Grab some cocoa or a glass of bourbon and get /comfy/. Welcome to Fashwave General, your comfy place for all things fashwave.
What is fashwave? The aesthetics of tomorrow of course. We are basically living in a dystopian cyberpunk world already, so we might as well start acting like it.
GUIDE:
>be you, polack on pol
>cut the fucker out and paste him on new canvas
>duplicate the fucker like 5 times or something
>colorize the layers in a variety of neon colors
>mess with blending mode and opacity while slightly changing the placement of the bottom layers to create the ghost sensation
>use render - fog and neon color the fog
>okay when you have the correct fonts don't just use them in their own layer, but go to create - logo and pick neon
>right what you want and the color and a new thing will be created
fonts:
>streamster
>lazer84
>razor
>alien encounter
>mistral (the drive font)
Tool: GIMP gimp.org
for neon text
youtube.com
> filters > blur > gaussian blur
>colors > curves > set channel value to ALPHA
>make line more vertical until the text becomes round
>layer >layer to image size
>filters >alpha to logo >neon
>choose color & set effect size to 23 (effect size depends on size of text, more for big text, less for small text)
scan lines (looks like old tvs)
>filters >distort >video
darker scan lines:
>new layer
>bucket fill black entire layer
>filter - distort - erase very other line
(for photoshop version: photoshopcafe.com
That's all you really need to get started. You'll be able to figure out the rest through trial and error.
