How??? Do you make??? Cherry Magic look good in gifs?????????? Pls the yellow taint is ruining my whole existence
well, thank you :’) it’s kind of simple i think? i’ll explain the process.
so the gif starts out like this, right? it’s not the worsttt scene in terms of colouring, but there is a greenish-yellow tint to it that i’d like to fix.
i start by adding a bit of brightness, levels and/or curves. i use brightness and curves for overall and highlights, and i use levels to make the midtones brighter and shadows darker. then, i can start with colour balance. it’s simple, really. if you look at a colour wheel you can see that across from yellow, green and orange is blue, purple and pink.
this means that i will adjust the colour balance to add blue and red to each tone, and sometimes i will add some magenta in the shadows.
here are my settings from this gif to get a better understanding of what i mean:
here’s the results. it hasn’t changed much now, but this is where i add selective colour. i like to make my yellows more red and the shadows darker so i slide the magenta slider in yellows to the right and also slide the bottom slider in blacks to the right. this all depends on each scene, as cherry magic doesn’t have a very consistent look and can even look different in the same set (e.g the office, adachi’s place etc.)
in this specific gifset, after i made the shadows darker and yellows appear redder, i added another colour balance adjustment at the end and only added more blue to the midtones.
this is how my gif turns out:
i get this result with these layers:
i’m not sure if this is much help to anyone, but i think it’s good to understand why these sliders do what they do so it comes to you easier and it doesn’t take much thinking when making a gif, instead of just giving away some psds. each scene is different, and i use different settings for every gifset which means they can look quite inconsistent but everyone has their own style. all i can really say is mess around with your colour balance to achieve the look you want.
little tidbit if anyone is unaware:
the curves adjustment has these eyedropper tools that you can use to select certain parts of your gif/image to pick the ‘perfect’ colour option (which i think is basically the colour opposite to the colour you’ve clicked on the colour wheel?) for that pic (basically working as the selective colour slider, yellows will become bluer), the bottom is for highlights, middle is for mid tones (i typically use this for yellow/green backgrounds that are supposed to be white) and top is for shadows. the pointing finger is so you can click any area of your project and slide up and down to make it brighter or darker, this is so you can target specific areas that you wish to look different.
that should be all? if anyone has any other questions i’m happy to answer since i’m not sure if this is detailed enough, i didn’t want to make my explanation too long. thank u!
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