REVELATIONS RPH

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SOUTHERN SENTENCE STARTERS tbh i just gathered lines from a mix of southern ( or southern-sounding ) songs i’ve had on repeat too long. enjoy. change pronouns or anything you want.

❛  You know that I could never let you down.  ❜

❛  What you want, you ain't got. What you got is all that you need.  ❜

❛  Am I the one you were sent to save?  ❜

❛  I was drunk.  ❜

❛  It’s about time I settle on down.  ❜

❛  I’m not saying this is the end.  ❜

❛  I’ll live my life my own damn way.  ❜

❛  Why did love put a gun in my hand?  ❜

❛  If you ain’t got money, we can’t save your soul. ❜

❛  And all God’s people said, ‘amen.’  ❜

❛  Nobody prays unless they lose a son.  ❜

❛  Maybe too much paradise.  ❜

❛  Something came calling, and I knew this time I’d have to go.  ❜

❛  If I can’t feel it in my chest, I’m in the wrong damn place.  ❜

❛  I can sleep when I’m dead.  ❜

❛  There’s a man down below that needs my sympathy.  ❜

❛  Since I was thirteen years old, I’ve had my fist to the sky.  ❜

❛  If there’s a God, baby, she won’t mind.  ❜

❛  You better come for what’s yours before I take it as mine.  ❜

❛  I’m looking for a one-on-one-on-one relationship.  ❜

❛  Don’t hold back. ❜

❛  She’s so fine, and she don’t mind at all.  ❜

❛  Each step you take is another I crawl.  ❜

❛  Come on and just lie to me.  ❜

❛  Time won’t save our souls. ❜

❛  Nobody prays unless they lose a son.  ❜

❛  I’m still drunk. I’m still crazy. I’m still blue.  ❜

❛  You know nothing ain’t right.  ❜

❛  We’ll come get you when it’s safe for us to move.  ❜

❛  I made brothers of a different kind instead.  ❜

❛  At the time, I didn’t know just how hard the wind could blow towards disaster.  ❜

❛  I will not let my future go on without the help of my soul.  ❜

❛  I may have no Jesus. I may have no soul.  ❜

❛  The first thing you see is the last thing you should.  ❜

❛  For the reasons you hold, give reasons to die.  ❜

❛  Nobody prays unless they lose a son.  ❜

❛  The devil gave me a crooked start when he gave me crooked feet.  ❜

❛  That voice will haunt my every dream until the day I die.  ❜

❛  Mama didn’t raise no slave. ❜

❛  Nothing better to do on a Tuesday night but give me hell.  ❜

❛  Don’t see much of you around here anymore. I guess it’s just as well. ❜

❛  You’re always seventeen in your hometown.  ❜

❛  You keep on running, boy, you’ll run yourself in the ground.  ❜

❛  She probably won’t even remember my name, just like she didn’t back then.  ❜

❛  Nobody prays unless they lose a son.  ❜

❛  Ain’t got much, and I don’t care.  ❜

❛  The whole damn world is gonna know I’ve been here.  ❜

❛  Everyone is king when there’s no one left to pawn.  ❜

❛  Let your demons run.  ❜

❛  To live the way you please doesn’t sound like possession.  ❜

❛  You didn’t like me then. You probably won’t like me now. ❜

❛  Jesus hates your high school dances.  ❜

❛  When you get damned in the popular opinion, it’s just another damn of the damns you’re not giving.  ❜

❛  If you wanna see a miracle, watch me get down.  ❜

❛  I’m trying to believe you’re mine.  ❜

❛  Don’t fear what you can’t see.  ❜

❛  I’ll hold on to you. You hold on to me.  ❜

❛  Hey brother, won’t you buy me a drink, ‘cause my throat is dry.  ❜

❛  Maybe I miss your kiss just a little bit.  ❜

❛  Don’t let the ever-rolling motion go and get you down.  ❜

❛  Just have the strength to know you’re wrong, and when you’re right, the strength to stand your ground.  ❜

❛  Could you try to keep it down? I was up kinda late last night.  ❜

❛  I just rolled in an hour ago.  ❜

❛  Bad news travels faster than any good news that you hear.  ❜

❛  Makes you wonder why we’re here.  ❜

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West here. I’m closing theme commissions, but only via this blog. If you want to request a commission of any kind, find me on @rationedwell. Thank you!

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PSD PACK — Ten PSDs, made and distributed by @revelationsrph. Images from screencapped. In order:

last kiss

black mambo

metalingus

seven nation army

moondust

down in mexico

bad habit

chandelier

hummed low

revolution 

Please do not claim as your own. Like or reblog if using. DOWNLOAD ZIP HERE. And enjoy!

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                            ICONS: A CHEATER’S GUIDE —

In most cases, I’ve found that the whole iconning process has been made fairly complicated. Yes, batch editing is a wonderful breakthrough that works for a lot of people, but ( from what I understand ) it’s also still very time consuming. And in some ways, it can be a pain. It’s never really worked well enough for me, anyway. So, I’m just here to share all the ways I’ve cut corners to get to the same end product. This is for the standard 100x100 square icon but can be used for others. This is mostly geared toward those who find icons to be overwhelming and don’t throw them together themselves, but there could be things in here that may help out those seasoned in icon making. It might get lengthy, so I’ll shove it under a cut.

*** Before we start, you should know that I use a MacBook Pro and Photoshop CS6. Some things might not work for you, but just about everything here can be altered to fit your unique iconning needs.

STEP 1: CAPS. There are many different ways to get caps, and I use just about all of them. Option 1 is usually cap sites, such as screencapped ( which is where the caps I am using today originated ), ladymanson, and kissthemgoodbye. These are great and provide with excellent quality, but they also sometimes completely leave out that expression or action you were looking for. Always remember, when using these sites, credit the cap makers. They worked way too hard for someone to claim the end product. Option 2 is screen recording. It should be noted, I work with a MacBook Pro, which came with Quicktime. It does not work on DVDs, but it does work on everything else. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, YouTube, and other third party sites. To use Quicktime, simply open it. FILE > NEW SCREEN RECORDING. It will allow you to select the part of the screen you wish to record and just record away. When you’re done, simply stop the recording ( my stop button shows up on the top, right hand side of the screen ), play it back, and save it. This gets you ready for the next option. Option 3 is a capping program. Why is it not in the same place as Option 2? Well, because I’m about to halfway suggest torrent sites. Like you weren’t thinking it already. Legally, I don’t condone it, but you know. Anyway, I’ve got a nifty tutorial specifically for a free alternate capping program to VLC that you can find over HERE. Just be sure that you everything as a PNG file. Not a JPEG. I’ll touch down on that in a second. Option 4, and the only one I don’t suggest, is actually capping your screen. It’s great if you’re looking for one specific look or frame, but it’s so time consuming in the long run. If you’re wanting tons and tons of icons, don’t do this. Save yourself. *** I suggest separating out caps in folders by season and episode, if your FC is in a series. This allows for a cleaner work space and more ease when finding them for future steps. STEP 2: PREP. I mentioned it above, but you’re going to want your caps in PNG form. Again, I only know from a Mac standpoint how to do this, but this is typically simple enough that you can find a quick how-to on Google. For the Mac friendos — Open Finder, get to your caps. Select all the caps in your folder. Right click > Open. This will pull all of them up in Preview. Again, select all caps. File > Export Selected Images... This will pull up the export window. Make a new folder ( you don’t want to have to go fishing for which caps you want ), change the format at the bottom to PNG, and save. You can now delete the original JPEGs, if you want. Make a copy of the folder you put the caps in and put one folder in a different place, so you don’t mess with them unless you need to. One folder will be used as a backup file, or in the case you want to make an edit with one of those caps later on. The other will be used for cropping. Which brings us to... STEP 3: CROP. First, I want you to just open these files like normal. That’s just File > Open... and then select as many as you want. PS will only open 200 things at once, I believe. So it will stop you. Cropping is simple. All you have to do is make sure your crop setting is 1x1 ( you can also use exact pixels for this, if square isn’t what you want ) like so:

Then you just drag your box wherever you want. Because I make and keep so many icons, I’m not very picky about how anything is cropped. They look different and more #aesthetic when they’re resized anyway. STEP 4: RESIZE. This is my personal favorite part. See, Photoshop has this nifty thing called Actions. They can turn this

into this

With one click. There are plenty of people who can run you through an Actions tutorial better than I can, but we’re gonna give it the ol’ college try, alright? For others who use different programs, I only know what I work with. Maybe someone out there knows some alternatives, but this is all I’ve got. If you look in your PS window, here’s a little arrow or play button to the right, next to your coloring and lighting options that looks like this:

Shake hands, give it a hug, ask it to marry you. That’s your new best friend. It might take you a couple of tries to get this right, but don’t worry. Nothing is irreversible. Choose a cap that has already been cropped and click your Actions button. It will pull up a drop down menu with a few different presets. You don’t want those. You’re making a new one. If I were you, I’d go through the steps of how you want to resize your icons before starting in on this part. But, things can be altered afterward, in case something doesn’t quite work right. Again, all we’re using this Action to do is resize. There’s a line of links at the bottom of the Actions menu. The ones you want are the file, the thing that looks like a piece of paper, and the circle. First, select the file. It’ll pop up a window titled “New Set”. Name it whatever you like. Once you have that done, click the page or “create new action” button. It gives you a few options here, but all I ever mess with is the name, if even that. Start recording, and here we go. I’m sticking to how mine is set up. You can change it however you see fit later on, and I will tell you all about that as well. Just hold up. For now, you’re making a simple 100x100 icon. The exact flow of my icon action is:

Sharpen — You HAVE to do this once before starting your recording. Afterward, it should be at the top of your filter menu as the auto filter. So, go ahead and test it: Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen. Check the drop down menu under “Filter” after to be sure it has been set. When you record, you have to use the shortcut ( Mac: command + f // Win: Ctrl + f ).

Image Size — Image > Image Size ( Mac shortcut: option + command + i // Windows: ctl + alt + i ). Change it to 102x102, if you want 100x100 icons. Give yourself 2 more pixels than you want for the end product. The reasoning for this is, sometimes PNG files like to have an extra piece of canvas around them after resizing, and cropping off one extra pixel on all sides in the event that it doesn’t will not hurt anyone.

Canvas Size — Image > Canvas Size ( Mac shortcut: option + command + c // Windows: ctl + alt + c ). Make sure it’s set to pixels, 100x100.

Running you through this one more time in a cleaner fashion. AFTER MAKING SURE SHARPEN IS SET AS YOUR AUTO FILTER. IT WILL NOT WORK OTHERWISE. MAC USERS

command + f

option + command + i

give one extra pixel than you need

option + command + c

set the real icon size by pixel

WINDOWS USERS

ctrl + f

ctrl + alt + i

give one extra pixel than you need

ctrl + alt + c

set the real icon size by pixel 

Once all this is done, press the stop button. You now have an Action. To test it, go to your next already-cropped cap. Zoom in to the actual size ( Mac sc: command + 1 // Win: ctl + 1, probably. Now I’m just guessing. ) so that you can actually see what it’s doing, select the first item underneath your new Action folder, and hit the play button at the bottom. Tada! If you want to go back and fix something — say, your image size, just double click that section of the action, and it will pull the window up again. Things that don’t have a menu, such as “sharpen” won’t do this. You can delete them, however. All you have to do now, for every icon now and in the future that you want this size, is pull up the Action menu, choose the one you want, and hit play. Eventually, you will pick up a flow, jumping from one work window to the next — Click, full size, Action, save. Yes, I do want you to save and close these after resizing. Do not mess with these icons anymore. Once you have that full folder done, copy your new icons folder, put the first one in a safe place for backup purposes. The new one will be used for your STEP 5: PSD. Now, I’m the world’s worst at coloring icons. Graphics for promos and backgrounds are easy, but it takes me a long time to figure out lighting that actually works for what I’m looking for. While I cannot tell you how lighting and coloring works here, I have found plenty of incredible helpers scattered throughout the tumblrsphere. A few of my personal favorites, which include @octomoosey, @dear-indies and @itsphotoshop​, have hundreds of different things you can throw over your icons. Dig away. We aren’t throwing everything on all of your icons right here, right now. We’re just putting together the PSD. So, just choose one icon which features your muse’s lovely FC up close and personal and in their most common lighting / coloring. The less you have to fight with lighting later on, the better. The PSD I will be showcasing for you today was made by @marlbcros way back in the day, and I’m a sucker for low saturation and high contrast. Slightly altered, but otherwise, not my work.

First: Base icon. No PSD whatsoever. Second: Base PSD. Third: Altered PSD. Fourth: Dotted texture overlay + self-made border. See? Nothing too fancy, and it still takes those base icons and makes them look “quality” or whatever. Now, I may not be able to tell you much about lighting and all that fun business, but I can tell you how to make an easy border. Back to PS, way at the bottom of your list of tools, there should be a box button that looks a little something like this:

Move over, Actions, there’s a new heartthrob in town. Just click over your image and a dialogue box will pop up, asking for the size. You want 100x100 ( or whatever size you’ve made your icons ). How it pops up will be different on a user to user basis. Just ensure that up in the top corner, the fill is set to no color:

You will notice, mine is set to black, but this can be changed to whatever color you want. I suggest neutral tones, but this is all personal choice. The number next to that is the thickness of your border. The straight line means your border is solid. You can also have a dotted or dashed line. Play around with all of these, get a feel for different things. See what you like best. Have fun with it. Other options when making borders are multiple colors ( just make another, thinner border over the first ), different blending modes, layer options, etc. Play around with anything you can get your hands on. Test out some things under the layer styles and filters from your top menu. When you’re done putting together a mix of lighting and stylizing you enjoy, don’t merge your layers. Save your PSD as is. Ensure it saves as a PSD file. Make a copy of it, in case you accidentally merge, save, and close one. I have done this many times. Just always be sure you have more than one copy of your PSD. You can also go back in and alter it later on. But once you have these, you can now select all layers of the PSD — with the exception the background layer — and drag and drop them onto your other resized icons. Merge them, save them. What you should have now is a folder of unedited, uncropped caps; a folder of capped and resized icons; a folder of icons with your PSD over them; and the PSD itself for later use, plus a few copies, just in case. And that’s it. You’re done.

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WELL, I ALWAYS SAID I’D DO IT. Now, I’m still kind of questioning it, but I’m doing it anyway. I’m starting up my own commissions. Honestly, I’d tell all of you that I need the money, but really? I just like making things, and that’s all there is to it. And if you’re almost halfway decent at something, never do it for free. Bearing in mind — right here, right now — I am so slow. But I’m willing to bust my ass when I need to. You will not pay for anything until what we agree on is through, and you will not be sent them until after I receive payment. Now that I’ve laid down the proverbial law, let’s get down to business. While commissions are being run through @revelationsrph​, all of my blogs are connected through it. You will most likely hear back from me via one of those. Now, what’s available? Check it under the cut:

ICONS: Base, PSD, or we can get fancy. I don’t really have samples of fancy, but we can do it. And yes, I can make them sizes other than 100 x 100. Round icons, fancy borders, etc. are also available, though they will have different pricing than a regular PSD.

.gif icons are also available. Because I don’t keep those stored, feel free tocheck out my recent edits, which include a few gifsets.

PROMOS / MOBILE BANNERS / EDITS / MANIPS: All counted as the same basic thing. You can get these for yourself, your friend, the man who lives down the street. Whatever you like! Samples can be found here and here.

THEMES Examples: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Other styles, such as no container, lighter background, etc. ARE available. All backgrounds are the same price, but the more complex the coding, the higher I’ll have to hike up the price.  More will be added as I go, including playlists ( you will only be paying for the graphics, as the music is not mine ) as well as video promos ( again, paying for my time, not copyrighted works ). Stay tuned! TO FIND A FULL PRICE LIST AND MORE INFORMATION, FOLLOW THIS LINK.

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     — PSA.

Because I am no longer a strong presence the Sons of Anarchy fandom, I am removing the SOA masterlist from this blog. I don’t have enough interest in the happening regarding the fandom to keep up with it. And being the only person running this blog at the moment, the list is more of a hassle than anything now. West.

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     — HAVEN SENTENCE STARTERS

“Okay, what am I going to do? Pull out another gun?”

“And... meteor showers are better naked.”

“Okay, you know what, I admit it. This weird stuff, it kind of does turn me on.”

“Want to be a local? Helps to look like one.”

“It all started when I was 5 years old. My unicorn got run over by a tractor. “

“I think it's very sweet you still say ‘making out’.”

“You were just talking about werewolves a few seconds ago, but witches are out of bound?”

“There was winkage.”

“So, what? You're gonna chop her head off with a hatchet? “

“Do you have a favorite nut?”

“It's in my supernatural shadow guide. It says, hold on. Yep we're screwed.”

“Are you crying? ‘Cause crying will not be tolerated.”

“I'm off like a dirty shirt.”

“Champagne for my real friends. Real pain for my sham friends.”

“I remember you really liked the Pet Shop Boys.”

“Ah, screw it. Normally I'd try to act all manly, but, yeah, I'm terrified. Why do you ask?”

“What are you thinkin', did I use my magic wand or maybe my tricorder?”

“Too many cops in one room.”

“Why would I need a plan? I've got you.”

“Hey, no judgements. He's a handsome guy.”

“Okay, so who’d you piss off this time?”

“I'm secretly afraid of bananas, I don't like surfing naked, and deep down in my heart I know that bigfoot is real.”

“Hey, I know a person who does green cards.”

“You have always been so good to me.”

“I'd shake your hand, but I'm pretty much dying.”

“This doesn't have to get ugly. I walk out of here, it's over.”

“So what do you think? Clones? Ghosts? Zombies are trendy.”

“Maybe when you get here you can explain to me why I'm in a Santa costume.”

“What a waste of a good cooler.”

“It is not your fate to be executed for something you didn't do.”

“I’m secretly afraid of bananas.”

“The guy threw a manhole cover at me, okay? I'm just sayin'.”

“You and I are nothing alike. I care about people.”

“You have to make a choice. Destroy us all, or save yourself.”

“This whole thing would work a lot better if I wasn’t the only one who could see it.”

“Merry Christmas. You know, I'm flexible this year — naughty and nice.”

“This is not helping! Will you please stop acting like a lovesick child?”

“I gotta tell you, if I were gonna have to live multiple lives, I would have picked someplace more exotic, you know? Warmer climate- Bali, Costa Rica, Hong Kong.”

“I was trying to protect you.”

“How is it that I call you guys, and I end up spending the night in jail?”

“He could be on the other side of that door and all I can think about is, I should have worn my other pants.”

“If you can't win at the game, you change the game.”

“If you, or someone else, comes at me in a way that I don't like, I'll rip them apart.”

“No, look, I kept a low profile, okay? I know the rules.”

“What I wanna know is where are my client's crayons? Where are my client's video games? Where is my client's call with Justin Bieber? You got rights, kid.”

“I'm not gonna let this be our last night. I'm not giving up.”

“If I was gonna ditch you, I would've done it before I had to flash that orderly my boobs.”

“If it makes you feel better, I—I never thought you had any authority.”

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— FOR ALL YOUR CAPPING / ICONNING NEEDS.

Alright, so I found this wicked capping program that actually works for mac ( and pc, but my main priority was finding something that worked with my computer — which hates VLC ). The program is Streamclip, and the download site can be found HERE. As far as I’ve seen, it doesn’t carry any viruses. It does slow down my laptop some, but that might just be because I’m dumb and have thousands of caps and icons saved to it already. It’s a pretty simple process, so I can walk you through how to save things too.

Open a video with the program.

Choose your in and out points. I’m not sure what the windows shortcut is, but I know that on mac, it’s “i” = in point, “o” = out point. You can also just do the whole video if you want.

File > Export to Other Formats...

It’ll open a window with more options than you’re going to need. Your first order of business, change the format to Image Sequence.

Right next to that is an options button. That’s what you need next. In that, it gives you image format and frames per second. JPG or PNG for the image format. I stick to PNGs because photoshop tends to save them in higher quality.

With frames per second — the higher the number, the more caps you get. You don’t want twenty caps of the same face, so it’s best to make the number 1, 2, or 3. This all depends on how fast the scene is, how short the video is, how animated your fc is, etc.

That’s all you need for that section, so close it out. Make sure your frame size is set to unscaled. And that’s all you need there.

Once you hit “OK”, it’ll open up the save window. There, you can make a new folder for your caps ( if you haven’t made one already ), set the base name for your files. The program will number them as it goes.

Hit save and let the program do its thing in the background.

That’s it.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

If you stop and restart saving, you have to go through both windows again. If you want to start where it left off with the same base name you chose before, it will replace the caps you already have. If you don’t want that to happen, tweak the new base name a little bit.

Your settings will stay in place until you close the program out. So if you close it after every video, you’ll have to reset it for the next one. Opening another video while the program is still open should shut down the first and keep the settings you had.

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Please reblog if —

You are 100% okay with my muse being sexist, racist, etc. toward yours. I want to keep interactions in character, but playing a muse who is basically the scum of the earth and everything this site seeks to destroy makes me a little nervous about these things. 

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listen in —      FOLSOM PRISON BLUES //  everlast      YOU RASCAL YOU //  hanni el khatib      FROM THE DIRT //  the delta saints      THE BIG BAD WOLF //  the heavy      DELIVERANCE //  shawn james      OPEN MY EYES //  rival sons      WHISKEY AND GASOLINE //  pearlene      I WANT YOU SO HARD //  eagles of death metal      SOUTHERN BOY //  john the conqueror      FAULT LINE //  black rebel motorcycle club      CROCODILE TEARS //  little hurricane      PARDON ME //  jonathan tyler & the northern lights

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