#editblr tutorial

First import your image (with a transparent background) and select the subject however you please. Since I was doing this on mobile and couldn't right-click, I added a blacked-out version of the image, then did Select > Color Range > Shadows.

Press the symbol below the layers button that kinda looks like a parabola to open the paths menu, then create a new path by pressing the third symbol from the right. Select the pen tool under the path option and choose to make a shape.

Put the shape you just made underneath the transparent, then use the shape tool to edit the outline! Mine looks kinda weird because I made the transparent in two seconds with the magic wand and didn't bother cutting out the gaps in the hair oops.

Here's the finished result!

I use Photopea to place gifs in my graphics! You can use it to also assemble your graphic, but I prefer using ibisPaint X since I’m more familiar with it.

On the home page, you should click “Open From Computer”, and upload the graphic you want to add a gif to. I will be using a square frame (credit linked) as the graphic example.

In the top left corner, click “File” and “Open”, and select your gif. I will be using an ocean gif (credit linked) as the gif example.

On the right of the screen, make sure you have selected the folder for the gif, then click “Layer” on the top. Change the destination to the graphic you want to add the gif to, then click “OK”.

It may look something like this (with the GIF above the graphic. Close the folder by clicking the triangle next to the folder icon, and drag it to be below the graphic. (Make sure Auto-Select is off sorry I recently learned this)

Move the gif to fit where you want it to be in your graphic. You can use the squares to change the size of it like other programs.

Just make sure that if you want to squish the gif in some way, you click this chain button near the top.

When you’re done, click “File” on the top left, click “Export As” on the dropdown menu, and click “GIF” or whatever other format you want your graphic to be saved as.

If you see this, it means Photopea thinks your GIF (graphic&GIF) is too large. Sometimes you can click “Cancel” and it’ll take a bit more time to load before you can download it, but other times it will crash if you click “Cancel”. I recommend you save your graphic and gif separately before exporting it. I think that the biggest size Photopea can handle is around 1500x1500, but you can test and see what works for your particular graphic.

If you click “OK”, Photopea will downsize your graphic to what it thinks is an appropriate size. You can still change the size of the GIF before you save it, though.

This is the example’s final result. Thank you for reading this tutorial, I appreciate your time!

WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE... THAT?

For those who don't know much about art, the original image is actually very heavy on red; Ivan's "white" shirt and "white" scleras are actually pink, his hair is highlighted in dark grey instead of the usual blue or cyan, and so forth. His skin is even the hexcode #E25969.

So why does the image look less red than it actually is? Well, the reason Ivan looks as though he's under dim, dramatic lighting and not like he's... well, sunburnt is because of color theory.

And while that's all fine and well in art, because it looks normal and cohesive in the actual art piece, it makes it really hard to edit. This is when color correction comes in.

WHAT IS COLOR CORRECTION, SIN?

I'm so glad you asked.

I'll try and keep this brief: color correction, as used in photo editing communities, is the process of correcting an image so that it's colors look more "normal." This can include making a super dark image have normal contrast, a super blue image less blue, a super desaturated image have saturated colors, etc.

In fact, you'll often see this in gifsets. Here's a post about it.

OKAY... HOW DO I MAKE HIM NOT SO RED?

Before you do anything, figure out what's going wrong when you edit your image. Is it too much of one color? Too dark? Too light?

Thankfully, we have already identified the problem with the art piece of Ivan. He's super red.

Now, we can solve this in both Photopea and Ibispaint. First, I'll tell you how to do it in Photopea.

PHOTOPEA

To color correct an image with too much of one color, you want to neutralize it. And to do this in Photopea, you're mainly going to want to use selective color layers and color balance layers. First, let's apply a color balance layer and turn down the red. Here are my settings, and how the image turned out:

Already, our image looks so much better. But Ivan still looks a bit... pink and dark, doesn't he? And now the black is a bit brighter, too. To counteract this, I'm going to use a selective color layer to darken the dark colors and add cyan and yellow to the red.

Just two layers and it looks nearly normal! Wasn't that easy?

Now, you can stop here. However, I wouldn't recommend it. See, because the image was so heavy on red, we had to neutralize it a lot. This resulted in those hearts turning magenta instead of red. He's also still pretty dark, and his shirt looks really cyan, which I don't want.

So, using another selective color layer: let's turn down the cyan, turn down the blue, add some yellow to our magenta and red, and brighten our whites. Then, I'll add a brightness and contrast layer.

Just look at the difference! I'd say I'm about done.

When we put it under the same PSD now, I get...

...this! It looks so much nicer, doesn't it?

IBISPAINT

First, I'll make a coloring so that, like with the photopea version, I can show you the difference in how the image will look when edited. Here's the coloring, and how it looks applied to the original image:

Um... It's not the literal worst thing in the world, I guess.

Now, in IbisPaint, the premise is more or less the same; you want to neutralize the color. It's just that the way you go about it is different. That doesn't necessarily mean it's hard, though. In fact, before I used Photopea, I used only IbisPaint to correct my images!

First, I'm going to put the original image in a folder. Then, I will colorpick from Ivan's skin and color a layer with that color. After that, I will invert the layer and set it to soft light. Here's what that looks like:

It's still pretty dark and pretty red, but that's a pretty drastic change! It's still not enough yet, though. Let's add another layer, color it with white, and set that to soft light, too.

Way less red, and way brighter! Maybe a bit too bright.

So, I'm going to be adding a brightness and contrast layer to darken the darker colors and lighten the lighter colors. However, IbisPaint's brightness and contrast filter tends to up saturation. Not to worry; you can just add an HSL layer to desaturate the image.

Again, you can stop here. I personally feel like the image is a bit too yellow, so I'm going to add a blue-grey soft light layer.

The change is a bit subtle, but I feel like it looks a lot better. Now, with the same coloring, here's what the color corrected image looks like:

Voila!

Now, I want to compare what the IbisPaint version looks like compared to the Photopea version.

If you can't tell what the differences are, what I noticed is that it has more contrast, it's less green/cyan, and it's more pink. Though, the reason it's so pink might be because of the blue-grey soft light filter. Overall, it looks pretty similar!

So first, you need a stamp base! I'll be using this one off Deviantart, but you can also find stamp bases by searching for them on deviantart and tumblr (alot of the bases circulating around the community are stolen, so be wary though. check out this post for some cool bases!!)

then uh choose the pics you want for your stamp, i used three for the vitriol stamps and ill use three here but you can use any amount really? I'll make a Sebastian Solace stamp as an example :3

then import your stamp base to Ibispaint (or your app of choice, i guess?) and put the photos in there. I generally color in the space inside the stamp and clip my pictures to it to make things easier. im going to assume you know how to use the basic aspects of Ibispaint or something for this. I also add some text for something interesting but like. go wild with stuff you add

Then for the little white lines, make a new layer above your pictures and color it a light gray, then go to the layer modes, click on screen tones, and choose whatever you want (i use slash-L L4). Then rasterize it when youre happy with it, and color it white (i use alpha lock, but clipping also works. the filter will automatically make the lines black, so recolor it)

then go ahead and export your images!! make sure theyre transparent

then go to ezgif gif maker and and put in your images, and i generally dont edit anything here except the delay time, which i make around 60 for these three framed ones, but you can play around with it to see what you like. When you wanna see the final product, press "Make a Gif". You can download it when youre happy with it, and then youre done!!!

Hopefully this is atleast somewhat helpful.... for making gifs into stamps theres a lot of tutorials out there already you can find on tumblr, and for static stamps you can just make it in ibispaint and export it as is from there.

thanks for ask though im gonna now go return to my slumber

ALSO IF YOU READ THIS FAR, GO CHECK OUT VITRIOL!!! GO CHECK OUT @tales-of-the-archway!!! includes very dark topics though, please read further at your own discretion <3