. When you have all of that, go to the Select dialogue window and use the Grow command. Grow it by 2 or 3 in most cases. Sometimes, you want to use 1. Use the FREE SELECT tool to get any part of the background that didn't gets selected (such as bits that were in a really tight corner).

From there, take the Eyedrop tool and select the background color. Then copy the color's HTML code.
After you copy the code, go to the Color dropdown dialogue and select Color to Alpha, and paste the color into the HTML code box there, press Enter so it updates the color, then hit Alpha.

There. You have your image cut out!

For busier backgrounds, you want to select the background behind the character using the FREE SELECT (Lasso) tool. It is recommended to grab inside of the the outline for this. When you have that done, go to Color and select Desaturate. Select whichever options gives the most contrast between the backdrop and the outline.

When you have the background desaturated into grayscale, you want to go back to the Color dialogue and go to Brightness and Contrast. Set the Brightness to -100 and the contrast to 100. 110 either way for when there's more dark stuff in the way than usual. This will get the entire backdrop a solid white in most cases, and you can use the Color to Alpha option from before to alpha it out, and have a clear cut of the character.

In the vast majority of situations, that's almost all you need to do. The Airra method. Winning!

Sometimes, you'll want to redraw portions of a character or outline if said character was slightly obscured (like, for example, cleaning up the top of Entei's head and removing the KOOM.)

There's something wrong with it. Your Engie's face is reeeeally fuzzy. Maybe you JPEG'd it too much.

My goddesses everything is so clear now.
I think I had a little too much fun with this, now grump Marth litters practically every panel of Gnostic.
Woo, now I can make quality poop edits!

Dios mio.
O.O
What have you done?