#transparent making

How To Make Renders/Transparents

Step 1: get your materials together

1. get an art program of some kind. we use clip studio paint, but it is not required at all, its just the one we use for our other art.

2. we use a drawing tablet, but you can do all this on your phone or you can use a mouse.

3. pick the official art you want to make in to a transparent. don’t use fanart. i get most of the art off of the fandom’s wiki, however, you know, just use common sense.

Step 2: get started

1. open your image in your program.

2. add a layer behind this layer, with a grey colour fill. 

3. make a new layer and pick a very bright colour, i use a bright green.

4. start outlining the area you want to be cut out with the ‘pen’ tool. include all the extra areas of background inside the original outline.

Step 3: actually cutting it out

1. make the image layer invisible, and use the auto select tool, inside the green outline.

2. now, find the select area and click the program’s equivilant of ‘invert selection’. this will select all the area you want to cut out.

3. click on your image layer and make it visible again. then, use ‘edit’ and ‘cut’. this should get rid of all the area around the character.

Step 4: cleaning the transparent

1. hide the outline layer and look for imperfections in your transparent. these can be wobbly lines, random white spots, or anything like that.

2. go in with the eraser tool and manually remove all these imperfections. this can be a little time consuming, but you’ll get the cleanest result this way.

3. test the transparent on something else, as if you were using it in an edit. does everything look good? if it does, you’re done! if not, keep going until its as good as you can get.

Step 5: save your image

1. make sure to hide the grey background layer before you save! this will make your transparent, well, transparent.

and here’s the finished product!