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[kiisuuumii]

@kiisuuumii (i am alive, and i am mutable, always ever-changing) [after this untitled poem]

[kazbrekkerrs-remade]

Hey! I noticed u make edits and gifs sometimes can u PLS tell me HOW to make them, i wanna make pretty stuff too but i dont know how 😔😔 like do u have any video links or something that will explain everything to me? Ty 🥺💕

 if Ahh no problem! 

Ok so I wanna start with: even though graphic design do be my passion, i just learned how to use a bootleg version of photoshop on my own while i should’ve been studying. I’m so sure someone who’s better than me will look at this and be like “girl what, there’s a much better way to do that—” fjhgdjk but if you see something like that, please lmk! a lot of things i do piss me off as well and it’d be great to improve khfjkd 

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I personally use Photoshop CS5 extended, but there are some edit/gifmakers i really like and whose edits always make me go !!!! who you can also ask for what they use: @posideon​ @jakegyllenhaals​ @wespers​ @theolympian​ @aliciavilkander​ [+ many more who i’m sure i’m forgetting rn]

PT.1: GIFs

ok so first i wanna link you to this gif tutorial by @stuckwith-harry​, who is also one of my faves and who i’m forever indebted to because i had no clue where to start and this is literally the tutorial that managed to give me some guideline and in turn led to me actually making edits on the reg. It’s been like 4 years and i still just do it exactly like this tutorial says.

[there’s two little things I do differently a), I never figured out how to use actions oops, so sharpen gifs by going into filters:

and b) the dragging and dropping all at once never worked for me so you go to file > place > This PC > OS (C:) (or whatever the C drive is called > KMPlayer > Capture, then you place one image, and rinse n repeat until all of them are there one by one. Yeah it.. sucks lmao

[ALSO jessie has a fun name while she’s screencapping but since i can’t drag and drop I have to type sometimes to choose files bc imo that’s easier than scrolling. i just put ‘a’ or something as the prefix bc i learned the hard way it is a pain in the ass to have to type/search ‘look who’s about to kiss0001′ like 20 times over. learn from my mistakes]

PT.2: Coloring

Ok, so personally i would recommend that you just play around a bit in photoshop a bit to figure it out best as you can. Personally I like using curves and hue and saturation mostly to color, but there’s lots of things, e.g selective color (if you use this I find it’s easier to just stick to the neutrals/blacks), color balance, etc. in the adjustments window that you can use. Just play around with it for a bit to get used to it and realise what you like :)

once you add your coloring layers it shows up like this:

play around with the opacity and all if something just doesn’t look quite right

PT.3: General:

Ok so as far I remember, the tumblr dimensions are 540px in width (the height doesnt matter too much) if one image is like.. alone in a row [like this], 268px for 2 images in a row [like this], and 177px for those on the sides and 178 for the one in the middle for three in a row [like this]

if you want to make edits rather than gifs, then just open a canvas, place your image(s) and the rest of the steps are the same, pretty much. 

most of your learning is gonna just be getting used to photoshop and more comfortable with it though. practice makes perfect as they say :)

i hope this helped! this is as much as i could think of for a general tutorial, but if you have a specific question about anything feel free to ask :)