#they needed help with photoshop

[arandomeroacher]

Thinking of the time last year when a senior in one of my elective classes said my voice was really soothing to listen too

[clownowo]

🤨

bonus:

[cloysterbell]

Pete, I need you to stay here.

[driftsart]

Megatron is such a depressed bot, I wanna hug him and bring him a snack 😔

[backslashdelta]

How To Gif: Glass Shatter Effect

By popular demand (ie, 7 people who voted in this poll), here is a tutorial on how to do the glass shatter effect I used to create the first gif in this set.

I use Photoshop CC 2015 (yes I know it's old) for my gifmaking, but you should be able to apply everything to newer versions of Photoshop. For this tutorial I'll be assuming you know the gifmaking basics, but if not, I would recommend this tutorial, which is the process I use to make gifs. Note that this particular process involves saving all of the frames, importing those frames into Photoshop, and then using an action to convert to a smart object.

Keep reading below the cut to learn how to do this effect!

Before I could start making this gif, I needed three things; the two scenes that I wanted to use, and a video of the glass shattering effect. I already knew the scenes I wanted, so then I took to YouTube to find a video which I can't for the life of me find again (edit: thanks to add1ctedt0you in the replies for linking this video!), but it looked like this:

Something like this is what you want. Ideally the green part would be entirely white, but as long as there are two clearly different colours you can usually work with it.

This looks a lot slower than the gif that I made, but that's not because of the frame rate - which is exactly the same above as in the final gif - it's just because there are extra frames in this slower one that I cut out. In the video I used, the glass shattering happened very slowly. I didn't want that, so I ended up skipping several frames when I loaded the frames into Photoshop before using my gifmaking action. I just did this by manually selecting one frame, skipping the next several before selecting another frame, and repeating this until I had selected 60 frames.

After using my gif action, I had a smart object of the glass shatter effect that looked like this:

That's a much better speed! It still wasn't quite where I needed it to be though. I needed this in black and white, so I slapped a hue/saturation adjustment on the smart object and set the saturation all the way down to -100.

Okay great, I could start putting the gif together now.

First, I made a copy of the glass shatter smart object, because I'll need that later. Then, I pulled in frames from the scene that I wanted to appear in the hole after the glass shatters, and I used those to create a new smart object with my gif action (we'll call it Scene-bg). I pulled Scene-bg into the same window as the glass shatter objects. Then I created a new smart object by combining one of the glass shatter objects with Scene-bg, which I did by selecting both layers right clicking, and selecting "Convert to Smart Object".

I renamed this smart object to Shatter-fg. I opened it by clicking on the little icon next to the layer name in the layers window here:

The most important thing here is that the shatter effect object should be the top layer, and I set the mode to "lighten". This will make sure that the lightest colour of either this layer and the layer behind it is displayed; that means that anywhere that's white in our shatter animation will still show up, but anywhere that's black we'll see what's in the layer(s) behind it.

Then I threw some adjustment layers between them to get the colouring I wanted. I used a curves layer, a hue/saturation layer, and I also added text with an outer glow layer effect. Here's what the layer order looked like and the settings I used for each layer:

After this process, Shatter-fg looked like this:

Okay nice, this is starting to look like something! I saved this and went back to the main file with the other glass shatter object.

I needed to invert that other glass shatter object. There's a weird quirk with the version of Photoshop that I use where it doesn't like it when I apply specifically an invert adjustment to a smart object (it appears correctly when editing, but not on export) so I did this by creating a new smart object which included a separate invert layer, but if you have a newer version of Photoshop you can probably just apply the invert adjustment directly. Just note that you'll need to do one of these options; it won't work if you add a separate adjustment layer in the main file, it needs to be applied specifically to the smart object (which we'll now be calling Shatter-bg). It looked like this after I inverted it:

Once that's done, I made sure Shatter-fg was the layer directly above Shatter-bg, and set the mode of Shatter-fg to "darken" and Shatter-bg to "lighten". Since Shatter-fg is set to darken, it will be visible only when it is darker than the layer behind it. By setting Shatter-bg to lighten, I've guaranteed that the layer behind it will always be lighter (ie, white) in the places we want Shatter-fg to be visible, and will be black otherwise. Once I update those settings, this is what the gif looked like:

This is all there is to the glass shatter effect itself. Next I pulled in frames from the second scene to fill in the black areas. This layer needed to go below both glass shatter layers, so that it only shows through where the black. Then I added adjustment layers and some text. I used curves, hue/saturation, and vibrance adjustment layers, and I also added the "archer" text below the glass shatter layers so that it would be hidden to reveal the "prey" text. The other text I added above all of the layers, since I wanted this to be visible all the time. Here is the layer order and all of the settings I used for each of the layers:

I also grouped Shatter-bg and Shatter-fg and shifted them on the timeline so there would be some time to see the background gif before the shatter effect starts.

And that's all! Then it''s just a matter of exporting the finished product:

This is the first gifmaking tutorial I've ever made, so I hope I was able to be reasonably coherent and helpful! I'd love to hear if you make anything by following these steps, or even if you just feel like you've learned something reading through this. And if you have any outstanding questions, feel free to reply or send me an ask and I'd be happy to answer!

[cupcakeshakesnake]

Desaturation issue?

Posted on Reddit too, but might as well ask around here since there's a fairly large community of digital artists.

SO

When I open an image with saturated colors on CSP, other art programs, Firefox, or my phone (Samsung Galaxy), it shows up pretty saturated as seen on the left.

BUT if I open the same image with Windows Photo Viewer or photoshop, it shows up desaturated (right).

Can't remember messing with any color settings since I bought the laptop; everything is set to default as far as I know.

Does anyone have similar experiences or knowledge of why this is happening and how I could fix it, if possible?

EDIT: Changed CSP color settings to "Saturation" as per that one post going around. Issue persists.

[wuntrum]

spending my sunday participating in my favorite pasttime (thinking about drawing and not actually drawing)

[allmightyscroll-swag]

ooooooo he's in trouble

Leo stop trying to deflect from your condition you just start bringing up your trauma again when you do that,,

[tangirlisfangirl]

CONFUCIUS MY FUCKING BELOVED

(now excuse me while i go feral in the tags)

[skinks]

The English - 1.02

[thegameartist03]

been doing some oc work lately, this was meant to be a test but i’m pretty happy with how it turned out.

[macnnan]

wip wip

[sundry-whovengerslocked]

in desperate need of money

this is my patreon. my mom and I are struggling right now and need any help you can give, even just reblogging. we can't afford groceries and are essentially homeless- we don't know where we're going to be staying next.

I'm currently job hunting but it's very difficult to find anything as I don't have enough experience and need to work remotely.

so patreon is my best bet right now.

I'm open for commissions, I do photoshop, video editing, proofreading/editing, writing, and some graphic design. some examples of my work are under the cut!

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this was made from scratch. everything here was found individually and put together

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[dohydrate]

Frank had a wholesome spa day ✨ he loves to spoil himself from time to time 🫶🥰😍

[thematicparallel]

hi i made Goncharov stickers

[ltcolonelcarter]

Cyberlife Tower: the androids stay dormant. Mission failed.

celebrating the end of the academic term by attempting to revitalise an old skill + being wildly self indulgent in the process ft. the namesake of my washing machine time loop sixty fic.