(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Boosting Biden Outreach: Make Your Own Dark Brandon Memes [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-02-04 It’s HowTo Day today. HowTo make your own Dark Brandon memes, and share them. There has been a lot of good news reporting on events that are boosting Biden, or about Biden boosting America in one way or another—the sort of thing our Goodie highlights five days a week. Then there are our contributions. I will splash the image above over all of my social media accounts, along with other images from my Pinterest Dark Brandon and MAGA Tears and other such collections. And I will explain how to make your own. So, not this, delightful though it is. Impeachment vote boosts Biden campaign fundraising Nor Biden getting a covid booster on live TV a year ago, nor Biden boosting gig workers, nor Competition, American manufacturing, US troop levels in Eastern Europe, Black businesses, Indo-Pacific ties, Federal Spending on U.S. Products, spending on education, child care and health care, the middle class...Nor any of the other good things that our Good News Roundup highlights five days a week. You can use Photoshop if you have it, but I use the GIMP (GNU Image Processing Program), available for free download for various platforms, with rights for the community to improve it without needed special licenses from a commercial vendor. The standard reference for it used to be Grokking the GIMP, available in print and as a free download, but there are now many manuals available, starting from GIMP for Beginners: First 12 Skills and working up to professional photo editing skills. There is also a manual included with the software and accessible online. The link is on the Help menu. GIMP edit window showing an image constructed in five layers Captions Let’s start simple, with my Pinterest Caption Me collection. You can download this and other uncaptioned Dark Brandon images, and edit them in various graphics programs to include a caption, in the manner of this image, which Goodie contributed to the DK Image Library. Look for #DarkBrandon #railroad or my which Goodie uses frequently. The tools you will need for such images include layers, resizing, selection, moving selections, and text. Here is the simplest procedure. Choose an image to open or paste into the GIMP. Increase its canvas size to provide room for text. Choose the Text tool. Type in text in a new layer, center it, and set the font and size you want. Save the result in a GIMP .xcf file for further editing. Export as a .png file. Upload to the DK Image Library, and add metadata, including the source of the original image. It is also possible to create a text layer, and then put an expanded background around it, as in the image above with text on top of the original image. 5 Ways to Help Text Stand Out Against Bright Background in GIMP 2.8 x x YouTube Video Laser Eyes Adding laser eyes to an image, as at the top of this post, is just a little bit more difficult. First you need to find appropriate transparent laser eye highlights, such as these. Most of those available are on white backgrounds, which won’t work for us. When you have the image you want to add laser eyes to ready in the GIMP, you can paste in these highlights, one at a time, and make each into a new layer. You will need to resize them (resize the layer, not the entire image) and move them into place, and then save everything. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/4/2221374/-Boosting-Biden-Outreach-Make-Your-Own-Dark-Brandon-Memes?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/