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Don’t know if this of any assistance, but thought I’d pass this along . . .
 

Alex, thank you. Both of these are extensive and include sites I’ve never heard of and site I know. I’ll need to look at the TOS of a few of the sites listed to see if any might meet what I seek.

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What I said isn’t wrong, but you’re entitled to disagree. You’re effectively making a nuanced difference of distinction. I’m all for nuance and distinction, until it borders on so-called Nuance Policing. My central objection is to bigotry and your response is effectively that “it’s okay, because it’s a less offensive bigotry”. That’s a slippery slope. It’s little better to use your S-word and compare it to the N-word, than to compare the N-word to the K-word. All of them are biggoted, all are intentionally derogatory, and all originate from hatred and contempt.

It’s not comparable to saying Midget because while that can be used in a derogatory manner, it’s more often just a lack of awareness of the correct term. If a little person takes offense, that’s unfortunate, but it simply an opportunity to educate. On Star Trek Discovery, when Stamets addressed the Symbiote-bonded human Adira as female, he was asked to use “they/them” instead. A very Roddenberry’esque approach reminiscent of the original series. If Adira had taken offense (as often happens in today’s reactionary world of identity politics), Stamets wouldn’t have been in the wrong because no offense was intended.

Also, in the context of comedy, that is a medium often used to educate and expand views. George Carlin’s 7 Words inspired a Supreme Court case and broadened the use of expressive language. Sure, there’s appropriate usage and inappropriate, but well, that’s a nuanced topic for another time.

https://youtu.be/jK2bMrH4ezA

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unite schmoes behind her

I really hate that term. It’s borne out of contempt by arrogant and conceited people. Why you would want to adopt, promote, honor, or claim it as a label is beyond me.

Sure, I like a certain look, but I far more value character, and any person that would dehumanize and degrade an entire category of people isn’t anyone I want anything to do with. No matter how they look on the outside, it’s always, always, always the inside that counts.

It’s no different than calling blacks N-words, Jews K-words, or women S or B words. It’s not acceptable.

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I’ve added a gif animation and 2 pictures to my Booru gallery.

https://phenoms.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=character%3Alindsey_morgan

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Great work! Would love to see more animated morphs from you!

Thank you.

My forum signature has links to my Deviant Art page and my Booru gallery. You can also search this forum for older manips (although many of the links have broken from old age), and I also have 2 small galleries at Diana the Valkyrie which I’ve now added to my forum signature. Unfortunately, most of my creations have been lost to time and the transient nature of the Internet. These are what’s still out there.

I’ve also added a new morph (an actual morph) of Lindsey Morgan here on the forum.

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Tutorial, part 2…

Once I had the morph animation how I liked, it was time to save the animation. To save as a gif in Gimp, select Export As from the File menu and just add the .gif file extension. Don’t forget to check the box for As Animation in the GIF dialog window. To save it as a video, select Master Videoencoder from the Video menu, set the frame rate and save the file. Wait for it to generate the video file.

Next open Pitivi. It’s time for some basic video editing. I split the original video into segments. First I shortened it to only the segment I wanted to use and saved that. I opened that segment into Audacity and extracted the audio into an mp3. Back in Pitivi, I cut the clip into 3 segments: A leading segment, the segment to enhance, and a trailing segment. I saved each of the three segments to their own files removing the audio from them. I used the Animated PNG Maker at ezgif.com to split the 2nd segment into 10 png frames. I opened those png files as layers in their own Gimp file and used the lasso tool to select an area which isolated Lindsey’s head, neck, and hair with enough space to allow her head and hair to move all within the bounds of the single lasso’d area. I then inverted the selection and cleared everything from each layer except the head isolation. I used select all and copied each layer, pasting them into the file with Lindsey’s morph layers placing one head layer for each tween layer. I cleaned up each head layer by reducing the opacity to see what I was working on, erasing the excess, restoring the opacity, and finally color correcting each head using the same settings. Finally I merged the head layers with their respective tween layers to bring life to an otherwise rigid image transition. I saved this as a video using the Master Videoencoder.

Back into Pitivi I opened the leading and trailing segments, and the newly created morph segment with the head movements. I placed them together with the morph in the middle, added the audio back in from the mp3 I’d created earlier, and saved the final version that you can view above.

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Tutorial, part 1…

I created this using Gimp, Pitivi, and Audacity. I also used VLC Media Player, and Newpipe on the BlissOS Android emulator inside VirtualBox.

First I downloaded the original video from Youtube using Newpipe which is an Android app. I’d tried downloading it using the Firefox addon Video DownloadHelper, but that didn’t work for this video. Newpipe does a fantastic job every time. The only limitation of Newpipe is that Youtube updates will temporarily break the app at which point the developers update it with a fix, and after upgrading, the app will work again. Not ideal, but the entire thing is a workaround. Newpipe cannot be found on the Google Play store. Instead, get the alternative app store Fdroid and install from there. If you aren’t familiar with Newpipe, Fdroid, or “side loading” apps onto Android, just Google it (or DuckDuckGo it). I run Newpipe on my phone, but I also have it available on my computer. Using VirtualBox, I have an Android emulator called BlissOS installed. When I can’t download videos using the Firefox addon Video DownloadHelper, I’ll use Newpipe in my BlissOS install to get them.

Once I had the video, I played it in VLC Media Player and took a screenshot of Lindsey flexing.

Next, I opened the screenshot in Gimp, first enhanced the sharpness to compensate for video blur, and then used the IWarp filter tool to enhance her arm muscles. I Frankensteined in the pec muscles of Pavla Brantalova and used IWarp to further enhance the pec muscles. Along the way I also had to do various color correction mostly using the Brightness-Contrast and Hue-Saturation tools. Everything is done in layers, and multiple layers are created during the process to preserve various incremental changes which can be a life saver if at certain steps something needs to be done over. Other tools are used in the process as needed. The eraser, blur, smudge, rotation, scale, sheer, and perspective tools are commonly used. Less often, I might use the clone, healing, and dodge/burn tools. There’s no formula that I can describe for which tools or filters to use, or when. The tools and filters mentioned here aren’t a complete list, they’re just some of the more common choices. Each step is a new decision that is often a combination of experience, but is often still trial-and-error.

Once I had my muscle enhanced photo manipulations, of which I often create several versions each of differing muscle size or features, it was time to create morph tweens. Anyone that pays attention, has seen me tirelessly distinguish between manips and morphs. Morphing has become a popular misnomer by laypersons talking about photo manipulations. The problem is, when someone like myself that uses ACTUAL morphing tries to say they did a morph, people misunderstand and confuse the technical term as I intend it for the misnomer of the layperson. Morphing is the use of computer software to generate transitions between images. The in-between transition frames are called tweens, which is simply short for in-betweens. I created the morph tweens using the Video plugin for Gimp. The Video plugin doesn’t come in the default install and must be added. The plugin has it’s own menu option named Video. Under the video menu is the sub-menu Morph in which I selected Morph (Video>Morph>Morph). That opens a new dialog window for which I’d already created a new file with only 2 layers. One layer of the original screenshot, and one of the muscle enhancement I’d created.

The starting image should be on the left, and the ending image on the right. Use swap if you need to change the order. The first thing to do is click the shape button. That places a border of fixed points around the edge of the image. Points inform the program of relationships between the two images. When creating points for a morph, no matter which software you use, begin by creating static (unmoving) points. It’s important to begin with static points because once you begin creating transient points, the program begins making educated guesses and automatically shifting things. Create static points to tell the program which parts should remain unaltered. Transient points create relationships between the parts that will move. Don’t rush your transient points. Take them one at a time. Set a transient point on the starting image, and then move the point to it’s new location on the ending image. It can be tempting to set multiple points on the starting image with the intention to move everything on the ending image afterwards. Don’t. Go one point at a time. You’ll get much better results. Once you’ve created all your points, be sure to save them to a file. Morphs nearly always require several attempts until you refine the transition into what you’re wanting. If you don’t save your points to a file, you’ll be starting over when it doesn’t come out right. Depending on which program you use for morphing, the file extension may differ. In the Video plugin for Gimp, there isn’t a predetermined file extension. I’ll name my points file the same as the image file and change the file extension to “.pnt”. Set “steps” to the number of tween frames that you want. Don’t create too many tweens. Aside from taking longer to generate, too many tweens could crash the program. I’ll usually create between 3 – 12 tweens. Click morph, wait for the tweens to be generated and then preview them as an animation by selecting Filter>Animation>Playback from the menus. The better your morph points, the better your morph. It takes a good eye, some experience, and experimentation and cleanup. You’ll probably have artifacts that need removing. Many artifacts can be reduced or eliminated by adding or moving points. Some require manual cleanup. Overlapping points tend to create the most trouble. For example, Lindsey’s bicep peak crossed the line of the sofa’s backrest. That required manual cleanup using the smudge and eraser tools. See the attached image below for a look at the points dialog window.

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I’m actually rather proud of this creation. While the frame rate of my inserted segment has a subtle but obvious discrepancy from the original, it was good enough and I didn’t think it was necessary to correct.

I created this using only free and open source software on Linux. I abandoned Windows at version 10 as they’d begun data mining. It’s one thing when Google does it. I can use other services, but our personal computers should be off limits (frankly so should our phones).

Anyhow, I think this is good enough for a tutorial of steps I took in creating this…

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”phenoms” -hey shithead! i´m always pissed if i find bullshit about me like yours!
camera tricks? what camera tricks! you are an complete idiot and don´t know what you are talking about!
go out of my sun and admire scrawny roid chicks or whatever you prefer!
they are 50% roids and 50% photoshop! and YOU tell ME these are camera tricks in my clips?
come to me stupid boy! i put the camera on the table and show you what i do with you!
after that -if you can get out of the wheelchair -it only was camera tricks!
but i think you can´t!

I very clearly opened by saying that my aim wasn’t to begin a flame war and that I was entitled to my opinion. I stated my opinion not attacking any person, but calling bs on the premise of the post. All standard Internet etiquette (at least back when these posts were made, but still the etiquette at this forum now).

Just as I’m entitled to my opinion, you’re entitled to yours, up to and including any unfavorable opinions you may harbor about me personally. I’m hardly miffed by being called an idiot.

I don’t know if these attitudes originate in some kind of dominatrix culture, or in some other sub-culture that tends to attach itself to the broader interest in femuscle. I’ve never cared for that relation and have always advocated against themes of violence and against any inherent compulsion to boost one’s own ego at the explicit expense of another. Regardless of the motivation, leave me out of your fantasy world. I’m an anonymous internet poster. You aren’t going to track me down (as 8+ years of nothing happening prove) and regardless of your ability to hurt anyone, outside of your consensual encounters, I do not consent as should be clear by my lack of any attraction, but more importantly, non-consensual violence, or any threats thereof are illegal and will only lead to your arrest and conviction. Also, you clearly misread my post regarding camera tricks. I didn’t say there were camera tricks, I never even bothered to watch the video, nor would I ever be bothered to. I was stating a hypothetical premise and emphasized my skepticism.

Don’t sweat it Anna. That guy is just some loser who has nothing to do with his time. You are a true Amazon….not a roid girl….and that guy is likely some scrawny loser who knows nothing about training the body at all. :angry: at Phenom

Interesting that you made 2 posts in reply prior to “Anna’s” caustic response where you attacked the argument and not the person. But as soon as “Anna” attacked the person (me), you jumped on that bandwagon. I’m sorry that you needed that to give you the confidence to go on the attack. Not that attacking is desirable, but I hope you are able to find your confidence nevertheless.

As first impressions go you’re not making a very good one hereabouts.

Rather then providing a constructive counter argument (and over a post a yr and half old) you’ve responded with name-calling and hostility.

Flaming is not permitted here. You’ve had your warning.

Hey Alex. Sorry to have unintentionally instigated this. I’d forgotten about the post and never looked back. I didn’t discover these replies until stumbling upon them while searching the forum for something else.

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I added another manip: Simone Biles Best Flex Ultimate Pump Sleeve Rip

This is a preview. Full size high resolution at my Booru site.

https://phenoms.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=17

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