TUTORIAL: HOW TO LIGHTEN A PICTURE + USE TEXTURES
Hello all! In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to enlighten your pictures and get pretty romantic effects. Other than this, I’m also going to show how to use textures and how to get pretty colorings without having to use much selective coloring, color balance, etc.
TUTORIAL: How to add SNOW or/and RAIN on a picture
How to create SNOW and RAIN with Photoshop
Hi everyone! Since is almost Christmas, I thought it would be nice to create some cards with snow, don’t you think? With this method I’m going to show you how create static/dynamic pictures with snow and also how to create pictures with rain.
TUTORIAL: How to color a black/white picture
This technique is really old (lol) since I have been coloring BW pics since 2007. It is one of the most famous things to do on Italian Photoshop forums.
What we need to do is get a picture. Doesn’t it matter it is not BW, we can turn it into BW. It is preferable that the pic is already BW, but is not important. I suggest you to get an HQ or a pic that is not too small because it is easier when you have to color. It’s up to you, though.
VIDEO TUTORIAL : How to make a gif
So I managed to upload this video. Is basically the same one as this one, just video explained with myprettyvoice to have a clear vision of how you have to do to make a gif. At the end there’s the tip to save it for tumblr. Hope you like it, and sorry for my English if it might not be good at some parts. AH! Forgot to mention that when I say ‘vibrance’ I forgot to say thats the part regarding coloring a gif. Sorry.
GIFs: tips and tricks Part 1
#1 A - Effects in between the frames in a static pictures gif
#1 B - Effects in between the frames in a normal gif
I don’t really know what this is, if it will be helpful or not. I just know I wanted to share it. Part 2 is coming soon regarding gif size for tumblr + coloring a gif.
If you want to, you can download this quick tutorial in .PDF form.
#1 A - Effects in between the frames in a static pictures gif
I’ll start explaining how to apply this on an image-composed gif, something like this.
Open a new document 500x280 (or 300) and drag the pictures you chose for your gif.
Drag into this new doc the pictures you’d love to put together to create this gif. For tumblr I suggest you to make an image-gif with max five pics, or either the quality would be a bit screwed… Anyway, after you fixed the pics and put them in the order you love the most, we need to create that effect.
What we need to do is:
- click on the little menu on the right of the animation palette > create frames from layers.
- select all the layers and change the velocity to 0,5.
- Duplicate the first frame, and so the first pic in the layer’s palette.
- Make that this duplicate is only visible on the duplicated frame, and on this picture do FILTER > Blur > … Now we have few possibilities. You can do the simple blur or use the motion blur, or I used for eg on that gif a mosaic blur.
- Whatever you’ll decide to use, the result is quite the same.
- Set this frame on 0,1.
Duplicate frame that corresponds to the second picture you chose, and repeat the same steps from 3 to 6. Do this with the third picture you chose too, and with all the eventual pictures you did choose.
Your palette should be like this. (Pic + blurred pic + pic + blurred pic…)
Now press play and this should be your result!
.PSD so you can check carefully.
#1 B Effects in between the frames in a normal gif
To get something like this, the kind of ‘flash’ when the scene shifts from Blair to Chuck, is really easy.
First you’ll need to create a normal gif that to be good for tumblr has to have not more than 11-12 frames with a 0,12 to 0,28 velocity. This gif in particular has EIGHT frames, that I carefully divided in FOUR and FOUR. Four for Chuck, four for Blair, and has a 0,22 velocity.
What you need to do is:
- Go on the last frame before the scene shifts on someone else (for me from Chuck to Blair) on the animation palette. Change its velocity to 0,12.
- On the layer’s palette, set the correspondent layer on SCREEN.
- Still on the layer’s palette, click on the first layer after the scene shifts (for me was Blair) and make it visible. It needs to be set on SCREEN too, and have a 50% opacity.
Now go on picture that corresponds to the last frame of the gif on the layer’s palette.
- For me it’s the last picture of the Blair’s part. Set this layer on SCREEN and click on the little eye of the VERY first picture of the Layer’s palette (that is Chuck) so that this layer is visible too.
That’s it! You can use this way to blend various frames together to have a gif with various parts from various scenes.
tutorial gif #2 (using screencaptures, for PS CS3, CS4)
under the cut.
