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#i honestly struggled not to make another cyan gifset
usergirlfailure · 6 years
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hey! i lovelovelove your edits/psds so much. Jes they're so pretty and smooth and nice!! I was wondering, did you save that psd from the gina gifset? or could you tell me how to get the blues and blacks balanced like that? for blues and purples specifically, I always have a really hard time trying to make it look good. Could you help or anything? (if you can't that's okay, don't worry!!) Thanks in advance!
Ok so this is just a quick partial coloring tutorial of how I make my blue/purple gifs.
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Some quick tips before we get started: 
Sharpening/Making sure your gifs aren’t grainy
I can’t stress enough how important high quality videos are, if you can find a 1080p download, use it! 720p is also doable. These are common settings I see people use/used to use. They weren’t really working for me so  I downloaded these actions (one, two) and I like them a lot (For this gif, I used the second action sharpen two, blur two) Play around and see which ones work for you. Note: that I am not the best when it comes to removing grain because I love bright and colorful gifs which always makes your gifs grainy, so I’m always struggling w/ this.
Coloring 
Ok so choosing a color before you pick a scene makes life so much easier. Make sure the scene you chose has the color you want, or a color that will be easy to manipulate either in the background or in details (like clothes etc.) So, in this case, we want really enhanced blues and purples. The scene i chose has a lot of blue details meaning it’ll be easy. With purples it’s always easiest to go from blue > purple.
Ok now time for the tutorial!!
i. enhancing the blues 
first: for the base i add brightness and vibrance (i’ll use the curves layer often but not for this particular scene because i can make due w/out it and i’m lazy) here’s my brightness and vibrance settings. if you want to use your own feel free. 
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second: right now the gif looks way too red and yellow so we add a color balance layer. and move the arrows towards the cyan and blue sides. here’s my settings.
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 third: i add a selective color layer and under blacks i enhance the blacks (settings). next i add another selective color layer and adjust the cyans and the blues. under cyans i normally increase the cyans to +100, decrease the yellows to -100 , decrease the magentas somewhere in the middle, and increase the blacks (settings). i do the same thing with the blues (settings).
* play around with this step because every scene will be different. sometimes making the cyans and blues too bright will looking really grainy and sometimes it won’t. the trick to finding the perfect balance is honestly just moving the arrows until it looks good. 
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finally i add a levels layer (settings) and that’s in for this gif!!
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ii. turning the blues into purples 
steps 1-2 remain the same. 
now go to your second selective color layer and under the cyans and the blues you’re going to want to decrease the cyans, increase the magentas, and decrease the yellows. cyan settings, blue settings. with purples it’s even more important, in my opinion, to play around with the arrows until you find that balance.
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next (optional) when changing the blues to purple we made her eyes purple and i didn’t want that so i clicked on my eraser tool and erased over her eyes. (make sure your selective color layer has a mask like this). i also couldn’t get the coffee cup to a balanced shade of purple so instead of dealing with it, i erased over it as well.
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and that’s it!! i’m not the best at tutorials but i really hope this helped!!
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