HOW TO GLAZE YOUR WORK WITHOUT A GOOD PC(or on mobile)/TIPS TO MAKE IT LESS VISIBLE

Glaze your work online on:

Cara app. It requires you to sign up but it is actually a good place for your portfolio. Glazing takes 3 minutes per image and doesn't require anything but an internet connection compared to 20-30 minutes if your pc doesn't have a good graphic card. There IS a daily limit of 9 pictures tho. Glazed art will be sent to you after it's done, by email. It took me 30 minutes to glaze 9 images on a default setting. Cara app is also a space SPECIFICALLY for human artists and the team does everything in their power to ensure it stays that way.
WebGlaze. This one is a little bit more complicated, as you will need to get approval from the Glaze team themselves, to ensure you're not another AI tech bro(which, go fuck yourself if you are). You can do it through their twitter, through the same Cara app(the easiest way) or send them an email(takes the longest). For more details read on their website.

Unfortunately there are no ways that I know of to use Nightshade YET, as it's quite new. Cara.app definitely works on implementing it into their posting system tho!

Now for the tips to make it less visible(the examples contain only nightshade's rendering, sorry for that!):

Heavy textures. My biggest tip by far. Noise, textured brushes or just an overlay layer, everything works well. Preferably, choose the ones that are "crispy" and aren't blurred. It won't really help to hide rough edges of glaze/nightshade if you blur it. You can use more traditional textures too, like watercolor, canvas, paper etc. Play with it.

Colour variety. Some brushes and settings allow you to change the colour you use just slightly with every stroke you make(colour jitter I believe?). If you dislike the process of it while drawing, you can clip a new layer to your colour art and just add it on top. Saves from the "rainbow-y" texture that glaze/nightshade overlays.
Gradients(in combination with textures work very well). Glaze/nightshade is more visible on low contrast/very light/very dark artworks. Try implementing a simple routine of adding more contrast to your art, even to the doodles. Just adding a neutral-coloured bg with a darker textured gradient already is going to look better than just plain, sterile digital colour.

And finally, if you dislike how glaze did the job, just try to glaze/shade it again. Sometimes it's more visible, sometimes it's more subtle, it's just luck. Try again, compare, and choose the one you like the most. REMEMBER TO GLAZE/SHADE AFTER YOU MADE ALL THE CHANGES, NOT BEFORE!!

If you have any more info feel free to add to this post!!

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fantasy story: but we grew complacent, indulgent, arrogant, spoiled by this era of prosperity and splendour, and in our short-sighted greed and vanity, we ended it. me at 15: I hate this stupid trope. People aren't going to just turn stupid and ruin everything just because things have been "too good" for "too long". Why does this author think that people are inherently stupid and evil? people on social media in 2024: I'm not going to vaccinate my dogs or my children because polio, measels and rabies are so rare they're not a real threat anyway uwu me at 30: Ah. I see.

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I understand, now, why god would raze the world and start anew.

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hey, don't cry. one cup heavy whipping cream, two tablespoons granulated sugar, three tablespoons cocoa powder and whisk until stiff peaks form for three ingredient chocolate mousse, okay?

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i realized that i like the format because it's the exact opposite of the recipe blogs with 1000 words before they get to an ingredient list.

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But what grueling ordeal did your relative barely survive that led them to this recipe? If I don’t read that and 100 of the most irrelevant ads of my life I won’t be able to perfectly recreate the angst and despair that are the true secret ingredients of blog recipes.

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When I was a little kid my mom worked grueling hours. She had a long commute, a stressful job, and very little time in her hands for keeping house.

She came from a very poor family - her parents met in the Depression in a mattress factory where workers stayed until they had worked enough to earn the price of a mattress, at which point they were paid with a mattress and moved on.

Being a large family with five kids and two working parents, my grandmother had a collection of recipes designed to feed a lot of people with minimal time and effort. Cottage cheese lasagna, wet dog chicken, and three bean chili were staples in her household.

My mom's mom died when my mom was still in high school, and her dad passed a year later. My mom went to college on a scholarship while her older sisters cared for her younger siblings. There was a falling out in the family because of this - my mother couldn't help to pay for her father's headstone as an orphaned college student working at a Bob's Big Boy, and her two eldest sisters were so offended that they cut contact for years.

After Aunt Beth died in a house fire with her two children, my mom and her sister Yvonne finally mended fences. Along with a renewed relationship with her sister, my mom also got access to her mother's collection of recipe cards. She learned to make wet dog chicken, cottage cheese lasagna, and three bean chili and often left them cooking in the crockpot on her long days, slightly modernizing over the cast iron Dutch oven that her mother had used.

When I was old enough to stand at the stove I looked through this history of love and effort and tragedy and took a moment to reflect, because every one of those recipes sucked dog balls.

So when I want to cook something I search "easy [recipe]" and work backwards until I find something in my skill range that generally matches the ingredients in my pantry and doesn't require washing more than four dishes. Then I tweak that recipe until it is gluten and corn free, and tastes good to me. And then I share it on tumblr so that other people can be spared from the horror of cottage cheese crockpot lasagna.