#colouring help

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And as for colouring here ya go! I'll give you directly how I do it ;)

If you ever feel confident enough to ask more or directly message me feel free! I'm always up to answering questions!!! :D

I don't really know how to explain it, but I guess I start out with these layers:

brightness/contrast

vibrance

curves

I make the gif as light as I can without distorting the colours too much, and I vamp up the contrast as well.

Then I move onto adding solid colour layers at varying opacities and blending modes (most often screen). I usually go for a rich red or dark reddish purple for the first colour layer and then add another of a different colour to see the effect. I just play around with them.

Selective colour and colour balance are also really useful if you want to bring out a certain colour in the image. Levels is great to add depth and contrast (what I often do with the levels layer is drag the middle pointer slightly to the right).

Basically I play around with any layers I can and rearrange them to try out different effects. For example, in my latest Pride and Prejudice gifset, I put a black/white gradient map underneath all of the other adjustment layers and lowered the opacity for a softer, slightly faded effect.

It's really very simple! All you need to do is, once you've applied colouring to a gif, add a black/white gradient map. Then click on that layer in the layers palette, but make sure you've selected the white rectangle (layer mask). 

Then select the gradient tool, and on the top control bar there should be options like these:

Select the one I've selected (or you can experiment with others), and then drag your cursor across your image to come up with the effect you want. It'll take some experimenting, but that's the fun part. You can also adjust the opacity of the gradient map for something more ~subtle.