#But I always over do it with the saturation 🙃

[ididntthinkiwould]

It's Viktor's birthday, so it's a good day to hug your version of Viktor (If he wants to)

[cherry-vennom]

When you get this, please respond with five things that make you happy! Then, send to the last ten people in your notifs 🖤

So many things make me happy...❣️ I am so blessed. Here are 5—

1. Being included in little Tumblr activities like this. I've been here for over a decade and have been included in a handful of them, delights me every time 😄🌸 Thank you for passing this on to me 🥰

2. Milk chocolate. I'm including this little piece of cocoa happiness because I just finished off a Cadbury milk chocolate bar with almonds that my fella brought home for me just a couple days ago along with a Snickers that I also already ate 😋 Love chocolate! Related side note - I recently confirmed (long time speculated) my genealogic roots to Aztec Native American people, as well as learned that not only did they rip still-beating hearts out of the chests of men with their bare hands 🫀 as means for religious sacrifice, but they also considered chocolate to be more precious than gold, used it as currency 🙂‍↕️ and are considered the first people to have "invented" edible chocolate. Checks out 🙃💖

3. Having such a close relationship with my daughter, all the precious moments and memories 💗 Her aura and personality, her cute little face!! Spending time with her is so cozy. This evening we decorated the house a bit for Christmas and then watched some Christmas classics like Frosty The Snowman and Rudolph. Her and I are constantly finding reasons to laugh through life. She is such a treasure and I am honored to be her mama, can't say that enough.

4. I have so many beautiful things and completely gorgeous connections with others and vividly intricate feelings about it all. My home is adorned with crystals and gems and books and art, friendly house plants and the most precious pets; beautiful happy faces with beautiful souls to match. I have a gorgeous little family I'm blessed to have been born into, as well as the family of my very own I continue to find and choose and grow, and the most incredible friends. I have profound romantic connections just at my fingertips.. and possibilities for more perfect babies. Closets full of faux fur, sparkly fabric, satin bows, platform ribbon lace-ups, color. Immediate access to organic nutrition, clean water, warmth. I love when I really get to reflect on how beautiful my life is and how thankful I am to be me and to have all that I do. Moments in time like this when I'm just completely in awe, grateful, and both incredibly humbled yet simultaneously feeling as though I have it all and the whole world is at my feet🎀; truly appreciative of everything in my exquisite little life exactly the way it is.

5. Me! I make me so happy. I love waking up to me! And spending all day and all night with her, forevermore. It's not always blissful and "perfect" (yet, it always is..💎), there have definitely been moments when I wish I could just get away, get a break - but ugh, her darling and precious sharp little face, an anchor in the chaos. Her big, dark and expressive warm-honey alien eyes full of love and ferocity. Her silky dark curls, rose petal soft skin, perfectly proportionate petite, powerful and mighty in every which way and yet so delicately soft. The way she deeply considers others, her innate ability to feel how they feel and see how they see - blurring the lines between self and other, gender fluidity, to find herself in a flower, a cloud, a beast - but never loses her own spark and her own take on things. A truly remarkable little deity in which to witness divinity unfurling itself from. She loves so hard! Loyalty and compassion unyielding. An artistic masterpiece in motion, ever evolving progression. Her expansiveness dripping with the tremendous love both and all of creation and consciousness bestow upon her - it saturates and radiates through all things and all of time, and beyond and within nothingness. Sometimes the immensity of that love is such an incomprehensible behemoth that it seems any way of attempting to fully express it through the lens of humanity falls short of true comprehension. Sometimes it seems like the other me's cannot truly fathom how in love I am. Therefore in the behemoth do I miss the entire love monstrosity? The answer is yes because love is constantly being made more, new, reaching deeper, paving higher - love is infinite, and as infinite is, infinite does. I am love and I love being her, I love being me.

[themanifestingbrat]

Overconsuming = Overthinking

This is my personal experience of how overconsuming information has hindered me more than help me. A lot of uswill read success stories and loa information and be like, 'Wow, this is inspiring!' or 'Duh, I already know this!' Just to end up making the same exact mistakes as all the angry, rude anons that complain about their failure. If this sounds like you, I hope this helps you get out of your mind and realize your power.

I already had a pretty good self concept and knew Law of Attraction years ago. I had no problem manifesting things. Like everyone, I had a few limiting beliefs but I still managed to get what I want.

Then, I heard about Law of Assumption and found this to be waaaay easier. So, I unknowingly overconsumed information. Then, when it came to applying, I kept overthinking if what I was doing was right and the overthinking led to doubts and confusion. My self concept lowered a bit. I was really hard on myself and frustrated with the 3D. I definitely was not in the state of I AM.

I was still able to consciously manifest a lot of things during this time but when it came to the things that really mattered (or I had more resistance to), I found myself spiraling or wavering more often. I kept consuming information, sometimes I would take breaks but I always found myself watching Youtube videos and downloading this app over and over again 🙃. I was trying to find any blockages and reasons on why I wasn’t manifesting fast enough or why I wasn’t getting what I wanted so I can try to flip it. I was able to pick myself up again and “persist” in the new story however, I was dwelling in lack more than fulfillment unknowingly. I would beat myself up but then immediately switch to affirmations to try to make myself feel better. I felt like I was lying to myself and being ✨ delusional ✨ wasn’t really helping since I was such a logical person and I felt my subconscious could see through the bullshit.

I was always in my head thinking of why?, how?, when?!!! Eventually, I got tired of this, because I felt I was never able to really feel good without something negative tugging at me. How did I get out of this cycle?

Affirming

I affirmed mainly for my self concept & mental health. Reminding myself that I am really good at manifesting anything whenever I want. I can make a separate post about any and all affirmations I like to use.

Talking about it

After I had ENOUGH of the back and forth in my mind, I confided in my very spiritual best friend and my sister, who loves and knows all laws of manifestation like I do. Of course, both of them told me things I've already heard and knew but letting it out made me feel so much better.

Living in the moment

Whenever I found myself in my head too much, I would just breathe and be in the moment. I would find things in my 3D that are beautiful, that I enjoy, or that I am grateful for.

Listening to my dreams

I am a dreamer. I always have vivid dreams and I always remember them. Whenever I was saturating my mind about a certain desire in the daytime, at night, I would have a dream about having it. I would wake up feeling excited, refreshed, and powerful because of it! But sometimes my dreams would make it very clear to me whatmy doubts and fears of a particular desire are. For example, before I got into the void, I had a very clear dream that I didn't feel worthy enough or it was possible to have all my desires at one time. So immediately when I woke up, I affirmed the opposite.

I hope this helps because sometimes we re-read information we already know and make the same mistakes when we've should've known better. But if we actually apply it and do what feels right, it instantly just clicks!

[cristinaricci]

your gifs are so lovely!! do you mind giving some tips on how you make them/your process?

thank you! 🖤

I truly do not know many technical terms of photoshop, and I simply do not want to learn 🙃 but see below to see how I quickly color a simple gif.

(It’s not a tutorial because I am assuming you know how to get the media, screen cap and make them? if you don’t the tags “photoshop tutorial” or “gif tutorial” “gif resources” etc. could be very helpful in this area if you need help getting started at all). 

me trying to open photoshop

(This was how my gif looked before sharpening or coloring)

This is my most basic process of what I do/how I color. I do not do anything too complex or creative with my gifs usually. Some gifs require different settings but for the most part I can quickly make a nice gif with these generic steps. (changing colors, brightening really dark gifs etc. would be a couple of different steps)

(I use photoshop 2020, any ps should work)

The most important component is I use 1080p quality with the largest files size possible as much as I can, it makes a noticeable difference. 15gb will get you higher quality gifs than 3gb.   

The quality of my video and caps determines how big I make my gifs. For example, I personally would not make huge 540 x 540 gifs with a 2.5 gb file size. I don’t think I would go over 350 height for poorer quality video. The pixels and quality or lack thereof are really highlighted the bigger the gif size.

I also color each gif individually and for my sets it looks way better than using the same coloring for each gif (unless it is from the same scene). no shade at the people who pull this off, it just doesn’t work for my gifsets.

After I've resized my gifs and flattened the frames into layers:

SHARPEN the gifs

This is the link to my sharpening action I use (upload this into your photoshop if you want to use it) I never adjust anything here, I use the same action for every gif. 

Then I COLOR/Use adjustments

CURVES, LEVELS AND SELECTIVE COLOR ARE GOD

but I start with the BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST layer

my contrast is always set to 28 for every gif. it seems to be my magic number.

brightness number depends on how dark the scene is (but I use levels and curves for most of the brightening)

next adjustment I use is LEVELS. This is how I actually brighten the gifs. Use the middle and left sliders (where it says 1.00, and 255). The slider above the zero is where i’ll adjust the black point (I rarely go above 4 or 5 at most) and make the shadows a bit darker/add depth if the gif is too bright and washed out everywhere. Play with the sliders and see what looks right on your gif, it is different for every gif I make. 

-After levels I use CURVES. I fuck with curves for sure. go crazy with that little  line on the graph, move it up, down, sideways, see what works for your gif. This also helps brighten my gifs. Where it says RGB, you can click that drop down menu and pick green, red or blue and adjust the colors here. For example the green tint in The Matrix, I would start to fix that here by decreasing the green curve (among other things). 

-Next adjustment I use is VIBRANCE. I LOVE colorful gifs. I usually keep vibrance at zero and change saturation to at least +15. Of course this changes with the gif but that is my usual baseline for all of my gifs. sometimes I do more if there are pretty colors I want to emphasize. (if people are in your gif, this may make their skin look unnatural, you will adjust this in the selective color adjustment)

-After vibrance, I use SELECTIVE COLOR to fix certain colors. For instance if there is a light skinned person in the gif, their skin may have too much redness, here you will go to the red layer and add more cyan etc. If a gif has green grass in it and you want to emphasize the green grass without changing the other colors, here is where I can amp up the color of the grass and add more green (reduce magenta) to make it more vibrant. (you would click the drop down item next to colors and select green, then move the slider under magenta to the left). 

Remember that cyan is complimentary to red. magenta is complimentary to green and yellow is complimentary to blue.

-COLOR BALANCE adjustment is next, I dont always use this one, only if there is too much tint of a certain color, I can easily fix that with this adjustment. If too much red, I move the slider a bit towards cyan etc. etc. 

And that is literally all that I do. it is my usual baseline go to. Sometimes I will go back to different adjustments and mess with them until I like the look. 

I dont know what your settings are etc. so you might have to change different things than I do, but as far as the sharpening and adjustments, I hope this is a little bit helpful!! 

i’m sorry that you asked the least photoshop savvy person on Tumblr, but I see other tutorials and they are changing shit I've never even seen and feel like they get the same quality gifs as me usually? I like my gif style so maybe less is more?