#glad to know i still know basic photoshop

[eurodyne-d]

☼ BUENOS TIEMPOS.

[hongtonie]

i finally hit 1k!!! (no thanks to tumblr glitching my follower count) i'm really glad so many people like the little images i make☺️ to say thank you i prepared a little something! i've put together all the overlays i have downloaded that i use in my gfx as well as the fonts i've collected over the past couple years (and an updated giffing "tutorial"!) love u all hope november is kind to you<33

for starters here is the mega folder with all of my fonts and pngs! below is my semi-updated giffing process along with some of my actions<3

my process is pretty much the same as my old tutorial but now i've changed how i export gifs! my basic process is outlined in the gif below and and i've added 3 of my actions i use almost every time i gif in this google drive! (explanations below) :]

so after i know what clip i want, i put it into vapoursynth (download tutorial) and once that's saved i screencap it. what i do for screencapping is open the mov in mplayer osx extended and hold down shift+command+s but i know there's way easier ways to do it that i haven't figured out yet lol (tutorial i just found here)

once the screencaps are all on my desktop i delete any extras on either end of the clip i want and put them in a folder just so it's easier to load them in to photoshop. to do that, on the home page of photoshop go to file -> scripts -> load files into stack, then from that menu browse -> select all the screencaps you want to use for the gif and click open then ok

after they're all loaded into photoshop this is where i use my first action which just shortcuts all the way to the sharpening being done. once that's done i go to image -> mode -> 16 bits/contrast. this can help if the background is super pixely or anything like that. then i mess around with sharpening if i feel like it's too much. usually i'll change the opacity of the second sharpen layer to 50 and/or change the settings of the first sharpen layer like 200 to 150 or 0.3 to 0.2, whatever i feel like looks best. something i've also learned over the years is that sometimes you let noise do the heavy lifting and don't worry about making it look too sharp. if the gif is still a little bit unsharpened (?), the noise will make it look fine

then i do coloring which is the fun part! like i said, my process is more or less the same as my old tutorial so i'll just skip over that part and if you want more details feel free to check that one out. once i'm done with that i combine it all to a smart object, add noise (usually 1-1.5 these days), and then use my second action!

after the second action does its thing, i select all frames and set the rate. i usually set it to 0.04 for youtube videos and 0.02 or 0.03 for ts files. then, because vs leaves me with duplicate frames, i run my action for duplicates which selects all of the unwanted frames and then go to the hamburger menu just above the timeline -> delete frames. then it's ready to be saved!

[cbedfordart]

Hey! I’ve been following you for a while and I really love your art, it’s absolutely stunning and I love the way you paint and capture anatomy. I know this is a bit of a broad question but I was wondering if you had any tips on getting better at painting digitally and studying anatomy, maybe more specifically blending, colour picking, and structuring anatomy in a way that looks somewhat realistic?

Thanks and I'm glad you enjoy my work long enough to be following me for this long! I definitely love drawing a naked body that's for sure haha. In terms of tips for getting better there's a few things I can mention but it's going to fall broadly in the general answer of "study", because this is the most sure fire way to be able to understand what it is you're trying to emulate in your art. There are different ways to study, and they teach something slightly different. For example, doing studies from life (live drawing classes) help me understand movement in a way studying from a photograph cant, simply because you're seeing the same model in different poses in real time, you can see how the fat and muscle moves around as they shift to different positions. So they're not technically moving the whole time, but you're still seeing some movement there, and understanding what sticks to what while it rotates and bends. Studying from photographs can help give you time to do some real deep dives and investigate where different bones/muscles sit while someone is in a particular position. There's also the opportunity for understanding how shadows may be formed by the body as typically photographers are more conscious of how the subject may be lit than what may be available in a live drawing class. Beware though, as more things are photoshopped than you realise, not all photos represent reality. Especially glam and fashion photos. It doesn't mean its bad to want to have these effects on your work but just be conscious they might not always be anatomy accurate if that's what you're striving for. I sometimes make a conscious decision to go against what is anatomically correct for a certain effect myself. A book I have been recommending for years for anatomy is Dr. Paul RIcher's "Artistic Anatomy". It's great for understanding muscle structure intimately - it's designed specifically for artists, but with the idea of trying to stylise the diagrams as little as possible for the sake of understanding the human form. There's a lot of great info and detail in here, but beware, there is not a lot of variety in body structure (at least not in the edition I have which is missing female anatomy I think already so I'm not sure what else I don't have in here). So you'll be able to understand function a lot from here but you wont be able to learn a lot about fatter body types sadly.

Colour picking is probably the most difficult for me to explain easily, as I have spent a long time winging it, then studying it, then being really experimental with it. I could write a lot a lot about this but to spare making this post any longer I'll refer to another fun book just for getting started on some frequent and common terms called "Color and Light" by James Gurney.

I also love that he uses like, dinosaurs for everything in here lol. It's a great starting point that can give you some go to ideas that you can then experiment from there. It's not very authoritarian (or at least that's what I feel), and doesn't push anything forward as a hard and fast rule, just showing what affects some colour combinations might instil in someone.

As a whole, I've gotten better at painting digitally by studying traditional painting techniques. They theories are basically transferrable one to one with some few exceptions. I tend to blend my colours by simply using a soft round brush in Photoshop with a low opacity. Much the same way I would with a real canvas, with a large round brush and diluted colour. I hope this answers your questions in some way. I tried to be not too specific only because this answer would be at least another 30k words lol because this is something i think a lot about! I love technique! If I ever stream again, feel free to pop in and ask more questions where I might be able to show some stuff in real time! Not sure when that will happen though!

Also the way i do stuff isn't a "correct" way either. I like painting from imagination so this is how I make that work. Some people like to only work with references for every piece, and that is a completely legit way to create stunning art as well. Good luck!

[salemssimblr]

Hello there! I'm Eden :D I LOVE your renders! I've been rendering for well over a year at this point, however I only stuck to the super basic stuff since it took me a year before that to even know how to do it at all. I've wanted to up my game and get to where you are now. I'm SO SORRY if this question was asked already (I haven't gotten too far in your posts yet), but;

How do you personally edit your renders? I understand you use photoshop, but how do you do it exactly? Your renders have that kind of digital art style, like you drew them yourself. Feel free to be as descriptive or brief as you'd like!

Hi Eden!!! Thank you so much! 🥹😍♥️

I've followed you back and glad we're moots! I'd love to see some of your work!

I'm not sure if I've answered this before but I'm happy to answer it again! Also I haven't advertised it in a while (and I really need to try to get up a new tut, maybe soon), but my alt account is a Render School where I post tutorials, with plans to post editing tutorials in the future!

But honestly as far as my editing, I really don't do much.

Actions are my secret weapon, and I have a few favorites/go-tos I'll link! A few are by simmers and a few are just action sets. I'm in a family of photographers, so I have access to a wealth of resources for my editing.

Sonder set by @intramoon

Cold Water set by @intramoon

Retro Prime photoshop actions

Indie camera photoshop actions

But my "secret weapon," as it were, and the set of actions that I think most helps me accomplish that digital art style is a set of actions that are sadly expensive and hard to find now.

My favorite set is by Totally Rad! and I think in recent years it's been folded in to this Pixel Sugar product on their website. I know that's a steep price point but it's possible you can find it around the corners of the Internet for less, or if you can't, you might be able to find "dupes" of the better ones, which imo are:

Technicolor dream world

Super Fun Happy

Bullet Tooth

Grandma's Tap Shoes

As for my method, I know a lot of simmers paint over their renders, and I've done that a few times but find I'm too impatient tbh. My goal is always to have to do only minor touchups over my renders and some color/vibe adjustments before the finished product. My "raw" files are always exactly what blender spits out for me, unaltered in any way except to resize them for Tumblr.

To get that digital art style, I'd recommend rendering with alpha details if you don't already. If your computer can't handle alpha cc in the game, DM me and I can give you some pointers (sneak peek info for a future tut lmao) on how to accomplish it without bogging down your game.

When I go into photoshop I adjust the brightness and contrast, as I tend to personally prefer high contrast pieces that contain dark subject matter but you can still see the details. Then I'll paint/blur/clone/adjust anything that needs it, then I'll "stack" and adjust a handful of actions before applying edge blur and vignette and any other color adjustments (levels, curves, etc).

That's a very oversimplified rundown of what I do, but really overall my editing process is simple. The bulk of my work happens in blender itself. I find that the more time I take to perfect the lighting and shadows and angles in blender, the less frustrating the editing process and the happier I am with the end result. So, that said, be sure you're spending a lot of time in blender getting the light and shadows to be exactly where you need/want them to be before running it.

I know this is a bit long I'm sorry! If any of it is super confusing or you'd like a more in-depth look at any of it please let me know! I do plan to do editing tutorials for my side blog, but the latter half of this year has kind of run over me like a train, and for now I'm just trying to get by day by day. But I'm happy to help if you have more specific questions!

& thank you again!! ♥️

[apparently-artless]

Hi! I was wondering if you would be willing to share how do you make this pattern thingy over your gifs? I was trying to learn how to do this for awhile now, but I couldn’t find any tutorials. It’s okay if you don’t wanna share. Love your gifs, have a nice day ✌️

Hi, anon! I don't really mind sharing how I apply patterns to my GIFs. It's easy to do and quite fun once you get the hang of it. And thank you! I really appreciate it. I'm glad you love my GIFs. (°◡°♡)

I use Photoshop 2021 but I think this applies to older versions too. Also, just a disclaimer that I am not a PS expert. This is just how I prefer to edit my GIFs so take whatever I will say here with a grain of salt. Lastly, I apologize if my English is bad and my explanation is lengthy. This is my first time making a tutorial of some sort. (⌒_⌒;)

Please check the steps under the cut.

Find a pattern that you want to apply to your GIF.

I don't know the link anymore to the actual pattern I am using so I will use a different one that has the same style. So for this example, I will be using Halftone Patterns by EDFTeam that I found from DeviantArt. To download the file, you need to log in to the site. If you want a different pattern but with the same style, just search for halftone patterns.]

Import the .PAT file on PS.

Make sure that Pattern is enabled [Windows > Pattern]. On Patterns tab, click Import Patterns. Find the folder where you saved the .pat file, select the file, and then load it. If loaded successfully, the patterns should appear at the bottom of the list:

Apply one of the patterns above your GIF layer.

In this example, I made sure that my GIF layer was selected before choosing a pattern. So that when I clicked the pattern, it would automatically be clipped to the GIF layer.

This is how it will look like once you click one of the patterns. In my case, I selected the first one. It looks reddish because of my coloring. This is another reason why I prefer the Pattern layer right after the GIF layer so the pattern will also adopt my coloring.

If you are using Video Timeline mode, make sure to adjust the Pattern Fill layer to the other layers to avoid blank layers when saving the GIF file. If you are using Frame Timeline mode, then there's no need to do this.

Change the blend mode of the Pattern Fill to your preferred style.

I typically use Darken or Multiply to add a darker shade of pattern fill to my GIF. And if I want to lighten, I use Lighten or Screen. But feel free to explore other blend modes as well. In this example, I used Lighten.

Decrease the opacity of the Pattern Fill.

For Lighten/Screen blend mode, I typically set the opacity to 5%. And for Darken/Multiply, I set it to 10%. [This is just my preference though since I want to add a subtle pattern texture that does not interfere with my coloring.]

Make necessary adjustments to your coloring layers (optional).

This is only optional, but if you think your GIF already looks good without readjusting any of the other layers, then you're good to go. In my case, I would make slight changes to the Brightness/Contrast and Levels Adjustment layers.

Posting the GIFs here without and with patterns for comparison:

ADDITIONAL TIPS:

You can also adjust the size of your pattern.

Double-click the layer thumbnail of the pattern fill layer. Then change the percentage and click OK. You can go beyond 100% if you want to make the pattern bigger.

This is just my observation but if you are planning to use the GIF as part of a photo set with more than 1 column, you might want to enlarge the pattern so it will still be noticeable.

With 100%, this is how your set GIF is gonna look:

With 150%, this is how your set is gonna look:

As you can see, the pattern is not noticeable at 100% if positioned in 2 columns but it becomes apparent at 150%. So basically, my rule here is a larger pattern size for a smaller GIF display.

You can also clip patterns to shapes and other smart objects other than your GIF layer.

In this example, I chose a heavy font type for the clipping mask so the patterns are visible which I then converted to a smart object. And since the pattern is applied to the text, you can have these layers above your coloring. [I haven't done this before but I thought of including this because it's also a nice way of using patterns.]

And this will be the output:

You can also modify the mask of the pattern where it is being applied.

The white space signifies that the entire space of the GIF layer is filled with patterns. You can change this by using the brush tool [set the color to black] to erase the parts you didn't want to be filled with patterns. Make sure the layer mask thumbnail is selected and not the layer thumbnail. You can switch back to white color if you want to erase the result of your brush.

In this example, I tried to erase a lot of white spaces to make it look like a frame. With this, I can go wilder with the pattern. I select Overlay as blend mode and set opacity to 100%.

So this is what the actual GIF looks like:

You can also check this post where I used this method.

Again, sorry if the explanation is too lengthy and my English is bad. And I do hope that you are seeing this post my dear anon! And I hope it helps! (￣▽￣*)ゞ

[mrs-monaghan]

Disclaimer: if read this and think I hate Tae then that’s a you problem not a me problem

I don’t hate Tae, I really don’t, he is the reason I’m into BTS in the first place, but it is mind blowing to me how Tkkers try to be so oblivious to everything Tae does. They will sit around all day calling JM the fanservice King but will hype up anytime Tae mentions JK in his 5 min livestreams. Yet completely ignore how JK does a 1hr or more for livestreams and barely (if at all) utter Tae’s name. Now I’m not comparing bonds, because they all are different from one another. Tkkers could talk about how Jikook is so one sided but purposefully ignore the fact that with Jikook it has always been mutual. Tkkers also completely ignore how Tae throws himself at all the members but mostly Jin and Hobi. They be like Jikook onstage moments are fanservice but then you have Tae flirting with every member, again mostly Jin and Hobi. They lost their minds when they saw TKK standing together in the photos they took. Went on about how Jikook were not next to each so that meant that Jikook did not speak to each other and then bomb. Bang tan Bomb was released and showed them otherwise. The insecurity quickly comes and goes with every Jikook and TKK moment that happens. I try not to pay attention to them over the small things but I draw the line at them accusing JM of horrible things.

This is why I think a lot of Tkkers don’t actually ship Taekook but only want them together not only for their visuals but for their fantasies. There is just no way Tkkers can get all this stuff from TKK and still be so pissed over a hug that JK basically melting into. It is so obvious that a good portion of Tkkers a clearly scared of Jikook possibly being real and are even more scared that JK might actually care and love JM, not as a romantic partner but just in general.

Now down to what pisses me off more than Tkkers…Armys or shall I say “Armys”. Tkkers have been saying that JM is SA-ing JK, h****ssing JK, A wording JK and R wording JK but what do “Armys” do? Well, Jkkers and Tkkers are like sibling, Jkkers call Tae an attention seeker (this is mostly based off of a specific tweet, where an “army” did compare Jkkers and JM solo Stan’s calling Tae an attention seekers to Tkkers calling JM a h****sser). Like this is why Tkkers are getting away with so much stuff, from h****ssing jewelry brands to models to members and “Armys” do nothing about it. There response to to everything is “ignore them and they will go away” or “I don’t wanna get involved in a fanwar”. This ain’t a fanwar and ignoring them is exactly why they have gotten so much worse. Making up horrible accusations is not something that should be taken lightly. If media outlets pick those accusations up (so glad they haven’t yet) it would be so bad for BTS. Also Armys are so quick to come at Blinks for all the horrible stuff they say about JM but can’t do the same thing towards Tkkers? What??!!! Is it because Blinks don’t just target JM they target all of BTS? But if that was the case than doesn’t that mean they should go after Tkkers as well? Tkkers token Stan Jin, Hobi and Yoongi mainly and that gets them dragged by JM solo Stan’s. So, it’s obvious that alot of “Armys” are Tkkers as well and share the same thoughts (JM is bothering JK and JK hates JM) as Tkkers do. This is why I say “if you think/act like a Tkker than I’m gonna say you are a Tkker”. Like there is no reason why we have been dealing with the same stuff since 2017. GCFT must’ve really bothered them a lot, especially since every time it the anniversary for GCFT, they lose their minds about how it was suppose to be a Vminkook trip.

I think anon the biggest problem is that they are scary. People are scared of them so they don't call them out..

Capable of so much evil

I don't need to list the shit they've done. We all know. From photoshopping Jimin with bangpd to throwing shit at him in LV with the intent to harm him. They are dangerous. True ot7 accounts can't post about Jikook because they get attacked. Jimin fucking scares them and I don't know why.

The vermin are also OT1. They are V solos point black period. Because when JK dotes on Jimin and ignores V they go for the jugular. On the one half of their ship. I mean, the fact that they call Jikook FS is already super disrespectful to JK but they don't care about that. I honestly dk why V has the shittiest fans.

Look around, you will a find a Suga biased army, who is a Jkkr. You will find a Jin biased army who is a Jkkr, you will find a Hobi biased army who is a Jkkr. RM too. But you know what you will NEVER find? A V biased army who is a Jkkr. It boggles my mind. Truly. But I blame Taekook_lives and any other vermin with a YT channel or a TT. I blame big twitter accounts that hate on Jimin. Because they're the ones who watch original content and decide to spread lies. It in turn causes this chain reaction. They know tkkrs are not going to watch original content. Because they hate to see JK and Jimin all over each other. So they take advantage of it.

I am sad that members have to enlist. But I am looking forward to seeing what will happen to this group of people when they only have 5 year old content to work with for 2 years. Because lets face it, the good stuff was before JK and V fell out. When they still used to be close. Taekook are better now, but it ain't the same. Hopefully we can shed this dead weight when members are gone.

[youngveinsworld]

quotes from a fan's review of the young veins' show in michigan (8 april 2010)

At one point before Dangerous Blues was played Ryan mentioned how its a good song for waltzing to and he suggested everyone go and hold the hand of the girl they've been looking at all night and Jon was kinda like lol wut and then he was like "It's called a waltz".

JON SMELLS AMAZINGLY GOOD, LIKE REALLY. IDC HOW CREEPY THAT SOUNDS.

I got hugs from Jon and he gives the best hugs and he's just so nice. He couldn't hear me well because Foxy was playing so he kept leaning close and his hair was brushing my face and then he'd lean close to me to talk and really I was *_______* on the inside most the time.

I asked Jon if he hung out with Tom at SXSW and he said he did and that he also got to see Tom in New York and I told him I was glad and he was like "I'm glad too :D".

Tom here is Tom Conrad, who was in 504 Plan with Jon and also played guitar in The Academy Is... from 2004-2006. Here is a link for a prettyoddfever post that goes more in depth!

And at one point I had asked him where Ryan was and he was like :O "I thought he already came down." and I told him to text him and he was like "You should text him." Offer me the # next time Jon and I will! also I think he had said that Ryan ignores his texts.

And emmy126 had a pack of starbursts and she was holding them and Jon was taking them and then he was like "oh were you offering?" and he kept eating them and was like "Keep these away from me. I have a sweet-tooth and I haven't had dinner yet."

We had to take my picture with him a bunch of times because my camera was fail and he didn't like his eyes in one and he was like "well you can just photoshop my eyes right, you know?" No, I am not that skilled Jon Walker. He also asked me what was wrong with my camera because the pictures kept file erroring.

I had asked him how often he gets asked about Brendon and Spencer and he was like "five or six times every show." and I said something along the lines of none of it mattering because everyone was happier and as long as they're happy we should be and that's all that matters and he said that he does miss it. he said. "I miss it. I miss it everyday."

Basically Jon Walker is nothing short of amazing perfection, he gives good hugs and he smells fantastic. 

Ryan didn't come around for a long, long time. Right before the venue started kicking everyone out. Ryan was strange imo (possibly drunk) but he was still a sweetheart.

We took a picture together and [Ryan] was like "I blinked. I think I blinked." and we looked and sure enough his eyes were closed so we took another and he made some kind of weird face and like some girl had told him to make a game face and he didn't know what it was. And then he went to pull away from me and he got his sharpie stuck in my hair and he was like "ooh I caught you" and he was trying to unhook it and was like "we're messes."

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[midnightrings]

So after Tumblr finally allowed me to post my recent santhony gifset, I want to take a moment to give myself a short pat on the shoulder here and celebrate my gif-making process^^

I always wanted to learn how to make gifs, but I just never had the patience nor a good program to work with. A bit more than a year ago, I saw a post mentioning photopea as a great alternative to photoshop – and as I always wanted to create gifs, I decided to look up some tutorials on how to make gifs with photopea. My first attempts weren’t that great, but I’m glad that I still chose to share most of my gifs - because now I can look back at them and see the process I made, plus I still received a lot of love on my older gifs.

At the same time, I started watching Bridgerton – and as I became obsessed with that show, I used it to practice my gifmaking skills.

Recently, I saw someone like a gifset I made of that scene where Anthony asks Siena to go to the ball with him. When I first started creating gifs, I often made several gifsets in one day and then just scheduled them – which meant that by the time I opened photopea again, I basically forgot how everything worked lol. But the past months I’ve made gifs more regularly and as I felt that I’ve definitely improved, I thought I could redo that santhony gifset again.

So here’s the same shot from my first attempt a year ago, and below my most recent gif.

I really love how smooth the new one looks. I’ve never been a fan of grainy gifs, but I often had to use a noise-filter to make the quality appear somewhat better. I’m glad I found a way to make them look less pixelated but not super grainy either.

Also adore the difference in coloring. The second one looks way richer and warmer. I’m not sure whether I even colored the first gif tbh. I was super careful with coloring and lighting in the beginning, because I didn’t want the gifs to look too saturated. And making them too bright usually just showed how awful the quality was lol

So yeah, I’m really happy with the process I made. Also, I feel like learning to create gifs made me appreciate gif-makers more. I mean, I was always impressed by it, but I also always assumed that once they learned how to do it, it must be quite easy – now I know that every gifset is its own struggle lmao

So that’s also a good reminder to always show support to your favorite gifmakers (and gifmakers in general, of course). And if anyone read all that and also always wanted to make gifs: just give it a shot and keep practicing. I’m so glad I gave this a try – not only because I always wanted to, but also because this is just so much fun :D

[garlculean]

@yukikorogashi Asked. HELLO MY FRIEND! ❤️ Before this year ends, I just wanna start by saying-- MAN! I'm just so, so glad that I got to meet your wonderful self??? I will say it's certainly one of my highlights during these last few months, meeting a fella as splendid as yourself!

I already mentioned all of this before to you through our IMs, but you bring so much life to my boy here, and just do him so, so much justice! And I thank you, with my hands holding yours, for giving him the love that he so long since deserved! And of course, I absolutely look forward to him and Itsuki interacting, in developing their hilarious lil' Looney Tunes relationship, overtime! It's gonna be so fun, and another thing to look forward to this coming year!

You are just such talented individual too, Mt Beast, like omgoodness??? Your writing, your art, your graphics-- not to mention the fact that you have been such a pleasant chap to get to know. You really are a marvellous bean, and again I'm so glad I found your blog when I did, and look forward to interacting with you more in the near future!

May next year treat you well, my friend. As you so rightfully deserve! Here's to you! 🍷 AUEHAUWHE!!!!

↳ 2023 is almost over! // 𝐀𝐂𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆

      𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐎𝐅𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐇. Y'know, I do not think there are even words to describe the amount of joy and gratitude I felt when reading this. I am SO VERY glad I had the pleasure and opportunity to meet you too Yuki⸺ I can say with much certainty that the feeling is absolutely mutual!

      I can't even construct my words right but just that I'm literally grinning from ear to ear! WHWUAHAHA Hearing you say that and think that for my interpretation // portrayal of Wario means so much more than you think it does for me. It's honestly an honor to hear that I am doing him justice. So thank you⸺ Thank you VERY much. I too cannot wait for Itsuki and Wario to interact. I still think about the plot in my head and the things we spoke about with their possible bond, depending on how things go in RP, but it kills me EVERY time. I may not KNOW who Itsuki is, but shoot I dont think I need to. All I know and need to know is you make her an outstanding joy of a character! You give her such personality that if she acted any other way I don't know if I'd enjoy it as much as I do when she's in your hands HWUWHAHAA!

      I appreciate you enjoying my writing and my art, I do take a great deal of time in it, especially my writing. Drawing comes more naturally for me so to speak its a lot less brain power as opposed to writing. So to know you favor both and not just one over the other is an honest to god best compliment for me to hear If I'm being honest HAHAAHAH. Also I must give credit where credit is 1000% due, @sangdelune did my graphics, I'd commissioned them to do it. They brought my ideas to life in ways I cannot describe. I do not know the floor from the ceiling when it comes to photoshop or anything remotely in that area, I cannot do that. I'm a writer and an artist--NOT a designer. Best editing I do and can do are my reaction icons. THOSE I DO edit. But that's just the most basic bare minimum knowledge one needs to know to edit the reactions; its nothing supreme or outstanding I'd say. I actually plan on bringing them up in a near future post; once I hit my 100+ follower's count ( which seems to be nearing...) give them a segment because since I was/am so new here in this RPC, I felt me doing it with not much of a following would make them go unnoticed. i.e. no on taking the time to go back to read my first post(s) I made here about them. But for anyone who DOES need anything with graphics GO TO THEM. They were a blessing to work with, I had very VERY specific ways I wanted things done and created to really emphasize how I viewed and seen Wario and I wanted my blog to really exert that. So even if you dont read my writing, you still get the FEEL // aura, per say, that Wario emits when youre on my page and they hit it all on the nail and BLEW my expectations away. Very communicative, quick with getting back to you, good with keeping you in the loop of things, and is just an INCREDIBLE designer and an amazing person to work with. I honestly am grateful and LUCKY to of found them.

      SALUTI MY FRIEND! I cannot wait to see what the year to come brings, but I hope whatever it is, it brings a lot more interactions with you!

[not-with-you-but-of-you]

all of your gifs are amazing!! i was a bit away from this fandom recently but i’m so glad i’m back to all of your amazing edits! 🩵

Wow, thank you so much for saying this 😭😭😭💖💖💖

I’m still a photoshop noob — I only know the strictly necessary to make basic gifs, and I’m never quite sure if my coloring looks all right (sometimes I’m certain it doesn’t), but I’m learning :,) So your message truly means a lot, because all your edits are gorgeous and an inspiration to me 😍😍😍

Welcome back to the fandom!!! I missed your Literati/Gilmore Girls posts 💕

And again, I really, really, really appreciate it 💝

[arlospace]

I love your owl house comics so much!! Do you mind sharing your art process soemtime?

Thank you! I'm glad you like them!

I've been collaborating on them with @beastalchemistva. He comes up with the idea and writes the script then I draw them out.

I start by breaking the script down into beats and sketching out some shot ideas. I like to start on paper so I can't zoom in or try to cram too much detail too early. I'll also collect reference images, like screenshots of characters and backgrounds during this step and design anything that wasn't the show (like for this one, the star guy).

Then I'll do thumbnails in Photoshop. I'll think about the composition, character expressions and poses, and how I can keep the speech bubbles flowing from left to right so it's easy to read.

The canvas is 3840x2160 (It makes it look clearer when I export it at half the size at YouTube: 1920x1080). I'll set up the perspective, sketch the background with a bigger, lighter brush and do the line art for the characters. I use a pencil looking brush that stays almost the same size no matter how hard you press. (I like drawing with felt tip pens and this is the closest I've found to that digitally.)

Then I'll clean up the background with a thinner line than I used for the character lines. Then I color the characters. I'm still figuring out color, so I'll collect the base character colors from my reference screenshots using the ones with the most natural lighting. Then I can compare the normal colors to how it changes in the weird purple light of the Collectors world.

Then I color the background and put a mask layer over the character colors and tweak it until it better matches the background colors. For this one, I just laid down dark blue, set it to multiply, 30% opacity.

To add speech bubble, I'll draw out the white part and add this layer style to give it a black outline. The font is just some basic comic font I downloaded for free.

Since @beastalchemistva commissions me to make these for him to dub on YouTube, I make them 16x9 to fit the screen. When they're done, I edit them into a comic format. Cropping, moving things around, taking out extra frames, changing speech bubble shapes so they work as a comic.

And that's about it! This is my first time trying to explain my process so if I left anything out let me know and I'll try to answer it

(Also go check out the finished video version heeeeere)

[elvhendis]

Hiya, I’m in love with your painterly pieces, genuinely gorgeous. If you don’t mind me asking, what kinds of brushes do you use?

For context, I’ve been making an effort to get my transitions between values less abrasive (since I got into the habit of leaving them at the roughest stage possible and making up for it with “tactical” overlays) but my end results tend to end up muddy, and when they don’t I can never pinpoint what I did differently. I have a suspicion it’s because I almost exclusively use a very hard oil brush — I do like a coarse look but there’s a line of how much of it is personal style and how much of it is plain poor judgement. Would I be better off using a softer edged brush for that in between stage, or is it just something I need to push through without “blaming the tools”, so to speak?

Hi!! First of all I'm flattered, I'm so glad you like my art 🥺

Keep in mind that I'm using Photoshop, so the brushes only apply to that. For rendering I mostly use Istebrak's skin and blending brushes! She used to sell them in separate packs, now she sells them all in a bundle . I mostly use her angled skin brush and wispy skin brush, those give me the smoothest results. For blocking I use her dry oil brush, though lately I've actually started using a brush that a dear fellow artist was kind enough to send to me! I love to use it for hair especially. For blending and smoothing everything out I use Istebrak's smudging brushes. I've been using her brushes for years and never really switched since they work really well for me, but I'm sure there are tons of other brushes out there that do the same trick!

I'm probably not the best person to ask about this kind of stuff though, because I LOVE when paintings actually look painterly and textured, with visible brush strokes etc, and I've tried to move away from overly rendering and smoothing everything out, but it's difficult for me because as soon as I see a brush stroke my brain yells "smooth it!!!" so yeah, I don't quite know how to balance everything myself yet. Generally I try to preserve the most detail and keep everything smooth around the focal point (so, since I mostly do portraits, that means the face/eyes) and allow myself to keep stuff messier in other areas (the hair, etc). I hope that makes sense?

Basically my process looks like this: I start by blocking in the values with hard brushes (like the dry oil brush) and as I get further into the process I start using the skin brushes on lower opacity in combination with the eye dropper method to slowly blend everything together, and as I'm doing that I also use the smudge brush to blend unwanted edges and creases and make everything look smooth. (for me, smudging is really the key sometimes)

I feel like this is a terrible explanation but I hope it at least helps you a little? Like I said, I feel like I'm still in the process of figuring all of it out myself, it takes some experimentation to learn what works and what doesn't, but I'm sure in the end we'll all get there 💚

[cooltrainererika]

@hwsevents

So here’s my final entry! The Nordics! Or at least most of them!

I excluded Denmark because I’m not sure if I’m even going to redesign him for Alt-talia yet, so here’s Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland.

So for Sweden, the main difference is that I made his eyes bigger. I made him look softer basically. And it worked! I’m glad with the results. He looks like a cute nerd, lol. I made him significantly older as well.

Finland’s appearance is the most changed; I made his eyes half-lidded and this blue-grey color (blue because of his lakes and grey because vibes, and apparently that’s a more common eye color there), made him taller, made his bangs somewhat rougher, and gave him stubble. I generally tried to give him a more stoic air, bringing him in line to how the Finns see themselves; while his face was shaded originally, a friend of mine told me that was overdoing it, so I made his face that of an anime deadpan stoic. Also I kind of really disliked the purple eyes; they just stick out so much when everyone else has natural colors!

Norway is a simple eye color change. I gave him deep blue eyes, invoking his fjords, instead of the unnatural purple eyes. I also changed his personality a bit. He’s a mix between canon Norway and Scandinavia and the World Norway basically; generally a very chill, if shy, quiet person. He’s much less violent around Denmark too.

Iceland also gets eye color change; he gets bright blue eyes with a teal center, and they flash green like an aurora borealis when he’s in high spirits. I also made him older (like everyone), taller, and changed his hair color to platinum blond. The end result was very satisfying! He just screams “I’m Iceland!” lol. He’s also much more cheerful, as you can see; the national catchphrase is “It will sort itself out!”, so Alt-Iceland is much more of an optimist than the angsty boi all of you know. Also I originally made him 173 cm because I appeared to have mistook the average height of the whole population for the average male height. Whoops! Nothing some Photoshop couldn’t fix though. I still made him somewhat shorter than the average height, despite making him grow significantly, because of vibes though. He’s still super tall. I forgot the Puffin. Whoops. Also the suit he has in canon just… Does not suit Iceland. They didn’t even have concept of formalities until fairly recently.

So that’s a wrap! Thanks hwsevents! And let’s just hope more join next year… I’ll be sure to come back!

[thewintersoldier]

Hi, I love your blog. (You were actually my inspiration to get into creating gifs.) I was wondering if you'd be willing to do some kind of tutorial for your coloring (backgrounds), especially with regards to your blended gifs. Your blues always look so bright and full but also soft? If that makes sense. I've tried a few blended/colored sets and either the color doesn't come through or it looks too harsh. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Firstly, I'm so glad that you've started making gifs!! Secondly, this process is a lot so I'm putting it under a read more so I can go over everything cause I am king of little tweaks to make things look just right. As long as you know basic gif making in photoshop you should be good to follow it!

Here's a link to the set if anyone wants to see what the final gif ended up looking like!

So first things first, start off with your base gif. Just keep in mind this is a very much trust the process kind of work.

So start off and color your gif like you normally would. I'm using the right half of the first gif as an example. So, after normal coloring I have this.

The next thing you're going to do is add a selective colors layer

You want to play around with the black until you get a shade of the color you want. For this gif set I wanted to have blues so I played around and got these settings

This does objectively look awful, but it's got the shade of blue I'm looking for. Next thing is you want to set the layer to Color and play around with the opacity until it looks better.

I ended up going with 48% opacity and it now looks like this

So the the now it's got a bit of a blue tint to work with which I find makes the rest of the process blend together better.

At this point, I put the two gifs together on the same canvas and blend them together. (If you need a tutorial on that, just let me know! The only thing about that process which might be important to this is I set the gif that's on top to Screen and I have background which is set to black.)

So now that they're blended this is what I'm working with

What I'm going to do now is add a gradient map on top of both of these gifs. Mine looked like this:

You want black on the left hand side and the blue you're aiming for to be on the right. I now set this layer to Color and go into layer mask and erase the parts of the gif where I don't want the blue (so in this case, just roughly around his face because I'm not trying to make bucky look like he just stepped off the set of the new avatar movie.

This is what mine ended up looking like. Pretty subtle change, but it helps things blend! The best way I've found to do this is to use a soft round eraser and lower the opacity. Mine's at 50% right now. I think this helps to create a smoother gradient so the color doesn't have a harsh cut off to it.

Now, I'm going to create a new layer on top of the gradient map and use the blue that I used in the gradient map. I then set this layer to Color as well.

Since I don't want his face blue, I mostly only colored in towards the bottom of the gif. I find a large 300px+ soft brush is the best way to do this. If there ends up being any blue where I don't want it, I go in and erase the same way that I did for the gradient map. And now we're here. For this, it does help the more still your subject is but sometime you just have to work with what you got. This is probably the step that's the most vital to this, it's where you get the big color pay off.

From here, I added a hue and saturation layer because I thought his face was too red in contrast with the blue. I just decreased the saturation of the reds until I felt it looked better.

And now I've got the gif here

From here, I added another selective colors layer and played around with the blacks more. This one is also set to Color, but I left the opacity where it was.

And now it looks like this

This helped the color on his mask blend a little bit better so the cut off between the black and where I colored in the blue looks less sharp.

It's a lot of developing an eye for blending colors together but this gif took literally every trick I had up my sleeve to get it to work out so I feel like it's the best example I have to work with. If you have any more questions just shoot me another ask, I hope this helped!

[minefujicakes]

what was the splat tim drama?

GLAD YOU ASKED

So in my freshman year of high school, My first boyfriend was in the friend group of the girl who made the original image. That girl and I were mutual friends through my boyfriend. I didn't really talk to the girl who made Splat Tim, she proved it by going to the knowyourmeme page and showing that indeed she was the person who posted the original image (not the version with text, she just posted the picture of tim himself).

The issue i had was with her BEST FRIEND, who for some reason had a falling out with my boyfriend so she hated ME by association?? She and her boyfriend started making fun of me by referring to me as the number 1 Weezer fan and I kind of went along with it because I was like haha this is what friends do right. But then she started getting really annoying with it even after I asked her to stop? Eventually I just got sick of her shit and blocked her, realizing she was never my friend to begin with.

It basically just went on and off general cyberbullying, she made fake accounts and dmed me and pretended to want to be my friend and then revealed she'd been catfishing me, uploaded private drawings I'd made for friends and posted them on a public account (i was a minor at the time), photoshopped pictures of my face to be memes, tried to scare me with doxxing (she had an old address lmao), made one of those fandom wiki pages about me with my face and full name, basically just doing whatever she could possibly think of to get a reaction out of me.

I'm sure I did something to make her dislike me, I just don't know what. I just cant believe she still does it lmao she's been doing this for almost five years now she's like 21 I dont get it

Anyways, I dont have beef with the girl who made Splat Tim, but her best friend has basically been on and off cyberbullying me for almost half a decade now

[skinks]

Thank you for all your posts on The English. Your tags and commentary and commentary in your tags have kept me going. I stayed up past 3AM binge watching the series the first time and now rewatch my favorite parts on repeat. No one I know has watched so I'm thrilled to have found this little community to ugly cry with!

You’re so very welcome!! I’m sorry I’ve been late replying to this message, it’s been a busy time. I’m SOOOO GLAD you’ve also found that kernel of obsession with this show because I had the same feeling, I watched it and came on tumblr assuming it would be super popular but there were basically like… 3 gifsets in the tag at the time lmao

Anyway if my harrowed yelling in the tags brought you some joy in finding the show then that makes me happy. I love seeing people get passionate in the tags of anything I make so I like to do it for other gif makers too! And let’s be real there is just so fucking much to yell about with The English. I just looked at a post or two just now and I can already feel myself going a little insane again. I have gifs I made back in December that I still haven’t posted… gotta get back on photoshop

thanks again!