PIECESINTOPLACES RESOURCE MASTERPOST #1:

I get a lot of asks wondering what resources I use, where I find editing materials, or where I learned certain things, so in order to clear this up and make it easier for everyone, ♫ here are a few of my favorite things. ♫ Like or reblog this post if you found it helpful, and please make sure you like or reblog the posts below if they’re from blogs to support their creators!

Textures & Things:

Paper/vintage textures (1, 2, 3)

Grainy/paper textures (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Antique textures

Flower PNG pack

Watercolor PNG pack

Paper/watercolor textures

Brush stroke textures

Header templates

TexturePorn (Literally just a blog of textures!)

Misc. texture downloads (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)

GIF overlays (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

Fonts:

My font masterpost

Google Fonts

Fontsquirrel (with a handy font identifier if you wanna see what someone else used or fonts like it!)

What the Font (another font identifier!)

ilikefonts (A whole blog of fonts you can download!)

Some useful font masterposts (1, 2, 3, 4)

Fonts in Use (Tells you what fonts were used in really great designs)

FontPair (Shows you what fonts look great together)

Pixel Surplus (Free fonts!)

Tips on combining fonts

Tutorials:

Making GIFs

Multiple GIFs compiled into one GIF

Cropping a background out of a photo

Extended text shadow tutorial

Using gradients (+ combining textures)

Making pastel GIFs

Some fun GIF text animation tutorials (1, 2, 3, 4)

Flat lay graphic tutorial

Vintage coloring tutorial

HQ Royalty-Free Photos:

Unsplash

Pixabay

Free Photos CC

Pexels

ISO Republic

PNG Tree

Misc. Resources:

thatsickbeat Resource Pack (Graphic templates! PSDs! Gradients galore!)

ofabeautifulnight Resource Pack (Fonts! Palettes! Textures! Cutouts!)

swifth Masterpost (Links for typography, font resources, textures, tutorials, etc.)

Web Designer Depot (Lots of freebies like fonts and textures!)

Color Hunt (Lots of great color palettes!)

Coolors (Literally develops a color palette for you! You can pick as many or as few colors that you want to be in the palette, and it will choose ones that go nicely with them!)

Design Seeds (Palettes!)

hi! Robin @madeline-kahn​ mentioned she’d like to know how i made the rotating animations for this edit i made for @jatpsource​​

and i was bored so here we are haha! the process is super simple and it makes a cute edit so like win-win situation here :D

what do you need: 

Photoshop CS6 or higher (i was sad to find out this particular kind of animation didn’t work on my beloved CS5) It has to have the timeline option, otherwise this won’t work for you.

okay let’s do this! i’ll put it under a cut bc it has lots of screnshots and it makes the post too long

I was asked if I could make a tutorial on how I made the font effect in this gifset

I use Photoshop cs6 extended

English isn’t my native language, sorry if there’s any mistake

If this was any helpful a like/reblog would be really cool

It’s actually super simple so let’s just begin (◕‿◕✿)

PACK 36

18 large textures made by me, like the post if you take. Let me know what you think about it, feedback is cool ;)

how to do before/after gif transformations (aka, the graham slide, because it needed a name to stop @highwarlockkareena​ from naming it maskino) aka:

so! going into this i am assuming things, 1: that you know how to make gifs, 2, that you use timeline mode! this tutorial is for post gif making, post colouring etc. also, big thanks to @lan-xichens​ for already making the tutorial for split gifs which i bounced most of this technique off of (especially the first three steps!) if you wanna see that tutorial, it’s here!

so we begin!

Hey ya’ll. An anon asked me about the handwriting effect I used in one of my gifsets, and I was SO excited I thought I’d make a full blown tutorial. This is my first tutorial, so if anything’s unclear or you have any questions pls drop me an ask.

I looked around at a couple of tutorials and this is a bit of a mashup of that. The main advantage of this method is that the speed(?) of the writing is really flexible, which makes it good for using with gifs with a set number of frames, but you could also use this with static edits v easily.

Full disclosure this is still v time consuming, but I couldn’t find a quicker way to do it and it does get quicker as you get to grips with it. I use Photoshop CC and this tutorial assumes a certain level of gif making knowledge, esp with the timeline function.

how to make a gif transition like this:

1. Make the gifs you’ll be using for the set, for this tutorial ill be using two random allison gifs i made. do whatever colouring you want here (unless you plan to use the same colouring on both gifs ig)

 you’ll want them to be around the same length, maybe just slightly longer if one gif has to run over a bit more

2. Find, download (if you haven’t already) and duplicate your overlay into both gifs. In one of them: invert the overlay. set both to lighten

I’m using this overlay by @octomoosey​ for this tutortial (they have lots of great overlays to check out along with this one)

this is what the bottom gif settings looks like

(yes the overlay is shorter than the gif but it should work out okay - you’ll see why later)

and heres the top gif

and the finished results of both gifs

3. Save these gifs and reopen them, duplicate your top gif onto the bottom gif

4. Set the top gif to multiply, and adjust the gifs so this doesn’t happen (just drag ending the top gif to where the overlay finishes and it should work out fine - this doesn’t always happen when making these gifs - just something to keep an eye on)

(these are what my settings look like now)

5. play it through to make sure its working, save it, and voila, you’re done!

Dust/particles pack ‘dust/particles’ style gifs for you to use in your overlays, graphics or backgrounds - or just as they are!  i did not make the original graphics, i’ve only made the gifs from Youtube resources.  please like or reblog if you intend to use - many thanks…  

♡ANIMATED TEXT TUTORIAL♡

I finally got around to making the tutorial for this! There are many ways to do this, this is just one of them :) Keep reading for the tutorial.

tutorial below the cut

 Ripped paper edges on gifs + text tutorial

Some people was asking me about how to make ripped edges on gifs like on mine destiel giset, so i decided to make a tutorial for this and give you some tips for text on your gif graphics. For making this you’ll need photoshop and basic knowledge for making gifs with the timeline.

✧  TEXTURE PACK 009   —   BY EVANSYHELP.

In this pack, you’ll find   ( 60 )   textures. They’re mostly 1000x1000 and grunge (with a few floral and geometric), and all were made by me from Unsplash photography.  Please like or reblog this post if you find this helpful.  Credit isn’t necessary but it’s always appreciated!

i was asked how i made the text animation (or twitching text, i think) in this post, so i thought i’d make a quick tutorial on how to make it. i’ll be covering how to simply make it twitch and how to use the effect to transition into other text.

i use photoshop cc 2014

basic knowledge on layers, smart filters, and timeline needed

if you found this helpful a like/reblog is appreciated :)

4 Sci-fi Motion Graphics Borders made by @publicsafetybureau on @photoshopshit

540 x 304 px overlay gifs

Each gif is approximately 12 seconds long

Wow! I can’t believe we are almost 1k. I’m so happy that people actually like the blog, I never thought that I would do something like this but here I am and I’m loving it. I’m grateful to all of you! Thank you all for supporting me and for the kind words. You guys are awesome!  I’m very content with the result of my resources, such as psds, actions, doodles & gif textures and I hope you all be content as well. I tried to make a pack with a cool amount of resources and I think it came out pretty good, but I hope you all enjoy the pack and I also hope you enjoy editing <3

The pack includes:

6 psds (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6)

2 actions (preview)

19 doodles (preview)

25 textures (preview)

15 doodles brushes (preview)

3 gif textures (preview)

5 fonts (preview)

Please, like or reblog if you download.