You're welcome, I mean it. I'm not terribly tech literate but I like to learn and I am taking a serious interest in editing software. Thank you for the tip, I'm looking into gimp now. It's sad how excited I am lol.
A tip about doing photo manipulation work to help you avoid some pitfalls: When you start with a base pic (or pics added later), the very first thing you should do is duplicate that layer and then lock it and turn it to invisible. This can save your ass like you would not believe, because a lot of times after a lot of work you will realize you made a mistake and need to back up some steps- or you want to copy/paste a portion of the original pic to lay on top of something you added- and if you have already modified that original pic layer you are screwed and a lot of times if you try to re-import the original pic it will not align correctly because it was moved or resized, etc. And as a rule- always do each stage in a layer (usually using a transparent layer) so that you can erase, copy, modify that portion of work easily. For example, in this one the hat portion had to overlay the inserted portrait, so that is in a transparent layer on top:
https://i.ibb.co/HtfrMwt/Screenshot-from-2021-02-05-20-20-18.png
You can see the layers on the right. Please feel free to ask if you need some help or tips if you do decide to try this sort of thing.
Man I don't know what would be Poal's equivalent to "reddit gold" would be, leopard seals or something, but I'd bury you in it were it in my power. I really appreciate the advice and I may have a few questions. I really do appreciate it, thank you much.
My pleasure. I am not an expert at this stuff by any stretch of the imagination, but I am persistent and usually manage to make something reasonably acceptable. And, I am prolific with the meme creation (when I am in the mood to be on the internet- sometimes I leave fore long periods) and have been at it for a long time. I have literally made many thousands of memes over the years. Most of them just for one time use in some thread, never intending that they get spread around (like the one I made here), although quite a few of them have gotten "popular". I always get a kick when I see one of mine posted somewhere, kind of the closest one can get to fame while being anonymous.
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