#<3 nature psds

[milaiscreating]

☆ ⠀__ ⠀ .ıllı ⠀ ⁺ ⠀ : ♡ 𓊈 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒃𝒚𝒆 𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚜 ִֶָ ☁︎·˚𓊉 ☆ ⠀ .ıllı ⠀ ⁺ ⠀ : ♡

Summer Rain, PSD #024 by Mila

psd

[sillyfairygarden]

im MONTHS late to making good on this promise but !! i'm excited to try something different for a DTIYS challenge: a colour this in your style! all the rules and links to access the full pieces will be under the cut :)

rules:

1. no deadline, no due date. take as much time as you wish, and you can colour one, two, or all of them :)

2. i contemplated adding a designated colour palette to each of their designs (since these are based off an au), but i honestly think it's more fun to see the combinations people choose instead. there are basic themes for them (lizzie=chaos, gem=nature/life, cleo=decay/death, and pearl=stars), but go apeshit

3. please tag me AND/OR use the tag #thellodtiys on ur posts. i lurk on twitter/ig so you can use it there too!

click here to access the google drive folder containing the CSP, PSD, and Procreate files . there’s also like. PNGs in there too

thats pretty much it :) the rest is up to you. ive been marinating on the idea of a colouring book zine for the past few months, so this is my soft-launch to see how it goes. i cant express the gratitude i feel towards the kindness this community has shown me, and making content with these silly block women has been an unexpected source of joy in my life. to know that people enjoy my works is simply put, a treasure on its own. ty :^)

[polyamships]

The Polyamships discord server (invite here) is happy to invite you to Polyartober. Inspired by Inktober, but for polyamory, Polyartober brings you 31 daily prompts (+ 10 alt prompts) for October to get you in the creative flow to make more art.

Polyartober rules

1) Make a drawing* of your polyam ship (it doesn’t have to be in ink. Stick figures welcome. Not all characters have to be in the drawing, but the subject of the drawing must be polyam in nature) 2) Post it** 3) Hashtag it with #polyartober and #polyartober24. You can also mention us @polyamships to make sure we see it. 4) Repeat

*So you want to write instead of draw? We created this event focused on artists, but if you feel inspired, please go ahead and create something else: writing, gifs, moodboards, meta, etc. The most important rule is to make it polyam and have fun!

**Please post your work mentioning the fandom and characters somewhere in the post so we can tag it appropriately. Use the character’s name as it appears in canon (this may mean Lastname Firstname for some fandoms) - if they only have a 1 word name please put the fandom in brackets after it e.g. Parker (Leverage).

Feel free to combine this event with any other events that allow it such as whumptober, lyrical titles bingo, ficathons, etc. for an extra challenge.

Please note that since we’ll be running this month-long event, there won’t be a PolyamShippingDay prompt on the 14th October. We’ll be back in November with our regular PSD posting :)

Now we're also on X/Twitter @ polyamships - our X/Twitter Polyartober2024 thread

AO3 COLLECTION (for both art and/or fics)

List of prompts in plain text under the cut.

Prompts

Lovers

Birthday

Dungeon

Bed

Date

Game

Wound

Morning

Comic

Kiss

Shadow

Breakfast

Portrait

Fire

Tentacles

Shower/bath

Shotgunning

Black and White

Extra

Flowers

Luck

Knife

Water

Rope

Autumn

Road trip

Golden

Drinks

Marks

Angst

Costumes

Alt prompts

You don’t like one of the prompts? Feel free to use one of our Multiamory March prompts which you can find here.

You’ve already done all the Multiamory March prompts? Wow, you’re amazing! Here you have 10 extra prompts to get you going:

Murder mystery

Survivor’s guilt

Buddy system

In sickness and in health

Lap dance

Falling asleep

Chosen soulmates

Sensory deprivation

Dancing together

Last night

[arcanegifs]

On Gifmaking:

So season 2's coming soon, and I wanna reflect on making gifs ever since I came back to Tumblr. I can't believe it's been 2 years of making gifs for this show!!!!! Look at how large my folder is lmao

And those are JUST gifs lol

Anyways, over time, my style has changed, especially how I color edit Arcane gifs. I kind of strayed away from a stylized filter color into just something that looks a lot more "natural" and works with the original scene.

Initially, I thought I'd save time, but I ended up not using my old arcane preset PSDs and resulted to coloring almost every scene manually. So in the end, it takes even longer to make them HAHAHA. It takes around an hour and a half for me to make a 10 gif set, basically. It also helps that I have a photography background, so coloring/editing is a lot simpler for me.

Here's a lil before and after of a dark scene (hiiiii viiiiiii <3)

Arcane is a REALLY dark show, but it goes for most of TV shows. Many of them are darker and harder to bring up the lights to make stuff look nice as gifs. Some people don't like to color their gifs, and that's okay. I personally just like color edited gifs more.

I've started learning how to upscale scenes myself, so that I have a better resolution and leeway to make things look "HD" more.

If you're wondering why my stuff look so "crisp", it's a combination of the scene's lighting, my sharpening settings on Photoshop and knowing how to upscale everything into 4k resolution. Of course, doing this needs an extremely beefy pc, which I am very lucky to own one.

Here's another before and after of a nicely lit scene. These are much, MUCH easier to do than all the darkly lit scenes because of shadows and lighting (caitlyn kiramman truly the rizzler <3)

I've been very lucky to be able to essentially take a nice, long break for like a month doing nothing after being so damn busy for the last year and a half, so it's nice that I was able to make a ton of gifs and be chronically online for a short while LMAO.

It's been so fun! But it's time to go back to reality lmao. I closed reqs for a bit because I was just so swamped with them the last few days, and I wanted to gif scenes that I like this time. I've done like 2 weeks worth of gifs. And you will see Vi a lot bc she's on my mind a lot heehee 🥰what can I say, she's such a babe <3

Here's a lil sneak peek, just look at herrrrrrr 🥰🥰🥰 and yeah, 4k upscaled resolution really helps making these tight crops, it's why i never went back to 1080p lol. It's how I’m able to make zoomed in gifs look decent (like the kirammountains gifset lol)

Thank you so much for all the support, likes, reblogs, and the nice tags you guys give. Yes, I can see and read all of them (both the nice and nasty ones lmao). If you have nothing good to say about the characters or my editing style, or anything related to the edit, please I beg you, just write a separate text post about it <3 If you have nothing nice to say, don't say it in my edits.

Lastly, thank you to the people who share my stuff outside the site and credit the blog and link them back here. I see you and appreciate you <3 You guys don't know how much I appreciate shoutouts and link backs, because people stealing my gifs is something that I've dealt with after making them for like a decade.

Tumblr is sadly not what it used to be in the 2013-2015 era. There’s definitely less activity as time goes by, so I appreciate all the people who credit and link back to this sideblog. Unfortunately, there’s more people who just repost them and it gets wayyy much more traction in other soc med sites. Yeah, ofc I get a lil jealous, but eh what can you do 😞 can’t really stop em.

I also don’t like putting watermarks because it personally looks tacky to me, but I understand why other people do it.

Anyways, if you reached at the end of this lil rambling of mine, thank you! I sadly might be busy during November because that's usually busy season, but I'll try to make time for making gifs of Season 2! Thank you and enjoy your stay on this lil sideblog :)

[ultimac]

CLİPART - DRAGON+ (3)

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[grandadofrad]

RESOURCES FOR ARTISTS VOL 1

In the spirit of gratitude for the plethora of free resources out there for artists that I've been gleefully ransacking my entire life, I want to share some of them that I've compiled.

smithsonian open access: this is a HUGE one! lots of images that are absolutely free to use, as well as an incredible set of 3-D resources. Their collection spans the same breadth that their multiple museums do-- natural history, gems, fine art, aerospace/engineering stuff, etc. so do not sleep on this.

(screenshot is the 3-D digitization page, one of my fav sections)

2. The League of Moveable Type is a resource for free fonts, but not just any free fonts-- professionally designed free fonts. Some of the bigger sites can be a lot of wading through sub par stuff, but every single thing here was very carefully and lovingly designed, and is free.

3. Unsplash is full of great free to use images. Seriously, huge collection. Portraits, textures, 3-D renderings, you name it and it's probably here and free to use. ALSO cool because images will note whether their creator is for hire if you like their work. You can also submit your images to this platform. (I think it has a premium section but I haven't needed to engage with it yet)

(screenshot of unsplash.com with a search for 'y2k render')

4. rawpixel's Public Domain collection. They've been high quality scanning public domain images for a while. They're free to use under a CC0 license, which is basically without restriction. They've got lots of categories, I personally love the Graphic Design and the Vintage Illustration sections.

(screenshot of the 'patterns' section of the Public Domain collection on rawpixel)

5. Photopea is a free Photoshop alternative that runs in your browser. It's got a few quirks(especially if you run a non-chromium browser, but stay strong anyway) and is ad-supported, but really powerful and robust. It also opens PSD files, supports smart objects and basically all of the Photoshop asset filetypes(.abr .grad .pat etc), as well as has filters, even a couple that Photoshop itself has gotten rid of in their more recent versions. You can use the fonts on your machine, export transparent pngs, and do generally anything that the big guy does. You can also donate a small amount to remove ads and support the singe person(!) who created and maintains it.

(screenshot of a .psd file with smart objects/smart filters open on photopea. The 'file' dropdown menu shows exciting options such as 'export' and 'save as psd')

6. Brusheezy.com is a great place to get free brushes, vectors, and photoshop assets in general(which can all be used in Photopea, btw).

(screenshot of the 'categories' page of brusheezy.com)

7. dafont.com Last but not least, I will include this huge font site but assume most people already have it on their radar. Free fonts! No account needed to download! Tons of categories! Many are demo/limited versions, so pay attention especially if you plan to use numbers or special characters as those are often the things left out of the free to use demo versions. It's nice to have a lot of options but to the discerning eye a decent amount of the fully free fonts here will fall a bit short/feel unpolished. That's not to discourage you from it, as I have a huge collection of types from here and routinely check it when I need something specific.

(screenshot of dafonts.com with the 'sci-fi' section pulled up)

So that's what I've got right now for visual art resources, I hope you can find something useful in here. Feel free to share this list and keep an eye out for the next one! Thanks to everyone out their with a love for sharing in their hearts, it's really inspired me to make some things with no other intention than to put them into the world as tools for others!

[rosamundpkes]

hi :) i love ur buffy gifs so much! they always look so nice!! would you be willing to do a coloring tutorial to show how you usually color btvs? or perhaps save the PSD the next time you gif buffy and share that?

oh i feel your pain!! and thank you so much <3

i colour each gif from scratch and don't save psds so i can't offer you something there but i've done up a buffy colouring tutorial here!!

Here's the uncoloured gif.

Step 1: The nice part about giffing Buffy is there is usually a grey or blueish grey pixel in the whites of her eyes that is perfect for a white point curves. I played around with different pixels on different points on the gif until I found one I liked.

Step 2: I always like to do the brightening first so I added on Levels and Exposure layers. BTVS has weird highlights where its very prone to white or yellow/white patches so I try to use as little as Exposure as possible but I like the Gamma Correction part.

Step 3: Channel Mixer is a lifesaver for Buffy because it usually has such a warm tint. I pretty much only use the Red and Blue settings but it helps make the gif cooler without the effects on shadows and midtones like Colour Balance.

Step 4: Selective Colour is mostly just to fix skintones and background colours. I typically wind up adjusting the cyan and yellow sliders for the reds and blues until her hair and skin looked normal. Sometimes BTVS has magenta in the shadows on her face so I increased the yellow there (while it makes sense to actual reduce the magenta, I'm going to a natural skintone not green).

You can also see that there are some white spots on her shirt, right arm, and the right part of her face. On the white, I increased the blacks and reduced the yellows to fix the colour and reduce the brightness.

Step 5: Hue/Saturation doesn't make a hugely noticeable difference here but it's a good opportunity to make final tweaks to colours and reduce overall warmth saturation. My personal preference is to have lower red/yellow saturation so I lowered that and made slight Hue adjustments (the yellows were still a little red for my liking). There was also some magenta in her eyes and teeth so I completely lowered the saturation and upped the brightness to fix that.

Step 6: The gif is still a little dark for my liking so I threw on a final Levels layer to brighten up her face. Usually, I would use exposure but if I did that I would end up with some serious white patches.

And that's it!! Each Buffy gif is slightly different but I would suggest making the gifs cooler and increasing the brightness through Curves and Levels without using Exposure.

[littleplasticrat]

Christmas Colouring Competition

It's time for a Christmas Colouring Competition! Colour these lovely elves traditionally or physically, realistically or psychedelically. You can add your own design to the banner and the gift boxes too :)

The prize is a custom NSFW colouring page featuring your Baldur's Gate 3 blorbos. Please check the bottom of this description for FAQs. Due to the nature of the artwork, only 18+ year-old artists will be considered for the prize.

Here's how to enter:

1. Follow my Tumblr (@littleplasticrat).

2. Download the colouring page/.psd for $0 from my Patreon and just go wild with it.

3. Get your finished art under my eyeballs. Post it somewhere and tag me, DM it to me, print it out and slip it into my pocket while I'm Christmas shopping - it's up to you.

Winner(s) will be announced in early January. I'll also be releasing the NSFW version of this Christmas Elves picture on the Colouring Page Afficionado tier of my Patreon on Christmas Day :) :) :)

Feel free to send me messages about this, and please reblog it to spread the Christmas colouring love 💝

FAQs

What could I win?

The winner will get a custom NSFW drawing of some combination of up to 3 BG3 characters. I prefer Astarion, Halsin, Raphael, Haarlep or Gortash, but my ears are open to your suggestions. No beastiality or underage stuff, and I reserve the right to reject other ideas I just don't dig. We've both got to enjoy the product, no?

I'm an amateur artist and I think my colouring is bad. What do?

You know, what I'm looking for is a certain je ne sais quoi. This quality of intangible BG3 slut culture may be attained through masterful colouring, some extremely cute wrapping paper designs, or something else. Like I said, just go wild!

I love these Elves very much!!!!!

Yeah, me too. My gosh!

[sugurugetos]

BEFORE & AFTER CHALLENGE 🩵 thanks for tagging me @withyouth <3 i had a lot of fun doing these and i was super interested in seeing how my own colouring process (and gif making process) had changed since the last year and a half, i used to have a really strong aqua/orange hued psd i'd slap on everything and then i was really into blues/reds but now i'm gearing towards more natural colouring and not too strong/contrasty (at least when it comes to kpop but sharpening also plays a role in that) i also really love peachy tones in gifs but i've yet to figure out the perfect way to do that <3

TAGGING 🩵 @reginageorg @muldery @guinevere-pendragons @emilybluntt @fawad-khan @ajusnice @irlvernon @mingyuskim @yeonjune @wenjunhui @lesseraive @sunghanbin @eeunwoo @minzbins @seoksgyu @jeniferhuh @farascha @eddiediaaz @antoniosvivaldi @heybaetae @yenvengerberg @crazy-form @simleez @ahiz @twiceland @facethesuns

[squea]

Hi! Adding this onto a previous question from someone else. For your sims pics of the 4 grouped together, how did you do it? As in, how did you merge them all together so seamlessly? I hope this doesn't annoy you. I'm just hoping to learn from someone that's really good at this 💜

OH i annoyingly deleted the psd but illl do a quick rundown for u <3 and thank u sm <3

i use photoshop 2021!

first of all this tool is ur friend (you find it by clicking holding on the magic wand/quick selection tool):

2. then simply draw a box over ur sim like so and it should auto select them:

3. do some manual tweaking withthe lasso/polygonal lasso tool to pick up any bits that were too close the the bg colour

4. then u copy paste them all to a sheet n mess abt with their positioning

5. then, on each character, I add both an "outer glow" and "inner glow" layer style. (you can copy layer style and paste to the others to avoid having to do it for each sim).

heres my settings for outer glow:

heres my settings for inner glow:

this makes the sims look more natural standing next to eachother

6. then just merge it all together and do any final touchups ie topaz clean or whatever u like to do :)

note: this works better with higher res screenshots so the object select tool has an easier job.

[yooboobies]

CREATOR GAME TAG - post some of your gifs before and after coloring! - i did all in one cause that is less encoding for me <3

I can't believe I finally got here - I was tagged by @btsjk-biased @rjshope @jkvjimin @cosmicdreamgrl - thank you!

I usually never do these tag games, I never did in the past either (I never save my gif psds and I just didn't want to recreate them because the coloring would change - its literally never the same) but I thought this one time I will give it a go and save some of my gifs and post them in one post. I did make one (just so it can be 6) that wasn’t in any of my recent sets but oh well!

I didn’t want to keep this in my drafts for longer it literally kills me when I have gifs in there!

My coloring is very basic - I do like to keep it or make it as natural as possible because that’s what makes me happy! I envy those who can play with the colours and make unique patterns but thats just not for me! I am happy I developed a kind of style over the years so yeah 💜

I use the same psd for everything (its the best for concert stuff) and I just play around with that so I never work from scratch!!

Thank you all for tagging me! I probably won’t do this kind of tag game ever again but this one time I thought I will do it💜 Not gonna tag anyone cause it’s been going around a while now and I am sure everyone got tagged but thank you for giving me an opportunity for this!!

Love u all💜

[helfan]

RECOMENDAÇÕES (e especificações)

🌙: AVISO DE POST LONGO! use translator, sorry :(

Olá! Finalmente trouxe um post com recomendações de psd! Esse post vai ter bastante texto, por questões de: eu sou fresco detalhista, esclareço mínimos detalhes que às vezes nem precisa. Todos os icons aqui são de minha autoria, e deixo dito desde já: não sei fazer psd! Eu só invento cor e taco.

Por começarmos, minhas edições tem dois psds como base em quase todos eles, que são bem conhecidos.

vibrum por oprum.

vibrant por neighbourhood-ps.

Esses dois eu uso junto! O vibrant (que tem no pack junto de outros que serão citado) por baixo com poucas opacidade e oprum do jeitinho dele, e às vezes, saturação e mudança de hue, como nos icons aqui embaixo:

Igual os icons de naruto e jibaku shonen! Ou os de kpop que são bem saturados. Quase sempre faço assim, com 3D ocasionalmente. Eles se dão bem praticamente tudo.

filtro 1 por mim.

Aqui já começam minhas loucuras. Eu faço muuuuito psd-não-psd, ou seja, aquela brincadeira com as ferramentas, fazendo minha mente achar bom, em um deles, esse aqui! Uso muitíssimo ele, inclusive usei recentemente. Ele é um blackout louco, fica tudo preto com branco mas ainda tem cor. Eu faço ele funcionar, diminuo a opacidade e por aí. Se dá bem com 3D vermelho-azul.

adendo, embora cabuloso que ele é, com os ajustes fica sussa na pele negra/morena, coloquei os ajustes no psd.

rosinha 1 por mim.

rosinha 2 por mim.

Esses aqui são outras loucuras, uso eles dependendo da foto, eles deixam um rosinha com branco e o outro é só um rosa. Linha de cima, rosinha básica, linha de baixo um rosa com brilho intenso, então fica branco. Eu usava bastante nos meus icons antigos. Obs.: fica bem com ícone da tomie, colorido ou não.

maçã caramelizada por mim.

Auto explicativo. Ou não. Ele deixa tudo chocolate, caramelo, tudo marrom se dá bem com iluminação boa da foto, mas com o ajuste de iluminação certo ele fica bem. 3D após mesclar ícone com as cores.

manga por mim.

Vai chegar mais de outros, prometo! Esse eu adoro, deixa meio rosado e é o básico do básico (dois ajustes só), eu amo usar com esse 3D aqui, recomendo. Ele também fica legal com outros estilos sem ser manga + neutro pra escurecer detalhes.

sft por neighbourhood-ps.

anemo por stardustinqs.

Os de jojo! E qualquer outro com essas cores vibrantes! Dá pra se notar, que ele é usado para "vibrar" tudo. Foi qual usei nas headers de jojo postadas aqui no perfil. A PROCURA DE CORES (presente no anemo) muda tudo! Às vezes fica belo e às vezes você diz não. Eu uso eles diminuindo a opacidade. Com 3D bem colocado, xablau.

água de arroz por arson1st.

algodão doce por arson1st.

No link tem vários outros dessa pessoa maravilhosamente talentosa (que eu sou fã) mas esses dois são xodós, recomendo muito. No ícone da power coloquei mais saturação (fora do psd). Tão na pasta rosa, e preto e branco.

nature flavor por oprum.

nature por color-source.

cute por neighbourhood-ps.

Respectivamente cada um deles. Eu amo estes e uso bastante, sendo presentes demais nos meus icons antigos.

Eu sofro de dor nas costas intensa, por este motivo, daqui pra baixo são recomendações apenas no link.

blue madness por oprum.

reflections por melino.

icy por chacha (iapetite).

jennie red por dayaze.

peaches and cyan por neighbourhood-ps.

cottagecore by dayaze.

godsddudu por autuunm20.

103 por sttoneds.

É ISSO! *palmas* chegamos ao fim. Eu teria feito mais, porém sou velho acabado, sinônimo de dor nas costas.

Do resto das minhas edições é tudo coisas da minha mente, PORÉM a maioria tenho salvo, então se tiver algum específico (psd) que eu usei em certa imagem, fique livre pra perguntar <3

até~ (acho que ninguém vai notar mas prfvr não façam bully com meu eu bambino na conta do drive)

[feliraeth]

kinaffected !

[pt: kinaffected ! end pt.]

kinaffected ; a term for when one's kintype is affected by x. kind of like vesils, but just for kintype.

for example, we're catkin. this is affected by our autism and heds. another example, our elfkin identity is affected by nature and by witchy aesthetics.

this is more about your specific identity rather than species. not all elves are connected to nature, but the elf that we are is.

for coining kinaffected terms: anyother is free to coin these ! just tag the term as kinaffected and/or tag us in the post <3 there's no set affixes, make up your own or use whatever ones you want !

okay i made a psd but idk how to share it, so if you want it shoot me an email: thefeliraethsystem@gmail.com

here's a png:

[id: a rectangular flag with eight stripes. the stripes are split diagonally from the top right to bottom left. on the right half of the flag, the colors from top to bottom are a gradient from black to white. on the left half the flag the colors are the same but in the reverse order. in the center of flag is a black outline of a simplistic camera lens. end id.]

@radiomogai new term type just dropped !!! /silly

[uwps002]

i'd like to order 3 fruits and 3 mun Qs to avoid overlap pls heehee

𝐅𝐑𝐔𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒   ♡   𝐒𝐘𝐌𝐁𝐎𝐋 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄 @hollowfaith

🍍  :    how comfortable is my muse in their body?  how do they feel about their height,  weight,  strength,  and body type?  how important is being attractive to them?  

Céline is comfortable in her own body pretty much all the time, and being attractive is something she's always coveted. Not for her ego's sake, though she does like to be complimented, but because she was a sex worker for a long time and being attractive definitely helped her out.

She has, however, struggled with gender dysphoria in the past, and that led to her current genderfluidity. At times she identifies more as a man, and she'll usually redo her entire wardrobe for a time. But she will never, ever cut her hair.

🍊  :    does my muse desire romance?  is it something they would actively seek out,  or prefer to happen more  ‘  naturally?  ’  what is their love life like?  do they have any exes or past flings,  or crushes?  

She's never actually been in a romantic relationship before because it was a little difficult to do when you were in hiding constantly, though she's had a number of physical ones over the past six years. It's something she desires, but she's very awkward about the idea of romance and worries if she got close to someone that they would either leave because her history or because of her true form. She connects better romantically with other women more than men in the end.

🥭  :    how important to my muse is their hometown,  or where they’re from?  are they proud of it,  or considered a hometown hero?  did they move away,  or do they wish to?

The twins never really had a "hometown" to speak of. They've always been on the move, and any semblance of one she's had she tried not to think about because of associated painful memories. Spirale is becoming the closest thing to one for her oddly, because she's spent more time here than anywhere else.

——————–QUESTIONS FOR MUN

10. Do you like stylized icons and formatted text or do you prefer to keep things simple?

It really depends on a few factors for icons. If I'm iconing a manga I try to keep them simpler because I think they look better. But I also have a habit of just making a PSD and not using another one for like years, so! I don't like things too fancy because they become too busy and hard to tell what's going on. In that sense, I feel similarly about formatting and just like to do smalltext + a unicode symbol at the start of my posts!

12. Have you roleplayed anywhere other than tumblr?

Quite a few places! I've used forums, GaiaOnline, and even tried Dreamwidth at one point. But I never really stray much from Tumblr these days, it's my preferred medium that hits that sweet spot between "not too much effort" and "basically no effort" that makes it feel satisfying without being too overwhelming.

16. Do you like to queue your replies or just post them when you finish?

I like to post them as I write them. Unless my girlfriend bullies me into queueing hers.

[pdouwes]

Hi, I'm a big fan of your blog and your gifs in general! I was wondering if you had any tutorial on how you color? Particularly your Wicked and Hadestown gifs look incredibly gorgeous and the colors really pop, and I'm so curious as to how you achieve those effects. Amazing work overall :D

hiii, oh my god thank you so much!! 🥺❤️

i'm happy to show you how i color my gifs but pls note that i basically have no idea what i'm doing, everything i know i taught myself via trial and error and this is just something i found works for me.

that being said, here's a quick (and very messy) bootleg coloring tutorial under the cut!

okay so, when it comes to making gifs and coloring in general, good source material is key. bright and clear videos make the coloring process SO much easier.

i picked an old 2010 wicked oberhausen boot for this tutorial. it doesn't have the highest resolution but the colors translate nicely and the lighting is pretty good as well.

now, this is our base gif cropped and sharpened. i usually want my gifs to look as natural and as close to their base version as possible with just colors and contrast enhanced slightly. baby steps are important here!

first thing i do is add a brightness/contrast layer. these are my settings for this gif:

i rarely ever go above 20 with either brightness or contrast. adding too much early on will make your gif look grainy in the end. our gif now looks like this:

not much has changed but a little goes a long way, trust me. next up is a curves layer. i click the little arrow to open the drop down menu and select increase contrast (rgb). afterwards i reduce the opacity. for this gif i set it to 52%.

this will darken the gif again but it also gets rid of these white spots on elphaba's dress which is great.

next, we start playing around with colors. i usually use 3 color fill and one or two selective color layers. this really is just playing around until you find the settings that you think look good. for this gif i wanted to enhance the green and neutralise some of the yellow, so i went with two color fill layers first.

green to slightly enhance the green of elphie's skin and blue to neutralise the yellow in glinda's hair.

next we're going with a selective color layer. think of the colors you want to pop. for this gif the obvious choices are elphie's skin and glinda's dress.

i added a second layer to further adjust the greens

and ended up with this gif

i then added another color fill layer, set it to multiply and reduced the opacity to 12

followed by a color balance layer

the purpose of these layers is to slightly "cool down" the gif, meaning they decrease orange/yellow undertones while enhancing the blue and purple ones.

next up is a levels layer to add a tiny bit more brightness

followed by a vibrance layer to make existing colors pop

and another curves layer for more brightness/contrast with the opacity set to 50%

our gif now looks like this:

almost done! we're finishing up with a black and white gradient map layer for some more depth

and a cooling filter to further reduce the yellow/orange tones of glinda's face and hair

and that's it!

so, here you go. this is my coloring process most of the time. sometimes i add more layers (on top or in between), other times i use less, it all depends on the specific scene and the mood i'm in lol.

now, could you leave out some of these steps? yeah, definitely. some layers probably don't even make that much of a difference but i like adding them anyway.

you can download the psd here. feel free to play around with my settings and add or delete layers as you see fit. hope this was at least somewhat helpful!

[sugurugetos]

what sharpening setting do you use? your gjfs are soo beautiful

— hey! thank you <3 i've tried to include a range of different sharpening settings for different videos (although there isn't a massive difference) and i've also linked some actions below :D

i use this one above for just about every video that i can apply it to (but most noticeably i use this sharpening on television shows and films and other 4k videos!) i actually got this sharpening from @kamalaskhans and you can find her post here 💙

sometimes shows can have details that are all really sharpened such as facial hair which can be a pain to sharpen (because you don't want to overdo it!) and luckily @sunflower-hae was the one to tell me about adding an extra gaussian blur layer on top (and often lowering the opacity of the gaussian layer to about 60-70%) <3

i've never really found this an issue with films/shows but a lot of kpop 4k videos still have irritating dither in the background, no matter what sharpening you use so i love adding noise onto the gif so the grain looks vaguely natural 💀

for just about every other video (such as short kpop videos like behind the scenes or interviews or 1080hd videos) i don't want to overdo the sharpening so i just use the above settings (and i'll add 1px noise if needed)

ACTIONS that i like!

glowy sharpening by @loveyazy sharpening actions by @throwing-psds gif action pack by @anyataylorjoy topaz-imitating action by @strifesource [i use this one a lot for stage gifs!]