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hi :) i love ur buffy gifs so much! they always look so nice!! would you be willing to do a coloring tutorial to show how you usually color btvs? or perhaps save the PSD the next time you gif buffy and share that?

oh i feel your pain!! and thank you so much <3

i colour each gif from scratch and don't save psds so i can't offer you something there but i've done up a buffy colouring tutorial here!!

Here's the uncoloured gif.

Step 1: The nice part about giffing Buffy is there is usually a grey or blueish grey pixel in the whites of her eyes that is perfect for a white point curves. I played around with different pixels on different points on the gif until I found one I liked.

Step 2: I always like to do the brightening first so I added on Levels and Exposure layers. BTVS has weird highlights where its very prone to white or yellow/white patches so I try to use as little as Exposure as possible but I like the Gamma Correction part.

Step 3: Channel Mixer is a lifesaver for Buffy because it usually has such a warm tint. I pretty much only use the Red and Blue settings but it helps make the gif cooler without the effects on shadows and midtones like Colour Balance.

Step 4: Selective Colour is mostly just to fix skintones and background colours. I typically wind up adjusting the cyan and yellow sliders for the reds and blues until her hair and skin looked normal. Sometimes BTVS has magenta in the shadows on her face so I increased the yellow there (while it makes sense to actual reduce the magenta, I'm going to a natural skintone not green).

You can also see that there are some white spots on her shirt, right arm, and the right part of her face. On the white, I increased the blacks and reduced the yellows to fix the colour and reduce the brightness.

Step 5: Hue/Saturation doesn't make a hugely noticeable difference here but it's a good opportunity to make final tweaks to colours and reduce overall warmth saturation. My personal preference is to have lower red/yellow saturation so I lowered that and made slight Hue adjustments (the yellows were still a little red for my liking). There was also some magenta in her eyes and teeth so I completely lowered the saturation and upped the brightness to fix that.

Step 6: The gif is still a little dark for my liking so I threw on a final Levels layer to brighten up her face. Usually, I would use exposure but if I did that I would end up with some serious white patches.

And that's it!! Each Buffy gif is slightly different but I would suggest making the gifs cooler and increasing the brightness through Curves and Levels without using Exposure.

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Len Headey in Running Wild with Bear Grylls

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Lena Headey in Running Wild with Bear Grylls

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Lena Headey at the 2018 Golden Globes

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Lena Headey and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau at the 2018 Golden Globes

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LENA HEADEY @ 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards, Los Angeles | January 7, 2018

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Lena Headey and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau at the 2018 Golden Globes

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Sophie Turner, Lena Headey, Kit Harington, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage, Maisie Williams and Emilia Clarke photographed for TIME Magazine.

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Lena Headey in Kasabian’s Ill Ray (The King) music video

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Lena Headey, photographed by Stefano Galuzzi for The Edit, July 6, 2017.

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Lena Headey for TIME MAGAZINE