#pstutorial*

SHARPENING WITH VPS:

you can find the vps process here. the settings for mine are

Denoise > KLMN > 1.5 - 2.0

Finesharp > 1.5- 2.5

some ccs like to only sharpen on vps which is fine but I like to sharpen them a bit on ps too.

So after importing your clip in PS convert the layers into smart object. (select all > filter > convert to smart filters)

Apply the smart sharpen filter (filter > sharpen > smart sharpen)

my settings are:

amount: 100

radius: 0.3

no gaussian blur cause denoise pretty much does that job

And that's it for this one!

SHARPENING WITHOUT VPS:

You're going to import your clip the same as you always do and convert the layers into smart object just like above (select all > filter > convert to smart filter)

Apply smart sharpen to the layer (filter > sharpen > smart sharpen)

my settings are:

amount: 500

radius: 0.5

reduce noise: 75-100

gaussian blur: 0.3

Now duplicate this layer and change the opacity of the layer on top to your liking.

@kobsessed here you go! 

step 1: open your image in photoshop (i usually use those with a solid color background cause it’s helpful later on) but it’s not necessary. next is to adjust the coloring of the image and crop it to the size i want.

step 2: use the quick selection tool to select the object and the go to select inverse so that the background is selected. 

step 3: add another layer and color your background using a brush/pain bucket. 

step 4: covert everything to a smart object and on another layer make a circle using the shape tool (press shift while using the elliptical tool to get the uniform look). size is usually 200x200

step 5: move your icon image above the circle layer and on the menu bar above select layer>create clipping mask. your image should now be inside the circle.

step 6: to add the white dots, select your brush and go to brush settings (if it’s not available for you go to windows>brush settings and something like this should appear. 

step 7: change the brush spacing to how far you want your dots to be (these are mine) // alternatively you can just eyeball the distance you want using a normal brush. (the size of the brush used is 10px)

step 8: add another later on top and make white dots using the brush tool on top of the image and we’re done! 

Then I converted to timeline before converting the layers to smart filter. After this I start my base coloring process which is just messing around with the curve and selective color layer until i get the skin tones accurate and the over all, the gif more brighter.

Now since the request called for purple/indigo I added another selective color layer and the adjusted the cyan and blue options under it to make it purple instead. **what i usually is that I adjust the colors slightly in one layer and then adjust a little more after adding another layer. 

it resulted in three more layer (which sometimes get adjusted even in the end if it looks like it needs more tinkering.

Overlay:

The hunt for overlay usually takes the longest unless I don’t already have it saved. I was just going through my folder when I realized it might look good with this. So I opened, cropped and resized the snow gif and then after converting it to smart filter duplicated it onto the lwj gif.

I play around with the blending options (for this one I used color dodge) and since this doesn’t obstruct the main gif I only used the layer mask for lwj’s face after decreasing the opacity like this.

Then after adding my watermark I finally convert everything to smart filter again, then smart sharpen my gifs (using the settings 0.5) and adding gaussian blur (setting it to 0.3) before exporting it and saving for the web.  

Here’s the finished result as compared to the original.

Posting

Like Monica I can’t keep gifs in my draft more then a day (and that too is a stretch lmao, the itch to post is real sjdjdsj). So i either queue it for the next day day if its getting really late or just post it right away. I don’t save any psds unless I really like the coloring of it and even that gets deleted after a week. (the only gifs that get saved occasionally are gfxs for future reference).

2- Coloring for Wangxian x Rainbow

For the rainbow series, I had to make a list of all the scenes I wanted to add ( i wanted to include all the landscape/scenic ones with wangxian so that involved going through a lot of episodes). The whole process is nearly the same apart from the coloring which required more selective color layers and masking (i forgot to save the picture after applying the masking in this one, oops!)

@wangxianbunnydoodles​​ Hao I’m sorry I couldn’t do a separate one for the xue yang post cause I was in a rush, but I’ll definitely try to do that in the future

Tagging:

@manhasetardis​ with this one (it’s definitely my favourite one! the way your coloring is always so consistent and just this concept! i love it

@wei-gege​ and this one (your glitter series and their coloring is so wonderful, i always look forward to them on the character birthday events)

@xiaodaozhang​ and this one! Eva I love each one of these so much! the masking the text style!

@petekaos​ and this set (rahul i don’t even go here but the coloring in this is so gorgeous I couldn’t stop looking)

@veronaprincess​ and this wangxian lotus lake date one! i adore the coloring.

@kaonoppakao​​ and this one! it’s so pretty!