#also this is my second proper gifset and i dont think i get coloring. i vaguely understand what should happen but like.

[answermywearyquery]

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[christopherlightwood]

Hello, Anon!! Sorry it took me 300 years to answer this! So, I’ve been thinking about how to say what i’m about to say... I didnt find a way so I’ll be pretty straightforward. 

I’ve been really cautious about doing a tutorial now. Recently I’ve been through a kinda upsetting episode where one of my edits were copied (not inspired, inspiration is always welcome, i love to see people getting one thing of my edit and transforming into something completely new). There is a difference between copying and getting inspired and sometimes the line is crossed.

That being said, I wont be able to do a tutorial for this edit! BUUUUT, I’ll do something I called, general guide to my edits (with an hypotetical edit i created). I won’t explain details but I’ll basically tell you how I do all my edits without being specific. I think this is the only way I found that I can both help you and also don’t give me anxiety over the fear of passing through this again. I’m really sorry because I indeed said I was okay with doing tutorials, and I was (I even made one), but right now I prefer to be more cautious about it. I’m deeply sorry!.

So here we go:

PREPARATION: 

This is the moment I get all the things I need before editing. First of all a color palette in mind, it’s important to be the first thing to do (at the majority of the times) because all the pictures you will collect will work better if they are in the same scheme of colors. 

Second, the main pictures!! I usually take my pictures from Pinterest (my account if you want to take a look). And third, but not least, textures and PSD. I usually see the pics first because it’s harder to find HQ pictures that fit your aesthetics than .PSDs. 

PSD’s and Textures you can find in those resources website: chaoticresources , completeresourses , itsphotoshop , quirkyresources , janepsresources

OBS: If your edit includes gifset, I advice to search for the videos you want to gif at the “same time” you are looking for pictures. Because, again, it’s hard to find HQ videos of the exact scene you want. 

If you don’t know how to gif, here it is a tutorial! ;) I’ve never used a tutorial before to gif so I do some stuff differently, but this tutorial it’s a really great one! 

TIME TO EDIT: 

1. First i open a new file on PS (500 x 800 px) 72 resolution RGB. Black or white background usually! But it can be the main color you will work with as well! 

2. Add textures that have more info in it (life forests, castles, watercolor, full of flower textures) , they will compose your background! You can also add some .PNG in here (small flowers, thorns, whatever you think has the vibes of your edit).  

If you are doing a Poster style of edit, you can skip this part, as a posters only has one picture + coloring + 1 or 2 textures maximum. 

Those are the images I used, I took them both from free pick! To take away the background of the bird I used a selective tool! 

2. Now I add the main picture ( archive > incorporate ) I want. It’s usually a person and i have to use the selective tool to take away the background at basically all times!

3. Now I add the coloring (sometimes I add this before). That means I add the .PSD + all the 293820320 alterations I usually do! In this hypotecial edit i just slapped a .psd and didnt alter anything.  In this edit I used this one and in the herondale siblings one I used this one 

4. Now that I have the base I add more textures (the one with few elements like gradients, paper effect, paper torn effect and others) + the lettering part. Both in this edit and the herondale siblings one I used this font  ( at the time i downloaded for free but im not finding the link ). The textures I used are down below. I don’t have the herondale siblings one anymore!

5. After that you can add overlays and make it a gif! (i didnt now haushaks sorry) but I’ll leave here a tutorial so you can go to the next step. I also dont do like that but I don’t even know how to explain ahuskhasaksa. i’m a no tutorial type of learner so my way of doing things it’s also missing stuff. 

TA DAH:

That’s how I do all my edits to be honest! Sorry If I can’t do a proper tutorial, I hope you can understand my concern after the situation I’ve been through! I hope this will help you! :)

P.S: EVEN THOUGH THIS IS A EDIT MADE FOR THIS “TUTORIAL” THE EDIT IS STILL MINE AND CANNOT BE USED ANYWHERE ELSE!! Thank you!! *yup! i had problems with that as well*