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indomies · 3 years

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#showyourprocess

From planning to posting, share your process for making creative content!

To continue supporting content makers, this tag game is meant to show the entire process of making creative content: this can be for any creation.

RULES - When your work is tagged, show the process of its creation from planning to posting, then tag up to 5 people with a specific link to one of their creative works you’d like to see the process of. Use the tag #showyourprocess so we can find yours.

sabrina @lanwangiji tagged me to show how i made my zayn’s birthday edit! check out her explanation on this mesmerizing zayn’s edit

1. PLANNING

It’s Zayn’s birthday, I ought to make something because so far I have made birthday posts for Louis, Niall and Liam. I didn’t participate in his birthday challenge so I had more time to create something for his birthday. I saw this post by @spaceniall and instantly fell in love with it. It's so clean, so neat, an amazing edit. I had that post tagged for inspo and because my Louis’s birthday edit was a bit “grand”, I thought I should make something simple.

I went to look for some photos of Zayn everywhere. Literally e v e r y w h e r e. I saved every photo I found beautiful and there were a LOT. I asked my friends for adjectives that describe Louis best and added them on my Louis’s birthday post, and I followed that approach for this edit. I asked several friends what they think of Zayn and collected the adjectives.

This was a time where I haven’t used trello board, so I put all the adjectives in a google doc. Seriously I swear by trello board, they make my life easier.

After I had all the photos and the adjectives, I went to pinterest to look for the color palette. I forgot how and why I came up with this color scheme, but I believed I wanted something pastel and muted color.

I had this idea to make an evergreen birthday post. I didn’t want to state any “happy birthday zayn” or his age on the graphic. I didn’t want to make all the edits to have his face because I wanted to showcase my graphics and typography style lmao. So I came up with 2 pictures with Zayn’s face and one central picture with his name. And I’m obsessed with space stuffs so this birthday edit is space themed.

2. PROCESSING

This is one of my earliest edits that I made in Illustrator, though I used Photoshop as well.

2.1 REMOVING PICTURES BACKGROUND

Remember I saved a LOT of Zayn’s photos? Yeah? Well I had a hard time choosing the right one. I asked Sabrina to help lmao. After I agreed with myself which photos I would use, I opened Photoshop and prayed it won’t crash after 5 min.

I uploaded the 2 photos and then I used selection on Zayn and then clicked inverse and deleted the background. Recently I found this website who can delete your background in 1 min, tbh that’s a life saver. I recommend using them, if you hate removing backgrounds with Photoshop.

I saved the backgroundless Zayn’s photos as png. And we’re moving on to the next step

2.2 THE TYPOGRAPHY

I only used Photoshop to remove the backgrounds. Now onto Illustrator. Always pray it won’t close by itself every 5 min.

I don’t really remember which dimension I used, but I suspect it’s 600x700 px. I made 3 artboards and loaded the color palette I found from Pinterest. I made 3 rectangles as the backgrounds for each picture and filled them with my desired colors, 2 pink and 1 green. Green being the standalone was put in the middle.

A bit of excursion based on my experience

When you open an artboard in Illustrator, you’ll see a white background. When you save the file you’ve worked on, it’ll actually be transparent. That’s why I always draw a rectangle as a background so it has a solid color.

I focused on ZAYN (middle pic) first because I wanted that to be the main focus. I don’t remember the font I used and I already deleted all files. I followed this tutorial to make the text. Basically you write your text first and choose effect > 3d > extrude and bevel > isometric top. Changed the colors according to my color palette.

I moved on to the first picture, Zayn and the adjectives. I uploaded his photo to the artboard and put it in the middle. I wanted the adjectives to encircle him. I just followed this tutorial on how to make the effect. I made that text effect because that reminded me of the saturn ring lmao.

2.3 THE GRAPHIC DETAILS

Once I got the typography done, I made stars and moon to make the edits merrier and more space themed.

For the stars you can follow this tutorials. For the moon I made 2 circles, one of them was bigger. I put the smaller one in front and click minus front (I think). For the saturn planet, I made a circle with filling and an oval with stroke only, putting the oval infront of the circle and delete the back part of the ring (I hope this makes sense).

I have these lines around Zayn, my intention was to make Zayn pop and kind of crown him or give him a glowy effect sort-of.

All I did was follow this tutorial and delete the lines at the top, because I didn’t want it to be too crowded. Then I put some stars and planets at the top to balance it.

2.4 FINISHING TOUCHES & EXPORTING

I rearranged some things, zoomed out the artboard so I could see everything as one post and picked and deleted some unwanted things. After I was satisfied, I added my watermark and it was my old url, I just typed louistomlinboo. (Now I made a logo-ish and use that as my watermark and the logo is not dependent on my url)

Ok I lied I used Photoshop again… so I had these adjectives in 2.1 that encircled him right but some parts of the texts are above him. I exported my Illustrator file as a psd, uploaded it on Photoshop and used layer mask magic to delete the texts that were above him to create an illusion that the texts went around and under him you know. See the picture below, some texts are beneath him.

For this picture I exported the png file from Photoshop, the rest directly from Illustrator.

This was when I learned I needed to scale up, because on Illustrator they all look good in terms of quality. But when I posted it, the quality was reduced. That time I just exported as big as the dimensions and I was disappointed with the quality when it’s on tumblr.

3. POSTING

I uploaded the 3 pictures I have on tumblr and chose “happy birthday zayn” with star symbols/emojis to keep up with the space theme.

So I always write out what my caption will be with the “rich text” option.

Then I go to this color html website to add the gradient color in the caption and remove the “;” with “ “ in here. Once I have everything, I change rich text to html so I can put the text with color in html mode.

Put some tags related to Zayn. (self promotion time lol. i have compiled tags for 1d creators check them out here)

I finished I think a week earlier before Zayn's birthday so I saved it on draft. I posted around midnight (my timezone is CET), because oh boy it is a competition with birthday post lmao. That’s what I feel like at least. You know, everyone wants to make a birthday post, I feel I have a better chance If I post something first. Whenever I have something done earlier before a certain due date, I either save it on draft or schedule it so it’ll be posted automatically.

Yeah that’s it! It’s not as detailed as before I think because the files are deleted sorry!

i’m tagging:

@spaceniall for this wonderful niall’s birthday edit

@she-fearlesss for this magnificent louis’s birthday gifset

@finewalls for this mesmerizing animation

@louitomlinson (i know you’re not that active but if you want and can!) for this amazing edit

and @tomlinsun for this cool edit

#showyourprocess #bacotan belle

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zmediaoutlet · 5 years

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Ahhh, I just saw your post about tarnishing the righteousness and it has me thinking, if all those interactions are after Dean goes to Hell? Because Meg 2.0 is, and so is Abaddon. Then it wouldn't be because he's the righteous man anymore, but perhaps that he is the righteous man fallen? (I also like the taste of Sam option too, quite a lot, Z). You make meta sound so stylistically story-like. Keep on keeping on! 👊

ah – this is re: this post (from two weeks ago; never let it be said I answer questions at all punctually), with these tags:

#what is the deal with demons and sexual assault and dean #i’m remembering some tearful line #‘what is it about me?’ #what is it really #is it that they all see what sam loves and want to–what? break it? #or the element of righteousness in him that attracts and then makes them want to destroy it #…that’s probably overthinking #but still #it’s such a weirdly constant element in the show

Setting aside that it probably is overthinking:

The crossroads demon all the way back in Crossroads Blues had this vibe, too. Soft & seductive is the crossroads way, of course, but that’s actually where we’re introduced to the concept of crossroads deals being sealed with a kiss–and it’s performed on Dean, with this specific line: I usually like to be warned before I’m violated with demon tongue. A little prophetic, there.

Meg 1.0 did it too, per a bud’s reminder, in Shadow. She macked on Sam, but she sat in Dean’s lap too, straddled him and got up in his business and was just as condescending as she could be.

But like–we get Azazel being condescendingly chummy with Sam. With Dean he leans in all close and literally! sniffs! him!, inches from his skin, arched in against Dean’s body. (Dean whump fans: that is a scene to rewatch until your VHS gets worn out. hooboy.) Abaddon wants to get all up in Dean’s pretty meatsuit; does she even talk to Sam? [ETA: oh yeah, she says that her Josie body is sexier than Sam. hdu, Abaddon.) Meg 2.0 kisses Dean in that gifset, for absolutely zero goddamn reason. Why? What is the deal?

The meta answer, of course, has something to do with Jensen. The way he exists on camera is… worryingly vulnerable, especially in earlier years, and he’s a very convenient and beautiful locus of vileness. Filmed often almost like a traditional female pulp character–think of that pan-up over his ass, and that was in the 4th episode ever, and it hasn’t really changed all that much since then. There’s a lot of attention paid to his big pretty eyes and how easy they go wet–to the sprawl of him, and his body. It’s almost creepy sometimes, honestly. Tied to the chair with his legs spread wide, again, and it’s erotic, but in a dangerously grimy way. How he reacts is interesting too–the sexual comments start and he half-smirks before his eyes and face and mouth all go defensively flat. You can’t get me with that, Dean seems to be thinking–except they can. (That this is such a constant thing, filmically speaking, sends me into paroxysms at least four times a year.)

If we take the text purely as text, however: I seriously love the ‘righteous man’ thing as a way to think about it. All these bad things fluttering up like evil moths to a pretty, pretty light. It’s nothing Dean did, ever (not that he would deserve it even if he had)–it’s literally built into the fabric of what he is. The Righteous Man, who will spill blood in hell. It’s a destiny that’s barreling toward him from long before he was born, and he can’t get away from it even after he got dragged out. –and he’s still Good, is the thing. He did get out, before he got changed. Maybe they’re jealous; maybe they just want to stain him. Maybe they want to remind him of everything that happened to him in the pit. Who knows. But man, is it grody that they do.

#spn #dean winchester #--to be clear: i enjoy how grody it is #it is a totally fascinating writing/acting/directing choice #your masculine big hero man who's constantly treated like a rapeable object #viewing him as a 'possession' of sam's is another way to think about it #but on reflection that only really works pre-s4 #when sam was supposed to be the lucifer vessel and azazel's student etc #afterward demons don't really seem to give sam much of the time of day #which is a whole other fascinating barrel of grody fish #anyway #spn meta #i guess #Anonymous

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whenemmafallsinlove · 5 years

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Regarding what’s going around about Jen faking the cancer: i DM’d her after I saw her posts and she seemed valid. But then she deleted her Twitter and tumblr and she told me she did it because of everyone was accusing her of faking, she said once someone faked it so now everyone believes anyone who has cancer is faking it. But now she deleted her Instagram too and it makes me wonder 😔 I know she said she had schizophrenia and I’m just not sure what to believe. 😔

whenever anyone on the internet says they have cancer, or schizophrenia, or anything like that, we should of course believe them. people should not have to prove their illnesses to us. and generally speaking, that’s what happens: we trust others. that’s how it should be.

that being the case, some people choose to abuse this trust in order to take advantage of others. i believe this is the case with jen.

i noticed her posts popping up on my dashboard in december/january. she would post things like “reblog this if you support people with depression” and other “reblog this if” things that most people with decent morals would agree with, gaining herself some attention and followers. when i began to notice posts about her deteriorating health, i took further notice and looked through her entire blog.

she began posting on december 15, 2018. in that amount of time she posted things like:

claimed to be an LGBTQ+ woman on January 11, and at least a month later “came out” as bisexual during a swiftie LGBTQ+ selfie night (literally said she was coming out, as if she’d never spoken about being LGBTQ+ before)

did a giveaway for Olivia and Meredith pillows, in which the winner would be chosen on January 31 (i never did find a winner announcement)

lost a coworker to suicde

was suicidal

lost a baby at 11 weeks gestation

was in a physically abusive relationship that she left in mid-october, i believe (she said in january that it had been 2.5 months since she left)

was making a strange combination of edits that looked like very beginner edits, as well as a few edits and some gifsets that appeared to be from someone with a lot more editing experience (similar to past catfisher in this fandom)

was diagnosed with schizophrenia, along with her previous diagnoses of depression and anxiety

lost her best friend and as a result spent 3 weeks in the hospital

was diagnosed with stage 2 bladder cancer

started a campaign for herself to get noticed called “TaylorNoticeJen”

I am not saying that it is impossible for all of these things to happen to someone. Sometimes, the world just fucking sucks and someone goes through a HORRIBLE time period like this. Maybe everything she said was true.

Like I said earlier, when someone says “I lost a baby” or “I was diagnosed with schizophrenia” or “I was in an abusive relationship,” we should believe them. That being said, if you notice a pattern in which you feel unsure of the honesty, you aren’t a bad person for being skeptical. While you don’t necessarily need to question them right off the bat, it’s never a bad idea to remember that people on the internet CAN and WILL be dishonest if they have bad intentions. These people are rare but they are loud and will make themselves seen. Maybe Jen really was experiencing all these things and maybe the reason she deactivated was because people were saying she was faking…all I know is personally, I had a bad feeling from the beginning when I was seeing her posts and the fact that she deactivated every single one of her accounts doesn’t make me feel any better. I hope you guys all understand what I mean when I say this? If you have any questions feel free to ask me.

#devotedtoswift

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henry-cavill · 2 years

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hello! sorry to bother you, but i was wondering if you are having any trouble with uploading larger gifs today? like, with them ending up rly grainy or even frozen? i've been having this issue today, even with gifs that i recently uploaded with no problem. but it only seems to be with ones that are more than 5mb

Hi, no bother at all! I didn't have any issues uploading my gifset earlier, not sure if it might be happening for other people? I remember having a similar problem a few months ago, but it got fixed after about a week or so. Sorry! Hope it gets resolved for you.

Edit: Never mind, literally just as I posted this I saw this happening to a few gif sets on my dash. 🤐

#answered #anonymous

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codependentsamanddean · 7 years

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5 years of Supernatural - How it changed my life

I was reading the Family Don’t End With Blood book, and I remembered that this week will be 5 years since I started watching SPN. Yes, I remember the day, it was July 15th, 2012.

I thought that to celebrate this mark, I’d write my own story about how Supernatural has changed my life, inspired by the book. It probably will be long so I understand if you skip it lol.

I was looking for a new show to watch, I was currently following a handful of shows but I wanted something else. I knew about Supernatural because I was already on Tumblr even though I had only a personal blog where I reblogged random stuff and had like 100 followers or less. I saw gifsets from the show here and there, and I remember thinking “this show must be cool. It looks like these brotjhers have a nice bond”. Also, I have been a fan of Jared Padalecki ever since 2004 and I saw him in New York Minute, so it was another reason to try it. To sum it up, I watched 7 seasons (the show had only 7 seasons back then) in one month, and by the end of it I was addicted.

Lemme just say something before I continue. I am that kind of person who becomes obsessed with something only to not give a single shit about it one month later. So I thought that what was gonna happen with SPN as well, I’d fall in love with it but it was gonna go away soon like everything that came before. But that wasn’t what happened.

I got more and more in love with the show and those boys, tjhe story of those brothers. And if I already adored Jared, I started loving him even more, at the same time I got to know who was that gorgeous Jensen Ackles. I learned how special the relationship between them in real life was as well. My tumblr slowly became almost 100% Supernatural, and then one day I saw a blog made to spread the word that Jensen hated Jared. I got so fucking mad reading that, it was the turning point for me. That same day I created a new Tumblr, and the url was j2loveeachother. I wanted to show how the boys actually loved each other very much. I was into the show for about 4 months by then, and I already knew. And little did I know how the decision of making this Tumblr would change so much in my life.

When I entered this place, this fandom, with this blog I felt instantly at home, like I belonged here. I have a lot of internet friends, I made some good friends back in 2008 because we were all fans of an American Idol winner, and we’re still friends to this day, almost 10 years later. So I enjoy meeting people online even though it sucks that most of the times we’re far away.

In the beginning of 2013, a couple of months after making the blog, I was put in the same list as another SPN blog by one of my mutuals, as people who loved Sam. I followed that blog and me and the girl started messaging each other here on Tumblr. That was Karri. in about 10 days we “got married” on tumblr and became “wifeys”, which we still are today. We became close friends, the kind who talk almost everyday about things that go beyond the fandom. Other people were added to the equation and god I met so many amazing people. Some of them are long gone and that makes me sad not knowing what happened to them since they left their blogs behind. But new ones arrived and that’s the beauty of it. How many amazing people I met here, but it was sad that everyone was waaay too distant, specially since I live in Brazil and most people are in the US (Karri in California). I remember thinking, will we ever meet someday?

There was also the matter of going to a convention. I remember vividly one day, after Vegascon 2013, one of my mutuals posted a beautiful J2 op she took with them. I was starting to get familiar with conventions, and I remember looking at that pic and thinking “that is so fucking amazing, but I’ll never ever have that.” The cons were in the US and I am thousands of kilometers away, so no there was no way. And that made me so sad, because I really wanted to go, I wanted to be able to have that experience. I wanted to tell Jared how much I love him, how much he means to me, I wanted to be able to meet him face to face and also Jensen, it was so unfair that I wasn’t able to go if I loved the show and them so fucking much.

In october of 2013, I had a dream. It was like one day after Chicon, a lot of tumblr girls had gone there, and I dreamed that Karri and I were there, and it was pretty amazing. I woke up feeling sad because it wasn’t real, and that night I told Karri this on Skype. I don’t know exactly how it started, but eventually we were like “what if we went to Chicon 2014?” I was gonna start working a couple months after that, I would have some money to go. She hasn’t been to any cons by then as well, so it would be the first time to both of us. We got excited with the prospect, we had one year to make that happen, to be at Chicon in october of 2014. She wanted to put a counter on our blogs right away but I didn’t want to jinx it, we literally had nothing. She did it anyway. I remember going to bed like “that’s almost impossible, I don’t think we’ll be able to pull it off.”

On October 22th of 2014, almost one year after that conversation, I boarded on a plane from São Paulo to Chicago for my first SPN convention. Remember how I wondered if I was ever gonna meet Karri?

remember how I thought, about one and a half year earlier, how I’d never have gorgeous J2 op like that one ever, and how unfair it was?

going to Chicon 2014 was so incredibly important to me for many reasons. I did something I thought I wasn’t gonna be able to, I set up a plan and step by step, I conquered it. I finally attended a SPN convention, which was even more amazing than I imagined. I told Jared in person how much I love him, I got to hug these two man and take this amazing picture, I couldn’t hold back my tears when I found my op among all the others and saw how perfect it was. I finally met Karri in person, which I thought was too hard and we had an amazing time together. I visited Chicago, which was one of my 3 dream cities.

Leaving Illinois was hard. When Karri and I were on the train from Chicago to Rosemont on our last day, to catch our flights on a few hours, I lay my head on her shoulder and cried looking outside the window. I didn’t even know when I’d see her again and I was so incredibly sad it was all coming to an end. I arrived back home exactly one year after the conversation Karri and I had. I remember taking the lanyard out of my suitcase and crying so much. We had done it, and it was too incredible to even put into words.

I thought that was going to be my only con. But later that year I knew that wouldn’t be possible. On New Year of 2015, I told Karri I wanted to attend a con in 2016, and she needed to come with me. We debated a lot where we should go, and I was convinced to go to a city I never imagined visiting, by two friends who I also wanted to meet. So in August of 2016, I boarded another plane to Minneapolis, to attend Minncon 2016. and if at Chicon Karri and I were pretty much by ourselves, at Minncon I met so many other amazing people. People who live across the world and who I would never have met if it wasn’t for this show.

My dream op came true and Jared gave me a piggyback ride:

And I also got to witness firsthand how incredibly human and caring this man is. It was the first time I saw Jared after AKF and all that happened to him in 2015, and this time I went to get his autograph crying bc I was too overwhelmed by all of this, by him, and also because I didnt know if I’d ever see him again. He entwined his fingers with mine and squeezed my hand, winking at me. My heart melted.

I had a fucking amazing time in Minneapolis. Not only because of the con, also for the people I was there with. On our last night, after the con was over, me and the girls went to the pub right next to our hotel to eat and talk, there was so much laughter and happiness. I knew how much I would miss that while I was still there.

To me, Minncon would be my last con. But a few days after the con, I was still in the US, in NYC in vacation, and Karri began convincing me to go to New Orleans in 2017 for another con, since Heather and some other girls were going to. And how could I say no? How can I stay behind and watch my fav people have fun at a con without me? So in a little more than 3 months, on Oct. 23rd, I’m getting on a plane to New Orleans, to experience all of this again for the third time.

Before I went to Chicon, i was afraid to tell people why I was going to Chicago, I was afraid they’d say it was stupid, a waste of money. But I got so much support it surprised me. Even my boss encouraged me to go when I asked for some days off, I never hid from her where I was going. She started watching SPN this year because of me and now she wants to go too. I know some people may think it’s unecessary to spend all this money to go to conventions for a tv show, specially 3 times when I could have gone to just one, but I don’t care. It’s what makes me happy, I get to spend an amazing time with amazing people this show brought me. And I can’t wait to spend even more amazing moments this year. Because of Supernatural, I got to meet people I would never meet otherwise, and I got to visit places I probably wouldn’t if it wasn’t for the show. Supernatural gave me so much, it literally changed the course of my life.

I also discovered a new talent, I found out I can write stories, after reading so many J2 fanfics I tried to write my own fics, supported by my awesome friends, and now I can write a story that has over 100k words. Not only that, I can write all of that in english. I’m a native portuguese speaker. Supernatural has improved my english skills as well.

I don’t have a sad story to tell, Supernatural didn’t save my life or ended my depression. Thankfully I don’t have those problems. But Supernatural changed my life. Literally. It changed many events that happened after |I started watching it. It introduced me to a whole new world. I have friends on different parts of the world because of it, and now I know it’s not impossible to meet them. Saying goodbye to them is so hard, I have cried my eyes out at airports twice, but as I was hugging Karri goodbye in Minneapolis, we realized it wasn’t the last time we’d see each other. It might take some time, but we can do it. The world is big but with effort, we can get anywhere. So many good memories from the past 5 years happened because of Supernatural, and today I can’t imagine how my life was before that. I made friends, I visited new places, I met my favorite actor in the whole world. All because I decided to watch this show I kept seeing on Tumblr. Even long after the show ends and we’re no longer here, the impact it had on me will remain. I know these friendships will stay, as well as the amazing memories I’ll carry throughout my life. I hope I can tell my kids someday if I have them, how much this simple tv show changed me. And I’m gonna encourage them to go after what they love, like my mom did to me when I first told her, afraid as fuck, that I wanted to go to Chicago (a ten hour flight) *just* for a supernatural convention. And she was like “go for it”. Little did I know a small decision on July 15th of 2012 would have such a huge impact in my life.

Thank you Supernatural for the road so far. And for the road yet to come.

#Lullys rambles #supernatural #personal #I got carried away lol

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