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Lucrecia anon here! TYSM for the icons!! :00 can I ask where you find or how you make transparents? I've always wondered!!

it’s no problem! :D like i said, they were pretty fun to make.

and i coulda sworn we had a post about transparents before, but i can’t find it, so i’ll try my best to explain! :3 under the cut (since i ramble a lot + there’s some pics jhasjg)

when it comes to taz, transparents are pretty hard to find in general, so i took some of the pics from this post! they’re pretty pixelly/rough, though, so i threw the screenshots into waifu2x (weird name but it’s GOOD i SWEAR), which sizes images up and/or reduces noise!!

it’s really helpful, especially when you wanna get a Better Quality Version of a really pixelly image. see? it’s nice n smooth (and 2x bigger!)

anyways, onto the Actual Erasing!

first, of course, you gotta put your character on top of whatever background you want. (UNLESS you wanna just straight up make a transparent! in that case, just feel free to start erasing!!!) for example, here’s a kido that i put on top of a lesbian flag (which, of course, you can’t see atm)

i use firealpaca, so i set the “color” to transparent and i just use the default brush and erase stuff! 

though you could totally just use the actual eraser tool in whatever program you use! i just like using the brush tool for some reason.

i just kind of go along the edges of the character/lines and erase it (and the background of the image, of course)

some of the lines look sharp/a bit yellow, so sometimes i like going over those (with the pencil brush in firealpaca) + making them look a bit nicer!

it’s a pretty small difference, but i think it makes it look a bit better! if the lines still look sharp, feel free to add the tiniest bit of gaussian blur! (like .50!) i think the lines are fine in the kido icon i just made, but, just for the example, i blurred it a bit!

also! most people know this, but, just in case! always save your transparents as a transparent png!!!! otherwise, all your hard work’ll be gone! 

ONE LAST THING. mekakushi-edits’ tutorial is helpful as well!!! i stole the gaussian blur tip from his tutorial, actually, hehe...

...this kinda turned into a “how to make a pride icon” tutorial, huh? well, i hope it was still helpful when it comes to transparents!! ;w; sorry i rambled on so much, and other mods feel free to add on if you want!