hi, friends! i've gotten a few requests recently asking me about my colouring technique and thought it would be a good time to make a tutorial of what each step i personally go through. what you'll need beforehand is knowledge of how to make a gif (cropping, sharpening, speed setting and saving your gif) as this tutorial will only focus on colouring your gifs. please note: every gif colouring process will be different that depends on various factors and what might work for one gif, might not work for another. so please keep that in mind as you read on.
we'll start with a basic gif that's already been cropped and sharpened down below:
the first step i always take with any gif i'm working on is curves. now usually, i use the bright eyedropper and select the lightest part of the gif to brighten it up, but the outcomes weren't to my liking (which is normal). so i took it upon myself to manipulate it myself and came to this:
here are the results after:
now we're no longer in the dark! my next step is to use brightness/contrast which i always have the same input when i use it. even if a gif is already light enough, i think it adds needed dimension which i tend to go for:
and after that layer, we're left with this:
a slight change, but change nonetheless. if you're worried about your gif being too bright, leave this layer out! otherwise, let's keep going.
the next step i use in my colouring is levels. i love using levels for more contrast in darkening. like brightness/contrast, i use the same settings about 99.99% of the time:
after that, this is what the gif is looking like:
brightness/contrast and levels are my main two nonnegotiable layers that i swear by when it comes to any gif, since they're nearly always the same.
next, is color balance. since the skintone is more red than i'd like, i go in with more greens and cyans to help counter the magenta and red hues going on. i use all three channels: shadows, midtones and highlights. like always, it's up to your preference, but i prefer a more cooler tone if i can manage. here are my settings for that:
and this is what we have to work with after:
you can stop here if you're completely satisfied, however i have one more layer that i like to use: selective color. if contrast is what you want, i feel like this layer truly helps deepen the colours that are already present in the gif as well as able to take them away if need be. since her skintone is still on the yellow side, i want to take more of that away, but not so much to where the gif looks dull. below are my settings for how i achieved that:
and here is the final completed gif:
and that's the end of this tutorial. i hope this was in any way helpful and made some sort of sense. if you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to reach out! practice and patience are my biggest tips and experimenting as giffing as a whole can be somewhat unpredictable. if you've made it this far thank you for reading and if this is able to help even one person in any capacity, it's worth it!
haii i usually use ibis paint to edit and if its not too much trouble i was wondering if you had any tips or like a tutorial on how to make better psds on photopea??(/nf) i tried playing around with the adjustment layers for a bit but it didn’t really turn out the way i wanted it to… 💔 thank you for your time and sorry this was so long 😭
PSD coloring tutorial / Recommendations by a self-taught loser
hello! i don't really know how to make a tutorial on PSDs, but i do have a few recommendations!
a useful setting would be Selective Color ( i apologize if the name is wrong, i have my photopea in spanish and have to translate everything myself 😓😓)
for example, the PSDs i used here barely have any layers, but i used a ton of selective color layers!
basically, from my own experience, i'll say Selective color is to make a specific color kinda .....pop (?. idk how to explain it.
moving on, i also recommend threshold! idk how to explain this one, so i'll just leave an example!
I exagerated it a little to show the effect properly lol, you can adjust it to as little or as much as you want! just remember to set the layer to multiply! (or any blending mode that works for you! many of them work, i just use multiply for... no reason at all actually)
next up, we have Replace Color!
it literally just... replaces colors. most people use it on black! just add the effect, set the color to the one you wish to replace, and start playing with the settings!
-- also, note that when using it on black, you have to turn up the luminosity for it to work!
last but not least, Color Intensity!
its just... color intensity. but yeah! its pretty useful! i'll leave 2 examples here.
If anyone has any other tips, feel free to reblog! i kind of learned everything by myself, so im not the best, sorry.
i'll confess i haven't seen it myself, but @/canarysage has a psd tutorial here! so... just saying, you should check that out!
(user canarysage feel free to throw tomatoes at me and boo me off the stage (in other words, feel free to send an ask to be removed!))
PROGRESS REPORT ON THE COLORING!!! I recently learned that there’s iridescent hair and I think that Goddess Elizabeth would have that… So I’m trying to achieve that goal. Not sure if I’m succeeding, but hey, I’m trying.
Any recommendations on how to shade wings? I’m satisfied with the face so I’m not touching that anymore
Also side note, I believe that all Elizabeths look different from one another. The blue eye can stay, sure, but the hair color? Nose shape? Eye shape? No. Second reincarnation Elizabeth especially. SHE SHOULD HAVE ETHNIC FEATURES!!! Not same face syndrome. Idc if it’s Britannia Eli should look different for every reincarnation.
I’m trying to find a youtube tutorial on a very specific coloring thing and its so uuhhhh I dunno? not what people would normally make tutorials about so I don’t know how to word it to even find it?
Anyway if anyone knows stuff about coloring and can help me word this thing in my head so that I can find a tutorial on it, please message me! I’m confusing myself so much! But I have a very specific example in mind that I can point at and be like “I want to know how to do this thank you”
1.) HOW MAKE COLORED PENCILS LOOK GOOD?? DO USE SMOOTH PAPER OR PAPER WITH A TOOTHY TEXTURE? HOW DO BLEND? DO USE A PAPER STICK BLENDER? DO USE SOLVENT? DO USE SPECIAL PENCIL? HOW MAKE COLORED PENCIL LOOK GOOD????
2.) HOW COLOR DARK SKIN? IN COOL AMBIENT LIT ENVIRONMENT? AUBURN FOR SHADING IN WELL LIT ENVIRONMENT=OKAY BUT WHAT COLOR FOR COOLER SCENE? BROWN+RED=AUBURN, WHAT BROWN+BLUE??? WHAT COLOR USE FOR HIGHLIGHTS/FIRST COLOR? LIGHT SKIN USES PAPER'S WHITE, WHAT DARKER SKIN USE???? YELLOW? LIGHT BROWN? PINK???
?????? HOW DO COLOR DARK SKIN WITH COLORED PENCIL AND LOOK GOOD?????
ok so here’s a longass post about how i do coloring!! aka my version of color theory. imma be honest with u, chief, when i say that unless you click on it, it’ll be impossible to see.... basically anything, much less tell the order of the pictures. because this is annoying me.... im planning on uploading it to imgur or somewhere else just so it’s ,.. more comprehensive? or maybe on instagram.. 🤔.. anyway i hope this makes sense and ... yeah! ilu
AaHhhhh I'm too nervous to talk to anyone so this will have to do because I'm an anxious person but I just wanna say I love your art! I love the colors and how pleasing it looks when I see your drawings! Any tips to share when going on making a drawing? And I would add more questions I have been wanting to ask but I don't wanna make this too long- Plus again I am wayyy too anxious.
WRBOINETBOJNWRLGJNW4OJG THANK YOU!!! THIS WAS SO WHOLESOME FOR ME TO RECEIVE
And as for colouring here ya go! I'll give you directly how I do it ;)
If you ever feel confident enough to ask more or directly message me feel free! I'm always up to answering questions!!! :D
Edit: but seriously anon if you ever wanna chat just regularly like for help for anxiety or just to say you had a good day then message me! :)
