First I'd like to tell ya that I don't proclaim to be a professional at graphics and image manipulation. Shit, hardly. I'm self-taught, never read a fuckin' manual or attended a bullshit workshop. A lot of the pics I make for the site suck, and if I'm lucky, about 1 out of 20 is even decent-and only 50% of those are even funny. Peeps, I know this. But if you're new to image editing and want to get started with the basics, this tutorial might start you off in the right direction. However, it is in no way an image editing gospel or technical article. Use these "techniques" (a fancy word for "The Way I Been Doin' This Shit") at your own risk. They may permanently retard you. In other words, if you pick up some fucked-up, malformed, retarded and unbreakable editing habit from this tutorial that some day keeps you from getting a cushy graphics job at Ebay or some shit...well,...all I gotta say is I fuckin' tole you so. 

I'm just going to describe a few simple methods to accomplish some basic image editing. Keep in mind, there's probably 10 different ways to do each step in this tutorial-and every one might get you better results and be ten times easier. So please-no emails telling me I'm telling folks some fucked-up shit or that X-Y-Z should be done like this or that...see, I probably wouldn't even understand what the hell you were talking about to start with. And besides, I'm just too goddamned lazy to re-edit this whole fucking tutorial to fix some flawed method I'm propagating. A'ight?

With that bullshit said, lets continue:

• A good image editing program
• Some raw pics to weed-up
• Some pics of paraphernalia: bongs, bowls, blunts, leaves, lighters etc.

• Step  #1: Download And Install A Good Image Editor
• Step  #2: Finding A Picture You Want To Weed Up
• Step  #3: Understanding The Process
• Step  #4: Get Familiar With The Tools
• Step  #5: Cutting Out Your Paraphernalia
• Step  #6: Cleaning Up The Edges
• Step  #7: Paste, Resize And Adjust Levels
• Step  #8: Positioning & Erasing
• Step  #9: Adding A Shadow And Highlights
• Step #10: Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Bongholder
• Step #11: Final Clean-Up And Merging
• Step #12: Smoke 'Em Out!
• Step #13: Crop Or Resize If Needed
• Step #14: Saving Your Image
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