i opened the polarr app on my phone after a LOT of months to make a cover for this book & got so shocked when i saw that almost every feature could be accessed only if you paid for their premium subscription, except if you wanted to add your existing saved filters. even to save a picture that you've edited on that app, you need watch an ad. and you can't add new filters either! so i've decided to make a tut on how to add psds to anything using photopea (our lord and saviour fr). it's really easy, and i recommend doing this on a laptop/computer rather than on your phone because it's not hard per say, but it can take some time to wrap your head around the tools.
step one. — open photopea.com and click on 'open from computer' &select the file you want to add. (TIP: if you haven't cropped your picture yet, to get the perfect size, you can click on 'new project' and play around with the sizing until it's the one you like)
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step two. — click on the file tab and open the psd you wanna add onto it.
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step three. — after you've added the psd, click on layer, and then the duplicate into option.
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a pop-up screen will show up. click on the name of the file you want to add the psd onto, and then click ok.
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step four. — go back to the tab containing your picture, and click file. click on the export option, and you can select the type of file you want to save it as!
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AANDD you're done! that's it! super easy. there's the result.
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the psd i've used is called breakthrough by breewaffle on deviantart.
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hope this was helpful! i will never not be salty over polarr turning into a (almost) fully paid app. so glad photopea exists <3
this was my first actual tutorial, because the ones you've been seeing all along were my old ones which were there when i unpublished this book almost an year (?) ago. i just republished them because i had no will whatsoever to make new ones and i also might've could've may have forgotten how to make graphics because it's been WAYY too long.
fun fact (bored, might delete later): i had a breakdown when i was trying to make the cover for sucker punch because i wanted to make it look like the other covers i have but i just couldn't find the damn overlay with flowers at the bottom. i literally searched up every keyword, every corner of pinterest but i couldn't find it so i settled with this one. not really a fan of this cover but meh.
