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How many images do I need to start a thread again? Five?

does anyone have a retard-proof caption guide? when gooning my mind is basically nothing but captions, but i have enough shame to not just open mspaint and put single-color text over an image
>>11339994
the /gif/ sticky >>>/gif/28738089 (posted april of this year, i guess replacing the old one) only says:
>2. Contribute 2 or more additional related images when starting a thread (in addition to the OP).
i feel it used to say something like 5 as well, but i guess that was the old sticky, so they gave people more breathing room only this year. >>>/h/8560405 and >>>/e/2957918 don't mention any such thing

>>11339999
never mind i'm blind. i just skimmed them. rule 5 of the /h/ sticky vaguely says to "contribute a decent amount of board-related material", and the fourth hyphen under /e/'s "/e/cchi is NOT for" says to post 6. that must be where people got it from (maybe the old /gif/ sticky as well)

>>11339999
I'd like to know how to do this properly too. I'm using Inkscape with the Ames font. They kinda work, but I don't think they look right.

>>11339999
Use GIMP, you can either download a few fonts used by typesetters (wild words,etc.) or use standard fonts just nothing crazy unreadable or distracting. Pick images that have a lot of empty space on the sides for text, or expand the canvas and add a separate section to put the text on the right or left side. To keep the text readable either add in drop shadow or a "bubble" style like in >>11340072 . Easiest way to do either is to right click your text layer in the layers menu and click alpha to selection. For drop shadow you just click and drag the selection, then fill it with a dark color in a separate layer underneath the first one. For bubble text you do alpha to selection, then grow selection by a pixel or three, then create a new layer and fill the selection.

>>11340131
Good font. Very good font. Now, I just need to draw better word balloons and some SFX fonts to make this look right.

pee/smegma warning. original from >>>/d/ddg:
https://desuarchive.org/d/thread/11322154/#11326247

also, there is a futa-specific caption OC thread (that bans ai) >>11312231, for anyone interested

>>11340131
thank you, anon!!! with much difficulty (and procrastinating) i managed to do a "drop shadow" caption in gimp. i originally planned to do a variant with "bubble" captions, too, but it was so much effort just doing "drop shadow" that i figured i wouldn't bother unless someone really wanted to see it. .xcf of the caption here (not that there's much to see, but still):
https://files.catbox.moe/a9i5sn.xcf

i didn't understand how to pull up a drop-down menu of the fonts in gimp, so after looking up "wild words font" and downloading the first one (a .zip with three versions of it):
https://dafont.style/download/cc-wild-words-roman-font.html

i installed them (manually, by dragging them into the font windows folder like the gimp manual said, when i could've just double clicked them then clicked "install" instead...), then when searching "wild" in gimp and it didn't show up, i thought i needed to restart my pc. i looked it up and saw some mentions of it (but also some people claiming you didn't have to), so i did it anyway. the font still didn't show up. i then somehow arrived at realizing that since the fonts are named "CC Wild Words", that they ONLY show up if you search "c". and without figuring out how to see a drop-down of the fonts, i was none the wiser. so that was great. but, we got there

i kept moving the image when trying to move the caption, so i looked it up and learned the "move tool" can be toggled to "move the selected layers" instead, which helped a lot. when retroactively editing captions, i learned i could hide the drop shadow caption layer, to avoid accidentally clicking it instead. i didn't know (and still don't know) how to standardize how offset the drop shadow layer was, so i just eyeballed it, unfortunately, which was time-consuming and tedious

>>11340072
>bumbkins
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