DeletedVerse Wiki Guide to Basic Rendering

**Welcome to the DeletedVerse Wiki Guide to Basic Rendering!**

## Summary

It's generally preferred for pictures to be completely rendered so that they do not have a background as it generally looks more appealing and neat when placed on a wiki page. This page is meant to guide users through the process of doing extremely basic renders so that they may complete them themselves instead of waiting for hours for the Image Helpers on the Official Render Request Thread to respond.

## Preparations

Image editing software is necessary to perform the instructions listed below. Photoshop remains one of the most popular and extensive applications for this task and is a first choice for many renderers.

However, Paint.NET bears most of the functions of Photoshop but is completely free to download. This is a good alternative for those who do not already own Photoshop. The instructions below were all written with Paint.NET in mind.

## Tips and Tricks

1) In-case you decide to use both methods together, remember to hit the Escape key a few times when switching between the Magic Wand and the Eraser tool. Paint.NET is programmed to not allow you to use the Brush or Eraser tools while you have something in the image selected.

2) Also remember to set the opacity to 255 while using the Eraser and 0 while using the Magic Wand. Otherwise you'll end up with partially erased backgrounds that smudge together.

3) If you make a mistake, don't panic, just hit Ctrl + Z the way you would in Microsoft Word to undo whatever you just did. If you need to redo something, hit Ctrl + Y. If you need to go back further, you can also use the History Window (accessible through the F6 key) to click on the specific entry point. Be careful though, once you close Paint.NET, the editing history is cleared, and it's impossible to go back and undo or redo something once you close the program.

4) **SAVE FREQUENTLY**. In case something happens and Paint or your computer crashes, you're going to want to be able to go back without having to redo everything.

5) You can get rid of watermarks by using the Copy Stamp tool. I can go over it with you if you leave a message for me on my wall.

6) If you're feeling artsy, you can redraw in parts of the image that are covered up by text boxes and bubbles to make a render even better. However, this is pretty hard, and it's extremely difficult to match the colors unless you're dealing with black-and-white comics (like most mainstream manga), so it might be better to use another image if you aren't feeling up to the task. Alternatively, forward it to one of the Image Helpers so they can help you with it.

## Conclusion

This page is meant to help users do extremely basic renders themselves to smooth the progression of image submission and thus page creation/editing. However, should images prove too difficult to render, the Official Render Request Thread is always available.

Of course, there are many other rendering methods, but this one is by far the fastest for images with uniform backgrounds (which is usually the case for .JPG files). However, certain other methods may be better for certain situations (i.e. an image where the background and the image's outline are both pure black or when the image and background are very similar colors).

This page itself is prone to revision, as additional instructions to render more difficult images will be provided later on.