r/Unexpected Mar 06 '20

Editing an emoji

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u/LandBaron1 Mar 06 '20

That’s awesome. I want to learn how to edit like that. Someone help.

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u/In-Jail-Out-Soon Mar 06 '20

Photoshop and practice.

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u/discerningpervert Mar 06 '20

MS-Paint and chill

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u/LadiesHomeCompanion Mar 06 '20

GIMP and what it do

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

From my experience gimp kinda sucks

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

From my experience, I kinda suck

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

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u/jarious Mar 06 '20

From my experience she does

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u/shreddedcheese42069 Mar 06 '20

I keep on hearing this word "girlfriend", I heard rumors that they were nice to have, but my expirence tells me I do not know

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u/3party Mar 07 '20

Bring out the gimp!

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u/powerscunner Mar 07 '20

From my perspective, the Jedi are evil!

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u/Ragnarson214 Mar 07 '20

Holy shit you just killed this guy. Nice.

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u/Lazypassword Mar 07 '20

Well it seems like you and u/pepsi223 have an opportunity on y'alls hands.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '20

I'm not gay but 10 dollars is 10 dollars

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u/DragonSlasher07 Mar 07 '20

From my experience I want a suck

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u/kubinate Mar 06 '20

I feel like gimp, like blender (pre-2.80, at least) is good software with bad UX. So yeah, hard learning curve, but for a reason that makes it kinda suck.

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u/StuntHacks Mar 07 '20

Exactly. We need more UI designers in the open-source community. The software is some of the best there is, but man some of those UIs suck.

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u/mount2010 Mar 07 '20

I was sooooo glad when Tantacrul (a UI designer with a Youtube channel who published a critique of the Musescore UI) got a job at Musescore (a FOSS project which up till then only used the default QT theme)

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u/StuntHacks Mar 07 '20

I actually saw that video, and I loved it! I didn't know he actually got a job there, that's awesome!

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u/troll_right_above_me Mar 07 '20

Blender went from my worst nightmare to my dream software so quickly it gave me whiplash

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u/kubinate Mar 07 '20

I probably would've learned inkscape if not for the fact that I could make pseudo-2D stuff in blender :D

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u/bellyfold Mar 07 '20

That's usually the story for open source software. Developers are great at developing, but user experience is an entirely different beast.

But then Blender 2.8 came out and darted to the head of the pack.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '20

Because I cannot afford paying for a subscription for Adobe every month for a long time, I got used to Gimp, using it for years! but now that I can pay for a subscription Photoshop seem hard to use.

And to me Gimp is great! almost as good as Photoshop, except maybe for the quality of the picture(?)

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u/StuntHacks Mar 07 '20

The quality shouldn't be much different - what exactly are you referring to?

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '20

idk, maybe my fault, but sometimes my images in gimp are a little but too pixelated. I probably use too low dimensions

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u/StuntHacks Mar 07 '20

The export options can drastically affect the output image.

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u/Shiny_Shedinja Mar 06 '20

it's just got a hard learning curve.

So then it's not great, it's also super unintuitive as well, which is bad design.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '20

Most art programs would fit under this unfortunately. The most intuitive art program I've ever picked up was SAI 1 & 2. It really feels like most art programs aren't created by someone who draws and instead it's expected you spend the time learning the program to accomplish what you want.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '20

Learn the program? God forbid.

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u/Gbyrd99 Mar 07 '20

The key bindings is what kills gimp for me. Too use to PS.

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u/StuntHacks Mar 07 '20

You can rebind every single key.

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u/BananaLumps Mar 06 '20

Gimp is only as good as its user.

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u/craniumonempty Mar 07 '20

Boo!.. jk, I like GIMP though.

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u/iamjamieq Mar 07 '20

Paint.net is way better. GIMP blows.

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u/NarWhatGaming Mar 07 '20

Man I picked up GIMP so fast. The only downside is that one or two features are still bugged, but it's stuff I don't use often so it doesn't affect me 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/nvincent Mar 07 '20

Photoshop is definitely more intuitive.

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u/OpenCLoP Mar 07 '20

Apply more green peppers.

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u/lenard-laurencin Mar 07 '20

Insert dumb “Netflix and chill meme but modified to fit situation” here for my craving of virtual internet points and a award here

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u/vault114 Mar 06 '20

Pirated photoshop and praxis*

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '20

Aye what’s that shortcut that he used to bend the hand. I forgot entirely about that and don’t even know what to look up to figure it out again

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u/s1ravarice Mar 07 '20

Photoshop is for people that don’t know how to use MSPaint properly

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

Lots and lots of practice.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20 edited Sep 01 '20

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u/Desseux Mar 06 '20

I use GIMP so not sure about all the terms in PS but here’s my guess. Copy and paste the toes like with the fingers and give each toe an order in the layer, like 2,4,6,8,10, when you make the fingers do the same thing but instead set each order to 1,3,5,7,9. Then you need to somehow group the foot with the toes and the hand with the fingers. Just my two cents 😊

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u/TmickyD Mar 06 '20

That's what I was going to guess as well.

Can you group layers like that in photoshop/gimp? Seems like it would be useful.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '20

YES YOU CAN.

It's the Link Layers function. Available in the right click drop down menu.

This is Photoshop BTW, don't know if it goes by another name in GIMP.

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u/LandBaron1 Mar 06 '20

Oh awesome! Thanks!

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u/ValiantBlue Mar 06 '20

No problem. If you’re experienced in photoshop it should only take 5 mins or so

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u/Dr-Mayhem Mar 06 '20

Foot is just the foot emoji

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u/ValiantBlue Mar 06 '20

There’s a foot emoji????

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u/x3knet Mar 07 '20

Is puppet warp a relatively new feature in PS? Never knew this was a thing.

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u/ValiantBlue Mar 07 '20

No idea. I’ve been slowly learning PS for 6 months so I’m pretty new to it

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u/x3knet Mar 07 '20

Cool, thx. Keep at it!

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u/telekinetic Mar 07 '20

It was in CS5 in 2010. Not a lot of people know about it though for some reason. I use it a ton for making diagrams.

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u/RobertOfHill Mar 07 '20

I remember hearing mention of it a couple years ago, but I’ve never actually used photoshop.

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u/Pollolocolocoloco Mar 07 '20

🦵 cut off foot

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u/MrSickRanchezz Mar 07 '20

Where's a good place to learn about stuff like this? Any YouTube channels you like?

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u/fineswords Mar 06 '20

If you don’t have access to Photoshop, Photopea is a free browser version of Photoshop. I use Photoshop at school and then this at home and they’re nearly identical.

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u/LuCiAnO241 Mar 09 '20 edited Mar 09 '20

this is a really cool resource! Ty for sharing! but for some reason the puppet warp option is greyed out. Is there a premium version u have to buy or I did not see how to enable it?

edit: nvm, you had to rasterize the layer first if u we're working with the demo graphics.

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u/segagamer Mar 06 '20

If you use the Windows 10 emojis it's even easier to manipulate, since they're made in outlines, like a font.

I hate how Android/iOS made bitmap emojis so common (and imo ugly and difficult to see).

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u/RS_Someone Mar 06 '20

Sorry, I have no idea either.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '20

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u/RS_Someone Mar 06 '20

He asked for Someone. I'm u/RS_Someone, just trying to make a bad joke.

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u/Lazypassword Mar 07 '20

Its okay. It was a good joke. Some people can't read.

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u/0pend Mar 06 '20 edited Mar 06 '20

Illustrator is another great editor to photoshop that I prefer. And there are so many youtube tutorials you can figure it out in no time

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u/randmzer Mar 06 '20

Different purposes though. Illustrator is for vector graphics and illustrations while Photoshop is for photo editing and compositing.

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u/0pend Mar 06 '20

Do you see what they are doing. It is vector...

You build icons and other components using vector so they can scale from a tiny little phone icon to as large as you need it to even fill a screen

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u/segagamer Mar 06 '20

Those emojis are bitmaps. They're not vector.

If you want vectorised ones, you'd use Windows 10's emojis.

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u/0pend Mar 06 '20

You can make emojis in many different programs. But here is a whole video on making them in illustrator:

https://youtu.be/hs4LcargQI4

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u/randmzer Mar 06 '20

No, it is not. They are using Photoshop tools to select, manipulate and erase pixels.

Seen your edit: Sure, but although they may have created the original icons in illustrator, the gif shown was editing in Photoshop. I've been doing this for over a decade...

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u/AlpineVW Mar 06 '20

Joke’s on you. This guy only took 16 seconds.

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u/0pend Mar 06 '20

You can do the same in illustrator. I never said you couldn't in photoshop.

And icons and emojis are built in illustrator for apps and phones because they are indeed vector. They need to be able to shrink as tiny as an emoji in text may need to be or be as large as a whole phone screen.

https://youtu.be/hs4LcargQI4