#lisatracks

Jennifer Love Hewitt as Maddie Han

maddie han + hearts <3

buckleysibzversion

https://www.tumblr.com/alexisrosemullens/788319095815815168/eddiediazweek-day-1-relationships-platonic?source=share

Would you please give a tutorial on how you did the layout & colour manipulation in the first gif OR second gif.

Thank you! I don't get asked to do many tutorials so bare with me. I'm going to assume the basics (i.e. loading into ps, cropping, and sharpening) and skip to the fun part

All three gifs were done using the same method but I'm going to show you the Eddie and Hen one.

I used this color palette for the set. For the background gif, I color like normal then add a gradient map using the bright pink and purple and set the blending to "Color" and that gives me this:

Now for the honeycombs. The inspo I used is found in the Buck version but here it is. I used this tutorial a long time ago when I first made the honeycomb. Here is another good tutorial.

I make my shapes using the polygon tool (sides set to six and turned 90 degrees) and put them where I want them. I set the fill to one of the colors in the palette, in this case the orange. I group them all together. That will help later with the shadow and outline. You can see below that I have the few that will have gifs in them already grouped (ignore the names).

Now, we are going to change the blending of ones that won't have gifs in them to "Color". This gives the shapes that transparency.

To get the the shadow effect, duplicate the group of honeycombs, set fill to 0% and double click the layer to bring up layer style. We're going to add a drop shadow. These are my settings.

This will give you have 3D effect the honeycombs have.

To really make it pop, we are going to duplicate the group again. Again, set fill to 0% and now instead of adding a drop shadow to the group, we're going to add a stroke.

Now, using the move tool, you're going to move just the outline. I moved mine slightly up and to the left. Here's what the gif looks like now.

Now, let's add the gifs in the honeycombs. Add the gifs and clip all the layers (coloring and all) to the shape. I did a tutorial a while ago on my coloring and I used the same method for these gifs. Here it is. The text, I used the same method as the honeycomb outline, duplicate, fill 0%, stroke, moved up. And there you have it!