Can I like the normy's work and yours?
sure, as long as you aren't a m word. You know...
Mechanistic Materialist.
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This is what 99% of people use Photoshop for. Aura around a character, and a background featuring a gausian blur recolor with a grid or dots. Sometimes, Emoji's and text captions are present.
I tried to recreate the aesthetic using Gimp and the python background removal neural network.
The neural network got rid of the laptop.
So I had to edit the orginal layer with Gimp's wand and crop out part of the laptop manually.
This is where I made a mistake. I added the aura glow around the character, and then after around the laptop. That was a big F up on my part. I should have merged the layer of the laptop with the guy. Then I made the background yellow, blurred it, and added a polkadot filter. Pressed "T" for text, then drop shadow outline, Shift R rotate and long shadow dark yellowish green with transparency. Thus completing the stroke text layer.
Gimp can edit text that is spaced, resized and recolorized, but if you add a stroke outline or rotate the text it is no longer editable. That is an embarrassing fact that Photoshop solved.
EDITABLE
NOT EDITABLE
Gimp can make any kind of fancy text in the world, and it can do it very quickly with keybindings but once shadows, bevels, glows and other shit is applied it is impossible to edit. I believe Photoshop solved this problem and allows text presets.