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Spent like an hour trying to degrade the quality just right for that perfect haunted look lol

If you can do better than me please upload your take

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

do I look like I know what a jay peg is?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

low quality cutout of the above

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I mean you did better than iOS more or less

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I did consider going the JPEG route but for some reason I think the weird blurry, color-banded aesthetic of GIF (which is what I trying to convey, along with some desaturation of color) fits it better

And I think the close-up portrait of our subject and the far-away seeming background really adds to the surrealness which is why I chose to leave it in

Although, that JPEG artifacting is giving me early 2000s webcam vibes which I like

Emojis are art

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

something like this? I couldn't abuse the save as gif function to the same degree as the jpeg one but i could use a color quantize filter which is similar I think.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

That actually does look pretty good lol

I used a similar effect in mine but left out the dithering at the time but that may have been a mistake