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↯effective tips on graphic

- graphic "cheat"

it is important that when you are unable to complete a graphic or lazy for some reason, looking for graphics that is already a complex one is important.

search them from pinterest or deviantart, and make sure that it wasn't too obvious thst you're cheating. as for me, i rarely do this type of thing, but make sure to always be cautious. find the one with background filters that doesn't really contrast and mixed up (too obviously) into the fanart, because experienced amateur will caught it with one twinkling of eye.

example;

[fanart goes to 1oBk from tumblr]

see? it looks like as if Killua is a layer of png. his blue pant and eyes will contrast the sky behind him while the redness of his shoes and jacket prevent the fanart from contrasting too much with the background.

vocab; contrast is a word to describe the "almost similar" color in two things, that gives illusional view to human's eyes. this makes two things looks just the same with very least colorizing tone detected.

so, after getting a fanart just slap some text on it and add some effect to it (recommended)

- text trick

text trick plays a very important role in graphic making. it somehow makes the viewer closer to the graphic designer's message in a work.

to express this, the font MUST match with the graphic. if you're using a happy theme in your graphic, it's the best to avoid some fonts like romance fatal goth and alice in wonderland, as these fonts suits better with manipulated graphics.

here is a list for fonts suited for suitable themes

plain - bebas neue, delirium, happy times, lastfontwastingforyou

happy theme - happy champers, kg happy, babydoll, perfectly amicable

vibes - selfie, flower, magnolia sky, chasing embers, watermelon script

melancholic - edition, quinn

hollow (dark) - alice in wonderland, romance fatal goth, broken, flashlight

[ regular updates, please check the font recommendations page for more ]

- graphic qualities

i would like to compress this once again, please check you qualities.

why? because this is probably the most underrated topic (lmao). if you're using phonto to add text to your graphic, please please please DO NOT forget to improve the quality using other apps. in this case, phonto usually lower down the quality of a graphic quite a lot, and this cause the fonts you used become shaggy and messed up.

so, instead of using phonto i recommended you guys to use Pixellab or Picsart (i heard that we can add downloaded fonts from websites like dafont to this app, but still figuring out how). both of Pixellab and Picsart usually doesn't consume much of the qualities in a graphic, that's why it's better to.

but, if you still wanted to use phonto but also want to get a good graphic quality, then you don't have any other choice but to transfer the graphic you've placed the text on to PicsArt and save it.