📝hiii first of all,,, congrats on 15k!!!! honestly, you deserve it because your edits are beautiful!!!! your latest malia gifset was so GORGEOUS🥺 I was wondering if u could do a tutorial on how you color the background so it looks SO GOOD and if u also use selective color or tone/saturation when u color the clothes because jfc I'm always so amazed at how good it all looks!!! like, that thingie looks gorgeous in every one of ur edits but your malia one just,,,, I kinda went slack jawed because I'm in love???? you're super talented??? how are u so amazing???? like, it doesn't have to be a super detailed tutorial tho just maybe if u use the solid color or something and then use the color option for blending or whatever jdjdjd thank youuuuu💖💖💖💖💖 (sorry if the names are wrong my ps is in spanish and idk the eng version djdjjdjd)
thank you so much, this is so incredibly sweet of you!! all of these compliments, my heart is actually melting 🥺 and don’t worry i totally get what you meant by all the names!
ok so first thing’s first please do check out my colouring tutorial because that covers my general colouring process and will give you a really good basis on how i work with colours. i generally use painted colour layers because i find this gives a stronger coloured background, but i’ll leave it to that tutorial to explain what i do!
but i do have a few little tricks and tips to really make those colours pop that might help you out. so i’m going to talk about how you can really make those colours stand out below the cut, and just talk you through the general process i went through for making this gif:
so let’s get started! i started off with my very basic gif colouring (steps 1&2 in the above tutorial). but as i knew i wanted to work with yellows i also added a colour balance layer on top and added just a small amount of yellow shadows and midtones.
this just enhanced the yellows/greens and gives you a smoother look when you start to introduce your colour layers. so now, i have my very basic colouring:
the yellow
the next thing i did was grab a light, bright yellow (i used #ffed87) and just painted that onto a layer set to colour and opacity 50% (check out step 3 of the above tutorial). i had to do it frame-by-frame (step 5) for this gif because of the movement of her hand but i only did this for two gifs in this set so it’s very much achievable to avoid this, you just have to chose a shot with less movement. so now when that is all done, i have this:
now it’s still a strong yellow, but you’ll notice it’s not quite as bright as my finished gif! so now begins the little tips for making your colours ‘pop’
tip 1: use a large paint brush to add a light shade of your colour to the background and set this to ‘hard light’
a good way to brighten up an area of your gif and really enhance that ‘pop’ of colour is to use a hard light layer. this is achieved pretty similarly to how we coloured the background before, but instead i’m grabbing quite a large brush and setting this to ‘hard light’, then reducing the opacity (i used 36% here but the darker your background the more you’ll need to reduce the opacity so it’s not as harsh). ‘soft light’ also works, but i tend to use hard light just that little bit more. it’s about seeing which one looks better on your gif.
as you can see below, this has added a real ‘pop’ of colour to the top left of my gif:
tip 2: use a dark layer as contrast to really make your colours stand out
it’s also possible to use a very dark coloured brush on the opposite side, usually i set this to multiply or soft light, and this can darken that area and create even more of a ‘pop’. this is what i did for this gif so that the pop of colour was concentrated on the right-hand side:
tip 3: selective colours
selective colours are a dream and now we have a good base, i played with the selective colours to get the exact shade of ‘gold’ i wanted. increasing the yellows here can get you a really strong, bold colour. it may be tempting to use a vibrant layer to create that colour but selective will give you a smoother finish:
now i was happy with this shade i just made sure to use a layer mask to black out the selective colours that had effected the skin tone of her face just so we don’t end up yellow-washing her:
and that was me all happy with the yellow!
the green
so next i wanted to introduce some green into the gif as the prompt i was given was yellow and green. to do this i repeated painting layers, but this time i used a light green brush (#b8fead) over her jacket and the paper. again i did this frame-by-frame because of movement, but if you choose a scene with less movement you won’t need to:
this did most of the work but i also played around with the selective colours here to help get the shade i was looking for:
i even did two players just to really bring out the yellows in that shade of green so the two would compliment each other nicely:
and there we have it, i’m now done with my gif:
this is a rather extreme example (because it was sadly the only one from this set i saved as a psd) as i did frame-by-frame colouring, but many of the other gifs in that set were just achieved by using one layer set to colour, and then bringing the colours out using the hard light/selective colours tips i’ve explained here!
i really hope this helps you out and you can create the colour fix you need because let’s be honest, the world is only made brighter by colourful gifs :)
OHMYGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD YOU LIKE THREE DAYS GRACE???? also, that reference was about the song riot??? or another song from 3dg album? also2 us if cas is permad***: *insert life starts now album cover* *spn writers/dabb/whoever is the thingie in the floor if u know what i mean😉*
YES IT TOTALLY WAS! Ohmygooood I’ve loved them since their second album came out. Adam Gontier is the best. (Matt is great but it isn’t the same w/out him in my personal opinion)
Destiel was never overrated because life starts now. I’ll burn the spn writers and start a riot if Cas/Misha is gone forever and not in the final. Dean is home to Cas and those who can’t see it needs to wake up. I’m a little scared but hope team free will, will get out alive by the end of everything because it’s never too late for Dean to say the same thing to Cas.
i tried to do a bright coloring that doesn’t whitewash. i don’t know if i failed or not lol but if you think i didn’t download it (the one you have to adjust depending on the scene is the one i put as “adjust...” you gotta adjust reds/yellows/whites/neutrals depending on what you’re giffing w/e) (also it’s selective color fyi but it’s as “adjust...”)
Tears stream down your face.
When you lose something you cannot replace.
tbh i don’t even know what this is i just wanted to edit cas ft stars/galaxy/whatever this is. (and i just noticed i changed the lyrics of the song oh well)
