"clicking on this thread should just send 3 asprins to your house immediately"There are many ways to humorously ruin something beyond fixing. Among those, a JPEG is one of those. The hilariously bad image format is pretty popular in the activity of ruining things. Legend tells of the perfect jpeg, a disgusting slop of off-colored pixels. The perfect jpeg has not yet been found, but there are some methods of making hideous disasters close to it.
In other words this is a thread about ruining perfectly good pictures via jpeg.
How can I ruin perfectly good pictures?Well I believe we can look to a master for such advice.
Question: what do you do to the SBaHJ pages to make them look so unbelievably stuffty?
Andrew Hussie: There is a lot to it. I don't have any trade secrets at all, but if I did, it would probably be the process I apply to those images.
One major tactic: save as jpg, reduce quality to zero, but DON'T SAVE IT YET. Instead, screen capture the preview. Then paste that into the same document, and repeat this process for a while, until you have grown the desired amount of "loss scum".
But this just keeps making the image foggier, which isn't good enough by itself. After that, I usually apply other effects, like strategic sharpenings and other misc. filters. I also use a lot of masking through color range selections, and perform meticulous alterations at the pixel-cluster level.
Contrary to popular belief, this is not very easy work. In fact, the amount of effort put into making stuffty jpegs is hilarious itself.
Do you have what it takes to ruin pictures? (probably)
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