Anonymous
9/1/2025, 7:08:29 PM
No.11368414
smegma warning. original from >>>/jp/2huai:
https://warosu.org/jp/thread/49599942#p49673819
edit #47
my first time doing a skin tone edit. i really dreaded trying, and procrastinated about it for a lot, but i watched several video tutorials about it, and got so inspired by how easy it looked. in the end, it took me five (5) attempts to get one i was satisfied with. desu, looking back at them, all attempts but my first were okay-ish (i exported them as .pngs for easy reference), but my first was way saturated, which made me realize that saturation increases the noise (jpeg artifacts) by a lot. one of the generic youtube tutorials i watched on the tool itself (in gimp btw; the video tutorials i watched on editing skin color specifically were all photoshop, but i'm using gimp), the guy did mention holding back because of noise, but i didn't expect it to be so bad. i assume i wasn't doing anything wrong, but just a huge spectrum of skin colors were off-limits due to the noise being super noticeable. i ended up making the skin tone lighter than i would've liked just due to noise concerns
... well, i said all that, but then comparing them, i still prefer the darker skin tone anyway. the contrast is just a lot better. mind you, i think it is poor contrast against my caption, since the fucking shadow silhouette of a character you haven't unlocked yet at the bottom of the screen is grabbing all the attention. but still. also, a while ago i said this >>11363461
>another quirk about gimp i learned is that undoing and redoing layers does NOT redo their "fx" (effects, i presume) modification
this just isn't true i guess??? so i guess i'm just schizo. i ended up fucking with the last two paragraphs so much, then after all that realized that i preferred how they were like an hour prior anyway, when comparing my export for reference against it. so i undid literally like an hour of fucking with it, and even undid deleting the "gaussian blur" layers, and it just werked
https://warosu.org/jp/thread/49599942#p49673819
edit #47
my first time doing a skin tone edit. i really dreaded trying, and procrastinated about it for a lot, but i watched several video tutorials about it, and got so inspired by how easy it looked. in the end, it took me five (5) attempts to get one i was satisfied with. desu, looking back at them, all attempts but my first were okay-ish (i exported them as .pngs for easy reference), but my first was way saturated, which made me realize that saturation increases the noise (jpeg artifacts) by a lot. one of the generic youtube tutorials i watched on the tool itself (in gimp btw; the video tutorials i watched on editing skin color specifically were all photoshop, but i'm using gimp), the guy did mention holding back because of noise, but i didn't expect it to be so bad. i assume i wasn't doing anything wrong, but just a huge spectrum of skin colors were off-limits due to the noise being super noticeable. i ended up making the skin tone lighter than i would've liked just due to noise concerns
... well, i said all that, but then comparing them, i still prefer the darker skin tone anyway. the contrast is just a lot better. mind you, i think it is poor contrast against my caption, since the fucking shadow silhouette of a character you haven't unlocked yet at the bottom of the screen is grabbing all the attention. but still. also, a while ago i said this >>11363461
>another quirk about gimp i learned is that undoing and redoing layers does NOT redo their "fx" (effects, i presume) modification
this just isn't true i guess??? so i guess i'm just schizo. i ended up fucking with the last two paragraphs so much, then after all that realized that i preferred how they were like an hour prior anyway, when comparing my export for reference against it. so i undid literally like an hour of fucking with it, and even undid deleting the "gaussian blur" layers, and it just werked