Everything is blue

Just another resources blog for colorings. I'm using gimp and photoshop. Feel free to request!

[creativexspirit]

About this blog.

Hi there, you just stumbled upon my low activity Gimp edits sideblog. Here you'll find: XCF colorings, XCF templates and gimp tutorials, either made by me or reblogged because I like seeing other Gimp resources.

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[creativexspirit]

Un grand merci à tout le monde pour vos 100 coups de cœur !

[jessource]

please remember to credit me if you use my resources. i’ve come across one too many people using my resources that have zero credit anywhere. it costs nothing to include credit in your pinned, rules, or the post itself. majority of my resources are free but i do still take the time to create these in my own free time. it might not mean anything to you, but it’s incredibly disheartening every time i come across a blog using a template or psd of mine that has zero credit. i’d hate to start blocking people who use my resources that don’t credit me, but it does get to a point where it’s genuinely exhausting seeing somebody make out like their graphics are made by themselves when they’ve used one of my templates.

[simsofstrawberryhill]

Meta wants to train its AI with your data. How to object

For all those who - like me - have not noticed it yet: Starting tomorrow (May 27, 2025) Meta will use all data from users of Instagram and Facebook to improve the company's own generative AI.

This only applies to European users. In the US, user data is already being used and processed by Meta's AI. At the launch in Europe, Meta announced in March that Meta AI had not been trained on the basis of data from European users of Meta platforms. This was preceded by a lengthy dispute between the EU and Meta, as the company had already presented its AI in 2023 and subsequently launched it in the USA. Last year, Meta also wanted to use content from European users for AI training, but the Irish data protection authority stopped this. In protest at the European stop, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, among others, wrote in an open letter that Europe was refusing to make progress.

Long story short: If you are from europe and have an Instagram and/or Facebook account, today is the last day to object. For users in Europe (in the USA, for example, there is no option to object), this can be done via an online form. An objection is possible at any time, but as of 27 May, Meta may have already evaluated its own data; once data has been used for training, it cannot be removed from the AI.

The objection must be submitted individually on each platform, but if you have linked several accounts, once per platform is sufficient. You can find the forms under the following links:

Instagram

Or: https://help.instagram.com/contact/767264225370182

Facebook

Or: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/712876720715583

[animstack]

GIMP 3.0?

Hi there! So recently after years of development GIMP 3.0 has been released! That's good news. The bad news is that Animstack doesn't currently work with GIMP 3.0 (and neither do my other GIMP scripts from what I've seen). I'll see what I can do to get them up to date but can't promise anything since I haven't touched that code in years.

Note that installing GIMP 3.0 does not overwrite your GIMP 2.10 installation and you can still use GIMP 2.10 after installing GIMP 3.0. So for now please use GIMP 2.10 if you need to use Animstack for some reason.

[titsay]

[creativexspirit]

Rolling playlist gif for GIMP: a tutorial ▬ by Joy from @creativexspirit​ 

Credit where credit is due, I fell in love with this gif tutorial but EH I don't use Photoshop anymore so I made it my mission to recreate the effect in GIMP.

This tutorial uses AnimStack, a Script-Fu script for GIMP to give you tools for the creation of animated GIFs. As it's super useful, even if you don't follow this tutorial I highly recommend to download. How to install AnimStack to GIMP in tumblr's FAQ: https://animstack.tumblr.com/faq

IT ONLY WORKS IN GIMP 2.10.

This tutorial uses my playlist template.

Tutorial with screenshots is under the cut.

Like or reblog if you download. Please don’t request as your own, respect my work. Don’t hesitate to tag me if you follow the tutorial! I would love to see your edits.

STEP 01.

Change the titles, the colors, the icons. Tip if you want to change the song title that are not visible: move the layers group "Song list", so you can see the text you modify.

Add songs by copy/pasting the "Song 5" layers group. Keep this layers group inside the "Song list" group.

Try to move the layers group so that it is aligned with above songs.

To place back correctly the "Song list", here's a tip: use the align tool and click on the "Song list" group. In the tool's options, in the "relative to" drop down menu, choose "Selection". Back to the layers window: in the "Background" group, right click on the "Color nuance" layer and choose "Alpha to selection". Now you are free to align your "Song list" layer group to the top and center of that selection, and it should be alright!

STEP 02.

Now the tutorial actually begins. Flatten all layer groups using Image > Flatten Layer Groups. (Don't mind my GIMP language, it is in French but the AnimStacks tools are in English, you should have the same menu.)

And now your layers window should look like mine, minus the links on the layers.

Now, see the linked layers? Merge them all together. You should end up with only 4 layers: "Song list", "Background", "GUIDE MASK SONG LIST FOR GIF", "Arrière-plan".

Note: you don't really need the "Arrière-plan" layer, so if you want to, you can delete it or you can merge it with the background layer. In my case, I will delete it.

STEP 03.

Reorder your layers. This is very important as AnimStacks will process the layers from top to bottom, so the layers order counts.

Put your "Background" layer on top, your "Song list" layer under it. As for the guide mask, we don't really care as we will delete it later.

STEP 04.

We are now going to add AnimStacks tags to our layer names. Here you'll have to do a bit of maths because you can choose the number of frames your gif will ultimately contain and adjust the tags parameters accordingly. This might seem complicated but it really isn't. I'll start by showing the tags to add, and explain how this will be processed. I will then give you the maths to choose your parameters accordingly.

Below, the tags I have added to my layers. You will have to write the same things as I do but what you might change is:

the number of "30" in Background.

the y parameter of the offset tag "-12".

YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO REMOVE THE [copy:0] and change it.

OK but what does each tag do? Remember, AnimStacks process is from top layer to bottom. Here the first layer is our Background layer: [*30] means it will duplicate the "Background" layer 30 times.

Now, onto "Song list" layer: [copy:0] will check all layers above the "Song list" layer that has no tag (at this point, all of our 30 "Background" layers have no tag), create a group for each found layer and place the "Song list" layer at position 0. Ok this explanation is wacky, for better explanation, please check the documentation.

The offset tag is necessary for the rolling effect: at each addition of the "Song list" layer, it won't just be a simple duplicate of the "Song list" layer, but the layer will have moved a little by (x,y) = (0,-12), allowing us to get that "rolling" effect in our gif. (And now you get why I said "y parameter".)

OK now, but how did I choose my parameters? So for reference, I only have 5 songs - I didn't add any song to the song list. For my maths, you need the height of the "Song list" layer. Check it with the scaling tool.

The height of my layer is 353 pixels (awful number meh). I choose to have 30 frames. So the move of the layers will have to be of 353/30 = 11.77 pixels. I choose 12 pixels because you can't have floats for the number of pixels, can you?

DO NOT FORGET the minus in front of the y parameter. My y parameter is "-12". Otherwise, the playlist will roll towards the bottom.

STEP 05.

We are now going to add a mask to the "Song list" layer to avoid seeing the title songs where we shouldn't see them. See that obnoxious orange layer "GUIDE MASK SONG LIST FOR GIF"? Yes, it is its time to shine.

Right click on the "GUIDE MASK SONG LIST FOR GIF" layer and choose "Alpha to Selection". (Well in French it's Alpha vers Sélection.)

Now, we are going to use that selection to create a layer mask on the "Song list" layer.

Right click on "Song list" and choose "Add a layer mask". /!\ Your selection must still be active. (Well in French it's "Ajouter un masque de calque" but you can see the icon right? By the way, you can also add a layer mask by clicking on the icon in the layer window, see circled icon in red.)

Now, choose Selection for the creation of the layer mask.

If you don't have the above results for the mask, it might be that you foreground and background colors are not the same as mine, meaning black and white respectively.

If you don't have the same colors as me above, click on the small pair of squares the blue arrow I draw is pointing to. It will default your foreground and background colors to black and white. Keyboard shortcut is D. (I don't think I changed it.)

And now, we don't need the orange guide mask layer anymore, so you can delete it.

STEP 06.

Last check before process: make sure you have no area selected (or you will get a weird result). Cancel all selection with Selection > None.

STEP 07.

We now begin the AnimStacks tags process.

In Filters > Animation, find "Process Animation Tags" and click on it.

The process might take a while depending on the number of frames you have.

If everything is correct, you should have something similar to that. Now, we can check if the gif is correct and if we liked the number of frames and y parameter by previewing the animation in Filters > Animation > Playback...

STEP 07.

This step is optional but you might want to change the time of our first frame to be longer so people have time to read the beginning. Do so by changing the layer group name by adding (800ms) to it. This means the frame corresponding to that layer group will be 800ms.

You can check if it's long enough by doing the playback again.

STEP 08.

Now, we have to flatten all layer groups if we want to export to a GIF. In order to do so, we will just use the same trick as the beginning: Image > Flatten Layer Groups.

STEP 09.

Optional, but good to do: to make our gif lighter, we are also going to optimize the gif. In order to do so, do Filters > Animation > Optimize (for GIF) I don't know personally the difference with the other optimization method. Choose either you'll have similar results it's a difference in the implied algorithm I guess.

This step might take a while, but it's ok. When it's done processing you should have a new image created with the same results as me above. You can playback to check if everything is correct but here our job is done! We will now export the GIF.

STEP 10.

You can now export to GIF! Go to File > Export as..., choose the name of your file and end it with the .gif extension.

If you get an error message because some layers are not cropped, no worries: just choose the "crop" option (but you should not with the optimization).

Now, don't forget to check "as animation" when saving the GIF, if you haven't done the optimization, choose the delay between frames (the first frame will still be of 800ms), and choose "replace".

WITHOUT OPTIMIZATION:

(With the optimization process, all layers already have delay and animation replacement type thingy specified.)

AND VOILA, YOU HAVE YOUR GIF! If you mess around more with AnimStacks, you can do cool stuffs with it!

Now, how do you pronounce the G in gif? Also shh, don't say you saw the mistake I made when changing the title's songs in the tutorial, I wanted to write Everybody Talks by Neon Trees.

[creativexspirit]

This tutorial only works on Gimp 2.10 (and earlier Gimp 2 versions probably) not on Gimp 3 as Animstack doesn't work with it (as of today).

[creativexspirit]

So hm. Good news Gimp 3.0 is out and I've opened colorings and some templates with it and of course: templates still work. Bad news? I need to find a way to do the rolling playlist gif again with 3.0, knowing that animstacks doesn't work anymore with Gimp 3.0.

[fyeahpoc]

˖   .   ݁𝜗𝜚.   ݁₊    ROCKSTAR    ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌    an   instagram   inspired   template   by   @fyeahpoc   !

༝    difficulty    —     easy   . ༝    fonts   used    —   poppins   ;   regular   &   extrabold   . ༝    how   to   download    —    click   the   source   link   to   be   redirected   to   mediafire   . ༝    restrictions    —    do   not   use   claim   as   your   own   .   additional   guidelines   can   be   found   here   . ༝    credit   is   not   necessary   ,   but   please   like   or   reblog   if   you   intend   on   using   ♡

[fyeahpoc]

. ִ ་ ˖ ʿ ִֶָ ׄ    PRESSURELICIOUS    ﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌    a   character   template   by   @fyeahpoc   !

༝    difficulty    —     medium   . ༝    fonts   used    —   poppins   ;   regular   &   extrabold   . ༝    how   to   download    —    click   the   source   link   to   be   redirected   to   mediafire   . ༝    restrictions    —    do   not   claim   as   your   own   or   duplicate   . ༝    credit   is   not   necessary   ,   but   please   like   or   reblog   if   you   intend   on   using   ♡ tips

[simandy]

So, someone I'm following with my personal blog is very mad at a thing that happened to them and, because of that, I've learned (more like "confirmed") two very important things today:

Tumblr (ig, twitter, tiktok, any social media) is NOT your freaking locked diary;

You've GOT TO learn how to be comfortable with the fact that you are NOT the only person on the internet.

This website is not a private place. Your blog isn't a secret tomb. Even if you're a small blog, everything you post as PUBLIC is PUBLIC. Anyone can access it one day and you cannot do ANYTHING to prevent it from happening, unless you post that thing in private, so only YOU will be able to see it. Please, only post stuff that you are OKAY with other people seeing.

Learning to understand that you are not alone is tied to the above paragraph. A person from the other side of the globe exists in this place with you. They're here. There's nothing you can do to prevent them from "stealing" your information, your ideas, your concepts. And if you're posting all of those without a patent, you MUST be comfortable with the fact that they can all be stolen. That someone will be faster than you to publish your entire story just because you actively told them. There's no "but I told them not to steal in my card/my TOU 😭!!! Loyal followers, cancel them immediately!!!" that will stop a real person from doing that.

I'm sorry for triggering any anxieties or paranoia, but at this point, I'm really just trying to protect you. And I'm talking to you as an adult who is a writer and an artist myself, who has been online since 2009. I hope you can take this as an adult too.

Be safe and protect what's valuable to you, please.

[creativexspirit]

Giving myself a little boost of "Joy you have skills since forever" by checking my "gallery forum" for all the codes I had... This old Instagram UI template which is in HTML/CSS is insanely cool. I vaguely remember being annoyed at creating it but not so much and I'm just... Proud of little me. She was cool.

[creativexspirit]

I haven't felt the need to open Gimp for a while because I don't do any edits at the moment but I will download that release candidate 2 for gimp 3 as soon as I can. (Which is next week probably)

[thosetutorials]

How to GIF with Screencaps

So I’ve noticed increasingly more people are having issues with importing frames or just don’t like to use that method anyway. I’ve finally figured out a way that works for both PC and Mac users! If you have any requests, please feel free to drop by my ask!

You will need: • Photoshop (PC | Mac) • VLC Player (PC | Mac)

Afficher davantage

[memoriesplasticine]

Beam of light

1. Use the Polygon Frame Tool or the Pen Tool to create a selection around the window or opening through which the sun ray will supposedly pass.

2. Create a new layer and fill the selection with the color you want for your ambient light effect. I have used the color # fff6dc but you can use the one you like the most.

3. Use the Free Transform Tool by pressing Ctrl + T and then with the right click select Distort or go to the Edit menu> Transform> Distort and distort the form as shown below. You can also use Perspective to widen the end of the shape to create the effect that light expands.

4. Softens the light beam using blurring filters. For this type of effect I like to use the rectangle blur because it is not so linear and keeps the edges a little more focused. (Gaussian blur)

5.  Create a layer mask for your light beam using a linear gradient to attenuate the end of the out-of-focus shape. Reduce the opacity of the layer to the point where it seems realistic. I left it the same but you can lower the opacity to your liking.

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Free Dust Particle Photoshop Brush Set (Mac or Windows): DOWNLOAD

MEGA: DOWNLOAD PSD 🐱‍🚀🐱‍🚀  (example)

[jessource]

friendly reminder that if you use my resources you are required to leave credit somewhere visible. too many times i've come across people's blogs using my resources with no visible credit - they'll have credited the psd they use or even state everything they make is their own; despite using something i've made. it's incredibly disheartening to make things that are never credited where people treat it as their own work. this doesn't just go for my resources, but for everyone else that makes things for other people. give credit where it's due.

[creativexspirit]

Reading what's to come to Gimp 3.0 and getting overly excited is my new default attitude.