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kingpains · 3 months ago

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on the bright side i’ve figured out how to make auto actions in csp and made one each for a blur/noise filter and chromatic aberration. with the goal of looking like a screenshot of something from cartoon network in the 2000s

it took So Much trial and error to get the chromatic aberration to work well but once i learned that the auto action can only happen to one layer at a time i got it down pat

#it feels a little silly to say but i felt really smart while i was figuring it out #the noise effect was easy. the chromatic aberration wasn’t #auto actions only record making a new layer; changing layer modes; making correction layers; changing a layer’s settings; transforming. etc #you can’t record drawing anything or like making a fill or applying a texture unless it’s perlin noise afaik #normally to do chromatic aberration you make 3 copies of your final drawing; clip pure RGB layers to each. one red. one green. one blue #all of the values at 255 for the given color and 0 for the other 2. set the color layer to multiply. merge each with their drawing #so you have 3 layers of your drawing in R G and B #set the top 2 to screen and then start offsetting them however you like depending on how strong you want the effect to be #bwammm #to get recordable steps for auto action i had to do everything to each color layer at once #copy the drawing. so the action is COPY. new correction layer gradient map; i made 3 gradient maps that were flat R B G #like not actually maps. but that was the easiest way i could think to get a ‘fill’ in an auto action #next clip it and set it to multiply. merge. then i had to offset it w/o being able to see what it’d look like at the end #since auto actions only work on the ‘top’ layer. you can’t hop between layers. you can only work in one direction #so to make sure the aberration looked right i did a test run and counted out the pixels transformed in each direction for each color layer #like when zoomed in 4 times from base R goes up 3 left 1; B down 2 right 4. etc #so id just know how to transform each layer while i was recording the action and id get a reliable aberration with a halo i liked #the auto action doesn’t include merging everything at the end bc that scares me. so i can always just edit the offsets on each color layer #for future uses of the action. but. i like knowing i got a reliable recording of a good offset on each color #i can just make a drawing look like it came from the 2000s in 2 clicks now!#2 clicks!!! i got it!! i’ve tested it on a few drawings and it just works!! two clicks!!!#i’m proud of a lot of parts of this lineup. i might talk about it more on here or insta for funsies #i like breaking down my own art. i think a lot of technical artists do #god there’s a reason my mom thinks i should be an art teacher 😭😭😭#i talk

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