#charmedslayer

Hi! and thank you so much 🫶

Basically, nothing changed since I made this tutorial on how I make gifs, color and sharpen them and what settings I use. Except I don't use load files into stack anymore and prefer using image sequence to upload screencaps and suggest everyone the same. From the recent tutorials I have this one. You can find my old colorings here @creationsofthedark ; I sometimes upload new ones there, but I rarely save them anymore, and just color from the scratch each time, it's much easier than changing existing coloring to fit your scene.

Same sharpening settings, for the last btvs gifset I also added second one with radius 0.2

I also added purple color to the background and set blending mode to "color", the same thing I did with Tara's gifset, except instead of one layer it's different layer for each frame if there's a lot of movement. And for Giles in the gifset I had a little different coloring, because I colored Buffy and it just didn't work as well for Giles.

Just do whatever you think looks better for your gif, it doesn't have to be the same coloring for parts of the same scene either.

Also, use the best quality footage you can find🏴‍☠️it doesn't matter how good you are at coloring, making quality gif from a poor quality video is hard.

No secrets, honestly. Just sometimes it takes time to make a gif that looks good, and if you're dedicated you will use settings for each frame separately, color parts of the gif alone, use masks, and if your footage has a weird dot on half of the frames you will remove it from each frame separately 😂 I remember removing spit on footage frame by frame when character spoke just because I didn't like how it looked lmao

btvs challenge 🏹 a character you love that everyone hates

i wouldn't mind making a smaller version of the gif with the whole sentence combined into one gif if you want? it could be 540x300 (smaller but still big-ish) or 268x170 (small gif)

example of a 540x300 gif:

example of a 268x170 gif:

i'd just ask that when you use it you say something like (credit @charmedslayer) but make that clickable and that it links back to the specific gifset rather than just my blog like this: (credit @charmedslayer)

In no particular order:

Rhaenyra Targaryen - House of the Dragon

Prue Halliwell - Charmed

Angel - Buffyverse

Sansa Stark - Game of Thrones

Emma Swan - Once Upon a Time

Steve Harrington - Stranger Things

Glenn Rhee - The Walking Dead

Aragorn - Lord of the Rings

Eleven - Doctor Who

charmed challenge 🔮✨ favorite leo wyatt moment

Hi! I watched Charmed regularly while Seasons 3, 4, 5 and 6 were airing... so that's from 2000 through 2004. Seasons 1, 2 and 7, 8 were not as familiar to me. I think I caught some scenes here and there of Seasons 1/2/7/8 when they were airing, but my memory is rusty. I can't remember if I fully watched the series finale when it aired in 2006.

I decided in late September/early October last year/2025 to rewatch the episodes with Chris through the end of S6 (finished rewatching Season6 Oct18/19). Not sure what triggered me to rewatch some of Charmed, but I'm glad I did. I guess I was feeling nostalgic and I had good memories of Chris being an interesting character and I needed to refresh my memory on his character's arc on the show.

After finishing rewatching Season 6, I rewatched other Charmed episodes + watched the episodes I never saw before. I admittedly stopped watching the show in Season 7-- saw the first 3 episodes of Season 7-- I felt the absence of dark future!Chris and couldn't muster up enough interest in continuing watching back then. I think I found out that Drew Fuller would be in 7x07 so I decided to watch that episode despite not knowing what happened in 7x4-7x6.

The "root pain" line was one of those things I remembered after all those years. When I rewatched 7x07, I was waiting for that line... it was an interesting memory recall thing since I could "hear" how that root pain line was said from my old memory from 2004 (when 7x07 first aired)...when I rewatched that scene in the vision quest, I was all omg, that's how I remembered that moment "I'm your root pain, okay." *not getting emotional, not at all* 🥺🥺

But *now*, I have watched pretty much most of the episodes of Charmed thanks to the CW Forever streaming channel and purchasing the digital versions of some episodes. The Peacock NBC app has all the Charmed episodes too, so that's another place I go to as well. I know what basically happened in each season now despite the few episodes I haven't seen yet.

I haven't seen Season 2's "Heartbreak City" yet, and I have to finish watching "The Painted World" too.

I only watched the beginning of "When Bad Warlocks Go Good" from Season 1, so I have to finish that one too.

Random-- I recalled a scene of Piper sticking her head in the freezer, but since it was years ago, I couldn't remember what episode that was from.

Maybe I caught some of that episode during the original airing or a rerun that aired not long after... but I was glad to finally solve that mystery when I rewatched S1's Wendigo a few months ago... and yeah, that freezer scene was pretty memorable-- not surprised it stuck in my mind after all these years. Poor Piper. Wendigo happens to be one of my favorite Season 1 episodes now. :)

I do like S7's villain, Zankou. I prefer him at least to the "Ultimate Power" deal in Season 8.

Also, the Future!Wyatt episode was a good one. I'm full of ideas for Chris & Wyatt fics lately, so the "Imaginary Fiends" ep is helpful in giving me a foundation of what the changed future!Wyatt is like (the series finale of course is helpful for that too).

Sorry this came out long. Hopefully this made sense.

Thank you for your Ask. :)

Chris & Wyatt taking over my writing muse. ✍️ Stop it. 😦

I love Prue, but since I was watching the show regularly more so during Paige's seasons (through the end of Season 6), the Piper, Phoebe & Paige dynamic feels more familiar to me. And I like Paige's quirkiness at times. Her super witch era was very memorable to me.

Piper is my favorite sister-- back then and even now upon rewatch. Piper & Leo's relationship was probably one of my first OTPs from a TV Show.