Tools and Tips

On this page I'll make a list of various sites, software and just general advice for you that might want to create your own art! I often tinker with video and image editing, aswell as some other crafts and here I'll leave some advice that mgiht be useful for you!

Note: I'm not super into the lingo or communitites of many of these things, so sorry if I call some stuff the wrong words, it's just how I percieve them.


Images

Gimp

Image editing? Drawing? Pixel art? If you wanna get into or just started at any of the above mentioned, you might wanna give GIMP a try! It's free, open source, and has a ton of functionalities! Personally I use it to do pretty much all my pixel art, either for games or this website, and also for any image editing, like stuff you see in pictures.
It takes a while to learn how to use everything, but there are tutorials and people willing to help online, so I think it'd be worth it to check it out!


Web

Source Code

If you're interested in websites at all, in any way shape or form a way to take it further is looking into the innerworkings of it! Looking at the source code you can see how it was written, how things are organized, all the tags, classes and references to other files that this page contains, aswell as commented sections that aren't visible in any other way, I sometimes keep scrapped paragraphs that I think wouldn't fit with the rest of the page as comments, in case I wanna revisit them later or just as mementos. All of those things can often tell a little bit more about it's author, sometimes even things they wouldn't be able to tell verbally themselves.

By pressing F12 you can inspect any page you find yourself in, alternatively you can press ctrl+u which I prefer, because that gives you acces to the original file recieved from the server, in case any script changes the file during real time or the loading of the page
Even more alternatively if you know the name of a page you can add "view-source:" before the https and it works the same as ctrl+u.

Title attribute

One thing that you may often find the web is a tag with a "title" attribute, but what the hell is even that? Well when you put a title on a tag, it makes so hovering your mouse over it for a second or two, a text is displayed, it could be the element's name, a replacement text in the case an image didn't load though the alt attribute already serves for that or just an explanation of what it is.
For example, this little guy under here, hover your mouse over him to find out his name!

Day to day

This is fore any general "life hack" that I find interesting enough to share.

Hard butter

You take the pot of butter out of the fridge but... Ah damn, yeah it is too hard now to try and spread with a knife on bread and such, maybe you can try heating the knife or the pot on the stove, hodling it upside down hoping the whole butter doesn't melt and fall on the stove... here's another solution I found tho:
Water, put water in the pot of butter, enough to cover the butter, leave it there for a couple of minutes, remove the water and bam! The butter isn't smooth but it's so much easier to spread, 0 risk, it's fast enough and works really well for something so simple.