I’ve made a tutorial on how to color adjust to fix washed out colorings, but I noticed people aren’t always sure when their coloring needs fixing in the first place. So I’ve made a bunch of colorings you can use to compare your own to. It’s designed to help avoid whitewashing, but also help avoid over-correction.
If you’re not a content creator, you can also use this guide for reblogging as well. :)
Using the Guide
Each set comes in three: cool, neutral, and warm. If your coloring is bluer/whiter than the cool tone, consider readjusting.
Examples of what might be too pale/bright are beneath each set
There are various categories (daytime, night scenes, etc) for each type of scene you might encounter
Each coloring has a color palette beneath for the highlights, midtones, and shadows of the character’s face. If you’re having trouble eyeballing it, use the eyedropper tool to double check.
NOTES 1)For the sake of simplicity, I’ve used one character per category, but characters of color are not interchangeable. Identify the skin tone for the character you’re coloring and work with that. This is only meant to give a frame of reference for what is and isn’t whitewashing
2)If any of the colorings look different than what they’ve been stated as (i.e. the cool tones look too warm or some look way too dark to be visible) calibrate your monitor.It means your screen color and gamma needs readjustment.
Recently, I got a message asking me how I make my gifs. So, I decided to do a tutorial! I learned how to make gifs through various tutorials, and I wanted to make one to help those who don’t know how to make gifs.
We’re gonna go from this:
to this:
You’re going to need:
- Photoshop. I use CS5.
- KMPlayer to take screencaps for the gif
- A PSD and/or an action to sharpen your gif if you don’t know how to/wan to do it manually
hey lovelies! some of you asked me how i make characters posters (like these xxx) so i’ll try to do my best explaining how to make them! sorry for eventual mistakes, as english is not my first language. tutorial under the cut.
Anonymous asked: Do you know how to cut out an image? I use the polygonal lasso tool but it doesnt come out really nice and I just want to know if theres an easier and more effective way of cutting out images?
actually yes! there’s a much easier way to cut out images than using the polygonal lasso.
first off, open up your image onto photoshop. (i’m using psc5) this is the photo i’ll be using.
next, click the letter “q” on your keyboard. this creates a mask for your picture. click it once and then click your brush tool. once you’ve clicked your brush tool, paint over your person. the brush tool should come off as red, and it should look like this.
paint over the entire person (or whoever/whatever you want to cut out) i like to use a small brush, so that it’s easier to paint over the more difficult spots to paint over. once you’ve finished painting over them, it should look something like this.
now all you have to do is click “q” again and it should outline what you’ve painted. it should look like this.
now, click delete on your keyboard and voila!
easy right? i hope this was able to help you lovely! if you have any other questions, feel free to come back and ask them!
Since there aren’t half as many PSDs or coloring tutorials designed for POC, I figured a better way is to show people how to adjust the PSDs or techniques they already have on hand instead.
Things we will look at:
How to recognize white washed POC**
How to fix it
I’ve divided it into 3 parts under the cut :D
**This is also for people who reblog things and want to know what is and isn’t white washing
For a number of years now, Tumblr has been home to some of the best, most popular, and most complicated gif tutorials on the net. If you find difficulty following those tutorials, or are actively looking for a shortened way to gif high quality low maintenance gifs, continue reading this 5 step process by historyrph! GIF EXAMPLES:
I was asked by a lovely anon to make a tutorial on how I make my GIFs (especially my Sara Lance/Legends of Tomorrow gifs). Instead of making a step by step tutorial on how to make gifs, I put together this post with links to tutorials and resources that I use or have used, as a well as other tips I think are helpful. I also included a coloring tutorial (and psd) detailing my usual process for LoT. Hopefully it will be of use to someone. Feel free to message me if you have any questions or would like a more in depth explanation of something :)
I get all my DCTV episode downloads from here. I use 1080p quality whenever possible (especially for movies). 720p is also okay, if I make smaller gifs. Anything lower than that will not produce clear, crisp gifs.
Tutorials and Resources:
Resource blogs: yeahps, completeresources, itsphotoshop- all of these have tons of basic and advanced tutorials on every step of the gif making process.
How to make gifs by theflashgifs- this is the tutorial I first learned from and the basic method I use when giffing shows and movies.
Gif dimensions - I use the ‘old’ dimensions, which means my content is 500px wide, including the padding. Check outthis postto learn all about dimensions.
My usual save settings- These are flexible and I highly recommend experimenting with them. Depending on the gif I might choose ‘diffusion’ instead of ‘pattern’, and ‘selective’ instead of ‘adaptive’. Remember: the higher the dither, the bigger the file size. However, gifs with low dither look LQ. You want your colors at 256, however, if you find your file size is too large, and you don’t want to delete frames, try lowering the colors.
Coloring:
I’m going to go through a very basic coloring process for a colorful, vibrant gif, as seen in the gifs above. I’ve included a download for the finished psd at the end. Since I’m posting the psd, I’m not including screenshot of the exact values of each of my layers in the breakdown below. If you’re interested in that, you can take a look at the psd. Now let’s get on with in it!
❝ ▒ graphic tutorial: how to include a gif in a graphic ✨⟡
hi petals !! i got a question on how i put the gif in my theme header, or the graphic i made above, so i decided to make a small and easy tutorial on it !! all you need is photoshop and a tiny bit of patience to stick through because it might not work from the very first second !! if there were to be any more questions, feel free to hit me up !! hopefully, this can be useful for you !! xoxo
I received a request to do a tutorial on how to make my gifs. So in this tutorial I’ll teach you how to make captures of a video and how I use captures to make gifs. Sorry for any errors, english is not my first language.
Any gifmakers who use Photoshop CC know that using the same sharpening technique as CS5 gifmakers doesn’t have the same effect on CC. When sharpening on CC, gifs can turn out “muddy”, or undersharpened, unlike the crisp CS5 sharpening. After many many months of fiddling with my actions and techniques, I finally found a way to better replicate the crisp CS5 sharpening look. I figured I would share what I learned for other people also struggling to make their gifs look better.
