#[file: cyan]

[blackmesaflashbackepisode]

[ladyofthebookcase]

love is in the air? WRONG. cyan lizard.

[muldersplaining]

Muldersplaining Myst.

I bet you got stuck on the rocket ship puzzle, right? You know, the one with the piano. Huh, yeah, I bet you did. You probably had to look it up! I can tell! Look at you, you're getting nervous just thinking about it.

[spooked-skull-studios]

AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH THE KNOCK THRICE X PROTOCOL DROP IS MAKING ME NEED TO WALK IN A CIRCLE IM MAGNUSSING IT RIGHT NOW AUGHHH

I AM GOING TO START SACRIFICING MY SIX EVIL EXES TO THE LOCAL GREGGS IF I CANT GET MY HANDS ON THAT BLACK CARDIE AND SWEATER AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON THE MESSENGER BAG

[akiemuletter-archive]

🎶 → 「私は歌うことが大好きなので、あなたも歌うべきです！」

This is a special show for @intersweet !

To download PSD click the 🎶

@ when using!

[martyrbat]

batman: gotham city secret files and origins

[ID: an edit of Cassandra Cain in their Batgirl costume. They're shown from the chest up and has their head tilted to the right. Their gaze is to the left and their lips are parted as they look slightly bemused. They have straight black hair that's cut like a bob and a few stray hairs are on their forehead. In both photos, Cass is in front of a soft pink background. In the first photo, there's a fitted white glow around them and in the second photo, they're outlined in white with a subtle, darker pink glow behind them. END ID]

[cyanrendipity]

I've been on chapter 11 of Yakuza Kiwami for 2 days trying to finish Majima everywhere! Can't believe I gotta do the coliseum I hate the actual fighting LMAO (I never play action games)

There's no point if I stop now tho, I gotta get the final Majima ability or else I'll die, also I don't have any other Yakuza games to play so I finish this one is bye bye Majima for a while😔

I knew Kiwami was a remake from the PS2 game but I didn't expect how much better storywise Yakuza 0 is, not that the Kiwami story is bad but Yakuza 0 is much more involved I think, I imagine the other games get better with that part as it goes and if I wasn't busy doing Majima Everywhere I would have finished this one pretty quick (compared to 0) so it's not like the "simpler" story is a downside since it goes by quickly, plus you know, Majima.

I'll probably get Kiwami 2 next time it's on sale but after that I'm not sure if I'll keep playing, I thought "maybe I'll play all the games Majima shows up in" but then I realized that's like... a lot of games.....

My love story with Majima shall wait a while longer

[hobermallowed]

I can't wait until you finish the Frozen Wilds arc. The reveals are pretty damn cool and add a lot of context to the main game. :) I'm hoping you went after the Grave-Hoard mission though, just because that makes about the best narrative sense.

Oh, I’ve played before! I know Zero Dawn a little too well tbh 😅 and the remaster is sooo beautiful! I was going to wait until I finished the main story to go to the Frozen Wilds but I can wait no longer, I NEED my icerail back 😭😭😭

[keeps-ache]

workin on a thaaang

[rorauru]

evil summoned

[blackmesaflashbackepisode]

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Me: *bitches bc she has to come up with names for the orange and yellow Tantas*

Also me: What if we had a cyan Tanta, too? What if she's in the cult?

[3motionally3xhausted]

Redesigning the Fentons!!

Hi yes this is for yet another Danny Phantom AU of mine it has nothing to do with the Apprenticeship AUs but unlike that batch I actually wanna turn this AU into a fic eventually once I get through a few other big projects I have *sobs*

Anyway individual files for each character under the cut along with my obligatory rambling about all the choices I made ;)

Jazz! Honestly, when I was a kid, I always thought she was 18 not 16 so it was kind of a shock when I started rewatching the show about a yr ago and heard that. Anyway, she's 17 in this AU but already moved out to college on a scholarship bc living in FentonWorks is kind of hell and she has that Older Sibling Guilt for leaving Danny there. For her clothes, I wanted it to be a mix of tactical and preppy.

Danny! (Fenton) The effects of FentonWorks hell is much more visible on Danny than Jazz because she got out of there as soon as she could. Because of that though, a lot of the chores in the lab got pushed onto Danny, without passing on many safety tips, like replacing the ecto-filtrator, cleaning contaminated tools, organizing ecto-weapons, etc. And because he doesn't know any better when it comes to safety, he has many symptoms of radiation poisoning: visually, this comes through in the discoloration/scarring on his skin (Jazz has some slight scarring on her face and hands as well), the cataract on his left eye, as well as burst blood vessels in that eye. For his clothes, I wanted them to look a bit ragged and worn through ripped seams, tears in the jeans, & duct tape around his shoe.

Danny! (Phantom) I don't actually have a lot to SAY about my choics, but I am really happy with it. There are still a few things. I wanted his hair as Fenton & Phantom to be different but still reminiscent of the simplistic rendering of the original show: Fenton is kind of timid so his hair falls over his face, & Phantom is more active/aggressive so his hair is pushed upward. The only other thing I want to comment on is his skin: it's kind of about how I usually stylize Phantom (and I mentioned this when I redesigned Dani a while back) but a "healthy" Phantom in my style would have more bright cyan skin and an unhealthy Phantom has a more dull/zombie green. And lastly, as a ghost, the radiation poisoning kind of cleans up into more neat scarring rather than the muddy/bleeding look as Fenton.

Maddie! Now, I'm gonna be honest, real vulnerable here,... I hate Maddie's canon haircut. It's ugly, I'm not sorry. But I can modify it, so it's fine: now it's curlier, a bit darker, and has a few grey streaks bc she's a genius and constantly pulling long working hours. And, it didn't come across as much as I wanted, but she's got some biceps, strong lady. Now, I'm not really sure why, but I wanted to shift the color of her and Jack's jumpsuit, making hers much more desaturated.

Jack! Big guy. I don't have many thoughts about him either, but I did give him glasses and some stubble for a little bit more dad energy (?) I mainly changed the color of his jumpsuit bc Orange is an extremely hard color for me to render for some reason, so now it's the classic Hazard Yellow. Finally, the most notable difference is the coat I put on him for a bit more scientist energy but my main reasoning for it is the potential visual of him being an absolute tank jumping from overhead with the ghost gauntlets and his coat flapping behind him. Also, I generally like the idea of him presenting himself as a big, dumb teddy-bear, always smiling, but completely unhinged below that facade: dropping the smile or not while towering over you in shadow. Wild imagery.

FINAL THOUGHTS: Do not count on any actual steps towards creating this fic in the near future, it's just on my mind right now, but I NEED to finish my other projects first 🙏🙏🙏 That said, I will (eventually) get around to a handful more character redesigns for this AU including: Vlad, Sam, Tucker, Valerie, Paulina, and maybe Lancer & Dash

[corviday]

color wheel meme!

red: en (dorohedoro) orange: kim kitsuragi (disco elysium) yellow: kurapika (hunter x hunter) green: craig marduk (tekken) cyan: shoko nadami (ai: somnium files) blue: lapis phos (houseki no kuni) purple: hobie (spiderverse) pink: tsukiko & maromi (paranoia agent)

[hwanwooyoung]

well well well... happy birthday to me 🥳

to celebrate, here's a lil LUT pack that you can use as a ✨base✨ for your colourings, whether you're a gifmaker, gfx artist or video editor!

thank you to all my moots for always being there for me and for blessing my dash with all your amazing works!! 💖 thank you for keeping this hellsite running; i hope this gift could be a small help to you if you're ever in a pinch 🥰

(also, moots! could i trouble you to help me fill in this form please? 💖 the form is open to all moots even if we haven't interacted 🥺)

to everyone else who supports me, my biggest heartfelt thanks to you all!! 😁😁 i wouldn't be where i am without you, so thank you so so much!!! 💕

🚨 [DOWNLOAD]

this LUT pack is open to everyone, so feel free to download and use as a lil stepping stone for your content! 😁 it'll be long, so everything will be under the cut!

Here’s how to use LUTs in your colouring:

✨ FOR ONE-TIME USE:

Make your gif as usual until the colouring process

In Photoshop, go to Adjustments > Colour Lookup

Make sure ‘3DLUT File’ is selected

In the dropdown menu beside ‘3DLUT File’, click ‘Load 3D LUT…’

Navigate to where you saved the downloaded LUTs

Click on the selected LUT to load it. It will be automatically applied to all your frames

Done! Now you can export the gif, or continue refining the colouring

✨ FOR PERMANENT USE:

Find your Photoshop folder (under Applications for Mac; under Documents for Windows)

Go to Presets > 3DLUTs

Drag in the .3DL / .CUBE LUTs that you downloaded into this folder

Close the Finder / File Explorer

Open Photoshop

Make your gif as usual until the colouring process

In Photoshop, go to Adjustments > Colour Lookup

Make sure ‘3DLUT File’ is selected

In the dropdown menu beside ‘3DLUT File’, click ‘Load 3D LUT…’

Navigate to where you saved the downloaded LUTs

Click on the selected LUT to load it. It will be automatically applied to all your frames

Done! Now you can export the gif, or continue refining the colouring

✨ LEFT GIF: ORIGINAL

- no colouring (used as a control test)

✨ RIGHT GIF: BASE MATTE

- adds a matte texture

- red-toned to target cyans

- best used at 30% - 50% opacity

- used in this set: dokyeom "kidult" perfomance

✨ LEFT GIF: BASE 1

- good for overly bright videos

- more blue-toned

- used in this set: seonghwa visual cam

✨ RIGHT GIF: BASE 2

- good for overly bright videos

- best used at 50% opacity

- used in this set: jennie "solo" perfomance

✨ LEFT GIF: BASE 3

- red-toned to target cyans

- best for green/yellow-toned videos

- used in this set: hoshi 'code:graphy' photoshoot behind

✨ RIGHT GIF: BASE 4

- good for overly bright videos

- best for green/yellow-toned videos

- used in this set: mingi "guerilla" 8K cam

✨ LEFT GIF: BASE 5

- aims to balance skin tone

- best for yellow-toned videos

- used in this set: yeonjun essence of dance

✨ RIGHT GIF: BASE 6

- red-toned to target cyans

- increases contrast

- used in this set: jeonghan caratland 2024

✨ LEFT GIF: BASE 7

- best for blue-toned videos

- increases contrast

- used in this set: wonwoo odg video

✨ RIGHT GIF: BASE 8

- balances out yellow-toned videos

- increases contrast drastically

- used in this set: seungkwan "hot" facecam

✨ LEFT GIF: MUBANK 1

- ideal for music bank interviews

- aims to balance skin tone

- used in this set: yeosang mubank interview

✨ RIGHT GIF: MUBANK 2

- ideal for music bank interviews

- more red-toned

- increases contrast

- used in this set: jeonghan mubank interview

✨ LEFT GIF: SPOTIFY

- ideal for spotify on! videos

- aims to balance skin tone

- slight matte texture

- used in this set: wooyoung spotify cat aegyo

✨ RIGHT GIF: WIRED

- ideal for (most) wired interviews

- aims to balance skin tone

- increases contrast slightly

- used in this set: jennie wired autocomplete interview

🚨 [DOWNLOAD]

to reiterate again, this is a ✨base✨ for colourings, not to replace your actual colouring! one base does NOT fit all 😇 experiment and see what works best for you!

and that's the end! if you scrolled all the way here, thank you for taking the time to do that 😄💖 i appreciate you so much!!

[judithan-fr]

Tutorial: How I Render Accents

PART 2: COLORS

I usually do not recommend 'pixel hunting' aka going over your work with a fine tooth comb and picking out stray pixels to erase. However, for setting up a proper base layer for accents it is imperative to do so.

To explain my method of color blocking: I select everything outside of the lines, invert that selection, then fill in. This does a more accurate job than going into each and every section and filling them all in individually, and is also significantly faster. Only downside is small sections like above where you can see bits of the green (which I use bright green against a dark grey background to contrast the base color, lines, and background) poking out, as well as the inner section where it filled in a spot I did not want filled in. Getting all of this right in this stage will make your life easier as you go. (It's also the method I use to color block all my work, even beyond accents)

Now this where my style of rendering color may come off intimidating and, tbh it might be. I do gradients first and then I color over them with "normal" blend layers. I typically don't use multiply layers unless I'm shading something that has a lot of textures. If this scares you, it's okay I'll keep walking you through it. Here, my gradient goes from a pastel but deep periwinkle, to a soft more cyan blue, then to a lighter pastel green. Skipping steps and going from the periwinkle to green will give it a different look. There's also hints of a pinkish tone as an accent color.

So as I said, these additional layers are done with regular "normal" blend mode layers. I've placed one in between the butterfly line art and the line art for the rest of the flowers, and then an additional layer under everything else. This allows me to create a glow effect specifically around the butterflies, and then specifically under the flowers. Going back and forth with the proper amount of opacity (by using the airbrush transparently) helps to make it glow but not be Too Loud. Also checking it against a dark background can help to check for spots where it spills past the borders, as well as really gauge how Bright it is. I've also color matched the butterflies with the flower pits and the bulbs. This adds extra cohesion and makes them all look uniform but different enough with the gradients.

The stages of how I render gems/dew drops. Take the base color, make it a bit darker and less saturated (as well as changing the hue a bit depending on what the default color is. For yellows I go more orange/red, for blues I go more purple or even pink. It depends), add a small drop light at the bottom thats a fairly saturated version of the base color, and then a stark white/ near white highlight. That's it. Don't over complicate it, it will not matter when it gets shrunk down. Note that I do not use multiply/overlay/screen layers for these types of things as it adds too much bulk to the files and doing it manually helps to strengthen your color theory skills.

For shading and rendering, again, I create a "normal" layer and simply. Draw over what exists. Color picking and hand blending allow me to create the exact shades and effects that I want that multiply/screen/overlay layers may not be able to achieve. (which isn't to say I dont use them! i just don't use them for the main meat and potato part of my coloring) All of what is shown here is also achieved with the CSP asset SOIPEN (which can be found for free in the asset store)

another example. The one on the right is showing how the layer looks without the gradient base layer under it. All of this is rendered by hand. I also specifically put a highlight color around where the butterfly is sitting to give a better illusion that it is properly sitting on the flowers rather than just in front of them.

Next is changing the color of the lines, if needed. A method i'll use is I color just the sections I want (on a separate clipping layer) then lock that layer's alpha setting to them add in a gradient. It's a small and subtle effect that adds more depth without doing a lot of effort. (work smarter not harder)

Now we get to the Polish Layers!

first image is how it looks as a base. second image is with an overlay layer applied. I've used some dark purples and mid tone desaturated greens to push the values a bit further (especially evident on the top left wing) Third image is with a screen layer applied, highlighting the inner most part of the flowers and adding some additional bounce light.

An important thing to note about making accents vs making full coverage skins: OPACITY AND LAYER TYPES MATTER OVER TRANSPARENT SPOTS. What I mean by this is that if you use a soft, light grey to shade with a multiply layer, don't clip it to anything, and have it go outside the lines - that will no longer appear as a 'shadow' when it comes to the final result. Instead you will have a section of soft light grey that is simply laid on top of whatever the image under it is. The same applies for overlay/screen/add layers and so on. If i use a very dark color on a screen layer (to give a soft highlight) and airbrush it over a bunch of stuff and don't clip it, it will end up with this horrible dark splotch over everything that isn't opaque. To this end, mastering normal layers is imperative to having well rendered and convincing accents.

Another thing of note: when it comes to sparkles/small details, note how 'large' the sparkles behind the butterflies are. They seem a bit chunky, yeah?

this is what they look like at proper size. If anything, I could have gone larger on the small metal beads connecting the dew drop jewels to the lace.

Another trick I also like to do is this:

a slight hint of transparency! It's just enough to let the dragon's lines underneath show through but not enough to be super noticable. I like to do this a lot when it comes to sparkly and magical effects.

Next is the worst part of all: destroying all that beautiful hard work with the shadow and line art layers! (sobbing)

This stage always agonizes me. This is my first pass of the shadow/line layers and let's hope it's dark enough.

But yeah that's a start to finish look at how I create my accents. Unfortunately a lot it devolves into needing to know, yknow, line weight and silhouette importance, color theory and the ways that drawing applications actually apply color to a png vs how its rendered in app. All of these things impact the finesse of the accent, and are things you do have to learn gradually over time, but hopefully this has given yall some additional insight and perhaps some helpful tips.

And this should also explain why I get so mad when people go 'hey can I get this accent in another color' no! no you literally can't!