Anonymous
8/25/2025, 8:00:01 PM
No.11363459
smegma warning. original from >>>/trash/slop:
https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/72480009/#72483648
>https://files.catbox.moe/nsxk44.png
edit #27
i actually forgot to try the gaussian blur/glow (in gimp i only saw gaussian blur) "stroke" (outline) anon literally made a tutorial just to illustrate to me when making my last edit, which is a shame, because i know since the image used bright colors that it would've helped a lot. but i did dick around with it for this one since the missed opportunity was stuck in my head, and i do think it elevates it!!!
a key thing i learned was that in gimp (my editing program of choice), duplicating the text layer to dedicate it to the gaussian blur "stroke" is NOT serviceable, because gimp prevents the blur from expanding beyond the borders of the text layer, and instead just cuts it off, which is horrible. instead i had to do it as i do "stroke" without gaussian blur, which is to say how >>11340131 taught me, but modified. so i did "alpha to selection" on the text layer as usual, but rather than going to "select" > "grow", growing it by an arbitrary amount, then creating a new layer below the text to paint bucket fill with black (which is how anon taught me how to do "stroke"), you skip the "grow" step, and i prefer putting the new layer to paint bucket fill on top of the text until you fill it, since now that the selection you're filling is the same size as the text, this is the only way to tell you filled it properly until you get to fucking with the gaussian blur
another thing is that where the "select" > "grow" popup remembers your last-used value, and even creating new layers remembers your last-used layer name (which helps for creating tons of stroke layers named after their "grow" size), the gaussian blur popup does NOT remember your setting. so you have to take note of it externally, to remember how to standardize it for the edit
https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/72480009/#72483648
>https://files.catbox.moe/nsxk44.png
edit #27
i actually forgot to try the gaussian blur/glow (in gimp i only saw gaussian blur) "stroke" (outline) anon literally made a tutorial just to illustrate to me when making my last edit, which is a shame, because i know since the image used bright colors that it would've helped a lot. but i did dick around with it for this one since the missed opportunity was stuck in my head, and i do think it elevates it!!!
a key thing i learned was that in gimp (my editing program of choice), duplicating the text layer to dedicate it to the gaussian blur "stroke" is NOT serviceable, because gimp prevents the blur from expanding beyond the borders of the text layer, and instead just cuts it off, which is horrible. instead i had to do it as i do "stroke" without gaussian blur, which is to say how >>11340131 taught me, but modified. so i did "alpha to selection" on the text layer as usual, but rather than going to "select" > "grow", growing it by an arbitrary amount, then creating a new layer below the text to paint bucket fill with black (which is how anon taught me how to do "stroke"), you skip the "grow" step, and i prefer putting the new layer to paint bucket fill on top of the text until you fill it, since now that the selection you're filling is the same size as the text, this is the only way to tell you filled it properly until you get to fucking with the gaussian blur
another thing is that where the "select" > "grow" popup remembers your last-used value, and even creating new layers remembers your last-used layer name (which helps for creating tons of stroke layers named after their "grow" size), the gaussian blur popup does NOT remember your setting. so you have to take note of it externally, to remember how to standardize it for the edit