Hi! Your coloring on that recent may day gifset of eddie and buck is so incredibly gorgeous, do you think you could explain how you managed to color the scene like that, despite how dark and blue it is, with flashing lights? Only if you want to! Love everything you post 💌
hiiii, oh my gosh thank you so much!! yeah this scene is so dark and cold, and with the flashing lights it's not the most ideal scene to color. what i did is mostly just worked on bringing back some warmth and light back into the scene, and keep the shadows deep enough.
you're lucky, this is one of the very few times where i actually kept my psd, so i can give you the exact details 😅
steps under the cut! (reference gifset)
this is how the gif looks sharpened without any coloring layers:
i usually start coloring by trying out the automatic settings of a curves layer, see if that helps. it sometimes does the heavy lifting for me, but for this particular scene it didn't do much. so i just brighten up the scene a bit with some levels, curves, and exposure layers. i prefer doing it little by little over multiple layers than all at once.
don't worry about the blacks being too lifted and gray, i'll fix that later.
when the brightness is where i want it to be, i usually use channel mixer and/or color balance to bring back some colors in (or remove tones i don't want). for this scene i only used color balance to bring back some warmth (reds and yellows). i always use color balance in all three midtones, shadows, and hightlights (usually in that order too, but i often go back in between them to change the values as i need).
when the tones are where i want them, i go play around with the separate colors with a selective color layer (or two or three, depending. usually at least two). for this one i went in the blacks and added some more blacks, so the shadows are a bit more deep. then i went in the reds and yellows to bring more warmth.
and the magentas to make sure the skintones aren't too pink, then i went to the blues and cyans to enhance the blue tones from the lights i didn't touch the greens, neutrals, or whites for this scene.
i then like to add some vibrance and saturation with a vibrance layer. it's at this point that it really comes to life, and that i really see what difference a good selective color layer makes. sometimes i use multiple selective color layers to separate warm and cold tones, but i didn't feel the need to do that here.
i wanted the yellow stripes on their turnouts to be less green so i fixed it with a hue/saturation layer in yellow.
then i added my usual brightness/contrast and black & white layers on top to add more depth and contrast.
after these final touches, the skintone was slightly too deep for my liking so i went in and fixed it with another selective color layer in the reds, but you could always go back to the first selective color layer and edit the red sliders there, if you prefer to have less layers. i placed this layer between the vibrance layer and first selective color layer.
and that's it! here's the before after:
that's my process for most gifs i make :) i hope this helps
• this psd contains a optional vintage action. If you want, follow the same steps and ask me for it.
rules: don’t copy or use as a base, don't modify or share and don't claim as yours. give credits, use #miniepsds in your posts or tag the blog. If you adjust or use with another psd or if you use on other social media, still give credits!
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sharing the theme i’ve been using on my main blog, which a couple of anons have asked for (some of them a while ago, sorry!!). finally got around to polishing it up!
single column theme with a left sidebar and optional right sidebar that includes sections for updates, a featured project, and site info. geared towards writeblrs, but of course anyone can use! includes a sidebar image, icon, project image, five custom links, four post sizes, any google font, custom title, and iconsax icons. the audio player is the “light accent” color, which doesn’t show up in the preview for some reason! icons and sidebar image in preview via unsplash. (full list of credits here.)
anonymous asked 💬 hi! i know you guys already made a font rec but can i request a font combination rec?
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Here are some of our members’ favorite font pairings! Check out our previous FONT RECS and our #typography or #fonts tags for more inspo! TIP: On mobile, slide your finger over the gif to slowly scrub through frames.
CREDITS:
— retro video game backgrounds: [one] [two]
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ok so… i made a little template for edits a few weeks ago for my indie, but since i just love it so much, i felt like sharing it was.. the right move lmao. anyways, there’s various options for both snapchat and instagram, though i only included 2 types of text for snap, while insta has all the text types. everything is customizable except the bottom bars, so have at it! oh, and the coloring is Not included. fonts & template psd
+ as requested, here are some templates based off of youtube (desktop ver.).
+ there are five total: one of the home page with 3 featured channels, 1 featured video, and a playlist; one of the videos tab with 10 videos; one of the community tab with three posts; one of the featured channels tab with 6 channels; and one of the about tab with a description, links, and stats.
+ you can change the subscriber count, colors, etc., you have the option of the verified icon (delete the layer(s) if you don’t want it), add more stats or links, remove some things, etc.
+ not for commercial use or anything like that! just for personal use/to have fun.
+ you might have to move some things around to fit with the text you enter.
+ you can put in an image, or you can make a gif and use that. (just be sure to put a clipping mask of the layer(s) into the “video part” layer.)
+ to change the watched & buffered time, go to the “watched portion” and “buffered portion” layers, click the move tool from the tool box, and use the forward and backward keys on your keyboard to move them to the desired position. same thing with the likes & dislikes (go to the “likes portion” layer and move it with your keys. only the likes, not the dislikes layer).
+ you can choose between a "subscribe” button and a “subscribed” button. there is also a verified icon, if you want to use it.
+ not for commercial use or anything like that! just for personal use/to have fun.
➸ Instagram DM Template : so i decided to make an instagram DM template for myself and decided to share with others. the template can be customized and does not include any fancy fonts bc i know the pain of having to look for the font of a template and what not. and thats pretty much it. if you decide to use or like this template please like or reblog this post. if you have any questions feel free to message me and i’ll help you as much as i can.
literally most things that people write off as just ‘textures’ to use in graphics are stolen & unsourced material created by artists or photographers NOT meant to be used as elements in projects without royalty payments. you can say ‘it’s just random tumblr posts they don’t care’ but you wouldn’t want someone to take your work and edit into their work so they can be praised for their beautiful style and creativity even if they just post it on social media w/o profit, would you?? so maybe if you browse pinterest or google images for pictures without finding the original source, you’re using images that you’re not allowed to use without realizing it.
you see it on here a lot especially in (i won’t link anything but i’m sure you know what i mean) those album track ‘aesthetics’ posts, au ‘aesthetic’ posts (ie where people use ‘pinterest-y’ images to kinda craft a visual au), and even just rather typical graphics that have a lot of ‘texture’ elements. and texture packs too!! that’s often where the problem starts; people just collect images (often literal art), compile them in a folder w/o sources, then insist no one can repost those images w/o crediting the person who compiled them. what???
SO may i suggest some of my fave places you can get FREE, ROYALTY-FREE elements that are totally legal to use
creativemarket has 6 free high-quality resources (textures, brushes, fonts, etc), different every week! wow awesome i check it every week
search ‘freebie’ on behance. awesome stuff!!! lots of v nice templates textures and fonts
mockup zone freebies
unsplash: tons of very nice free photographs, not shitty stock photos
pexels: same idea. + they have an adobe plugin so you can get photos without closing your editor damn nice
as to not make this too long: spoongraphics, lostandtaken (textures galore), pixeden, freebiesbug.