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Summary
The Balloon (GUOS65124) is an item from the comeback era of the Gothic Universe of Shapes series. It was created on the 26th May, and 11th, 17th, and 18th June 2018 using Faber Castell Watercolour Pencils, Lead Pencils, and Felt Pens, an Artline 204 Faxblac 0.4 Black Pen, Microsoft Paint, Paint 3D, Paint.NET, GIMP, and Microsoft Excel 2010.

It was not created using auto-shapes, being drawn and edited outside Microsoft Excel, except for some shadow effects. The Balloon is the fourteenth shape to be completed using Microsoft Excel 2010, instead of Microsoft Excel 2007, and the fourteenth shape to be drawn and edited outside Microsoft Excel, without using Adobe Photoshop CS4.

The Balloon was also the eleventh shape to use effects from Paint 3-D, although the effects were indistinguishable from if similar effects had been added using a different program. It was also the ninth shape to use effects from Paint.NET, although the effects were indistinguishable from if similar effects had been added using a different program. It was also the sixth shape to use effects from GIMP, the tenth shape to use conditioner texture, and the ninth shape to use a text sparkle effect. However the conditioner texture and the text sparkle effect were made transparent to the point where they couldn't be identified. The text sparkle effect was also heavily blurred.

Being completed in Microsoft Excel 2010 meant that I could use tools that were absent in Microsoft Excel 2007, such as applying a glad wrap and a glowing edges texture effect. This was the eleventh time I recall using Microsoft Excel to apply a glad wrap texture effect, and the sixth time I recall using Microsoft Excel to apply a glowing edges texture effect, since I no longer had access to Adobe Photoshop CS4, and thus I couldn't use it to apply a glad wrap or glowing edges texture effect.

However I also used a Sobel texture effect for the third time while using GIMP for the shape which was similar to the glowing edges texture effect from Adobe Photoshop CS4, and Microsoft Office 2010.