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this event will run from july first to august first. six entries are required to receive prizes.

day one . include song lyrics in an edit

day two . edit your f/o or id with a song you associate with them

day three . edit a character from a song. for example retry now miku or a character who appears in a music video!

day four . use the color scheme from an album/song cover in your edit

day five . include musical motifs in your song (music notes, sheet music, instruments, etc)

day six . free day! edit whatever you want hehe

day seven . edit a character who is a musician

day eight . hide a chibi of stelle and the number 70 in your edit!

day nine . edit a character from a show or game that has music you like

day ten . use a song you would recommend to others as inspo for your edit

day eleven . edit a vocaloid

day twelve . free day pt.2! hide a chibi of one of your moots or your f/o in your edit (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠)

i ask that anyone who is homophobic, transphobic, proshipper, radqueer, or general dni, etc please not participate. when you post a submission, please use the tag #Stelle's Month of Music , it is attached to the post as well to make it easier to post 🥹

PRIZES: (all winners chosen by a wheel)

First place : Tumblr themepack (3 icons, banner, pinned post graphic, 2 replycon, 3 userbars, 3 stamps, 3 shiny buttons, 1 set of dividers), Discord layout (3 icons, banner, 1-3 emojis for status)

Second place : Tumblr themepack

Third place : Discord layout OR tumblr layout (3 icons and banner)

Tags for reach! Please don't feel pressured to participate 🥹 @starstruck-webslinger @sschoko @2thestage @thedivineblessing @rinabub @lavendergalactic @eldertaya @sarcastio @falseheroiine @extracarrion @crystalcatgamer @kirokumiku @tempus-sunday @abudasima

“First and foremost, though, I should probably set some rules and clarify some stuff to keep this from going off the rails.”

1.) Anyone is allowed to join, since I have no DNI on my blog.

2.) Two prompts completed is the minimum amount of prompts needed to be eligible to win.

3.) I will be choosing winners via wheel. If a participant completes more than the minimum amount of prompts to be eligible, I will add their name again (name placed 2 times on wheel). If a participant completes all the prompts, I will add their name two more times (name placed 3 times on the wheel).

3.1.) edit 👀👀👀👀i will be giving everyone participation prizes okay,,, do two prompts to be eligible to win

4.) Tag me when you post an edit, and use the tag #WIKI’S BDAY EVENT.

5.) Please tell me if you will be participating in the event! I will tag everyone when the event ends!

6.) For the event prizes, please refer to my request info post in my pinned post to see what information I’d want from you. It’s okay if you don’t include all the information, just know that I may make something you don’t like! For userbars in particular, tell me what text and/or images you want me to put in there.

(if there’s something missing here tell me i sometimes am way too lazy to change this)

“Here is how long the gift preparing will go on for!”

The event will last from June 11 to when I wake up on June 24. As stated in rule 5 above, I will make a post and tag everyone participating when the event ends. I will also use that tag list to announce the winners, so remember to tell me via comment or ask if you plan on participating in this event!

“I’ve also finished creating the gift ideas! Here there are.”

GIFT IDEA 1.) Make a Kanade Yoisaki or a Rui Kamishiro edit.

GIFT IDEA 2.) Make a Wikipe-tan or a Wikipedia themed edit.

GIFT IDEA 3.) Hide a Kanade and Ichika fuwa somewhere in an edit.

GIFT IDEA 4.) Make a Tate or a Prince (from Animal Restaurant 🥹) edit.

GIFT IDEA 5.) Make a flower or cat themed edit.

GIFT IDEA 6.) Make an edit based on a song Wiki likes (send ask in int blog for songs he currently likes, changes a lot).

GIFT IDEA 7.) Edit anything you think Wiki would like!

edit again 👀👀👀👀👀👀if you’re not an editor you can draw instead,,,!! meow

(yeah these prompts are super duper boring but it’s my birthday event shhhh,,,)

“Now that I think about it, there should be some prizes for making early birthday gifts for our dear Wiki. Here are some prizes I’ve come up with for participating!”

1st place: two tumblr themepacks (one themepack for me entails 4-ish icons, banner, pair of divs, pinned post, talking, & request graphics, userbars, stamps)

2nd place: one tumblr themepack (read text in parentheses above)

3rd place: two tumblr layouts (one layout for me entails 4-ish icons and banner)

4-5th place: one tumblr layout (read text in parentheses above)

participation prize: 4 userbars and two icons hell yeah!!! Only the userbars apply for participants who have gotten 1st to 5th place.

“I believe that that’s everything I needed to tell you! Happy editing, and wish Wiki a happy birthday!”

mutuals,,, if i @ you and you aren’t an editor that’s because you should know when my birthday is,,! meow

WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE... THAT?

For those who don't know much about art, the original image is actually very heavy on red; Ivan's "white" shirt and "white" scleras are actually pink, his hair is highlighted in dark grey instead of the usual blue or cyan, and so forth. His skin is even the hexcode #E25969.

So why does the image look less red than it actually is? Well, the reason Ivan looks as though he's under dim, dramatic lighting and not like he's... well, sunburnt is because of color theory.

And while that's all fine and well in art, because it looks normal and cohesive in the actual art piece, it makes it really hard to edit. This is when color correction comes in.

WHAT IS COLOR CORRECTION, SIN?

I'm so glad you asked.

I'll try and keep this brief: color correction, as used in photo editing communities, is the process of correcting an image so that it's colors look more "normal." This can include making a super dark image have normal contrast, a super blue image less blue, a super desaturated image have saturated colors, etc.

In fact, you'll often see this in gifsets. Here's a post about it.

OKAY... HOW DO I MAKE HIM NOT SO RED?

Before you do anything, figure out what's going wrong when you edit your image. Is it too much of one color? Too dark? Too light?

Thankfully, we have already identified the problem with the art piece of Ivan. He's super red.

Now, we can solve this in both Photopea and Ibispaint. First, I'll tell you how to do it in Photopea.

PHOTOPEA

To color correct an image with too much of one color, you want to neutralize it. And to do this in Photopea, you're mainly going to want to use selective color layers and color balance layers. First, let's apply a color balance layer and turn down the red. Here are my settings, and how the image turned out:

Already, our image looks so much better. But Ivan still looks a bit... pink and dark, doesn't he? And now the black is a bit brighter, too. To counteract this, I'm going to use a selective color layer to darken the dark colors and add cyan and yellow to the red.

Just two layers and it looks nearly normal! Wasn't that easy?

Now, you can stop here. However, I wouldn't recommend it. See, because the image was so heavy on red, we had to neutralize it a lot. This resulted in those hearts turning magenta instead of red. He's also still pretty dark, and his shirt looks really cyan, which I don't want.

So, using another selective color layer: let's turn down the cyan, turn down the blue, add some yellow to our magenta and red, and brighten our whites. Then, I'll add a brightness and contrast layer.

Just look at the difference! I'd say I'm about done.

When we put it under the same PSD now, I get...

...this! It looks so much nicer, doesn't it?

IBISPAINT

First, I'll make a coloring so that, like with the photopea version, I can show you the difference in how the image will look when edited. Here's the coloring, and how it looks applied to the original image:

Um... It's not the literal worst thing in the world, I guess.

Now, in IbisPaint, the premise is more or less the same; you want to neutralize the color. It's just that the way you go about it is different. That doesn't necessarily mean it's hard, though. In fact, before I used Photopea, I used only IbisPaint to correct my images!

First, I'm going to put the original image in a folder. Then, I will colorpick from Ivan's skin and color a layer with that color. After that, I will invert the layer and set it to soft light. Here's what that looks like:

It's still pretty dark and pretty red, but that's a pretty drastic change! It's still not enough yet, though. Let's add another layer, color it with white, and set that to soft light, too.

Way less red, and way brighter! Maybe a bit too bright.

So, I'm going to be adding a brightness and contrast layer to darken the darker colors and lighten the lighter colors. However, IbisPaint's brightness and contrast filter tends to up saturation. Not to worry; you can just add an HSL layer to desaturate the image.

Again, you can stop here. I personally feel like the image is a bit too yellow, so I'm going to add a blue-grey soft light layer.

The change is a bit subtle, but I feel like it looks a lot better. Now, with the same coloring, here's what the color corrected image looks like:

Voila!

Now, I want to compare what the IbisPaint version looks like compared to the Photopea version.

If you can't tell what the differences are, what I noticed is that it has more contrast, it's less green/cyan, and it's more pink. Though, the reason it's so pink might be because of the blue-grey soft light filter. Overall, it looks pretty similar!