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Foliage study round up

#art

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Harlots Appreciation Week 2018 ✧ day 3: favourite costumes

#harlots

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gifs are not witchcraft

The other day I was showing my bff some of the stuff I made with ps and while he was very enthusiastic about it, he also said something that made me think:

“Is this hard to do though? I have no idea how photoshop works, so I don’t know if this takes a lot of time and skills or if it’s something that anyone could do in five minutes.”

I snorted pretty hard at the “five minutes” part, cause I wish, but then it occurred to me that most people are probably like my best friend, and having no idea how we do what we do, take for granted our gifsets (which are indeed not made through witchcraft, though I’m convinced some of us must have sold their soul to the devil).

I’ll forever remember that one person that commented under a colour porn gifset of mine “wow, I didn’t remember this movie was so bright and colourful!”

… That’s cause it wasn’t. I made it that way. Everytime you see a gifset, someone made it that way. Bright, dark, very pink, very red (or in my case very cyan), very colourful.

And it’s not just a matter of choosing all the scenes to gif (and consequently capture all those screencaps, decide where to crop them, resize them and, only after that, beginning the adventure that is colouring).

There’s a huge difference in what a movie/video looks like before we get our hands on it and after, and I think that’s probably one of the things that people who don’t make gifs tend not to realize.

Let me show you!

This is a gif of a scene taken from Iron Man 2. The only thing I did was resize it to 500pixels. This is what the actual movie looks like:

this is the exact same scene after I coloured it and applied my sharpening settings:

Now what you may think is “you just made it bright!” 

It took me 12 layers of careful adjustments to just make it bright (which is not all that I did, btw) while trying not to bring out pixels (impossible with a scene as dark as this one) while at the same time trying my best to keep it under the 2mb limit (over which you can’t upload your gif on tumblr or it won’t move), and trying not to whitewash Rhodey as I lighten everything else. Let me tell you, none of this is particularly easy. It’s not impossible, but it’s not something you learn in five minutes.

Here’s another example:

actual movie:

colour porn:

Now the point of this post is that I’m hoping that people will see and understand that there’s a lot of work and effort on our part to make these gifs, so that everyone can appreciate them. And yet we see that effort easily dismissed every day when our works are stolen and reposted and people have no qualms about rebloging them anyway, cause after all they’re just pretty pictures made with a computer, what’s the fuss. 

It took me two years of almost daily practice to get where I’m at now (and I still have a lot to learn), and that kind of attitude hurts me as a person before it hurts me as a content maker.

Blocking reposters and spreading the word doesn’t help much if things like this keep happening and no one cares.

This website is mostly made of gifsets and graphics (that’s not to undermine the importance of art and fics, I’m just saying that you see more gifs and graphics and photos than those other kind of wonderful content) and it would be a dream come true to see a bit more respect and appreciation for our category. 

Leave nice tags under someone’s gifset you really really liked. Tell them how much you loved how they used that particular song/quote on that particular character. How happy you are they’re making gifs about your favourite ship.

Encourage content makers, you’ll be rewarded with more content.

Be kind. Do not take us for granted, please.

#text post #resources

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@creatorsofcolornet​ event 17: emotions @USERGIF BACK TO COOL EVENT Challenge 4: Typography

Encanto Soundtrack + Color Psychology [layout]

#like the way you colored this! #encanto #disney

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favourite charmed scenes: ♡ nymphs just wanna have fun. 

#charmed

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Vines and laces

#art

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“Admire as much as you can, most people don’t admire enough.”

— Vincent van Gogh, from Van Gogh’s letter to Theo (London, January 1874)

#text post

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#kristen stewart

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#marvel

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the power of yenskier is that nobody gave a shit about yennefer unless it was serving their own purpose in s1, and apparently nobody gives a shit about yennefer in s2 either. everybody uses her, nobody really cares what she wants or the toll that it takes on her (ie: "i'll bind myself to this sorceress and then not tell her for years because i want to feel that we are in love, and if i tell her, it might ruin that" or "i know you're the hero of the Battle of Sodden and lost everything to save us all, but you'll have to let someone else take the glory because you being the hero doesn't favor our politics at all"). love seems to always be.. conditional. it always seems to exist in a situation where the other person is fulfilling their own wishes and needs without necessarily taking into account hers.

she's always the vessel.

and then there's jaskier. and they've been at each other's throats like cats and dogs for like 20 years now but he's such a sight for sore eyes because yennefer realizes this might be the one person who's ever been honest with me from the start and whose never stood to gain anything from interacting with me.

they banter. and jaskier grants his supposed nemesis safe passage to Xintrea without asking anything in return, because.. well, because that's just who Jaskier is. he's the kind of person who uses his resources to smuggle refugees to safety without having any direct personal stake in the matter cause.. it's the right thing to do? he's the kind of person whose first thought after being tortured is to warn the guy he got tortured about--even though last time they interacted was when said person abandoned him on a mountain top-- that there are dangerous people who are after him. the kind of person who leads his and Yennefer's persuers towards him and away from her, again because... that's what you do, isn't it?

all the while not expecting anything in return.

and Yennefer must find this so.. strange.

and then the ending happens.

and Yennefer has just slit her wrists to--once again--become the vessel for everyone. to serve other people's purpose. to save other people's loved ones. cause that's what she is, and she's begun to understand. that's what people want her for. and even though she just saved his child surprise, Geralt can't be bothered to even glance in her direction, because.. well, she's served her purpose.

but you know who does glance?

Jaskier.

the ever present sing-songy twit she used to take such pleasure in teasing about crow's feet, her self-proclaimed nemesis, is the first person to reach out with a steadying hand and ask if she's ok.

and she looks into his eyes, and there's this reproachful glint, this anger almost of "how dare you ask if i'm alright? didn't you know i'm just a vessel?" and there's recognition there too, because

they are both vessels in a way. they are there when people need something from them and they're not when it's not convenient. and neither of them expect anything in return for what they do at this point, cause they've been through too much for that. but maybe, just maybe.. two vessels can rely on each other. comfort each other. and most importantly truly see each other.

maybe, finally, they can be important too.

#the witcher #text post

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FATIN JADMANI in THE WILDS: SEASON TWO

#such a pretty ass coloring! #and the blends are so cute! #that 1st gif especially! #the wilds

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Friendly reminder

“Doing your best” does not mean working yourself to the point of a mental breakdown.

#text post #important

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In time, the dragons would be her most formidable guardians, just as they had been for Aegon the Conqueror and his sisters three hundred years ago. Just now, though, they brought her more danger than protection. In all the world there were but three living dragons, and those were hers; they were a wonder, and a terror, and beyond price. 

#daenerys targaryen #game of thrones

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it kills me inside when i try to act cold just to protect myself, knowing that i have the sweetest soul you'll ever meet.

#text post

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As long as one child believes, we will be here to fight fear.

#rise of the guardians #dreamworks

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Matthew Daddario for Bello Magazine (January 2016)

#matthew daddario

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Tadpole mermaid~

#art