#tumblr tutorial

A guide to designing wheelchair using characters!

You get to keep a copy of that post FOREVER. Tumblr is not like Twitter in that if OP deletes the original post, all the shared versions of the post will be deleted as well. This is how Tumblr still has posts from 100000 years ago circulating around.

You get to classify posts with your own tagging system. It makes finding things easier. Searching a blog using tags is also more reliable than searching with keywords.

You get to leave comments in the tags of the reblog! It’s handy when you wanna react to the post but are too shy to talk to OP and/or others in the reblog chain.

You get an archive/scrapbook of all the things you like, which you can then showcase with pretty custom themes.

You get to identify as part of a community. Among fandom blogs, fellow fans will know you’re one of them if you actually reblog things. Any outsider can leave a like, but it takes a fan or someone really interested in something to dare to reblog.

You get to make friends! People follow other people based on what their blog is like. If your blog is empty, then what’s the point of following you?

You give the impression that you care about what other people say, and it will make others look at you more nicely (empty blogs can be suspicious).

You are less likely to be blocked by artists/writers. (I’ve seen some posts from artists/writers saying that they’ll block spam likers.)

gifmakers on tumblr put a lot of effort into their gifs, and understandably get quite annoyed when someone steals them and reposts them without credit. it's especially frustrating when the stolen gifs get a ton of notes. we look at it and we go wtf how did this get so many notes when it's all stolen????

then i realised the average tumblr user, especially if they're new, or they've never created gifs or posted anything, or they don't understand how tumblr even works... well how are they gonna know?

this post will cover some of the most obvious signs that a gifset is stolen, including:

gif sizing + placement

gifset colouring, sharpening and style

the tags of the poster

if this post is helpful to you, please reblog to spread awareness!

With images / videos and Tsukasa as my assistant, because I've been asked this MANY times, but I have no idea how to explain it and keep it short.

While Tumblr has preset colors that you can use on both the website and mobile, sometimes you want to use other colors or make it more colorful, and this is how I did it (before I learned HTML). As far as I know, this can only be done on the Tumblr website. However, my mobile Tumblr app is VERY outdated, so correct me if I'm wrong.

For those unfamiliar with HTML, I recommend coloring your text before adding anything else (images, videos, links, etc.), as it can look like an absolute trainwreck for those who have no idea what they're doing. If you know how HTML works, cool! Just follow the first step to switch to HTML, then go wild.

Things You Probably Want:

Tumblr This site (You could also use this site, but you're on your own with this one) Color hex(es) (If you don't know what you want, both sites I provided have a built-in color picker for you to mess with)

Step 1: Switching to HTML

When making a post, click the settings icon in the top right. Find Text Editor and switch to HTML.

Step 2: Colorizing the text

The site I provided should look something like this:

Now mess around! Horizontal gradient should give you something like this, middle gradient, three color gradient, solid color seems self-explanatory, random colors randomizes the colors of your text (you can randomize word by word or letter by letter), and the gay option.

Ignore everything under "Additional text settings", as Tumblr only allows you to use the default font / preset sizes and restricts the code for bold and italics.

Go crazy, but not too crazy. Each block of your Tumblr post has a 4096-character limit, and the code for your HTML counts towards that.

Step 3: Slapping The Text On Tumblr

So now you have everything set up. Copy everything in "HTML code for this text", NOT the BBcode. That's for something else.

Now paste it into Tumblr. It'll look like a semi-organized mess, but just switch to preview and boom (Ignore the red underline, it's Grammarly being annoying)

Congratulations! Your text has been custom colored. You can continue to edit your text from here without having to bounce between HTML and Rich text

But I don't want to do this every time!

If you make incorrect quotes like me, coloring the text every time like this would, indeed, be very annoying. If you have already used the same format in another post, there are two ways you could do this:

1. Copy and paste the rich text.

This is how I usually do it. If you do it this way, make sure you paste with Ctrl + V / Right Click + Paste, NOT Ctrl + Shift + V / Right Click + Paste as plain text. The first keeps the formatting, the second does not.

2. Copy and paste the HTML.

Note that you MUST be able to edit the post to do both methods. You cannot directly copy the colors from others' posts without using the web developer tools, but you're not here for that.

This is probably way longer than it needs to be but I suck at explaining things briefly oops If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask :)

HOW TO GET OMBRÉ STYLED TEXT ON TUMBLR

𝜗℘ I got a request on TikTok asking to do a tutorial on gradient text — tumblr doesn’t have an in-app option on doing gradient texts. This is how.

𝜗℘ Sites you can use: image color picker / stuffbydavid (gradient text).

𝜗℘ People say that you have to use a computer for this, which isn’t true. I am able to make gradient text on my phone, but you can use a computer if you want.

color picking from an image is optional, but highly recommended.

✨ Snappy's Gradient Text Tutorial

You might have seen me use gradient text in a few of my artworks, and it is a great tool to make a posts tand out! I learned from this post, but find some of the information outdated, so I am making a tutorial of my own!

To my knowledge, this is only possible via desktop mode* (mobile method at end), but not the app, as access to the HTML function is necessary. Alongside that, you need access to a text color fader! There's a few options out there, but I use:

Patorjik's Text Color Fader

Let's get to the tutorial!

Have the text you want to turn into a gradient ready and copy it to your clipboard.

2. Open the text color fader and paste your text into the box labeled "your message".

3. For the most basic gradients, you may ignore the boxes on the right. The leftmost boxes allow you to choose between preset colors or making your own colors.

Tip: if you are making a gradient for something such as art, I reccoment grabbing a few hex codes from the image to use for your gradient. This allows you to have control over your colors. You may also save a pallet if you want to use it again

4. When you are happy with your colors, generate your text.

5. You will be brought to this page. If you are happy with the colors, click "select all" and copy the HTML to your clipboard.

TIP: check your text against both a dark and light background to ensure it will be readable to viewers on dark and light mode. If it is not you can tweak the colors by choosing "create new fade".

6. Open Tumblr again and open your post. At the top right there is a grear icon. Click the icon and scroll down to the text editor. Change the setting from "rich text" to "HTML"

7. When you move to HTML, your post will look very different! In the HTML, your goal is to find the text you want to replace in the code.

TIP: If you can't find it, use "Ctrl + F" to open the keword search function and it will highlight your word.

8. Highlight your plain text, right click it, and paste your HTML from Patorjik into the space.

TIP: The HTML is a confusing mess to look at. Click the "preview" tab to check if your code worked

9. You should see a gradient when you swicth modes!

If the HTML broke your formatting, you can edit it in the preview mode. Once you have done a gradient a couple of times this process is very easy and takes LESS than two minutes. It looks intimidating but after you get the hang it is very achievable! I believe in you guys being able to do it. Happy gradient texting for you guys!

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" me and venti here are going to teach you the basics to being a writer on tumblr ! "

" apologies in advance if there's anything too vague windblume , and feel free to ask any question you want answered in the comments !"