Feb 13, 2024 21:11:19 GMT Desmond Miles said:

crop. adjust brightness. adjust vibrance. save lmao.

this is the way lol

I feel too uncomfortable doing more than a simple brightness adjustment. I dont want to make the art unrecognizable, because idk, it feels a bit disrespectful for me. Though i understand why people do.

Way more than the result would tell you. I'm exceptionally finicky with graphics and art... and writing... and coding... hhh..., so I'll sit there for half an hour trying to decide between 30 or 35 opacity on something - and then just give up at the end because I can't get everything to look perfect -

I'm so in love with the way the exposure tool on the original Pixlr worked that I use a Flash emulator to boot up the old defunct version. Unfortunately, resizing in Pixlr is terrible and incredibly pixelated - so even a simple resize ends up being a game of finding the correct amount with which to blur the image at it's full size, then the right amount to sharpen it at it's small size to get it looking right and then duplicating the layer and sharpening and erasing and fiddling with opacity and sharpening again until everything looks uniform... HHH.......... Sometimes I just use a different program, Krita, to do the bulk of the work, then do color adjustments in Pixlr, but it's pretty annoying having to keep two programs up for long periods of time.

My recolors are nowhere near as nice as Cae's, but I am... technically... capable of shifting eye colors, or redrawing small portions of pieces to, say, give a character pointed ears where they did not before. The key is to always do it before the resize so the details are harder to see in the li'l icon, sdkfljdhskfjdshfkjsdh.