Dirtbag1944
Some basics about Kisekae
I was once asked how to get started using Kisekae. It occurred to me that I could copy the pointers I wrote down, to here where everyone could see and perhaps benefit from them. Since flash died, Kisekae is now a downloadable Adobe Air app.
So I don't actually read Japanese; I had to learn through trial and error.
All of the tabs contain options for modifying the characters and scene. It will probably default to "easy" mode with fewer tabs all grouped on one page. The gray magnifying glass tab will allow you to switch to "expert" mode which has a much larger span of options. In "expert"mode there are arrow buttons on the left that let you cycle through 4 pages of tabs. You'll need to play with the options under each tab to see what they do.
To break the expert options options down further:
Page 1 has:
Blue tabs for selecting, adding, removing, and copying up to 9 characters.
Yellow tabs for adjusting the pose and position of characters.
Pink tabs for adjusting the body shape of characters.
Page 2 has:
Green tabs for messing with face and hair.
Light blue tabs for facial expressions, which will need to be set to manual if you want to assign them yourself.
Page 3 has:
Five color groupings for clothing: upper body layers, skirts/pants sock and shoes, underwear, hats/hairties, and armbands/gloves.
A single gray button that lets you upload pictures. I've not used it much.
Page 4 has:
Yellow and green tabs for disembodied arms, hairties and belts that can be placed anywhere on the screen with being attached to any character.
Purple-gray tabs for furniture, flags and speech bubbles that can placed anywhere.
Dark-gray tabs for miscellaneous options like adjusting backgrounds, uploading custom backgrounds, create text boxes (which only works for me when NOT in full-screen). The gray wrench tab has various settings for screen resolution, censorship, and the switch to go from "expert" back to "easy."
A single tan tab for creating and saving multiple pages that you can cycle through comic-style. Kisekae can save sets of these pages using the small pencil button but I've had it crash and lost all of them. The save and load buttons will create and read .txt files that you can save on you own computer.
Lastly there are three buttons on the far right.
The pink tab saves and loads individual pages (instead of entire books of pages like the tan tab).
The gray magnifying glass has a check box for full-screen as well as a slider for zooming in and out. It also allows you to save the current page as a .png or .jpg image. There are also some image quality and cropping functions I've never really used.
The green tab just hides kisekae behind a black screen.
That's probably a lot to parse all at once but here are a few more tips. Most options have two sliders; one for left/right and one for up/down. There are also eye-shaped check boxes that hide certain features entirely. A lot of features (especially hair) have be toggled through multiple layers such as behind the shoulders, in front of the shoulders, or in front for the face.
Anyway, I hope this might help someone get started.
Funny thing about sexuality...
A quick trip through my favorites will reveal a huge range of different kinds of erotic art, and some of them heavily feature things like domination, mind control, personality destruction, unwilling transformation, and the like. These are things that my body says "yes please!" and then my brain catches up and says "what the hell, that's not okay."
And it's funny because I can and do become aroused by the idea of a sweet, loving, non-fetishized relationship. This is the sort or relationship I actually hope to have someday.
But I'm also aroused by certain fantasies that I would never in a million years consider inflicting on a actual person. Some of these things would be outright criminal in the real world, and it makes me a little uncomfortable that I'm aroused by them.
Now, it's not like I spend a ton of time stressing over this, but sometimes after browsing erotic art I do wonder. I think the important thing is for us all to remember that these are fantasies and they need to remain fantasies. Erotica on Deviantart can be boiled down to pixels on a screen or words on a page. But sexuality in real life involves people.
I have tried to split the difference with some of my own writing. Stories like "Spoken Without Words" have tried to feed the fetish while still retaining an appreciation and respect for one's sexual partner.
I may do some darker work in the future. But I do so with the understanding that there an uncrossable line between fiction and reality, and the darker the fantasy the more thoroughly it must be confined to art.