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  • alyth@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldCtrl + Shift + A
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    21 days ago

    so I can figure out how to export a PNG.

    1. File > Export As
    2. Under ‘Select File Type’ choose png, or name the file anything ending in .png
    3. Click Export. Leave the settings as-is or tweak them if you know what you’re doing
    4. Confirm

    I spent five hours trying to merge some layers

    1. Right Click the Layer
    2. In the context menu, click Merge Down

    Your examples suck. Got any real examples?













  • alyth@lemmy.worldOPtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldtoxic help forum
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    Is anything I quoted untrue?

    You basically quoted thin air: “more features […] for a wide range of advanced editing tasks”. You probably know more than what’s written there, but from my perspective I haven’t learned one concrete feature that PS offers over Affinity. It’s typical SEO spam, which rewards swaths of text with little to zero information density.


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    This is probably also pretty easy with some CLI tool.

    This is one of the few image tasks I do on the CLI xD

    Stack two images horizontally (left and right)

    convert a.jpg b.jpg +append horizontal.jpg

    Stack two images vertically (top and bottom)

    convert a.jpg b.jpg -append vertical.jpg

    Images are not the same dimensions? Use gravity to align them at the center and make the unused space transparent

    convert a.jpg b.jpg -background transparent -gravity center +append horizontal.png



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    I’ve tried learning GIMP, and it sucks. I’m not saying GIMP sucks, but you have to be crazy to not see that it’s hard to learn.

    I use GIMP for memes and here’s my two favorite tips

    • Hit the forward slash key / to open a command palette and jump to any action

    • To remove backgrounds, use a layer mask. select around the object and paint a white/black section on the layer mask. Here comes the trick: use a Gaussian filter on the layer mask to create a transition from black to white and the crop job looks a lot less choppy.

    My anti-tip

    • Adding text and shapes sucks and I never found a way to make it better. Export your image and finish the job in Krita, Pinta, Photopea, …