Thread:SovietPlayhouse/@comment-30235254-20161111093407/@comment-25931557-20161112165039

I live in the United States.

One of my friends has a Macintosh computer that he allows me to borrow for recording the videos.

A long time ago, I was experimenting with PowerPoint when I stumbled upon a function that allowed the user to change the fill color of a shape to a picture from the clipboard. From there, I discovered the steps to creating crude transparent-background PNGs:

1. Edit sharpness, contrast, saturation, etc. if necessary, then crop picture to size.

2. Create a freeform that matches the shape of the foreground item.

3. Copy or cut the picture into the freeform, and adjust crop if necessary.

However, I ran into an issue with the Night Screech - it had a trigger guard, meaning I had to somehow make an empty space in the trigger area. To accomplish this, I drew a freeform that matched the shape of the inside of the trigger guard and filled it with a color that would be easily distinguishable from the rest of the gun. Then, I selected the freeform with the Night Screech in it and the triggger guard freeform, copied them, and pasted them as a picture, so that they would be merged into a single entity. Finally, I used the "Set Transparent Color" function in the picture color menu to set that transparent. But then, there was the matter of the trigger, which was white, so I had to change its color. Luckily enough, completing this task took a lot less time then trying to figure out a solution for the interior of the trigger guard - all I did was create yet another freeform and fill it with the trigger, adjust the contrast and brightness until it was nearly the same shade as the black trigger, and merge it with the rest of the gun via the "Group" function. And of course, at the end, I selected the group, right clicked, and selected "Save as Picture".

Yes, it is a very laborious process, but I do not have Photoshop.

Here are some images illustrating the process: