Is that a normal procedure?
I'm using gimp (free open-source platform independent photoshop-equivalent, nearly).
Plus a filter package called G'MIC-Qt.
Put the filter on a hotkey.
Then pick a filter from the list. There are hundreds of them, each with variable parameters you can change with sliders.
The water drops with refraction is excellent for messing up text but leaving it readable.
I've been dropping these for days but nobody seemed to care. Not storing any altered memes anymore. Just make one every time we need one, use it once, then discard.
Another thing:
Duplicate the layer.
Reshape one layer.
Transform it with a filter.
Then overlay the original image on a larger, modified layer.
Advantage: colors and patterns are similar to the original image, image is at least 20% modified.
Has a filter to generate Camo patterns.
Make a camo layer. Change the slider so it's unique from the last camo layer.
Turn to grayscale.
Reduce opacity until it's real faint.
Then overlay it on an image.
Flatten or copy visible.
Paste to 8kun.
All the image mods could be done using imagemagick command line.
Maybe I'll look into that. Unfortunately woke up 3 hours early, not quite with it yet.
1.Use of eraser to blend edges of overlay image onto background.
2.Reduce color saturation 20% on background image
https://imagemagick.org/script/fx.php
Imagemagick can do all this shit.
Random image manipulations,
math functions, every possible image variation.
But I'll be damned if I can grok how to code it.
I have coded lots of simple imagemagick commands, like automatic filetype conversion, automatic resizing and cropping, etc. Those are easy.
But this shit is way over the top.
Maybe a codefag can use imagemagick to generate the automatic random overlays.
How about this? a blockchain-style image manipulation.
Each image becomes a semi-transparent overlay to the next one.
The code would operate on a queue of images.
Rescale/normalize to some standard shape.
Generate an image and save it.
When next image arrives in queue, take prior image, reduce opacity to a low value, overlay it on new image, use one of the blend operations (add, multiply, lighten, darken, etc.) to modify the new image.
Output modified image.
Save image to serve as overlay to subsequent image.
???
Codefags what do you think?
What ever happened to the Java-like image processing language "Processing"?
Used to play with that a lot, way back when.
https://processing.org/
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