BEFORE AND AFTER COLORING CHALLENGE [ TAGGED BY @storge​ ]

Anyone who looks at more than one of my gifsets will probably notice that I’m a very volatile colorist. I sometimes keep natural colors, I sometimes heavily manipulate and colorcode through selective coloring, I sometimes use gradients to make gifsets entirely into a certain color. So there’s a lack of consistency within my colorings. However, there are certain things I usually take care of: I absolutely try to not ever whitewash - this can sometimes become a burden when heavily overbrightened dramas are my task to be colored because they sometimes completely erase skin colors. My task then is to bring them back - and I usually do that by, first of all, darkening the gifs. I also like applying curves and color balance to retrieve skin colors, specifically to retrieve yellows and reds and to erase cyans and blues. However, I still always try to keep my gifs vibrant and colorful; I barely go into the sepia-direction. I do like enhanced cyans and greens in backgrounds. I do love working with magentas and purples as well. Deep, bright colors (dark reds, dark greens, dark blues, etc.) are my favorite things, but I’m not skilled enough to always bring them out. I enjoy dark-ish gifsets and I do love warm tones contrasted with cold tones, which is why you will often find colorcoded combinations of a warm color and a cold color. I hope that a bunch of people appreciate and enjoy the work I put into my gifsets. <3 PS.: I used some more or less recent saved PSDs to put these gifs together. They’re all from gifsets that are somewhere on my blog.