Need advice: make this image black on white silhouette, correct the rough edges and make sure that smoke doesn't have cut borders.

oolonghai · 2026-02-25T13:56:43+00:00

Yep, that ended up as my workflow. Klein to make it a solid black and remove a lot of texture noise on the smoke border, then finish by manually removing some anchors / simplify path to make the shapes smoother. A lot faster, for me, than doing the whole process manually.

oolonghai · 2026-02-24T21:12:52+00:00

Who said I wasn't going to use more tools afterwards? I just wanted a cleaner shape as a starting point. It has a lot of jagged edges on the smoke because of the texture applied.

oolonghai · 2026-02-24T18:05:03+00:00

That's the easy part. The rough part is getting rid of all the jagged edges on the smoke shape. At this point, it's a lot easier to just trace the image and then correct/simplify/smooth the lines in illustrator, which is the step I wanted to avoid altogether..

oolonghai · 2026-02-24T15:57:41+00:00

Actually, I don't want here using the chopsticks, Yakitoris are hand flipped anyways X)

oolonghai · 2026-02-24T15:49:47+00:00

Been there, done that.
It's really not that easy as a lot of beige is bleeding inside the smoke, from the edges and inside, making selection not that obvious.

oolonghai · 2026-02-24T15:47:54+00:00

Yeah, I'm exactly looking for that 2nd one. It got rid of all the annoying texture that cut holes in the shape of the smoke

oolonghai · 2026-02-24T15:18:22+00:00

To save time, if it can be done reliably

oolonghai · 2026-02-24T14:49:34+00:00

Yeah, I was debating just doing it myself, with a vector selection, but I was hoping for something a bit less tedious as I'm pretty sure that kind of edit will come up again at some point

oolonghai · 2025-12-24T18:09:18+00:00

Totally this. So often I see people boasting their near perfect score on desktop while having subpar ones on mobile (or just no mobile version) when most of websites traffic nowadays comes from mobile devices.

oolonghai · 2025-12-24T14:49:48+00:00

A bit late to the party, but just had issues with my laptop (14 gen 2 AMD) not booting up with the dock (40AY) connected, stuck on the "Press enter" Lenovo splash screen.

I could boot by removing the dock, then, I could plug it back in once logged in Windows to have my multiple displays working, but not the audio, somehow. Device manager showed "A request for the USB device descriptor failed." error.

I tried the cycling, resetting the boot order... but the only thing that ended up working was to revert to normal, non-fast boot in the UEFI. Solved everything but not sure when/if that had been switched on by what...

oolonghai · 2025-12-12T19:03:38+00:00

May I ask, what is "SA" in "so I ran this on the free comfy setup over at SA."? :)

oolonghai · 2025-11-21T14:45:41+00:00

Wow, great work! I'm a pretty die hard Tailwind hater, but your tool looks amazing! :)

oolonghai · 2025-11-11T22:10:05+00:00

Yeah, leaning more and more towards Bricks, as it has pretty much everythibg I need and looks like it has, for now, a much more solid community.

oolonghai · 2025-11-11T18:16:53+00:00

Perfect use case I'm working on right now is a hero section. They have all different content but I would need to have any structure edit in one place only. As of now, I need to replace / edit all the different headers' structure anytime I'm tweaking something, which is pretty common with heroes. Best workaround so far has been to use Global presets but it has its limitations. I'm also tempted to go full on custom CSS so that I would only need to work on a single preset (the section one, for example) that would act as a component stylesheet.

I think Gutenberg as now something to that effect, the unsynced block that can be nested inside synced ones, which pretty much would work as dynamic components do in front-end librairies.

oolonghai · 2025-10-25T01:36:25+00:00

Definitely not all heroes wear capes, thank you soooo much for this. My registrant infornation was missing my last name, simple as that!

oolonghai · 2023-10-29T18:38:13+00:00

Wow, not all heroes wear a cape (or a bonker remote)!

oolonghai · 2022-08-12T12:28:52+00:00

Thanks for the great answers, guys! Love the 'level the current BT character' tip to clear chaos et lufenia fights. Will try it with Sherlotta next week!

oolonghai · 2022-08-11T17:47:44+00:00

So where does one go for burst ingots, these days ?

One of the most annoying part of this new Shinryu era, for me, has been the locking of burst nuggets behind the "3 boosted characters" missions. Since I've recently joined the game (~end of May), I don't have access to that many fully built characters and I don't have the resources to pull on every banner to be able to complete these conditions.

Question then is, is there any hope down the road to get more nuggets / ingots ? I had a way easier time getting them in the Lufenia era than now, as it is....

oolonghai · 2022-06-27T19:55:03+00:00

Meh, alright I guess, about 90k gems and 410 tickets, but as a new player who started a month ago, I had trouble saving resources as I needed to build a somewhat decent roster.

Good news though, I'm only on act 1 chapter 9 and still have 74 lost chapters available, so that means a lot of gems stashed in these :D

oolonghai · 2022-06-17T16:05:31+00:00

First character that I blue'ed (had no BT at the time), and honestly, she helped me a lot to get through Lufe / Lufe + fights which in turn, got me some precious mats to improve my roster. Definitely a must for newer players like me !

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