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GIFFING 101 - YOUR ULTIMATE GUIDE ON HOW TO GIF

I have gotten many, many asks before about how I gif and I finally decided to make a tutorial. This is going to be very long, very image heavy and with a lot of details and examples. I mean it, I’m going through every, single aspect of giffing that I can possibly think of. From start to finish. And please read the disclaimer at the very start.

* I use a macbook pro but this should probably work on windows too!

I hate doing this but if this helped and you want to, please consider donating to my ko-fi or if you want, commission a theme or page from me at @amaanat <3

tutorial under cut, I hope it helps!

HOW TO: Shuffle Text Effect

A long while back someone asked me for a tutorial on the text effects in this set and this set, and a friend recently asked me how I did my url change gif. So, I’m finally doing a tutorial! Disclaimer: This tutorial assumes you have a basic understanding of gif-making in Photoshop. I’ll be demonstrating this effect using Video Timeline, but it’s definitely possible to replicate in Frame Animation!

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 (you see these less in kpop, but where people use non-royalty free 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

pixelsquid is a super cool free program (again w a ps plugin that i love) with lottts of super cool hq 3d elements!

Morguefile is my favorite free stock photo site

Texturemate is full of excellent free textures, brushes, and patterns. 

Freepik has anything from textures to layered psds, icons and so much more that is actually free to use.

Unsplash is a community of photographers which provides daily content that you can use! You don’t have to credit them but you should. They’re amazing.

Icons8 is basically a library of icons and icon sets, they have a little over 60,000 icons for you to choose from.

A priest is a shepherd. The world is a wolf. No. I… I don’t believe that, Father, respectfully. You start fighting wolves, and before you know it, everyone you don’t understand is a wolf.

I recently got an ask [x] on colouring for this set I did for solo levelling [x] and it got so long because I wanted to say so many things and I ended up going into colour theory so I gave up fighting with photoshop and did it on keynote instead 💀

https://www.tumblr.com/aenslem/635740166582059008/i-was-tagged-by-tennant-and-marymcdonnell

I never know how to get ride of colour tint like that, please consider sharing a tutorial for the boys blue tint and doctor who really red colour.

Hi :3 this set is centuries old but I have kinda tutorial for the first gif, just step by step with screenshots of the settings I used, just please don't use the same coloring on that scene I giffed, would be weird

Okay, also here's more red\purplish scene fixing coloring, click on the image there are links to both psds

They probably won't work on any other scene tbh, I suggest to use them as examples to learn from, check the settings and try to create something for the scene you want to gif using similar tools but with different settings that suit your gif.

As for the boys blue tint... I don't remember having done anything specific for this show, but I made this blueish tint fixing coloring for the tv show heroes, it probably won't work on the boys or the rest of the heroes lmao, cos they are different, but you could use it as a tutorial

Here I used one of Homelander scenes on one of preview gifs, not really too blue scene but maybe it will work

Well folks I’ve been sitting on this little script for ages and finally decided to just go ahead and publish it. What does it do?

you can enter any ao3 link - for example, to your bookmarks or an author’s works page - and automatically download all the works and series that are linked from that page in the format of your choice. if there are multiple pages, the script will page through results for you until there are no more fics to download

you can check your fanfic-savin’ folder for unfinished fics and automatically update them if there are new chapters. you can also check for new fics in series!

if you’re a dinosaur who uses Pinboard, you can back up all the Pinboard bookmarks you have that link to ao3

don’t worry about crashing ao3 with this! this baby takes forever to run, guaranteed. anyway ao3 won’t let me make more than one request per second even if I wanted to so it’s quite safe

I’ve been working on this for about two years and it’s finally in a state where it does everything I want and isn’t breaking every two seconds, so I thought it was time to share! I hope y'all get some use out of it.

note: this is a standalone desktop app that DOES NOT DO ANYTHING aside from automate clicking on buttons on the ao3 website. Everything this script does, can be done by hand using ao3’s regular features. It is just a utility to facilitate personal backups for offline reading - there’s no website or server, I have no access to or indeed interest in the fics other people download using this. No plagiarism is happening here, please don’t come after me.

It turns out if you install this correctly (so not the first time I messed with it, heh), it does indeed show you a clear menu, which looks like this:

d: display menu a: download from ao3 link l: get all work links from an ao3 listing (saves links only) u: download latest version of incomplete fics s: download missing fics from series r: re-download fics saved in one format in a different format p: download bookmarks from pinboard v: convert logfile into interactable html ’d’ to display the menu again please enter your choice, or ‘q’ to quit:

My big confusion was when I enter various options, like entering my login info.

The answer is that it takes you through a series of prompts before starting your download.

hi aashna i hope you're doing well too!! so this got me into a deep dive of my fonts and as a result, i thought i would make this little graphic which shows some of my favourite calligraphy/script fonts, as well as what i would usually pair them with, which would usually be serif or sans serif. they can of course be mixed up and paired as you like, but hopefully this can act as a bit of inspiration! all fonts are written out by their name and should be available on dafonts, but if you have any issues tracking them down please feel free to give me a shout :)

tumblr photoset sizes!

Here is a free pdf of xanathars guide to everything

Here is a free pdf to monsters manual

Here is a free pdf to tashas cauldron of everything

Here is a free pdf to dungeon master’s guide

Here is a free pdf to volo’s guide to monsters

Here is a free pdf of mordenkainen’s tomb of foes

fight because you don’t know how to die quietly. win because you don’t know how to lose. this king’s ruled long enough — it’s time to tear his castle down.

@grishaverseonline mission 09: favorite series

shadow and bone trilogy

yuyeh sesh: 'despise your heart'. but that's the direct translation. the real meaning is more like 'do what needs to be done-be cruel if you have to.'"

"what's the other part?"

"ni weh sesh? 'i have no heart

@dailyaoc event 03: retellings — spin the dawn

“i, too, once journeyed beyond the stars.” “what did you find?” his voice turned lethally soft. “that it’s just the beginning.”