Beauty of Maurice (1987) [1/?] Colors!!!

Maurice (1987) + ao3 tags - Part 2

First image: Portrait of James Wilby as Sydney Carton in A Tale Of Two Cities. Second image: Portrait of James Wilby and Murial Combeau in A Tale Of Two Cities.

Maurice (1987) + ao3 tags

(little extra under the cut: oper at your own risk)

Maurice (1914) by E. M. Forster

I just started to read the book yesterday and... I definitelly am NOT disappointed!😍

Just first 3 chapters and it feels like film prequel!!!🤯

There's Maurice's fear of darkness and him playing with his sisters, and the way he treats their servants, and there's that fucking doctor Barry (NOT really a "family friend"), and also there's Dicky...

And there comes the most decent story about how does it feel to be adolescenting boy, and gay, and from hundret years ago, and not realising what's going on, even less that there might be anything "wrong" with him, and it's so innocent in his naivety (there's the "dream about the friend that last your whole life" - aaaaargh!!!😍), and it feels so simple and sincere, and so true - and when you know it's autobiographic novel of actually homosexual writer living hundret years ago - and so it's just literally a first hand description of how did HE felt when being a boy and it' like...

OMG I did not deserve this!!!🥲 My inner psychologist is already drooling all over the floor...🤤 What teen Maurice experienced when reading "Martial" might be similar to what I feel when reading "Maurice"!

But then when I see how author was describing his main character in such cruel way, always emphasing how average, unintelligent and lazy he was, and I'm thinking if that was some kind of fashion to put so much sarcasm into your character description and to lower his personality and motivations so much or could it be just some manner of excessive self-criticism - because I remembered once again it's autobiographic - but then isn't it even more weird if he was so critical toward his own self and then I'm like... Isn't it the way I myself try to underestimate my work and art because it actually feels so dear to me that I'd rather be the most critical so that you don't guess how much it matters to me and you won't bother to criticise it yourself or even if you would it won't be so painful as I already tried to believe that it is worthless anyway or maybe I'd rather hear you laugh about my lame joke than letting you know my true feelings because then you might be sympathising or pity me and that'll make me feel humiliated and bringing me to tears and - I don't want to be pitiful and I want to feel I still have control over my own feelings and I want not to be seen crying and vulnerable - and especially if I was a guy...

So maybe the author was describing his character in such cruel manner just to hide how dear he actually was to him?🤔

Overanalysing? Obviously! I just need to feed that empathetic beast sometimes. Why else would I ever be reading?

answer to the last question: it’s this

hi. maurice (1987) 2048 anyone.

😎 tiny deleted scene 😎  (yeah the quality is debatable but i did my best)

😎 tiny deleted scene 😎  (yeah the quality is debatable but i did my best)

I think it’s funny how I’ve never seen people do slur discourse over “punk” because “punk” used to mean not just “street trash youth” but more specifically homeless young male sex workers and it’s use as an insult for most of the 20th century was homophobic and basically was on the same level as “faggot” (and also retained that meaning even after “punk rock” in lots of places) but also words change in meaning so~

Turn Night to Day: Colorize Dark Photos Using The Curve Tool

...the tygerlyla way (this one not so tedious 😂😂😂)

This technique has helped me immensely with dark photos before I had a photoshop upgrade. No need to fiddle with the Brightness/Exposure slider, and if you do not have the Neural Filters, these steps are the next best alternative... may even be a better alternative!

Step 1: Choose the photo (this is a night shot of my favorite couple Ciri and Morvran).

Step 2: Create a duplicate of the photo and change the layer mode to Screen to brighten it some. For this photo I have 2 "screen" duplicates.

Step 3: Flatten the image and create a duplicate. Then put the Curve adjustment layer on top. Tap the Curve thumbnail to manually adjust the droppers (Bottom-Highlights, Mid-Midtones, Top-Shadows).

Step 4: Choose a color for the highlight dropper, midtone dropper and shadow dropper. For this task, I chose light yellow for highlights, orange-brown tint for midtones (it's usually for skintones), and dark brown close to black for shadows).

Step 5: Use the highlight dropper tool on the lightest part of the photo. In this case, its the highlights on Ciri's hair. The rest of the photo adjusts to the changes.

Step 6: Use the midtone dropper on the skin. I use it on Ciri's exposed neck. Again the rest of the photo adjusted to the changes.

Step 7: Use the shadow dropper on the darkest part of the photo (the triangle between Morvran's gauntlet and Ciri's shoulder). The rest of the photo adjusted to the changes.

Aaaaand... there we have it! Photo colorized, setting changed from night to day. Now it is up to you to make further enhancements using filters, luts, actions and plugins.

Hope this helps fellow artists and photoshop users!

Baking a cake with our Maurice (1987) friends  😋 🍰 insp.

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