That’s really so kind of you to say, I appreciate it~ (*^▽^*)

My colorings aren’t that much of a mess anymore I guess (well, as long as I use adjustment layers I’m used to); With neutral scenes (Like scenes taking place in the day), I tend to use around three selective color layers, with the first one toning down the blacks in the majority of the colors, while the magenta section will look like this most of the time:

The second layer will most likely be me repeating “toning down the darker colors” while the third layer is up to you. I use any selective color layers after the second one to fix up any colors that I don’t like in a scene.

Hint: Make sure not to tone down the darker colors too much or the scene will turn out too light! This happens to me too frequently, so starting a few months ago, I began familiarizing myself with layers that help the colors in a scene pop up more like hue and saturation. I like to place these layers either right at the beginning of the coloring or place them in between layers. I do use the same settings on hue and saturation as a lot of other pastel colors, which looks like this:

I also play with every other color that fall under master (every one), BUT these have no definite settings, I mess with them until I like how my gif looks. Oh, and I never use more than one hue and saturation layer.

I also like to use at least one curve layer if possible and it will most likely look like this:

Not too bright, but if you want, go ahead and raise it some more.

Recently I’ve been relying on gradient maps more than curves and these gradient maps are composed of pastel colors usually in the pink, purple, and blue range. I don’t like to use more than two but sometimes a scene requires more of them. If a curve layer doesn’t help me out as much as I thought, then I will use a gradient map that is composed of black and white and I will play with the opacity of these gradients if it is too bright (I like leaving the opacity between 50 through 75 percent but you might have different preferences).

These are the layers I rely on the most when coloring gifs, but feel free to experiment with other layers!

And if you’re interested, here are some blogs that have really nice pastel colorings:

@animeps, @animemangaps, @resourceanime

I’m still a little unorganized when it comes to coloring my gifs, but I hope I helped you out some~ If you need any help on the adjustment layers, feel free to send me a message!

Now that you have Photoshop installed: Go to your “Computer” located in your Start Menu. In your “Hard Disk Drives”, click on Local Disk (C:). Locate your “Program Files” folder. Inside the Program Files folder locate the “Adobe” folder. Find the “Adobe Photoshop CS5.1” folder. Inside the folder locate the file with this name “amtlib.dll” and rename it like this: “amtlib1.dll” if a box pops up just click OK and continue. Now this is where the hephap-byeolibichnan folder comes into play. (download here) The folder should contain a file with this name: “amtlib.dll” drag it into the Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 folder a box might pop-up just click and continue. Your Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 should now contain two amtlib’s: amtlib1.dll and amtlib.dll (like this) Some computers might require a re-start, if yours does just re-start and open your photoshop, it shouldn’t ask you for a serial number or anything, and is now an extended version not a trial. FIN! If you have any questions or doubts about my “tutorial” (iIbet you will because I can’t explain for the love of my life) feel free to ask don’t be shy.

Update: If you don’t want to download the installer from the official site, you can download it here (ZIP // RAR). When you get to the part where it asks you for a serial number just install as a trial. [explained above] And if you are confused with the renaming of the amtlib.dll to amtlib1.dll, just erase the original file (amtlib.dll) in your Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 folder and replace it with the files in either of this folders (ZIP // RAR) Alternative downloads: installer  | hephap-byeolibichnan | both amtlibs + new alternative links: installer | hephap-byeolibichnan | both amtlibs  

YURI ON ICE PSD #1 by kxousei // download link in title this psd was requested by anonymous from a recent gifset I did  ( original post )

if you have any questions/concerns about this psd or anything else photoshop related you can just ask me. please enjoy (✿◠‿◠) 

A while ago I got asked how I made this gifset, and I wanted to show you how to do it. It’s the easiest thing ever.

Like or reblog if this helped you!

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PSD #07 by mizukiresources; made for colouring scenes from the anime Aldnoah.Zero. Works with most lighting conditions, but if you’re using it on a scene with red or yellow lighting, you will need to adjust the hues. ||| Preview: [1] [2] [3]

Contents include the PSD base as well as adjustments for darker and lighter scenes. Feel free to edit these to your liking and use it for whatever you want, but please do not repost/re-upload/claim it as your own! No credit is necessary except if you use this in your tutorials but please like and/or reblog this post if you download (:

Don’t repost or claim as yours, respects people’s work. That’s all we ask. If you download this file please give your like/reblog in this post. Any doubt/request go to our askbox. More resources here, thank you for reading this.

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link to texture pack #1

Mangacap tutorial - Level 3

❙ Level 1 ❙ Level 2 ❙ Level 3 ❙ Check for my other mangacap tutorials for the basic steps of cleaning a picture !

So why there are 3 levels? In my case, I don’t only clean a picture but I also retouch/redraw some of the missing parts, which you’ll see how in this tutorial.

Important to read before going ahead:

Let’s start ! Level 3 - Hard

I’m going to use this picture:

and this is the result:

If you’d like to reblog this picture, click here !

First thing, I cleaned the image and removed the background with the Brush Tool, to see how to clean a picture, check my second mangacap tutorial.

In general for many of my edits, I erase the writings (or other elements as the stars in this case) and I redraw the missing parts. In order to do it, I use the following tools:

the Brush Tool

(and the Eraser tool)

the Line tool

the Convert Point Tool

and the Clone Stamp Tool

(depending on the image I want to edit, I use the Healing Brush Tool as well, but I didn’t use it here, usually it’s enough to use the clone stamp tool).

Before continue, I’d like to say that you must know how those tools work (because I won’t explain how to use them), that’s why is the hardest level because in my opinion, for this tutorial you should know how photoshop and its tools/options work.

From some months, I started to draw the lines using the brush tool only (opening on a new layer (very important !)), but what I usually do, especially when I have to draw a curved line, I use the Line tool to trace the line and then I use the Convert point tool to bend it. This is a good method for who isn’t good at drawing on computer because you can get clean and not trembling’s lines. (Extra: if the lenght of the line just bent is too long, you can erase it with the Eraser tool).

As you can see in the following gif:

(Plus, after I bent the line, I used brush tool and the clone stamp tool to complete the editing).

Besides tracing lines, I retouched the image using the Clone stamp tool, which allows you to copy one area of an image and copy it onto another area.

As in the case of the shadow of the shirt (I copied the gray and I used the brush to paint the white parts):

(plus as you can see, I erased the writings and I redrawed the lines).

And as in the skirt (I copied the texture of the skirt and pasted it on the writings):

The explanations are done but I thought… it can be even more helpful if I show you all the steps I did when I edited this image.

Overall:

the other parts I didn’t show yet:

the complete version of the second gif in the step 2:

and at last:

Extra tip: for getting darker lines and a cleanest image, you can use the Levels Adjustments, for more infos check my second mangacap tutorial !

I hope I explained well and that this tutorial will be helpful to someone !

For any question you might have about this tutorial, just let me know ! ^w^

texture pack #9: handwritten texture (lyrics) pack from requests