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byunbaekhyunie · 2 years

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you made baekhyun look grainy and washed out and like he had been left sitting in a puddle of muddy water for a very long time, you made him grey and ugly and i really wondered how you managed to make this pretty a video look so grimey

again, criticism is welcomed but maybe ease up on the vitriol a little, idkw you're talking like we're having a fight

anyways, i don't consider myself that good at making gifs, i personally think i am very lacking compared to other ccs on here so please, i invite you to follow anyone else should you feel so offended by the quality of my content. there's plenty of very talented ppl who gif for bbh/exo, i'll be more than happy to provide you with a list if you want

now to address your grievances. if you don't like grain, well i do. simple as that. when it comes to me ruining the video? i guess?... sure, serving its intended purpose: to be youtube content, the video gets the job done well enough but you obviously have no concept of what constitutes nice source material for gifs — which is fine — but don't get on your high horses with me as if you know better. by all means, if you could do a better job than me: be my guest, i'd be the first to reblog it

the video was shot dimly lit, it's underexposed, they filter the hell out of his skin which kills the resolution, not to mention youtube's horrendous compression. the original video itself is washed out. this is a raw screengrab as it appears in ps after encoding:

to compare with my grimey coloring:

it's not the coloring job i'm most proud of, far from that. actually in the tags of my post i clearly stated that i was unsatisfied with the quality of these myself so. not teaching me anything new here. but ok, too grainy, too dull, too grey, perhaps something like this would be more to your taste:

i am well aware that this kind of coloring is way more attractive than the one i settled on and that, chances are, my post would've gotten more engagement had i chosen this coloring for my post but i've let go of that mentality long ago

everyone approaches giffing differently and with different intentions. i'm personally not someone with a road map, i just go with the flow of whatever i feel like doing that day, my general ethos is to flatter the source material and/or its subject as much as possible, but i also like to experiment and try different things. to me, this coloring hereinabove strays too far from the original palette which makes the colors too unnatural and adds to the already considerable amount of artifact even with minimal sharpening. it's also very generic looking

it's funny to me that you picked that muddy puddle analogy, in an effort to upset me i presume, but I like that image actually. wasn't that the concept of the video to begin with? kyoong radio to cheer you up on a bleak, rainy day? i think that's why they made the artistic choice of filming in soft lighting, and going with the under-saturated, low contrast, "washed out" look. or at least, that's my interpretation of it. so even if it's not to your preference, i think i somewhat hit the mark with what i was originally trying to do

i personally don't think my gifs look too grey. i'm most disappointed that i couldn't recover more of baekhyun's skintone in the gifs that i posted, trust me i am, but i tried smth a little experimental and i'm still happy with how they came out, they remind me of old camcorder footage. i know that it is among my worst performing sets but like i said idc, i like them

also they're literally just gifs &baekhyun loves me

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