If my blog is deleted (which it might be due to my NSFW Gif post from the Writing Marathon being flagged and there was more than twelve) before I come back. You can find me on AO3 at xoBellaxo, I have already made the account so feel free to go ahead and find me. As for when I’ll be coming back, I am positive it will at the end of the month. Being the workaholic I am I have actually written a couple things - mind they are more or fewer things to customize my blog and then like two unfinished stories - but still writing.
When doing thispost I showed both versions, original and colour-adjusted of a Santana gif which was actually very quick and low effort in terms of colouring. Now I genuinely don’t think I’ve gotten the hang of colouring just yet, it’s definitely an area I’m working on but I also think it can be sooo fun to see the final version compared with the original. So I thought I’d make a quick little post demonstrating what even just a few adjustment layers can do through my latest Brittany and bi coloursset.
To start us off, this is how the first gif looks if the right side is the original footage and the left side the final version:
Granted, I did use more layers than usual and there was the solid fill pink element to it to make the bg reflect the first colour of the bi flag, but this was a relatively low-effort set. And like I said in the post I linked to at the beginning, brightness/contrast is still doing a lot of the heavy-lifting here. Since this is just an unprompted post I’m not gonna go into the detail of the individual layers but just to note, selective colour was also key with these gifs.
This second one was easier to work with because the scene just had better colours to begin with but you can still see how dark it is compared to the final version. Used to be that saturation and brightness were even more prominent on gifs on tumblr in general; not so much nowadays from what I can tell but gifmakers still do a lot make the scenes pop more. And Glee isn’t even particularly badly lit compared to, say, some fantasy shows.
For the last gif, I actually have three versions to share with you. First, I kept most of the adjustment layers but cut the right half of the blue colouring to give you an idea of how that works:
That actually doesn’t look hald bad on its own haha. Now let’s do the opposite, keep the blue but cut everything underneath so Brittany is the same as she was originally:
The blue itself is also more muted without all that adjustment doing the work.
And finally, like with the first two, deleting the right half of every layer on top of the original gif:
I’ve gotten into the habit of doing this sometimes just to have an idea of the work that’s been done. Like I said colouring is really not my strong suit in photoshop and the giffing process but like with every aspect of gifmaking we can only aim to improve and, most importantly, make it fun! And doing these side-by-sides is how I make colouring fun for myself haha.
hey if people would stop posting anti-shipping fandom discourse in the tags of my posts that would be pretty cool
you’d be surprised :|
I’m serious here. this is not a fandom blog. I will not engage in fandom discourse on this blog, nor will I appease anyone by listing my content preferences so that everyone can judge me for enjoying…idk, Hannibal or iCarly or whatever, lol.
if you’re curious about who I am as a person, I have a carrd. I think the About and DNI pages are pretty comprehensive
