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THIS WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO MAKE A PSD FOR YOUR RP ICONS OR GRAPHICS.  I will personally just be showing you how to do it for an image that isn’t cropped or bordered.  you will need photoshop for this, but you don’t have to be a pro!  ( you can prob. find a download link online but be careful! )  the tutorial is below the cut!  Its super flexible and easy and is a great way to spice up your aesthetic and visual mood for your writing threads or blog posts!

preview:

hey there friends ! I tried to make a sped up version of my psd process so you can see how I make them. this is the process of the psd I just uploaded called ‘penelope’. I hope you guys find this interesting / helpful (:

layer masks play a big part in my colorings for both gifs and icons/other still edits, and i briefly touch base on them in my coloring tutorials. i figured i’d make an entire post about layer masks so i can link to this in my other tutorials instead of trying to re-explain it every time.

the big question is: what is a layer mask? well, it’s this white rectangle that’s connected to every adjustment layer you add:

and what do they do? they allow you to have adjustments appear on specific parts of the gif/screenshot/etc instead of it affecting it as a whole.

to really show you how much i use them and how helpful they can be, without using a single layer mask, this gif

would look like this:

last night, thanks to @newthomally who was looking for my original tutorial, i realized that all my old ps tutorials are no longer usable since i deleted my old blog. so, that means i have remake all of them, but that’s no big deal. 

anyway! this tutorial will explain how i went from this:

to this:

The question people ask me the most on here besides “are you dead” is how to make gifs and how to make them look good. So I finally decided to make a tutorial how to go from this: (I know this tutorial is pretty long and I apologize for that, I just wanted to make a tutorial everyone can understand because when I was a beginner I always wished for more detailed tutorials on this topic.)

to this:

literature family: kaz brekker for @breker

hey, and thank you! i always use these sharpening settings + a gaussian blur set to 30% opacity:

as for the grain, i only use those when i’m giffing stuff like horror films or something (for example, x and x) and i want the gifs to look grainy purely for The Aesthetic. for that i set my gifs to “diffusion” + 10-15% lossy when i’m exporting the gif like so (circled in red):

but normally i save my gifs as “pattern” instead of “diffusion” because i personally don’t like grain or noise! but of course you can choose to save your gifs however you prefer

hiii so this is part two, because there’s a lot of pictures so yea!! here’s the whole process of how I gif on an iPad with Ezgif.com! (under the cut) PART ONE HERE

Hey there! I though it would be helpful to post about how I use the app Notion to plan my novels (WIPs). I use it on my computer and phone. It has really helped the organisation of my writing!

You can create different pages, as you can see in the side bar I have 3. Here is WIP Planning page, I have used the thesis planning template and changed it a bit. Zoom in on the picture to see what I use it for!

“To the Dark Lord, I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more. - R.A.B.”

LIGHTING ERA SLYTHERINS

| draco malfoy | blaise zabini | pansy parkinson | daphne greengrass | theodore nott | 

                    “ those cunning folk use