#picrew tutorial

[drowninnoodles]

So I tried to make Picrew tutorial, This is what I managed to figure out myself because the tutorial is a bit confusing on the website, so I tried to make it simpler

If something is too pixelated because tumblr screws up the quality as usual, I'll try to fix it somehow or smth but yeahhh

[fxlmine]

Bulk part recoloring for Picrew: a guide

Hi! Some of my friends asked me about this and I figured I'd make a tumblr post instead of writing it all in a discord message never to be seen again.

This guide covers how i personally quickly recolor parts for my own picrews, to use with picrew creator's bulk uploading tool. This likely isn't going to work for everyone, especially since I rely on Clip Studio Paint very heavily.

Using this tutorial will give you the files you need to bulk upload with picrew creator a bit faster than if you were to recolor everything by hand. Especially if doing a bunch of parts and colors.

Tutorial under the cut!

What you'll need

Clip studio paint (or another art program with animation features that lets you export each frame to a separate layer. I only will be showing CSP however)

Your artwork. Each color needs to be on a separate layer. (Sorry for those who like to paint everything on the same layer! This won't work for you)

(optional, if on windows) https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/ to speed up one specific step

Let's do this

1) open the animation timeline, with CSP pro you can do 24 parts at a time due to the frame limit, which is still plenty to speed the process up.

2) say you're doing the shirts like i did. make an animation folder for the shirt fill color, as well as the lineart. if you have any more layers that are recolored with the same color each time, make an animation folder for those as well (so say, shadows. or secondary colors)

3) put each individual shirt part in it's own animation cell. make sure the frames for each part line up. you'll want to be able to go through the timeline with each shirt on a separate frame

Your layers should end up looking somewhat similar to this

4) now for recoloring: clip a layer to each animation folder. so clip one to the shirt fill folder for instance. fill that entire layer up with the color you want that part to be. Check the frames in your animation again, now every part should be recolored with the colors in the clipped layer.

Your layers should now look something like this

5) Shorten the timeline so only frames with an actual item in them are included. (Otherwise you'll end up with a bunch of blank images later that you're not going to do anything with)

6) Hide every layer other than the animation folders and their clipped layers. So only the part is visible. Go through your frames one more time to make sure they look alright and nothing is out of place.

7) Time to export! Go to file -> export animation -> image sequence (you might want to set a shortcut for this so you don't have to go through 3 menus haha).

Make sure you're exporting to the correct folder. Set file name settings to anything you like, but make sure the start number is 1 (there might be exceptions to this, I'll go over that later). Set the image type to PNG, make sure the canvas size is correct and that the framerate lines up with your timeline's framerate.

8) Export it! You should have some files in your folder that look like this now. We'll want to rename them to just 1.png, 2.png... etc.

9) You can rename them by hand, but this is rather slow to do each time and I'm lazy. So here's how you rename them in the bulk rename utility. Open your folder in there, and then copy the settings I have here.

Yes, this is EXTREMELY overwhelming. I know. The first box (RegEx) is the only one you'll need to touch. Set the Match field to something like "Recolors_0{0,3}". Replace "Recolors_" with whatever your files start with. Also check the v2 box.

Replace can be left empty, since we're essentially removing anything that matches the regex (which is a text pattern matching syntax. We're essentially matching "Recolors_" with up to 3 zeros after it)

Select all the files in the top panel, then hit Rename in the bottom right! It should rename everything to just 1.png, 2.png... etc in one go.

10) Go to your part page in picrew. Make sure your colors are set up and you have created the amount of parts you'll need. Go to the Bulk Upload tab (there's a link in the top right).

11) Select the color you're uploading, then select the files you're uploading. Make sure the filenames match with your part ID numbers. This is important. 1.png Will match the first part, 2.png will match the second. Note how I said ID numbers, not the display order.

This means in the exporting step, you might need to change the starting number of your files. If you messed this up since you didn't read the tutorial in full before following it (I get it. I've been there before), just export and rename again.

12) If everything looks good and you got your files previewing no problem, hit upload, then wait a few seconds while picrew uploads your files.

13) YOU DID IT!!! You successfully added a recolor for your parts. Now go back to your file in CSP and fill each clipping layer up with a different color. You can now repeat the process from step 7. (export, rename and upload) to upload all parts for the other colors.

How much time does this actually save?

I never timed myself, but from experience, once you have set everything up and get the hang of it. It's pretty damn fast! Granted it does take a bit of set-up to get working. It gets more efficient the more parts you recolor at once.

I'll often go ahead and recolor the next color while the previous color is still uploading. Usually a single color only takes me a minute max to create and upload, instead of several minutes recoloring every single layer and saving each file separately.

For bulk rename utility, I set it to allow overwriting files. Which means I keep every color in the same folder and just overwrite the files whenever I rename. It's the fastest for me and saves me some storage space on my PC as well. Just make sure to click out of and then back into the folder to reload the files in there.

Hopefully this should help someone! Creating your own picrew is a daunting task and this made it a little easier for me at least ^^

[fakehelper]

Hello there! So for the members page of GPN we use picrew images because it’s cute and fun (and keeps us from having to deal with mascots tbh) but I realized not everyone knows how to use the site so I made a short and sweet tutorial just for you 💕

NOTES: For this tutorial I will be using baydew’s avatar maker V2. If you’d like a more in depth tutorial, view picrew’s own guide here. This is just a very basic tutorial. Thanks to @bysugar​ for the members page theme!

TRANSLATING TO ENGLISH

To start with, the issue most people have is not being able to understand the site because it’s in Japanese. If you’re using Google Chrome, this is an easy fix! When you first open the site you should get a pop up asking you if you’d like to translate the site.

If you don’t get this pop up, click the translate button in the search bar.

Then select English.

USING THE GENERATOR

Once you have selected one you’d like to try (by clicking any of the images on the first page, just click on the pink Play button to start.

It will appear under the information for that specific generator (PLEASE FOLLOW EACH USER’S RULES). 

In order to choose different selections, click the boxes. For this section, we can change the face shape. As you can see by the yellow scrollbar, there are more options than just the face, ears, nose, and mouth. To view the other options, scroll sideways.

If there are color changing options, a paintbrush will appear. By clicking on the paintbrush, you can change the color of that sections, whether it be skin, hair, accessories, etc.

When you are done choosing all the options and are happy with the results, click the green Complete button.

Then click the pink download button to save it to your computer!

REMEMBER: Picrew image links EXPIRE so when sharing these with friends, remember to share a link that has been uploaded to tumblr, discord, or another site that doesn’t delete images.

[obnoxiousshipper28]

I'm making my own picrew but seeing other people's picrews makes me feel so self conscious about my art, and then I start thinking that I should add more things and that I'm not inclusive enough, and my back hurts and I start crying and

WTH IS A "the last bastion" LAYER, what does it do? 😭😭

AAAAAA help 😂😂

[livisart]

since the most popular picrew tutorial out there got deleted or smth i figured id write up my own to help others who wanna make funney picrews!! there is still stuff i’m figuring out but hopefully this will cover enough of the basics to help ppl. also i use a translated version of picrew and if ...

so since the most popular (? at least the one i saw get shared around the most) english picrew tutorial seems to have gotten deleted i decided to make my own, cuz a lot of picrew features are kinda hard to figure out even if you translate the page...

this guide covers the basics of adding items and color options and what various settings do, as well as some slightly more complicated things like layers and using color palettes. at the end i’ve added a section on tags and publishing and stuff.

i’ve tried my best to make this tutorial simple and easy to follow, so i hope people find it useful!

lastly, this post probably won’t show up tumblr searches because of Forbidden Links(TM), so feel free to reblog or just spread the link around

[abessive-art]

what characteristics do yall think piccrews should include that most dont?