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Kidding!. But Photo-Shops will be closing for a few days because I am going to make big changes, like different sections, easy navigation, ect... So tomorrow I will be closing and I'll be back by Friday. 

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[fromdusks]

Star Trek  PSD by Enterpraise

works best for scenes on the bridge

includes black and white option

includes vibrance

please like/reblog if using, it would be awesome of you:)

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I started with this cap cause Derek looks sad and thats how I roll

  I brightened the cap with a Curves Layer. I don’t get creative with curves often, so this is literally just a brightening arch on the RGB mode (a point @ input: 182, output: 234 if you wanna get specific).

  I wanted to add contrast while warming up the colours of the image, so I added a Gradient Map layer (Layer —> New Adjustment Layer —> Gradient Map) & when the setting box pops up I selected Mode: Soft Light. I then picked the colours above after mucking around with different colour combos (gradient maps on blend modes are super fun ok) since they did what I was after.

  I wanted to add a bit of ~grit to the cap (cause manpain alone is never enough) so I stamped a new layer (ctrl + alt + shift +e) & when to the Filter Gallery (Filter —> Filter Gallery) Handy dandy tip: film grain is an a+ grain adder obviously but is also handy if you need to hide how LQ a cap is. In this case I chose the settings above & then lowered the opacity of the film grained layer to 40%. Note: in other graphics, more recently, I tend to sharpen immediately after this layer (Stamp a new layer, Filter —> Sharpen —> Sharpen), lower the opacity of the sharpened layer to around 30-50% & then turn the film grained layer off. I think it nicely sharpens the gritty texture but also doesn’t make it toooo gritty. IDK, it’s a thing I do, try it if you wanna test something out!

  For some reason I have no idea why, probably in an effort to channel spuzz I decided, fuck it, I’m going to monochrome this bad boy. So new Gradient Map, just on normal this time, with the tones above. It’s darker than I want but rather than trying to use the highlights of the map to make it brighter, I know I can get better results brightening the whole graphic later down the road with textures & adjustment layers.

  Texture! I wanted this graphic to continue down the gritty path but I’m also addicted to light textures so, I slapped this texture (from here) & set it to Screen Mode 40%. The light texture has a grain to it that I wanted, normally I’d slightly blur the texture to get rid of it. I tend to use textures that work well on Screen a lot as they add brightness to the image while also showing up strongly.

  And that brightening that I said I would do: curves again. It obviously brightens the image but in doing it it also makes the texture stand out too.

  Sharpen (Stamp a new layer, Filter —> Sharpen —> Sharpen), lowered to 50% & then a Brightness/Contrast layer to finish it off.

  So that’s how I did it all, and it was pretty much rinse & repeat with Scott & Derek + Scott, just with different textures (the blue smokey one from the same link).

I think the things that make the textures/contrast stand out are

Sharpen after putting most your textures on (so they get sharpened too & ‘pop’

Use the textures to create or make the light. In this case, a gritty/smokey texture on Screen not only adds texture but it also lightens the image.

On the flipside, use textures to create shadows too, dark textures on Soft Light are always fun.

Continue to play with Brightness & Contrast post texture also, this way all elements of the graphic are being added to.

When resizing something (in my case, this graphic to sidebar size) remember to re-sharpen & re-brighten/contrast. This elements often fade when resizing.

Baby steps, continually play with the light & the dark points on the image. No one step is going to get it perfect. This graphic only had like 15 layers but over half of them where done with the intention of changing the light/dark within the image to a degree.

I dunno man, just play play play. Slap a texture on & if it looks too light or too dark, instead of deleting it, work around it to bring the image back to where you want, drag a base layer up & chuck it on Soft Light & see what happens. Most my stuff I love the most comes from complete accidents. Most the stuff I hate the most is when I have an idea of what I’m after and just can’t get there.

[thisslight]

Pack 7 Inspired by Teen Wolf

DOWNLOAD Grungy textures, symbols from the show and some writings. Don’t claim as your own.

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→ DIRRTYLADY GRADIENTS®  download: deviantart

Contains 66 gradients made by me.

I usually use them as "light leaks" in my psds.

Please, LIKE or REBLOG if you download. 

DON’T repost and DON’T claim as your own.

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Media wallpaper tutorial for anonymous!

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The first thing to do is create the background. Grab this texture and set it to linear burn at 60% opacity over a white background layer. Then set this to overlay and set a black and white gradient map to linear burn. The canvas should now look somewhat like this:

Now it’s time to add our stock images. Remove the backgrounds and position them like so:

As you probably know by this point, I’m not a big fan of working with gratuitous amounts of bright yellow. Get rid of it with a curves layer that should look somewhat like this:

These adjustments should leave our canvas looking like this:

But, I want more contrast and less saturation. Set a black and white gradient map to soft light, which should give us something like this:

We want this to look vintage-y, so we’re going to use one of my favorite adjustment layers: the sepia photo filter. I used the settings shown below.

Make sure the density is really high. If it’s too low, you won’t be able to notice a difference in the coloration of our image. We should now have something like this:

A bit yellow for my taste. Tone down the colors with a vibrance layer with settings like these:

It may seem counterproductive to up the vibrance and reduce the saturation, but trust me, it’s not. You’ll get some awesome color effects if you mess around with both bars.

You should now have this:

Now we get to start using textures again! Yay! Grab this and set it to soft light. Make a duplicate of that texture and make it black and white. Set the duplicate to soft light. Your image should now look like this:

We need to tone down the colors again. Create another vibrance layer with the following settings:

While we’re at it, let’s get rid of some yellows, too. Create a selective color, layer, but only change the yellow. Your settings should be similar to this:

…which leaves us with one more thing to do. Add the text, and you’re done!

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[photo-shops]

Gaussian Blur Action without using convert to timeline + Tutorial

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[luludeery]

Coloring Eyes on Gifs

Alright my sweeties, here it is! The long awaited eye coloring tutorial for gifs! I will apologise in advance if some things are hard for you to understand. I’m not that good at explaining but I’ll try my best orz Before I get into this, if you haven’t read my (or any other) eye coloring tutorial for images than I really suggest you do that because once you have a general feel of how coloring works it will be easier to start doing it to gifs ^^ You can read my tutorial here. There will be quite a few things I won’t mention in this tut so is to not waste too much time orz Also, if you’re new at making gifs in general than yeahps will definitely help you out. There are more ways than one to do this, but I’ll be showing you the way that is most comfortable for me personally.

After importing your clip (I chose to do Kai from the ceci shoot because I love it when people slowly open their eyes) delete all of the frames so the animation box is (almost) completely  empty. Don’t resize the gif,don’t sharpen it and don’t add any psds. We will be doing all of that at the very end.

Quickly go through the layers/frames and find where the person’s eyes are the widest or at least close.

Get your contacts/eye textures/lenses. I still use the ones I’ve mentioned in my previous eye tut X X X of course remove the white areas before you add it to your gif. Once you’ve added and placed one contact on your frame, duplicate it and drag it onto the other eye before lowering their opacity to 20-50% depending on how bold you want them to be. Now, this is important so eyes open O^O Unlike for images,do not merge the contact layers together. You will see why very soon.

Duplicate your contact layers and change their settings and opacity to your liking. But of course make sure you set the same settings for both eyes (unless there is a shadow casted on one eye like it is for me. You can set the opacity lower for these contact layers). I set one to color and the other to screen.

Next, select all of the contact layers and duplicate them. Drag them to the next or previous frame and place them onto the eyes.

And just keep doing that until every frame has the eye colored. Now, I mentioned before that youshouldn’t merge the contact layers. Why? Because the space between the eyes can vary depending on the angle. The person can tilt their head, move away and so on. Now if that happens (which I have no doubt that it will) just select the contact layers that belong to one of the eyes and move it to its respectful place. Then do the same with the other. Simple, isn’t it? :3 I made the mistake of merging them at first (because I’ve mentioned I learnt this myself TT3TT) and you can only imagine how difficult it was for me to put them in place.

In the case of someone blinking, if you get something like this:

Simply erase the top and/or bottom part that overlaps the lid.

It’s not so hard, is it now? ^^

Once everything seems to be in place, merge the contact layers with their frame until you end up with the same number of layers/frames you originally started .

Click on this beauty right here and select make frames from layers.

Now you can resize, sharpen (or use an action), add your psd and that’s it!

Don’t worry if things don’t go right the first time. I’d be surprised if it did! Making gifs in general isn’t always easy and fiddling around with each frame individually doesn’t make things any better. But hopefully this has cleared up a few things for you sweethearts and will be of some help to you later on . Thank you for reading <3 comments and feedback are always greatly appreciated Q3Q

Here is the end result.

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How I make saturated gifs

I keep finding new ways to colour gifs but this is my most updated way

I’ve got most of my tips+tricks from blogs like yeahps and pscs5 so check them out for textures, psds, basically everything you need. If you don’t know how to make a gif, check out my tutorial or check out those blogs’ tutorial pages.

1. Sharpen your gif, resize and crop it to your liking and we’ll start colouring.

2. Firstly, we add a bit of brightness and these are the settings I used

3. Then add a Black & white layer. Most people use a black and white gradient but I think the black and white tool is better because you can change the darkness on specific colours. Set it to Overlay (or soft light, whichever looks better for your gif and you can decrease the opacity)

These are my settings:

and this is how my gif looks so far:

4. We now add some Levels because the darks don’t look dark enough and these are my settings.

5. We now add two vibrance layers. (I got this tip from charliecarvers) By using two, it makes it so much easier later on if faces are too red or the gif is too saturated and won’t upload. These are the settings I used:

my gif looks like this now we’ve added some colour:

6. As the leaves are quite orange, I opened colour balance and increase the colours that would make the leaves more red but allowed the path to stay blue. I increased the reds and yellows in the Midtones and Shadows but increased the Cyans and Blues in the Highlights. These are my settings:

7. We now add Selective Colour because this can de/saturate a colour without using vibrance and it can change the colour of the whole gif. As I wanted the reds+yellows to stand out, I increased those colours and decreased the others. Here are my settings:

here is how my gif looks now:

8. I then added a Hue/Saturation layer to bring out the yellows. Here are my settings:

9. I then added another Selective Colour layer and increased the blacks in the blacks because it always makes the gifs look better. here are my settings:

10. I then added a gradient by going to Layer, New fill layer, Gradient, and I chose a strong red(#e10019) and a dark red(#240000) to emphasise the red leaves on the edges of the gif. I used these settings then set it to soft light: 

11. This last step is optional but I added a curves layer to make it brighter using these settings:

The finished gif looks like this:

You can add textures onto it to make it prettier like this:

or add light textures like this:

or both:

I made this gif into a psd so you can see exactly what’s going on: here

I hope this helped! 

[msmelark]

Graphic Tutorial

so i’m doing a tutorial on how to make this graphic you will need:

grunge/splatter brushes

paper and grainy textures

for this graphic i’ve used those two screencaps from Catching Fire Trailer: (x) & (x)

open the first screencap and do this: Image>Image Rotation>Flip Canvas Horizontal

then cut out Katniss on both screencaps (i’ve used Quick Selection Tool)

after that you should separate the hair, the face and the costume by cutting them out one by one therefore you will have another 3 separate layers here are examples of hair and face cut outs:

afterwards i took these antique-book pages (x) (x) (one for the face on the left, another for the face on the right) and put them on top of the ‘face’ layer and created a Clipping Mask by clicking Layer>Create Clipping Mask

then you should do almost the same thing to the ‘hair’ and the ‘costume’ layers for ‘hair’: Layer>New Fill Layer>Solid Color and choose a color that will look like a natural hair color then do the same action for the ‘costume’ layer, but the chosen color should depend on the color of the costume, obviously

then put both of cut outs on the same canvas (File>New…>1200x1500) place them in the middle of your canvas for the background i’ve used light blue color and some paper and grainy textures

now the tricky part: we are going to make our cut outs look like you’ve drawn them yourself :D basically, i can’t tell what exactly you need to do i just have used bunch of grunge and splatter brushes you can find them here (x) & (x)

as you can see, i’ve put splatter brush strokes on her braid, black color on the edges and lighter color in the middle of Katniss’ braid, so it looks more volume. and also some long brush strokes on top of her head

then you just need to make her costume and her skin look ‘splattered’ with the help of brushes

almost forgot about one detail… create a new layer above her face (already filled with texture) and use a regular black-colored brush with the low opacity and color her cheekbones and her chin, that way we made her face and neck look more natural

and, finally, re-size your graphic (500x625), sharpen, put some textures and adjustment layers if you want

i guess, that’s it. you’re done! feel free to message me if you have questions p.s. sorry for my english and i really suck in explaining things

please, like/reblog the post if my tutorial was helpful!

[jiyeolie]

Text Graphic Tutorial

First of all you need to download this font: Click~ 

Make a new document on photoshop (500x whatever)

- Type in whatever you want hehe, I’ll use exo as my example then change the size of the font~~ make it big so it your pictures would show. 

Here we go~

Now what you have to decide where you wanna put your photos, and then using the Polygonal lasso tool, go around the shapes you want to put it in…

  Like this~~ *zooming in helps!*

Now go to your layers bar, and click on this

 and then solid colour. 

 then choose a colour, it doesn’t matter what colour it is.

So now you would have something like this:

now get your photo you want to put in it. Im going to use exo yay^_^.

Now you can resize your photo; make it small so it can actually fit in your shapes. ** Don’t add psds or sharpen it yet!

 And using the 

 just go around the photo, and then copy it~ (command c)

  and then go back to your document with your text and paste that in it.

Now go to your layers bar > right click on your photo layer > create clipping mask.

and thats it~

Repeat the steps and then you’re done~~ 

It’s really simple~~  but message me if you’re having trouble, 

 click on it~ and then go 

[a-prettywhitelie]

How to do this in Photoshop:

As requested by an anon:

Requirements: Adobe Photoshop CS3 or higher, basic GIF making knowledge, patience.

I’m very sorry I just made the tutorial now. ><  The last few steps may be hard to understand, good luck.

1. Make a new file.

2.Open the photo you want to edit and drag it to the new file.

3.Save these two photos, this and this. Open then drag it to the new file. Set the film scratch texture blending to ‘screen’ or ‘lighten’, whatever works best.

4.Create a new layer. 

5. Click the paint bucket tool (G) then fill the new layer with black.

6. Go to Filter>Noise>Add Noise

7. Amount should be maximized to 400. Check the ‘Monochromatic’. Click ok.

8. Reduce the opacity around 10%

9.Make a new layer. 

10.Click the Gradient Tool (G)

11. Click somewhere in the center of the photo, hold, drag outstide the photo.

12. Change the blending to ‘Soft Light’

13. Duplicate the gradient layer/Ctrl+J. Change that new duplicated layer’s blending to Multiply. Lessen the opacity to 30%-55%. 

14.Click on layer one then duplicate it.

15. Set the blending of the duplicated layer to multiply. Drag that layer a bit to the left.

16.—Animation time.— Duplicate the frame on the timeline.

17. Play around with the opacity of the effects. Here, 

*I lowered the opacity of the duplication of Layer One/Original photo, and moved it more to the left.

*I moved the film scratch texture.

*I lowered the opacity of the noise layer, and moved it a bit.

*I increased the opacity of the gradient layer (the one with multiply as blending)

18. Duplicate the frame. Play around, increase, decrease the opacities, move the layers, it’s entirely up to you. repeat this step till you hit the maximum size limit of 999KB. You probably can only make 5-10 frames.

Make adjustments/add colorings (optional) then save.

Result

Please like if i helped.

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Graphic tutorial

umm, i know i said(in my faq) that i don’t make tutorial(s) and idk lol ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh here i made a tutorial how to make this, here two ex. THIS and THIS:

*English isn’t my native language so i’m sorry for my mistakes

1. i chose THIS poster(anyway you can choose any picture you want)

2. Then crop it to 200x200 and choose Quick Selection Tool and select Katniss like this:

Right click on your mouse and click “Select Inverse" and click “Delete" on your keyboard

3. Our Katniss is done now go to File > Open,

Open THIS TEXTURE(by stewarks)

Then Crop it to 500x600(or another if you want) then back to Katniss and move it to texture like this:

4. Now add a Gradient map then right click and click “Create Clipping Mask, must look like this like this 

Now make a new layer and set it to “Multiply" an then choose Brush tool we’re gonna color Katniss’s skin, the color of skin is #ffd6bf

Make another layer and set it to Multiply too and color her lips to red, change Opacity of layer(of lips) to 43%, must look like this

Now select all layers 

and then right click and click on “Merge Layers"

Now choose Katniss and click on “Add vector mask" like here:

Then choose this brush (idk it was already in Photoshop)

And make slowly on Katniss smth like this (SORRY GUYS I TOLD YOU I SUCK AT ENGLISH) Katniss dress is white and this brush effect isnt shows (i mean shows but it doesnt cuz the background is grey so i just colored the dress to blue :\)

it must look like this:

And now just add a PSD, i added a psd by coloringo but i dont really remember what ps sorry :’} and we are DONE!! You can add a text whatever you want! I hope you enjoyed! :) 

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(okay i didn’t even like this all that much but as i said above, it was requested okay alright) 

a little note: this graphic doesn’t really require all that much skill, as long as you have a little creativity and can follow the directions closely, anyone can do it.

lets get to it then. 

so step one is to make the “painting" above the text. i don’t really think i need to make a tutorial for this part because this link has a method very very close to what i did. be aware that every picture that you choose for the “painting" is different, so, you may or may not need to tweek the tutorial a lot (that includes not adding the dry brush filter or changing the ‘modes’ of the layers). you can also opt out of this step and simply use a picture that >already looks like a painting. you may also encounter paintings that look very real, and for this purpose, we want to make it obvious that the picture above the text is a “painting" so just use that tutorial for it.

okay so once you have your “painting" finished, just go to file>new and open up a page with the diameters of about 300 width 400 height.  you can make it a lot bigger if you need to as long as you keep the same ratio (3:4). if you want the background to have a slight tint of color, use a brush to color the background layer. now. just use a bunch of grainy textures to make the background look ‘old’.

                       (used a low opacity light blue on the background btw)

next you just paste the “painting" onto the top of your background. you will probably have to resize it using free transform. 

  use ‘wet brush 60’ from the ‘natural brushes 2’ brush set (that already comes with photoshop (go to your brush presets then to preset manager to get the brush if you dont already have it on your brush palette) . we are using the erase tool with this brush. lower the opacity then erase the harsh border of the “painting". you kinda want to make it seem like the painting was painted on the paper (make sense??). 

dont talk about how the editing job is i am doing this tutorial in a hurry okay

usually you want to make it a lot nicer and cleaner that what i did, even adding some textures on top of the finished product would be great. 

i just dont have time to do this for the sample graphic

LASTLY: text! just add the text you want under the “painting" in the graphic but on top of everything in the layers tab. i suggest using a lot of text to fill in the space and to make the text fairly small. here is a super quick tutorial on how to align the text if you dont already know. 

finished wooo party hard

((plz just ignore everything about this sample graphic okay i made it in like five minutes))

any questions at all my inbox is open and i will gladly answer your question! hope you found this tutorial helpful! :)