kaiowut99:

akameniseis:

@kaiowut99 because visual examples are nice, I opened this in Photoshop real quick and added noise + blur like I was finishing up editing it myself

it didn’t really make it match better because in this case the noise + blur were also applied to the background, but hopefully it gives you some idea?

Like most of what I do in Photoshop I just kind of throw random shit at the canvas and see what sticks, but generally I use Add Noise set to a very low amount, with uniform distribution and the monochromatic box ticked,and then apply a very slight gaussian blur.

here’s a comparison of the edited and unedited versions, zoomed in a little to make the changes more obvious because they’re really subtle. But that’s what you want!

It’s kind of weird to try and intentionally add compression artifacts to something but I do think it helps edits blend in when you’re working with less than pristine video. If you had nice Blu-ray rips to work with I don’t think any of this would be necessary, but with DVD quality it helps.

(as for the actual edits you want from me, I’ll get them done tonight or tomorrow morning!)

lol Don’t worry about rambling, I like having the details!

Yeah, it totally helped; I applied your settings to the text layer and got these; the noise/blur’d one should be the one on top, lol.  You’re right, it’s definitely very subtle, but it does look a bit more blended in, so I’ll be sure to do the same for other text tweaks like this.  What does the monochromatic box do for it?

Yeah, especially since there’s a low amount of compression artifacts around already; I would love it if GX got a blu-ray release to make all these easier haha. (Sounds good, thanks again! I’ll start on the script meanwhile, lol.)

I’m really tired and can’t words so here’s a visual explanation lmao. bottom half is monochromatic noise, top half… isn’t.

Here are the edited frames for you! They don’t look fantastic on a dark background, but those rough edges aren’t visible on the light pink background you’re going to be putting them on and the parts that’ll actually be going over text are neater.