in a land of myth and a time of magic

Just a sideblog for me to make Merlin gifs, enjoy Requests: open

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Requested by pendragonness

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Could you possibly make a set from S3 Ep6, Arthur and Gwen's conversation in Arthur's room, from where Gwen says "we both know it can't be" to the end of the scene? Your gifs are perfect and I've been meaning to request something for a while! Cheers xx

Sure!

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Colouring tutorial #1 by andatimeofmagic

How I went from this:

To this:

Works best for indoor/outdoor (day) scenes I use Photoshop CS5 Please like or reblog if you found this helpful

So this is my first colouring tutorial. This is one of my older colourings and I used it a lot on my older posts. This colouring is very simple if you know how to adjust the layers. I make my gifs from the DVDs so if you’re using a downloaded version you may need to adjust the overall brightness.

STEP ONE

Load your frames on to Photoshop, crop, etc, etc. I will assume that you know how to sharpen your frames at once. I sharpen my frames by going to Filter > Sharpen > Smart Sharpen. These are my settings:

STEP TWO- LEVELS

STEP THREE- CURVES

Point 1: Output- 205, Input- 163 Point 2: Output- 111, Input- 72

STEP FOUR- BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST

STEP FIVE- VIBRANCE

STEP SIX- CURVES 2

Point 1: Output- 162, Input- 152 Point 2: Output- 72, Input- 72

STEP SEVEN- SELECTIVE COLOUR

STEP EIGHT- COLOUR BALANCE

Midtones

Shadows

STEP NINE- GRADIENT MAP

Its’s just the black&white gradient map found in your presets

Mode: Soft Light Opacity: 30%

And that’s it!

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Would you please share some of your merlin psds? or make a tutorial or sth? :) They are just amazing!

I’ve never posted my colourings on here before but I guess I could do a tutorial for some of my older psds. I’ll try my best to have it posted by the end of the week.

Also, for (x) and (x) I used this lovely psd

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You mentioned - you spoke of Ealdor. You took refuge with a woman.