#hm now i'm thinking of making a regular colouring tutorial even without being asked to

[djarin]

would you mind posting a tutorial on your coloring (esp for the last set you made of poe dameron) it’s really amazing and i’d love any tips you have. if not that’s totally okay too! have. a good day!

hi there! 

i do have some answered questions/tips/tutorials about how i colour here and here (these 2 are specifically removing green tint; kind of outdated  though because i follow a slightly different process now), here, and here! these last two are tutorials for more vibrant colourings though, so if you want a regular colouring tutorial, just let me know, i’d be happy to make one!

since you specifically mentioned the poe dameron gifset, i wanna let you know that that one was different from how i usually colour! i’ll show you why under the cut!

this gifset’s colouring process was kind of different because the movie was an HDR download, which means my screencaps were washed out in colour like this:

(i was too lazy to sharpen properly sorry HJSGJS) 

anyways, it was my first time colouring hdr and one thing i can say is that i found it A THOUSAND TIMES easier colouring it vs a non-hdr download, which looks like this: 

@sith-maul has a fantastic tutorial which explains how to colour hdr gifs, which you can find here! i highly recommend it if you’ve never worked with hdr before!

to add my non-expertise thoughts: upon first glance, it probably looks like the non-hdr file is easier to colour, but (personally) i find it 10x harder to remove the yellowish tint while keeping people’s skin colour looking more natural with the non-hdr. (and i know this because i struggled to colour the non-hdr for a while before giving up and downloading the hdr file without even knowing it was hdr at first; lol it was a nice surprise to see how well it worked after the initial struggle). 

this was my first time using hdr screencaps, so i’m not sure if i could do a thorough tutorial or anything, but i can show you the adjustment layers i have for this gifset specifically! 

if you look at my tutorial(s), you’ll see i always put brightness/contrast on “screen” for blending mode, then use the first and third dropper of curves in order to build contrast + take away any green/yellow tints. with one curves layer using the mentioned droppers, my gif looks like this:

i used levels because i wanted some parts of the gifs to be darker. mostly random clicking around until it looked good because i don’t know how to use it properly lol (i promise you my colouring consists of just pure luck 99% of the times, where i’ll click and click until something finally looks good)

channel mixer is a big big big lifesaver for colouring / getting rid of ugly yellow/green tints, play with all the reds, greens, and blues! after all of those layers, selective colour will help you bring out natural skin tones and pretty colours (i.e. the sky). remember that your layers build upon/depend on each other, which i explain in one of the linked tutorials above the cut! 

anyway, i hope this helps! it was very brief because again, i’m not an expert on colouring hdr files or anything, this gifset was legit my first try. but if you still have questions or requests for a regular colouring tutorial, please feel free to come back and ask, i don’t mind answering questions at all! <3