These r my two favorite fonts to draft with btw :) abadi and ebrima. abadi comes out looking very bold at small sizes so it's not great for final works but it's soooo gentle and easy for me to work with.
hi!! would you mind doing a tutorial on how you add subtitles to your gifs?
hey, sure! :)
with the text tool selected, i will draw a box that is as wide as the gif and type my text. i created an action that selects all the right settings for me so it's faster and my subtitles always look the same.
arial rounded bold is a very popular choice for subtitles, and it looks awesome, but i' always've been using the font calibri bold italic for years now. here are my usual settings for a 540px wide gif:
i usually keep the font size and leading value the same, if i change it from 18 pt. and sometimes i'll play around with the anti-aliasing method, whatever looks best for this particular gif. this will help make your text look less crispy or soft, depending on which filtering method you use. the other settings i pretty much always leave like that for subtitles.
as for colors, i always go with white first, and if there's another character talking, i will give their subtitles a different color. i usually try to pick a bright pastel color found in the gif, or even on the character's clothing (just because i like to match things haha).
it's also important to leave a bit of a gap on the sides and bottom, so the text doesn't go all the way to the edges (as shown in the next example). it's definitely harder to read text if it's too close together, or goes from edge to edge. you can push words on another line if it becomes too close to the edge, and you can nudge the text from the bottom with the arrow keys.
as for the layer style, i'm adding a black stroke and black drop shadow (by double clicking the text layer). the stroke almost never changes, but i'll edit the drop shadow accordingly with the gif. if it's a very busy gif, the drop shadow should be thicker to help with visibility.
I can’t draw to save my life, but I *can* write silly little taglines, so here are some fan-made print ads I made for Dropout.tv!
Was this an excuse to make puns out of the different show names? Yes, yes it was. My creative writing degree is being put to good use I swear…
The overall style was inspired by Dropout's logo, and I tried to incorporate each show’s logo text into the ads too just to add some variety to the minimal colour scheme.
Also, here’s video proof that I did in fact drive myself insane making these (in a good way ofc, this was so much fun and I’m so happy with how these came out :))
All the fonts I used are below the read more line if you're interested because I don’t wanna make this post any longer than it already is!
@dropoutdottv @samreich @gamechangershow
Font list! (So others don’t have to go through the same pain I did.)
I don't know what my personal bests are anymore since I cannot check them, so this is just a general score dump (but I finally got a great full combo on Tohoku Evolved!!!) It took me 3 hours to get to Round 1 via public transit so suffice to say it will not be a regular thing.
Thoughts on DDR World: It felt comfortable to play on and I like the flare gauge skill system, it's nice to look forward to a special rank in addition to setting your own goals. Some QOL changes were a long time coming, like granular and highly customizable speed mods, I love that. The filter system is kind of cumbersome compared to folders, but manageable enough.
The UI is really my biggest gripe, lol. Visually, it's somehow both noisy and cluttered AS WELL AS overly simple and sterile. IDK how they managed that. Basic graphic design principles are inconsistent, i.e. your full combo indicator on the results screen is now teeny tiny white Arial font with no border or drop shadow right beneath the letter grade. And I am really tired of the same PNG of Emi and Rage on literally every screen 😭 also the sound effect for browsing songs and picking options is very grating.
Also, the new announcer is just sonic the hedgehog. He's annoying but it's somewhat charming. Overall, it's still DDR. Colorful and fun to play with some new features that were sorely needed. I had a good time! Hopefully I can play again soon ❤️
My version of the Halloween to Christmas season meme.
FIGURES:
Nendoroid Halloween Miku, using Onodera Kosaki faceplate.
Nendoroid Snow Miku 2014, using Nendoroid More Christmas female outfit.
SUBJECT(S):
My version of meme "October 31 vs November 1", where people express how their celebration of Halloween immediately ends, to make room for celebrating Christmas/Xmas as soon as possible.
Personally, I refuse to let go of Halloween. I go into Halloween withdrawal on November 1, instead of immediately celebrating Christmas season. (In fact, I think we should at least celebrate Thanksgiving season instead of jumping straight to Christmas.)
PROPS:
red yarn.
Halloween Miku's jackolantern.
Scrapbook paper backdrop.
Glitter foam sheet grounding.
Artificial autumn leaves.
Black artificial flowers.
DIY trickortreat bag.
What font do you use for subtitle gifs now? I saw people used to use Myriad Pro for subtitles. But now it looks like people are using a different font for subtitles now.
idk about other gifmakers but i use Arial Rounded MT Bold and these are my standard subtitle settings:
@ anon who asked about how to add subtitles on photopea, i forgot to specify that the three fonts i listed in my very rudimental tutorial won't necessarily be found in photopea by default, you'll probably need to download them on your device and then add them to photopea. (file -> open -> select your font from the folder it's saved in and enter).
arial rounded mt bold
open sans
calibri
also
once you download and use these fonts you'll be able to change the font style from this drop down menu. this won't work with arial rounded, though, only calibri and open sans.
I think this all started about a week ago truthfully. I'm no stranger to bad dreams, especially ones about stages or my dad or sinking into darkness, what was new though was The Figure. I first saw him... them? It? about a week ago when I woke up from a nightmare while sleeping over at my aunt's house. There was no way that was just Aunt Arial in the dark.
The Figure had this, pale round bald head. Sorta like an egg. It had dark, black sockets for eyes but... they didn't seem like regular skeleton sockets. They were shaped weird. On sorta like a moon on its side. Then there were these weird... lines? Cuts? On its face. It didn't seem to have a body. Just darkness and two white hands with holes in them floating among the dark blob.
If I had paper on me atm I'd draw a picture but even then I'm not sure I'd do justice to how terrifying seeing that... thing was.
And then there was last night. I saw The Figure again, in my dreams this time. Or maybe it was... some weird connection to another dimension? ... It felt so real. Anyways, The Figure was talking to... someone. I didn't see or hear who. I couldn't even understand what The Figure was saying, it was speaking in some weird font I didn't recognize. At some point it turned around and tried to get close to me before saying "You should be on your way now." After that I ran.
I ran and ran and ran until I came to a door. It was dark. Like really really really dark. Like the darkness from all around was coming from the door. But it was calling to me. The door was calling to me so I approached it. It was calling my name and I almost entered until...
I woke up.
Anyways, apparently Papa says we're going to help Auntie Toriel move into her new classroom, so we're headed to Hometown today. I know they're only dreams and likely don't mean anything, but it all just felt so real...