fanfic banner: tutorial #3
↳ creating a ripped edge effect & using clipping masks
everything you will need (besides photoshop and a laptop) will be shared in each respective tutorial folder. if there is anything specific that you’d like to see, feel free to drop a tutorial request in my ask box!!
RESOURCES
my personal resource folder (i’ve compiled everything from free sites, deviantart, things i’ve bought, etc. and put it all in one place for y’all to use!)
↳ last updated: nov 2022
transparent bts pngs:
beapanda deviantart
hallyumi deviantart
free for personal use fonts:
dafont
1001fonts
google fonts
fontspace
fontsquirrel
psd coloring files:
deviantart
photo background remover:
for if you find a photo that you want to cut the background out of (works pretty good, but does better if you pay for the larger size)
remove.bg
free stock photos:
unsplash
pexels
pixabay
morguefile
blogs & other resources:
@usergif - great blog for high quality gif/gfx tutorials that can also be applied to fic banners. check out their directory & nav to get started!
@fontriver - a blog full of amazing fonts and examples with links to either buy or download, scroll to find what you’d like!
@pscentral - a cool place to look for inspo, check out their resources linked in their nav to get started!
Maybe I'm showing my age here, but whatever happened to the days of fandom Photoshop Edits? I'm talking these hella detailed, multi-layer, 10741234 textures and cool ass fonts kind of edits/graphics. You used to be able to search for "Photoshop Edit Tutorials" on tumblr and see SO. MUCH. creativity and now, it's just a fuck ton of tutorials on how to gif (which honestly, does it really require 134134134 tutorials on the same program??)
。・ tutorial six, graphic tutorial four by graphictutorials ゜+.*
-`. Hello everyone! In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to use and edit gif overlays, like this: .’-
1. Finish editing your image and adding your psd. We want to put the overlay over the psd, that way the white stands out. Here I have edited this picture and I will soon be adding an overlay:
2. Find an overlay gif.
Here is a blog of some: https://overlaygifs.tumblr.com.
octomoosey has posted some gif overlays before, and you can go through their tag to check them out.
library-mermaid has made some as well: 1, 2.
You can also search "gif overlay" on Tumblr and see if you can find any, or go through the tag.
Find the one you like and download it.
I'll be using one from one of library-mermaid's posts.
3. Open the gif in Photoshop and open the timeline (Window>Timelime or Window>Animation). The frame animation should be on.
Example (it should look something like this):
4. Go to the corner of the timeline and click the settings arrow, and then click "Select All Frames."
5. Once the frames are selected, click the settings arrow again, and select "Convert to Timeline."
It will now look something like this:
6. In the Photoshop menu, go to Select and click "Select All Layers."
7. Once the layers are selected, right-click on one of them, and select "Convert to Smart Object."
It will place all the layers into one, like this:
8. Drag the gif over to your edit document.
***Make sure to place the gif layer above all the other layers from the edit, like so:
9. Put the gif layer mode to "Screen" or "Lighten."
It doesn't matter which, but I think people use Screen mode more because it picks up more of the gif. But for certain things, Lighten mode looks better. It is up to you.
It will now look something like this:
10. If your gif doesn't fit like mine clearly doesn't, select the gif layer, click the select tool, right-click on the document, and select "Free Transform" to make the gif bigger.
If it ends up blurry, sharpen it by going to Filter>Sharpen>Smart Sharpen.
Now it fits:
11. Now, before saving it, make sure the timeline duration is in sync to the gif.
As you can see below, the timeline duration ends way after the gif. You don't want that because the overlay will stop for a long period of time.
Drag the end point to where the gif ends.
12. Finally, go to File>Save for Web & Devices, and save it.
***Make sure the looping option is on "Forever" and I recommend setting the Gif to "Adaption" and "Pattern"!!
Here is my final result:
OTHER INFO / TUTORIALS:
Sometimes the background of gif overlay isn't entirely black, so it'll end up looking like this:
It will have a white background and it won't look right. If this happens, add a Selective Color adjustment.
Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Selective Color.
On the adjustment, switch the color to black. Add some to the "Black" section to darken the background.
Here I added 26% more to the black:
Now it is just the overlay with no white background:
For this, I used this gif.
Another obstacle you might run into is the overlay might not be white or grey.
Here mine is light pink, but I don't want that:
If that happens and you want it to be black and white, go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map.
On the adjustment, click the arrow to choose and black and white gradient.
Place that into a clipping mask, so that it only makes that layer black and white, not the rest. (right-click on the adjustment and select "create clipping mask.")
It is now black and white:
For this, I used this gif.
But what if you want to change it to a different color?
Go to Layer > New Fill Layer > Solid Color.
Upon the pop-up box, set the mode to "Multiply" and click OK.
Now choose a color you want it to be. (Btw, it's going to temporarily change the entire thing to that color, but we'll fix that in a second.)
I chose cyan, but click OK when you're done.
Now it's gonna look something like this:
To fix it, make sure the color layer is right above the gradient layer, right-click on the color layer, and select "Create Clipping Mask" to put it inside the gif only.
Now it should color the gif overlay only.
That’s all there is to it!
I hope you found this helpful and plan on using it. If you need any further help, just send me a message!
Yesterday, I got an ask on doing tutorials for my edits. I really want to do that but I want to take my time with them. I might not have my first one posted until this weekend (Friday or Saturday). I just wanted to know your opinion on where I should post them. Should I post them here to my main blog since I still make edits on this one or should I make a separate sideblog dedicated wholly to my edit tutorials?
Let me guys know what you think either in replies to this post or in the tags if you wanna signal boost this.
(btw, I don’t use Photoshop for my edits, so I feel like my tutorials would be great for those who can’t afford Photoshop, just like me.)
Can you show us how you make hair shorter on a character portrait?
Sure. This basically covers what I pretty much always do for an edit.
The very first thing I do is sketch out what I would like for my edit to look like. 100% of the time, it is not what the final product completely looks like, but I keep the idea and the main sketch. Sometimes it takes a couple times to get it right.
Then I outline what is necessary. In this case, it’s the edited hair and the main part of her scarf(so what is neon pink). Kagero’s normal hair goes over her scarf, so to make her hair shorter, we need to manipulate the hair over the scarf.
And to do that, we completely remake the scarf. You can always just use a brush tool and go over the hair over the scarf, but recreating the item is what I usually do if it’s bigger than one hundred pixels. (This is also how I do recolours; I recreate the item so I can colour it in however I want)
And with that out of the way, we’re able to make the hair. I pretty much followed the same rules I wrote here. I make the hair gray so I can recolour it to anything later.
。・ tutorial four, graphic tutorial two by graphictutorials ゜+.*
-`. Hello everyone! In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how do make an edit/graphic with a TV and electricity doodles, like this: .’-
1. Open photoshop and create a new document with the size you want.
For this tutorial, I’ll be doing 540x540px.
2. Add your background. You can make it a solid color, use a pattern, gradient, texture, etc.
For example, I used the paint bucket tool to fill the background with a solid color (#d1ecff, to be exact), and I applied a pattern overlay (using the last one here) in soft light mode.
So my background looks like this:
A/N: I’m making the example pastel-ish, but you don’t have to!
3. Now make a png of a vintage-esque TV, or you can use one of these: 1, 2, 3, 4.
I’ll be using the 2nd png in the 1st pack.
A/N: You’re going to want the screen portion erased if it isn’t already, because that is where you’re going to put an image.
4. This is optional, but if you don’t like the color of the TV, you can change it by:
Double-clicking on the TV layer, and go to the “Color Overlay” tab, clicked the colored rectangle, choose the color you want, click OK, and change the mode to one of the following: Overlay, Soft Light, Color, Hue, or Multiply. Choose which one looks best with your color and you can adjust the opacity if you want.
For example, here’s what I did:
5. If you chose a TV that already has antennae, skip this step. If your TV does not have antennae, like mine, I will show you how to quickly make some.
Create a new layer, choose a foreground color to a color that matches your TV color, select the line shape tool, make the line 2px weight with no stroke, and click and drag a couple lines from the top of the TV to make antennae.
A/N: You might want to rasterize those shapes (to do so, right-click on each layer and click “rasterize layer”) or put those shape layers under the TV layer.
Now create another new layer, use the ellipse shape tool, click and drag a small circle to fit on top of one of the antennae (hold shift as you do so to get an even circle). Duplicate that and drag it over to the other antenna.
6. Now for the screen image.
Create a new layer and drag it under all of the TV/antennae layers.
Select the pen tool. You’re going to make some points around the screen portion and connect them.
Once you connect them, It’ll make a line like this:
Go to the top bar and click the “Selection...” button. It will make the outline into a selection and that’s what you want.
A/N: There will be a dialogue box pop up, but just click OK.
Now it is a selection.
Click the fill bucket tool and click inside the selection to fill it. It doesn’t matter what color it is.
Click CTRL+D to deselect it.
7. Now we will put an image/edit inside.
If you just want to put an image, open the image, drag it to the TV edit document, make sure it’s right above the screen fill layer, right-click on the image layer, and select “Create Clipping Mask.” It will be inside the screen portion and you can resize.
If you want to put an edit inside, I’d suggest making the edit in a new document, merge all of the layers of the edit document when you’re done, drag it over to the TV edit document, make sure it’s right above the screen fill layer, right-click on the image layer, and select “Create Clipping Mask.” It will be inside the screen portion and you can resize.
For example, I quickly made this edit in a new document and merged all the layers:
Then I followed the steps above and put it inside the screen.
8. Creating the “electricity”.
Create a new layer and use the brush tool with a simple hard round brush in a small size and draw a couple little zig-zags coming from one of the antennae.
Create another new layer and make a couple more for the other antenna.
Now you could stop here, or if you want, you can make them into a little gif with the next step:
9. Duplicate one of the electricity layers, choose the select tool, right click on the document, and click “Free Transform”. Go to the top bar, and in the rotation box, enter -10. Hit the Enter key when you’re done.
It rotated the duplicate slightly to the left.
A/N: If it’s blurry around the edges, apply a Surface Blur with 5 Radius and 10 Threshold.
Duplicate the other electricity layer, Free Transform it, and apply a Rotation of 10. (Do the same number but polarize it. i.e., if you previously put -10, put +10 for this one. If you previously put +10, now put -10.)
10. Open the frame animation timeline.
For the first frame, hide the duplicated electricity layers. Only the original ones should be visible.
Create a new frame and in this one, hide the original electricity layers and un-hide the duplicates.
Set the speed of the gif to 0.5, or something around there. You don’t want it too fast because it’ll hurt people’s eyes!
Make sure the loop is on “Forever” as well!
11. Go to File>Save for Web.., and save the gif.
And you’re done!
Here is my edit, image version:
And here it is as a gif:
Other Suggestions:
> For the full effect, you can go to the screen fill layer (not the image/edit inside of it) and select it, double-click, and apply a pattern overlay with a horizontal stripe and put the mode on Soft Light and lower the opacity to create that line effect.
Result:
> You can also apply an Inner Glow to the screen layer and create a shadow.
Result:
Anyways, I hope this tutorial/guide was helpful. If you need any help or have any questions, feel free to ask!
a list of resources i used for making my helena wayne edit set, feel free to reach out if you need any in-depth explanation for any of this!!
the first edit:
word search maker
robin:
+ logo from google images
huntress:
folded paper effect photoshop tutorial
+ logo from google images
batwoman:
liquid text effect photoshop tutorial
+ various texture overlays from pinterest
+ i looked up "batwoman tv show font" and use gotham womans
batman:
i made a simple newspaper effect with the help of some white boxes and texts, honestly. inspired from whatever i found from searching "batman gotham newspaper articles" + i pasted the daily planet logo on it because in earth 2 society, helena wayne's batman was reported by the daily planet
famine:
+ some various textures
+ used the stranger things font
helena wayne attorney at law
i took inspiration from how to get away with murder for this one!! it was a lil reference!! and also
okay so this is gonna be a bit of a doozy but i’ll explain it the best i can
this is how i created my DDYK edits (click the numbers to see what i’m referring to - 1/2)!
the first thing you want to do is get the photo(s) you want to use. for an example, i’m using this photo of brian:
next you’re gonna need a program called photoscape (you can find it here)
once it’s downloaded, go ahead and load it up and then click this:
go ahead and load your photo now.
now, you’re gonna wanna click this:
this’ll give the photo a really pretty glowing effect.
adjust the settings to your liking and then click “OK”:
the next thing i do is apply a cool filter. but don’t do this using the filter button - do it with the film effect button as shown here:
find a filter of your liking, adjust the settings as necessary, and then click “OK”:
after i applied the filter i decided to use the bloom setting again because the photo wasn’t “glowy” enough. (you don’t have to do this - do what’s best for your edit!)
the photo was a little large, so i went ahead and resized it as well.
once again, adjust the settings as needed (you can manually input dimensions or use the “ratio” setting to adjust it by a percent):
after that, you’re done! pretty simple, eh? and i got a pretty nice edit out of it! check it out:
i hope this helps! if you guys have any questions, feel free to inbox me <3
