lavender resources

a collection of resources

[ladyaldhelm]

HOW TO TURN OFF GOOGLE AI in GMAIL:

Open Gmail in your browser

Click on the Gear Icon ⚙️ in the upper right

In the General Tab, scroll down to "Smart Features" and UNCHECK THE BOX. It is about halfway down.

Then, right below that is Google Workspace smart features. Click on the "Manage Workspace Smart Features" and make sure both toggles are OFF

[arcandoria-archived]

crossposting from bsky - glad I stopped using spotify when I did and that I unlinked it from my discord, but still

[ reddit thread | bsky post ]

[wakewithgiggli]

As a guide, its best to remove everything after the ? in HTML. It's sometimes useful, but in those cases, you'll probably already know what it's for.

[bundibird]

If ever youre not sure which parts of a website you can clip off without breaking the link, here's a great tool for that! Its called link cleaner and its literally just linkcleaner (dot) app -- paste your link into it and it'll trim all the tracking nonsense off it. I use it all time - its great.

[actual-changeling]

there is also a firefox extension called clearURLs that does this automatically while you are browsing and, when copying a link, gives you the "copy clean link" option

[ghcstfaec]

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[ughmerlin]

Don't you ever wonder whose reality we're in? Like, I-I'm pretty sure that some of my thoughts are Javi's thoughts. My favorite thoughts are Jackie's. The slumber party make outs? The jealousy? The betrayal?

YELLOWJACKETS WEEK 2025 Day four ▸ Favourite quote

[theinkbleeds]

--- AUTUMN LEAVES FALLING DOWN LIKE PIECES INTO PLACE 🍁

[png-heaven]

Rabbit pngs

[aphrostiel]

special drawing for special agent daaaale cooper!

[hollivens]

clingy firstprince fanart based on this tweet!

[bootleg-nessie]

Does anyone know where I can download adobe illustrator for free? Asking for a friend who doesn’t want to pay $30/month

[not-great-value-nessie]

https://mega.nz/folder/MA0xhIYI#P_pj6_6JLdhWBr_hvYjJmw

I'm pretty sure this one has the Adobe stuff in it

[ofcrystalsandart]

♱Blessed be the Daughters of Cain♱ commission info | ko-fi

[pngsforthepeople]

Three more png doilies!

[tommykinard]

Coloring anon here, yes, I would definitely like to know more about how you color frame by frame and the other techniques you mentioned! It would be much appreciated, thank you!

Hi anon! I'd be happy to go over my preferred methods for colouring!

First resort (ideal):

Painting over shots with little movement (the first method in this tutorial)

Colour manipulation using selective colours (the second method in this tutorial; alternate tutorial -> i also sometimes add a hue/saturation layer on top to manipulate the cyans/blues as well)

Second resort:

Keyframes for shots with consistent movement where it's easy to hide "imperfections" (tutorial 1, tutorial 2)

Last resort:

Frame by frame colouring -> DISCLAIMER: the way I do this method is the easiest way I've gotten it to work for me but that also means that it's very inflexible when it comes to editing any of the colouring afterwards. Once you start colouring in frame animation mode you're basically locked in so you need your gifs to be exactly the way you want them prior to adding your colour

So in this tutorial I'll go over how I do my frame by frame colouring as well as how I create actions to automate the repetitive parts of this process! (Some resources that explain how to create actions are here: 1 2)

To use the select subject feature you will need Photoshop CC 2018 or later

Step 1: Preparing your gif with base colouring

So first you want to do your base colouring for your gif in timeline mode, which I've explained here. I keep my gifs short (ideally 40 frames or less) since this colouring process is tedious!

I make sure that in my hue/saturation layer, I turn the saturation in the yellow, green, cyan, and blue tabs all down to -100 (and for the yellows I usually add around +20 to +60 in lightness)

Here's my gif with the base colouring that I'll be starting with:

Note: turning down the saturation in almost all the colours gives you that nice silver/grey neutral background to paint on top of. It's a lot less noticeable when your painted layers aren't perfect

Step 2: Converting to Frame Animation Mode

I use the save action from this action pack to convert my gif from timeline mode to frame animation mode

Step 3: Using Select Subject

If you're recording an action this is the step you would *start recording*

This is what your window should look like:

Making sure your first frame and first layer are selected, go to Select at the top of your window and click Subject

You should then see the marching ants outline around the person in your gif

You then want to create a new solid colour fill layer (which can be found when you click that little circle icon at the bottom of your layers panel), and set the layer blending mode to colour.

The layer mask will automatically be created since you had the marching ants outline.

Since my person is in colour and not the background, I want to invert the layer mask by clicking on it and using command + i (or ctrl + i), and now this is what it looks like:

If you're recording an action, it's at this point where I would *stop recording*

Note: Select subject isn't always perfect!!!, depending on how cluttered the scene is and how much contrast there is between your person and the background, select subject could either do a really good job like it did here, or screw up a little like it did here:

That's okay though because it still gives us a good base to start from! We can fix any issues by painting with black and white brushes on the layer mask.

Step 4: Fixing the layer mask if needed

So now back to the gif I was working on, I want his jacket and t-shirt to also be purple. I make sure the layer mask is selected, and paint with a white brush at 60-70% hardness (painting with black erases the colour, painting with white shows the colour). User smaller brush sizes to paint smaller details!

And now this is what my canvas and layer mask look like

Step 5: Merging Down

I then right click the solid colour fill layer and select merge down to merge the colouring with the frame, and this is what your layers panel will look like

This is the part where you're locked in, you can't go back and edit this colouring unless you undo your previous steps and start over.

Step 6: Repeat

Now I click on my second frame and second layer, and repeat steps 3-5.

This is where an action is super helpful in cutting down all the repetitive steps and clicks you need to do. So at this point I'd just play the action I created, paint on the layer mask as needed, and merge down. Your previous frames are going to look wonky briefly, but once you merge down everything will look normal.

Repeat for all your frames and then you're done! After this I convert it back to timeline mode again so that I can add my text and do any other effects such as blending or transitions. Hope this helped!!

[lovertm]

frog figurines by CreationsbyChrisNoel

[sioltach]

ceramica_v_radost

[pngsforthepeople]

pressed flower pngs

[annidrawings]

Not only Lana Del Rey’s song “Gods & Monsters” was the inspiration for this drawing, but Jessica Alba‘s immaculate dance scene in “Sin City” as well!

[yosbin]

film study from conclave (2024) dir. Edward Berger