#macherierps

[laracroftm]

Lucy Hale in Patrick Droney’s State of the Heart music video

[jadamel]

ENDLESS GIFS OF: BUFFY SUMMERS ♡ Buffy The Vampire Slayer  → 5x05

[phoebehalliwell]

basic icon tutorial

the wonderfully talented @macherierps​ asked if i could do a basic icons tutorial so i’ll be doing a step by step on how i made icons here. tutorial under the cut!

step one: pick your image and load it into photoshop. there are a lot of places to find images, this particular one is a screencap of piper from s2e11 that I got off the wiki gallery (which is a pretty good resource if you don’t want to hunt down caps yourself)

step two: crop the image. i usually go for 200x200 (they’re icons so they can be tiny and this is just the number i’ve always done. i also usually add a little extra headroom bc i personally don’t like it when an icon is like 80% face, but that’s just me

step three: i choose to adjust lighting before i erase the background because i find it easier to erase when everything is a lost more visible. i always start with curves first (don’t ask me why)

for this i’m just bumping up the light and not touching the shadows. then i add levels, and that’s where i brighten the entire shot and then bring down the shadows again

step four: now that the subject is easily off the background, i add a layer ask (using the tiny rectangle with a empty oval button in the bottom right corner of the screen) and i eliminate everything that isn’t the subject

step five: now that our subject is completely removed from their background, i want to color correct (bc good god that shot is yellow). i’m going to work with color balance first, adding cyan, blues and a bit of magenta into the midtones, and then go to the shadows and add cyan, blue, a bit of green)

then, i’m going to open up a hue/saturation on top of this. i always grab the reds and lighten them first, then saturate back to a reasonable color (it’s always best to have icons be a lil bit bright then say, like, gifs, bc these bad boys are tiny). then i take the yellows, like in the shadows on her neck, and i pitch their hue to be ore red tinted like the rest of the skin, and i lighten it to match

step six: once you’re satisfied with how your subject looks, convert all those layers into a smart object. this allows them to all stay the same while remaining editable, but without letting things like color balance or hue/saturation influence the layers you will put underneath it. (you can convert layers into a smart object by selecting all the frames and either right clicking to “convert to smart object or by selecting all the frames and going filter > convert to smart filters)

then, on your smart object, add the “smart sharpen filter” (filter > sharpen > smart sharpen)

these are the settings i use (it might look a little harsh, but icons are so tiny that i really don’t see an issue with it).

step seven: now you get to pick your backgrounds! i found all three of these bad boys on pinterest by typing in “cute pattern wallpaper”

open them into photo shop and crop them into the same dimensions your cropped your subject (for me, that’s 200x200)

step eight: put all of your backgrounds on the same lil workspace as your icon (i just ctrl+c, ctrl+v them on the document, but be sure they don’t have a lil lock on they’re layer or they won’t copy!) so now i have all three backgrounds sitting underneath my subject layer

step nine: i want uniform color throughout the backgrounds and i also want to do multiple different colors, so i’m going to make a new layer (using the square w the + sign in it in the bottom left corner), and then i’m going to paint over it with the brush tool in the color i want.

then i’m taking my painted layer and i’m changing it from “normal” to “color” so it blends on to the layers beneath it.

step ten: it’s at this point that i’m going to save this as a .psd, labeling it “pipericonred” so i can easily sort it (bc i plan on making multiple colors)

step eleven: now i’m going to save it as a .png (which is the actual usable icon form). since i’m currently on the background with stars, i’m going to save it as “pipericonredstars.png”

once that’s saved i go back into photoshop an make the stars layer invisible, making the hearts pattern the new background, which i save as “pipericonredhearts.png”

and again w the floral

and then as a a solid color background (even with the “color” filter on, if there is nothing beneath it, it will display as a “normal” background)

step twelve: to make different colors, change your painted layer to a new color, rinse, and repeat!

bonus round! blush: i don’t even really add these onto my icons but it definitely is trendy so i figure i’d add how i go about adding blush when i choose to do so. first, you want to open back up the smart object that contains your subject.

add a new layer to paint on and select the color blush you want

add some lil kawaii scribbles on your subject’s face

convert that into a smart object and apply a gaussian blur (why this and not a regular blur? i don’t know. just because)

slide the scale until you’re satisfied with the amount that it blends in (you can also change the blend from “normal to “color” or “hue” but i don’t)

then add a layer mask onto your blush and remove it off of the hair / other places blush shouldn’t be)

[haleyjames]

can we talk about the fact that emma is going about business as usual—reblogging shit, posting stuff in the gpn discord—and acting like nothing has happened??? the two notes from wilmington were posted by sierra. emma was the main person being called out for her racist caricature and her writing and what??? she’s just gonna keep pretending nothing’s happened??? i mean i’m not surprised at this point, but it’s still fucking sick. own up to your shit. make a fucking post apologising. don’t just sit there and pretend like nothing has happened and that everything is rainbows and sunshine. after everything, this just FURTHER proves her character and who she is as a person. so fucking gross.

[sanfcrds]

* ♡ . — VANESSA HUDGENS GIF ICONS

click right HERE to find #210 (80x80) gifs icons of VANESSA HUDGENS in her roles as both STACY DE NOVO and LADY MARGARET DELACOURT in the THE PRINCESS SWITCH (2018) movie. she was 29 years old while making this project and she has irish and filipino ethnicity so please cast her accordingly ! all these gifs were cropped, resized and slightly edited by me, however all credits go to the talented emma and her originial posts here and here. please like or reblog if you plan on using or find this helpful ! enjoy.

trigger warnings : kissing, drinking

[maziekeen]

“okay, i do know my sister and she is the best damn chef of this city. no one, and i do mean, no one puts the love and tender care that piper puts into her cooking. so, you should not only be grateful that chef moore bagged out but you should consider yourselves lucky.”

[sacreddonkey]

❤️❤️❤️ love ya!

emma!!! love you too!!

adria arjona, jurnee smollett bell - as perfect addition to my dream team sara bareilles - not a face claim but a goddes herself!

[mvsesrp]

i wanna say 6 which is like the healthy amoutn tbh

ok, i think this is fair? we don’t talk enough for it to be lower but we’ve tech known each other too long for it to be higher lol

on a scale of 1-10 how intimidating am i