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how do u guys use photoshop to uncensor things?

I mean, well I own photoshop too but

Great work!

Righthandstrong said:
how do u guys use photoshop to uncensor things?

I mean, well I own photoshop too but

I don't have PhotoShop, so I don't know about PhotoShop.
Even if I had one, it would have too many functions and I probably wouldn't be able to use it.

I use the free software Pixia.
Even free software has enough functions for amateur like me.
When I do uncensored editing, I prepare another layer, draw uncensored picture on top of it, and then overlay it on top of the original picture.

emtec said:
Great work!

Thank you. I'm happy you like that.

hiroimo2 said:
I don't have PhotoShop, so I don't know about PhotoShop.
Even if I had one, it would have too many functions and I probably wouldn't be able to use it.

I use the free software Pixia.
Even free software has enough functions for amateur like me.
When I do uncensored editing, I prepare another layer, draw uncensored picture on top of it, and then overlay it on top of the original picture.

What?! You do magic with the pictures and you don't use Photoshop?! That's incredible! You don't just do great decensoring, you also do magic detexting! It's unbelievable that you don't use Photoshop! Many people in this site can't do what you do *with* Photoshop! Me included! I am a photographer and I use Photoshop for years; I know how to edit photos, but I'm not very good with drawing. I think I can't do in drawings even 50% of what you do without Photoshop; and even the little things I could do, wouldn't turn out as good as yours.

Well if you have skills to draw, then these software specifically designed for digital drawing work just as good as PS if not better. I knew someone years ago use SAI to fix images.

fireattack's right. The software is not the most important thing, compared to one's skill.

People who draw pictures use famous software such as PhotoShop and SAI.
I don't draw pictures, and I only repair and edit them, so Pixia is good enough for me.
When I have reference picture available, I work in Pixia like the video I posted in the comments of post #750422. It's easy to do.
Even when I don't have reference picture, I just paint based on the surrounding pictures, since I only paint parts of the picture myself.

hiroimo2 said:
People who draw pictures use famous software such as PhotoShop and SAI.
I don't draw pictures, and I only repair and edit them, so Pixia is good enough for me.
When I have reference picture available, I work in Pixia like the video I posted in the comments of post #750422. It's easy to do.
Even when I don't have reference picture, I just paint based on the surrounding pictures, since I only paint parts of the picture myself.

It is quite difficult for me to do this well. You're so great.

"The magic is in the magician, not the wand."

fireattack said:
Well if you have skills to draw, then these software specifically designed for digital drawing work just as good as PS if not better. I knew someone years ago use SAI to fix images.

I know that software specifically for digital drawing are as good (or better) as Photoshop for drawing. But SAI is a professional software, like Photoshop. He doesn't use SAI. My astonishment was that Hiroimo said he uses an amateur software! He does with amateur software what many people here (including me) can't do with professional software like Photoshop! That's amazing!

hiroimo2 said:
People who draw pictures use famous software such as PhotoShop and SAI.
I don't draw pictures, and I only repair and edit them, so Pixia is good enough for me.
When I have reference picture available, I work in Pixia like the video I posted in the comments of post #750422. It's easy to do.
Even when I don't have reference picture, I just paint based on the surrounding pictures, since I only paint parts of the picture myself.

Oh, yeah, what you did in that video is pretty easy when you have the same kind of image but without the text, so you just need to put the image with the text over the image without the text in different layers, and then erase the text replacing the erased part with the non-texted image bellow. I did just that yesterday with a few images from this Pixiv post: https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/88204308. But I didn't remove any text, I removed the tattoo on the left girl's belly. There is one variation where they are completely naked without tattoo, so I used that as a reference picture to replace another image where the girl has a tattoo on her belly, because I really don't like it. It's really easy for any beginner in Photoshop and other image editing software. But there are many times that you do magic without a reference picture where to take a sample from! That image from that post of yours, for an instance, where did you take the non-texted reference picture from? It looked like you already had the whole image without the text!

That video is edited based on the picture in this URL.
https://twitter.com/sakurapion/status/1322112256641884160

However, I couldn't find whole picture, so I deleted rest of the text by hand.

Thorcsf said:

Pixia isn't really *that* amateur lol. I didn't use it much but it has all the common tools and features.

hiroimo2 said:
That video is edited based on the picture in this URL.
https://twitter.com/sakurapion/status/1322112256641884160

However, I couldn't find whole picture, so I deleted rest of the text by hand.

That's what I'm talking about! If you removed the rest of the text by hand (and it was a lot, considering what is lacking in the sample picture you took from Twitter), you did an impressive job with a less resourceful software! The text balloons that are around and over the cat cover a big part of the picture that you had to actually draw over it to replace it! You did an impressive job without a reference part to take a sample from! And with a non-professional software! You do amazing things that many people here can't do (or not as well as you) with Photoshop or other similar professional software! :)

fireattack said:
Pixia isn't really *that* amateur lol. I didn't use it much but it has all the common tools and features.

Haha, I can imagine it's not that amateur. But Hiroimo said he doesn't use Photoshop because he says he would be lost with so many tools and features he wouldn't know how to use, so he prefers a more friendly, intuitive software. That's what I meant by "amateur". Pixia is probably like Adobe Premiere Elements (for video) or Photoshop Elements, they have all the basic features and tools for video/image editing, but are not as complete/professional as their parent, professional versions, except that Pixia is free, but Photoshop Elements isn't.

So you means you use a filter to do this detext or create 2 layers, and put the original picture (with text) and the picture from twitter (no text), then erase the upper layer? (After I watched your video in imgur, that's really amazing)

I am honored by your kind words.

Here are some more instructions.
1. If there is a picture to refer, size it to the original picture.
2. Add a layer and lay it on top of the original picture.
3. Make the reference picture transparent.
4. Make only the area to be edited opaque, as shown in the video.
　Note: Pixia has a function that makes opaque to paint by the black pen and makes transparent to paint by bright color of red, blue, or green pen.
I used that feature in video.

Manual work
1. Add more layers.
2. Use two to five layers, such as a line and fill, and paint in a way that blends in with the surrounding picture.

hiroimo2 said:
　Note: Pixia has a function that makes opaque to paint by the black pen and makes transparent to paint by bright color of red, blue, or green pen.
I used that feature in video.

That's called "mask" in Photoshop, but in Photoshop you use black or white brush. But there is an easier way to do this kind of editing in Photoshop. You just use the eraser tool to erase the part you want to remove (text or an undesirable thing like a tattoo), while keeping the clean reference picture in a layer below to replace the erased parts of the above image. It's really easy like this.

hiroimo2 said:
Manual work
1. Add more layers.
2. Use two to five layers, such as a line and fill, and paint in a way that blends in with the surrounding picture.

That's where you do your magic! XD

Thorcsf said:
That's called "mask" in Photoshop, but in Photoshop you use black or white brush. But there is an easier way to do this kind of editing in Photoshop. You just use the eraser tool to erase the part you want to remove (text or an undesirable thing like a tattoo), while keeping the clean reference picture in a layer below to replace the erased parts of the above image. It's really easy like this.

Thank you for telling me about Photoshop. It seems that such a function can be applied in various ways. post #746603, which I posted earlier, also applied this transparency control function to change the color of hair and eyes.

Thorcsf said:
That's where you do your magic! XD

Wow, I’m flattered. Thanks.

hiroimo2 said:
Thank you for telling me about Photoshop. It seems that such a function can be applied in various ways. post # 746603, which I posted earlier, also applied this transparency control function to change the color of hair and eyes.

Wow, I didn't understand how you changed the color of hair and eyes using the mask feature, but nice job! You are getting better and better with editing. :)

Thorcsf said:
Wow, I didn't understand how you changed the color of hair and eyes using the mask feature, but nice job! You are getting better and better with editing. :)

Thanks. I explain how to do it. This is not difficult.
1. Copy the original picture and change the color to color you want.
Image: https://imgur.com/a/7bWtO7G
2. Make everything transparent except for the hair. Hair color change is complete.
This way, even people who can't draw can change the hair and eye color to their liking.

Oh, OK, I got it now, so you changed the color of the whole image to yellow and then used the mask feature to apply the change only to the hair. It will take some time to make everything transparent but the hair, contouring the hair precisely, but it's not difficult indeed. :)

nice