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[crabs-brencil]

lol there's a whole backstory to this being spawned but i think there are better people than i to explain all of it. anyways, pop star au, courtesy of the nt discord. that's amena in the top thingy btw

based on this meme ↓

[weirdlyeldritch]

Merry crisismas or happy holidays everybody :D

Its that time of the year again already

anyway I'm coming over here to drop here a gift I made my good friend @theartistisme43 cuz I think it turned out really cool (and this took me a while to make lol) >:D

Have a safe and fun holiday guys and gays :D

[corvidsenvy]

look at this guy and their cool jacket its nice i think

[mantoumika]

commission of margo for @trans-xianxian !!!

[suggru]

Baroque

[leviathiane]

side note, i really like how we've had several scenes now of Kurapika praying to his people and their gods/ancestors. i feel like these little cultural rituals, beyond clothing or his eyes, is what really connects Kurapika to his core past and character to me. He prays before he takes his first kill, and he prays after he buries him. He confronts his anger of his peoples' murder, his grief at their lives taken and the life he has taken, and his fear of what he know he must/will/is become/becoming, and the ritual of spoken prayer soothes that swirling agony into a redemption of purpose:

"The sun upon my face, the grass beneath my feet.

My skin cleansed by the water of a lake.

My spirit soars among the clouds,

my path illuminated by the moon and stars.

I honor my ancestors for bringing me to this place,

and defend my brethen with my dying breath.

I will step forward to humbly share in their joy

and carry the burden of their sorrows.

By my word and deed, their name will live on...

For my scarlet eyes and my blood are one with theirs,

I will take up the mantle, and accept any wrongdoing I commit,

to preserve the Kurta people, until we are redeemed forever.

On the scarlet eyes, I swear this."

(-Episode 58)

[a-gay-little-cat]

"On the hunt"

part of my art trade with @gr-74

[krenia]

wow oc art that isn't any of the freaky guys ! wow !

[hhawkeye]

have been dealing with trying to split and password protect this one pdf for no word of a lie a full hour now im so ready to die

[yumenosakiacademy]

wouldve LOVED 2 gif the part b4 the part i jus giffed where they save him where hes like "I CANT! BC IM SCARED OF BEING TOLD IM NOT NEEDED!" n they try 2 comfort him but bc of the filter w the moving lines all over the screen, the gif file sizes r ASTRONOMICALLY fucking HIGH bc of all the constant movement orz

[simbassims]

Some info about The Sims 2: Legacy Collection

Heads up on The Sims 2 Legacy Collection: It does not have Denuvo. The .exe file for it is only 20MB and Denuvo usually weighs hugely on the executables. Meaning there is no anti-piracy active on this release. Game is also (unfortunately) still 32bit, BUT the executable has been modified to be Large Address Aware, which means it can use up to 4GB of RAM (it comes pre-installed with 4GB patch, basically) There has indeed been some alterations made to the engine, at least to some extent; they did not lie on the game description. There has been fixes on the shadows akin to simnopke's, with resolution tweaks as well. What i think has been happening to some people is hardware not being properly detected, which leads to the same old error with DirectX 9.0c and you having to utilize Graphics Rule Maker to do patch the options into the game (otherwise it would default to the lowest ones available, basically, with all the low resolutions and such). I think EA will likely patch those problems soon enough though. I will be looking further into what exactly was changed and give a follow-up. Wondering if they fixed the First-Born Syndrome?

[donahdevotees]

Welcome to the donahdevotee's gift exchange, the event where selfshippers get to celebrate their fem f/o's and share their creativity with one another! (Sign up form is at the bottom of this post, please read through the guidelines before signing up!)

This gift exchange will cover art, writing and moodboards! So if you're not inclined towards art or writing you can still participate to share some love for other people's ships and have some love given to your own! On that note; all skill levels are welcome, as long as you're giving it your all, you're welcome to join!

Obviously the very basic requirement is to have a fem f/o! Your ship with her can be romantic, platonic, familial, queerplatonic, fwb, what have you! Every ship is welcome and so is every fem f/o! (If you headcannom your f/o as fem in any way, she is welcome as well!!)

GUIDELINES:

Art must comply with the rules of tumblr. A width of at least 540px wide, max file size is 20MB, please keep that in mind! If you’re drawing nsft art for your Giftee (You both must be 18+, minors are only allowed to create sfw works) you should censor it to post it. You can send the uncensored art to your Giftee!

Fics must be at minimum 500 words, no cap on the maximum however, go wild! (If you want to make a graphic to go with your fic, go for it! But it’s not mandatory <3)

Aesthetics/Moodboards should have a minimum of 4 graphics/images. You can make multiple for your giftee if you'd like! (Be considerate of eyestrain and/or flashing/etc. if using gifs!)

If you wish to back out at any point please let us know as soon as possible so we can work on a backup gift for your giftee, try not to leave it until the last day of the event!

Content that is NOT allowed: Self harm, Non-Con, Incest, Minors doing anything even remotely sexual, Pedophilia, Bestiality, Racist depictions or Fetish content.

Content that IS allowed: Anything else your Giftee has stated they’d enjoy. Character death and gore is allowed, smut is allowed. Everything MUST be tagged appropriately. If you aren’t sure; tag it!

SCHEDULE:

Nov 1: Sign ups open

Nov 10: Sign ups close at midnight

Nov 11-12: Participants are matched up!

Nov 13-14: INFO about your Giftee will be sent you via DM's

Nov 28: First check-in!

Dec 12: Second check-in!

Dec 23: FINAL DEADLINE, have all gifts submitted by midnight!

Dec 26-30: Post those gifts!!

Dec 31: List of participants and their gifts posted with links!

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR GIFT:

Option 1: Submit your artwork/fic/moodboard to this blog via the submit button!

Option 2: Send a google drive/google doc link for your gift to this blog through an ask or the submit button!

Option 3: Email your artwork/fic/moodboard to donahdevotees@gmail.com!

With your submission please include your selfship url just to ensure we don't have any mix ups! If you would like us to post your gift for you please mention that as well as we'd be more than happy to!

HOW TO POST YOUR GIFT:

You can post the gift directly to tumblr or post a link to your gift!

If you are posting your gift yourself please ensure you use the tag: #donahdevotee's gift exchange 2024 and also tag this blog and the blog of your giftee in your post!

You do have the option to ask the admins of this blog to post your gift on your behalf, where you and the giftee will both be tagged!

[surelystaggering]

sapphic jegulus : valetines art 3/3 (i apologise for such bad quality the original file was over 20MB, please check out my twt, ig or tiktok in a day or so to see the improved quality version)

[katsurinssims]

After doing the Janna pigtails, I was browsing the hair database and thought... what if I repo'd some more hairs? Turns out theres quite a few meshes that take well being repo'd to default textures!

4 hairs repo'd to BG hairs Part 1/6

Besen long braids, 770 polys, CF-EF. Download

NeptuneSuzy 43, 956 polys, YF-EF. Download

Sussi Old Fashioned, 818 polys, YF-EF. Download

KadBrazil Sue, 3735 polys, CF-EF. Download

How does this work? Saved yer a bunch of file space by removing the texture files and repo'ing them to BG hairs. Even if you don't have EPs, these should work. This means that they'll take on the appearance of maxis hairs, or whatever texture defaults you're using. That has the advantage of not needing to recolour them if you really wanted them in whatever system your tex defaults are in, it happens automatically! However; this also means if you want them to look like my pics, you need my BG texture defaults in afterglow. For context on how much of a space saver these are, I made a folder of 23 repo hairs which takes up all of 3MB, including meshes. the same amount of just texture files was 17MB, so if you're using both the texure defaults and the repo meshes, that's a 2-for-1 that'll run you 46 hairs for just 20MB! You could also check out Aquilegia's age and gender conversions for BG hairs, which work in much the same way.

The deets: packaged by family, meshes all merged, unneccecary ages removed, fully compressorized. I have pinned them to BG so they appear near the hairs they are repo'd to. These meshes are old as balls! I haven't edited them at all, so any problems aren't down to me. I just made the repo'd packages.

Buy me a coffee? I have a Ko-Fi!

[triplesnet]

a gifmaking tutorial would actually be super appreciated :)

Okay, this is gonna get long and it might not be great but I will do my best to make it understandable.

Put under a read more cause we're not forcing anyone to look at all this.

We're gonna make this gif:

First of all you'll need 3 software programs downloaded.

4k downloader (to download videos)

Gomplayer (to get the frames from the videos)

Photoshop (I pay for it but there are other ways)

Some things to keep in mind

better quality video = better quality gifs

if you want videos in 4k you have to download them in MKV format as MP4s can't be 4k.

gifs can only contain 256 colours so gifs with a lot of different colours might get grainy.

if you use low quality videos or upscaled videos they sometimes have duplicate frames which will make the animations look weird, but you can easily remove those extra frames.

tumblr only accepts gifs under 10mb in size so all gifs have to be less than that (photos less than 20mb)

you can put up to 30 gifs/images in one post

ok here we go

Step 1: Download video

Step 2: Get the frames from the video

You will play the video using Gomplayer

Find the part you want to GIF

Press CTRL + G to bring up this menu

I haven't experimented much with these settings but you'll want to choose the place you want your frames to end up so you can find them later

4. Have the Capture all frames box checked (unless it's 60fps then do 0.03). You can capture up to 999 frames in one go.

5. Press "burst capture" and it will start getting the frames (video has to be playing) it will look like this.

6. Great you have your frames.

Step 3. Making a GIF

Open Photoshop

Load Files Into Stack

This will open the folders on your computer so navigate to where you put your frames and select the frames you want by clicking on the first and holding shift while clicking on the last.

3. Wait for PS to load the frames

4. Once it's all loaded the first thing you'll do is crop it. Press 'C' on your keyboard. There are a couple presets you can use or you can 'clear' that and crop however you wish.

I always crop out at least a little of the top and bottom cause there can be dark lines there.

5. Resize: for optimal quality on tumblr there are three sizes to keep in mind.

For sets like this with 3 gifs next to each other the width should be 177p, height does not matter.

For sets like this with 2 gifs next to each other the width should be 268p

And for a set like we're doing today with just 1 gif it's 540p

You'll want to memorise these numbers for future use.

177p, 268p or 540p will be the width of your gifs.

To open the resize menu you press CTRL + ALT + i

Change the width to in this case 540p (p as in pixels)

It will auto match the height to keep the same proportions.

Click OK and wait until it's done.

6. Make sure you have the 'timeline' window up at the bottom of your photoshop

7. Click 'create frame animation' (button might say video timeline but change that by pressing that little arrow next to it)

8. Press the button with three lines in the top right of the 'timeline' window and press 'make frames from layers'

9. The frames will have loaded in in reverse order so open the same menu and click 'reverse frames'

Step 4. Blurring the logo/text (optional)

Since we have a logo in there I will want to blur it but you might not have one or you don't care if there's a logo or text in your gifs.

First we have to make the gif into a smart object.

Select all layers by pressing CTRL + ALT + A

Convert into a 'video timeline' by pressing the button in the bottom left of the timeline window

3. Right click on your layers and click on 'convert to smart object'

4. Press Z to switch to the zoom and zoom in on your logo/text.

5. Press L to switch to the lasso tool and select your logo/text

there should now be a line where you selected.

6. Open 'Gaussian Blur'

7. Click OK

Now we have to get our GIF back to the frame timeline.

8. Click 'flatten frame into clips' using the timeline menu

9. Press 'delete' once to remove the smart object

10. Convert back to frame animation

11. Make frames from layers

No need to reverse this time. But now your logo/text is blurred, as long as it doesn't move but that's a topic for another day.

Step 5: Sharpening

If you didn't have something to blur let's go over smart objects again.

Select all layers by pressing CTRL + ALT + A

Convert into a 'video timeline' by pressing the button in the bottom left of the timeline window

3. Right click on your layers and click on 'convert to smart object'

5. Camera Raw Filter (Optional)

I use this for base editing of colours and the overall clearness of GIFs, it's not made for that tho it sometimes gets buggy. Works best on photos.

Press CTRL + SHIFT + A to open this.

It's best to do as little as possible in here as it can bug out.

I mostly mess with the effects, light and detail settings in here, don't touch the sharpening though cause we will use smart sharpen for that.

6. Smart Shapening

Most people have a sharpening action they use, including me. But you can also do it manually. You can find my actions in here.

To do it manually and make your own settings. This is how you open smart sharpen.

If you use my sharpening action remember it can be a bit much sometimes, in that case hide the second layer

Use an action or mess around to find a sharpening setting that looks good on your gif, usually don't need much.

Now we have to get our GIF back to the frame timeline.

7. Click 'flatten frame into clips' using the timeline menu (I'm low on images to use check the blur section for images)

It might take a minute since it has to process the new settings.

8. Press 'delete' once to remove the smart object

9. Convert back to frame animation

10. Make frames from layers

11. Select all your frames to set the framerate

You can click on any frame for this. Click 'other' and set it to 0,06.

12. Press CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + S to open 'Save for Web'

these are my save settings.

Click save and name and place it wherever you want it saved.

Congrats you've made a gif.

Step 6: Colouring

Now we have a problem cause there's already 30 images in this post.

For colouring I have a psd I use and adjust to the individual set. It's in my google drive you can find it here along with my actions.

If you're making several gifs from one video you'll want to adjust to the first and then copy that over to keep things matching.

We can go more in depth on this but that would have to be a different post since I can't put more images in this one.

Step 7: Watermark (optional)

A lot of GIF makers have watermarks these days as there's a lot of people who repost GIFs without credit. Make your own so people know the GIFs are yours even when posted elsewhere.

Step 8: Post

Post your hard work on your tumblr, use a bunch of tags so people have a higher chance of seeing it.

I hope this post was understandable and clear, let me know if you have any questions and if you want a proper colouring post.

[suggru]

in vino veritas