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The way Beth and Izzy were always destined to be besties, if not sisters in all but blood

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How To Gif: Glass Shatter Effect

By popular demand (ie, 7 people who voted in this poll), here is a tutorial on how to do the glass shatter effect I used to create the first gif in this set.

I use Photoshop CC 2015 (yes I know it's old) for my gifmaking, but you should be able to apply everything to newer versions of Photoshop. For this tutorial I'll be assuming you know the gifmaking basics, but if not, I would recommend this tutorial, which is the process I use to make gifs. Note that this particular process involves saving all of the frames, importing those frames into Photoshop, and then using an action to convert to a smart object.

Keep reading below the cut to learn how to do this effect!

Before I could start making this gif, I needed three things; the two scenes that I wanted to use, and a video of the glass shattering effect. I already knew the scenes I wanted, so then I took to YouTube to find a video which I can't for the life of me find again (edit: thanks to add1ctedt0you in the replies for linking this video!), but it looked like this:

Something like this is what you want. Ideally the green part would be entirely white, but as long as there are two clearly different colours you can usually work with it.

This looks a lot slower than the gif that I made, but that's not because of the frame rate - which is exactly the same above as in the final gif - it's just because there are extra frames in this slower one that I cut out. In the video I used, the glass shattering happened very slowly. I didn't want that, so I ended up skipping several frames when I loaded the frames into Photoshop before using my gifmaking action. I just did this by manually selecting one frame, skipping the next several before selecting another frame, and repeating this until I had selected 60 frames.

After using my gif action, I had a smart object of the glass shatter effect that looked like this:

That's a much better speed! It still wasn't quite where I needed it to be though. I needed this in black and white, so I slapped a hue/saturation adjustment on the smart object and set the saturation all the way down to -100.

Okay great, I could start putting the gif together now.

First, I made a copy of the glass shatter smart object, because I'll need that later. Then, I pulled in frames from the scene that I wanted to appear in the hole after the glass shatters, and I used those to create a new smart object with my gif action (we'll call it Scene-bg). I pulled Scene-bg into the same window as the glass shatter objects. Then I created a new smart object by combining one of the glass shatter objects with Scene-bg, which I did by selecting both layers right clicking, and selecting "Convert to Smart Object".

I renamed this smart object to Shatter-fg. I opened it by clicking on the little icon next to the layer name in the layers window here:

The most important thing here is that the shatter effect object should be the top layer, and I set the mode to "lighten". This will make sure that the lightest colour of either this layer and the layer behind it is displayed; that means that anywhere that's white in our shatter animation will still show up, but anywhere that's black we'll see what's in the layer(s) behind it.

Then I threw some adjustment layers between them to get the colouring I wanted. I used a curves layer, a hue/saturation layer, and I also added text with an outer glow layer effect. Here's what the layer order looked like and the settings I used for each layer:

After this process, Shatter-fg looked like this:

Okay nice, this is starting to look like something! I saved this and went back to the main file with the other glass shatter object.

I needed to invert that other glass shatter object. There's a weird quirk with the version of Photoshop that I use where it doesn't like it when I apply specifically an invert adjustment to a smart object (it appears correctly when editing, but not on export) so I did this by creating a new smart object which included a separate invert layer, but if you have a newer version of Photoshop you can probably just apply the invert adjustment directly. Just note that you'll need to do one of these options; it won't work if you add a separate adjustment layer in the main file, it needs to be applied specifically to the smart object (which we'll now be calling Shatter-bg). It looked like this after I inverted it:

Once that's done, I made sure Shatter-fg was the layer directly above Shatter-bg, and set the mode of Shatter-fg to "darken" and Shatter-bg to "lighten". Since Shatter-fg is set to darken, it will be visible only when it is darker than the layer behind it. By setting Shatter-bg to lighten, I've guaranteed that the layer behind it will always be lighter (ie, white) in the places we want Shatter-fg to be visible, and will be black otherwise. Once I update those settings, this is what the gif looked like:

This is all there is to the glass shatter effect itself. Next I pulled in frames from the second scene to fill in the black areas. This layer needed to go below both glass shatter layers, so that it only shows through where the black. Then I added adjustment layers and some text. I used curves, hue/saturation, and vibrance adjustment layers, and I also added the "archer" text below the glass shatter layers so that it would be hidden to reveal the "prey" text. The other text I added above all of the layers, since I wanted this to be visible all the time. Here is the layer order and all of the settings I used for each of the layers:

I also grouped Shatter-bg and Shatter-fg and shifted them on the timeline so there would be some time to see the background gif before the shatter effect starts.

And that's all! Then it''s just a matter of exporting the finished product:

This is the first gifmaking tutorial I've ever made, so I hope I was able to be reasonably coherent and helpful! I'd love to hear if you make anything by following these steps, or even if you just feel like you've learned something reading through this. And if you have any outstanding questions, feel free to reply or send me an ask and I'd be happy to answer!

[blaintism]

blaine per episode

3.02 "I Am Unicorn"

[tuiyla]

I’d be hoping they handle the documentary, if it’s real correctly, especially regarding Naya and Cory. But we also know a lot of BTS stuff from Naya’s book, I’m not sure how much more we need. It would be funny if it included fans, because I’d love to share how Ryan Murphy traumatized me with Schue’s rapping, or how him calling me an angry lesbian blogger turned me into the person I am today lol. I mostly hope it goes into the fun drama side and leaves the darker side alone out of respect.

You know I'm glad you bring it up because I've been having a lot of thoughts about in the last 24 or so hours. My bottom line is that I'm extremely cynical about the whole thing.

Let me be proven wrong but I highly doubt they'd leave the darker side alone out of respect. "This is going to be distasteful" has been my main thought ever since hearing about this docuseries trilogy. Again, I'm being cynical but based on everything I know about the entertainment industry (which this very much falls under) and the way media in general likes to frame the Glee bts, this is inevitably going to lack respect when it comes to the more sensitive topics.

I'm just so suspicious, based on the actual announcement from Deadline not just my own conjecture, that they'll want to focus on the most shocking aspects. The article highlights Mark, Cory, and Lea in that order, and then also adds the bit about Naya's passing. There's no way that in today's capitalistic hellscape where those topics generate the most engagement they'll just leave them alone and do fluff instead. Or treat them with any kind of respect, for that matter. I'd bet the announcement coming just as Lea's on her Funny Girl redemption arc high isn't a coincidence, either.

I'm not even sure what kind of fun drama they could focus on while leaving the elephants in the room alone. Depending on how the whole thing is framed, they're gonna want to dissect the cast and crew's grief and the scandals. The whole thing is going to capitalize on this wretched idea of the "Glee curse" because that's what's gonna make it so marketable. Deadline basically explicitly stated they're gonna dive right in, but even if they mostly treat the topic of Mark and Cory respectfully they'd still cover the Lea mess, Naya, and even beyond that things like Melissa and Blake's marriage. Potentially. And Melissa Benoist deserves to be left the fuck alone.

The best my skepticism can hope for at this moment in time is that the cast and crew's wounds won't be reopened too much. Can you imagine the retraumatizing potential of this? If they end up focusing on Mark and Cory, and probably Naya as much as I think they will that's going to be so emotionally taxing for the people involved. I know we're all fascinated by the messiness of this production and want to see Ryan Murphy get dragged but that's not what's gonna happen here. Maybe he'll be shaded, most likely no one's gonna want to be on his bad side. Who knows how Lea's gonna be framed but there's a very real chance the implicit message of the doc will be the whitewashing of her behaviour.

Honestly, and again I am being very cynical and expecting the worst, but it already feels just kinda gross to me. Maybe I should check out the producers' previous projects and just wait for this docuseries to be out but my first impression is that this is going to be anything but insightful and is instead just a cash grab based on real-life tragedies.

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GLEE REWATCH: canon bi puck? [2x01]

[loserlikewe]

with every broken bone, i swear i lived.

did anyone want to cry today

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[quinnfuhbray]

mark salling is undoubtedly a monster and shit bag and i want him to burn in every hell, but once upon a time noah puckerman was one of my very favorite characters and glee was massively important to me so today feels very weird

[sarahconnormullet]

you are cordially invited to my mark salling is dead party! 2018 rocks! woody allen ur next bitch!