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welcome to making you in pt!!

inspired by making-you-in-spore and making-you-in-ponytown!! this is not meant to replace the original at ALL, i just have an ever-returning hyperfixation on pt pony making and wanted someplace to post them and take requests :-) please go support the og blog too!!

faq under the cut! uhhh more coming soon i was just born

are requests open?

check the title of the askbox! theyre open most of the time, but i might close them when i get overwhelmed

even when requests are closed, feel free to ask me questions or anything else!! i love to chat

can i take inspo from your ponies?

yes!! that's always ok!

for unrequested ponies (tagged with #.originals), its preferred you don't completely copy mine as i likely made them for my own use but like. i can't stop you. do what you want forever. you can ask for screenshots if you like but i might say no

for requested characters, i can provide the screenshots to make them yourself if asked!! it just might take me a bit to get em. any i've already posted are under the tag #.tutorials

i have tips for filling out character tuts posted here

how did you do x?

just ask on the post or my inbox & i can show you!! the answer is "a lot of fucking around", most likely.

why are some parts green/white/tan?

this is the color of the grass in ponytown and therefore coloring parts of your pony that makes that part "invisible" when in game! like this ↓

who are the characters in your pinned?

in order of appearance, siffrin from in stars and time, bive from regretevator, aubrey from omori, and astro from dandy's world! the icon is my oc named angel utsumi :]

why did you go inactive?

got busy or just interested in other things, probably! i will likely come back to this blog eventually, sometimes it just takes a while lol

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tutorial: how i make my cutout icons. ♡

all screencaps are mine, like/reblog if found helpful! x

okay now starting from scratch, i start with a 140 x 140 canvas. using my elliptical marquee tool, i make a circle shape within that box.

to fill in that box i go to layer > new fill layer > pick w.e color > enter. i then move the circle to the middle if need be.

next step, i find a pic of the person i want to use, open it and cutout the person from the bg of the picture and then i duplicate that layer into my circle file. so you’d right click the png > select duplicate layer > change the destination to the name of the document in which your circle is in. (if the picture has a plain background then i skip this step.)

this is now the time where i resize the picture. i resize it enough so that a "cute” portion of the person’s head can stick out to my liking, lmao. (also use this time to make sure that the picture is aligned the way you want over the circle. lower the opacity on the picture layer to make this easier.)

after that i right click my color fill (the circle) and i hit select pictures. then i go to select at the top of the screen and click inverse. without doing anything, i then click on my picture layer.

then i erase everything selected - but WAIT.

i don’t want to erase her head, that’s the part i want out! to make sure the bg is erased i zoom tf (emphasis on tf) in and i erase the rest of that h*e.

now to add coloring, i pop whatever coloring psd into that document and then going back to the picture cutout, i right click it and click select pixels. then i go to the coloring folder and click it. once the layer is clicked, i go up the window to layer > layer mask > reveal selection. this is to make sure that when you save the icon as a png, the coloring will only show up on your icon and it won’t dull the space around it, making it not a png. (wow did that make sense?? ok. cool.)

after i add doodles on a new layer if i feel like adding them, and since i want them to pop out of the circle too, i add a drop shadow to the doodles.

now if you have a picture that’s already cutout before you start or you want to fully cut the person from the bg before you start, that’s no problem. you’ll still have to follow the steps to resize the cutout and delete everything outside the circle minus the head or whatever you want to stick out. to add coloring select the cutout and follow the steps above, and to change the bg of the circle just right click that circle layer > blending options > color overlay.

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RECREATION TIPS:

clicking the with 3 squares option brings up a color pallete menu you can use to save swatches. drag the little picture of the color over to it & it'll save it! you can do the same drag to copy paste the same color to another part

for a slightly different look but considerably less work you can leave all outlines locked and only fill out the body color

feel free to edit the original in whatever ways you like! just please don't post seperately without crediting me. posting with credit is completely ok and feel free to mention me i'd love to see :-)

this shit is so tedious good luck soldier 🫡

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tutorial: how to make rp icons. ♡

this tutorial will feature the basic style i use to make rp icons (100x100 w/ a psd and texture over it) and an explanation on how to make your own borders, etc. i’m using photoshop cc, and all screencaps/icons made are mine. like/reblog if found helpful! x

so the first thing to do is open up the photo that you want to use.

the next step is to crop the picture into a square.

then resize it going to image > image size.

after that, open up the coloring/texture you want to use on the icon and duplicate the folder into the doc that holds your icon, and then that’s it! you have your first rp icon. save it as a jpeg. 

to add your own borders you can do this in different ways:

go to image > canvas size and increase the canvas size to about 130-140.

if you’re keeping the square shape the next step is to make sure that the coloring stays on the image only. right-click the image layer and hit select pixels. then click the folder containing the coloring making sure it’s selected. next go to layer > layer mask > reveal selection. it should look like this:

for borders: right-click the image layer > go to blending options > and add a drop-shadow or add a stroke. play around with the settings to get the border you want then save it as a png: (the pngs look different then the ss bc i forgot to save them each after and i had to redo them soz)

for circular rp icons, just follow the first few steps here on how to get that shape if you don’t already know how to! another great alternative for borders is to find premade borders and insert your pictures into them. (search #icon-borders)

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requested tutorial: how to add doodles to an icon ♡

whether you’re drawing a doodle from scratch or using one from a doodle pack, adding these little cuties to your icons is fairly easy once you get the hang of it. i’m no expert at doodlin’ artistic designs on my icons so this tutorial is not for that. all screencaps are mine, like/reblog if found helpful! x

drawing your doodles from scratch? first of all for accuracy, ZOOMING IN is your best friend. i usually zoom in to about 400% but that’s just my preference. next, my brush size is usually 2-3 depending on what i’m doodlin’ and how i want the doodles to look.

before you start drawing go to layer > new > layer. you don’t want to doodle on the icon layer  itself, just in case you mess up. now that we have our canvas ready it’s time to start doodlin’. i usually go for hearts, dots and dashes. if i want anything more artistic i use doodle packs because i’m lazy. so using your brush just draw whatever comes to mind, wherever you’d like. yo can do dots, dashes, hearts, etc. sorry in advance for the shittyness. :)))

the bursts weren’t fully colored in which is why they look kind of sketch, but this is really the gist of it. when you’re done, save your picture as w.e file it is. since i have a circle icon, mine is a png so i’ll save it as that.

to add doodles that are halfway off your icon or anywhere on the space around it you want to make sure you add a drop shadow to it so that it doesn’t disappear because of your mobile theme bg (idk if anyone else does this but i do only if my mobile theme bg is white or really light). so, using a doodle i got from a pack (in which you just open the doodle pack psd, choose the layer of the doodle you want and duplicate it into your icon psd then resize the doodle to your desire) i right click the doodle layer > go to blending options > drop shadow. 

and that’s it! SIDENOTE: if you want a doodle around or halfway off your icon, make sure the canvas is big enough. (go to image > canvas size > make it about 30px bigger than your orginal image size). and also, create a new layer for the doodles that will be OFF your icon. if you’re adding a drop shadow to them you don’t want the ones ON your icon to have a drop shadow as well… unless that’s your aesthetic. remember to save the image as a png. x

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Ummm could you please tell me how do you make your Tumblr profile picture a 3D circle like with the words outside of the profile picture icon. And the the rectangular 3D profile pictures too that I see some rp blogs have. Please if you can

yeah, babe. i actually already made a tutorial for a circle icon with text here. below is a tut for the 3D profile pic, all screen caps are mine.

now for a 3D profile photo you just need to crop your original photo into the shape of your desire then go to image > image size and adjust the size to 100. then go to image > canvas size and make it at least 130, (i do 140). after that right-click your image layer and go to blending options and select drop shadow. below are my settings but you can play around with it to your liking.

and you can also add bevel & emboss if you want. 

then save it as a png and you’re done. (btw for a 3d circle icon just follow the steps in the first tut to make the circle icon then add drop shadow or bevel to the circle base [what you clipped the image to], NOT your clipped image) i hope this helps! to make anything 3D-ish you just need to play around with drop shadow and/or bevel & emboss. feel free to come to me if you have anymore q’s.

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hi 👋🏼 these gifs are amazing! how do you make the doodle text? post/724859032864751616/charles-leclerc-on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous

hi thank you very much !!

there are two ways you could make this, so i'll explain them a bit:

1. DIRECTLY FROM PHOTOSHOP

so you want to start with a photo or gif with the timeline on (if you don't have it in your workspace, you can put it in window > timeline). for this example i'll use one of the iconic vlad seb pics.

after that, you need to add a new layer on top of the picture/gif and select the brush tool. now adjust the brush settings to your liking. in my case i decided to go with the hard round brush size 4 px at 100% hardness. now you can write your text like so:

then you need to lower the opacity of that layer. here i would recommend a 25% opacity:

so it looks like this:

now what you want to do is, in another layer, write the same text on top of the previous text. it doesn't have to be perfect because that is what makes the doodle effect, but i wouldn't change too much of it either

repeat this (each time in another layer) the times you want. i usually do 3 layers but you could do 2 or 4. when you're done, make sure to turn the opacity all the way up again for the first layer, and to make all layers visible.

then we have to change the duration of each layer to around 0.4 - 0.5 seconds, and then put one next to the other like so:

now what i do is i put the layers in a group, then select the 3 layers and duplicate them, then grab those three and put them next to the original 3 layers. do this as many times as necessary (in gifs make sure the text is the same length as the gif)

now we export it and it looks like this:

if you feel like the text moves too fast, i would recommend opening that gif and change the speed, otherwise it's too much of a hassle.

it works the same with gifs, for example i used this method for the outline of this gifset:

2. WITH AN EXTERNAL TABLET

this method is basically the same, but if you want more precision with the doodles, i would recommend using a tablet using a layers based app. i used the app Sketchbook for the charles gifset.

to make this easier for myself i start with a black background and write the words with a white brush. i follow the same steps as with photoshop, making three layers and then exporting each layer without the black background, but rather a transparent one.

and then you follow the same steps as the photoshop version! make sure these exports are all in the same folder in photoshop, so if you need to shrink the doodles, you shrink them all

and thats it, hope this helps !! any questions i’ll be more than happy to answer them <33