Hey!! So for the blending process ask, could you pls explain how you made the first gif in this set: https://www.tumblr.com/lady-arryn/709147925011365888/blood-in-the-wine-aurora-alicent-hightower ? And the last one in this set: https://www.tumblr.com/lady-arryn/705825404701769728/her-heart-was-a-secret-garden-and-the-walls-were ? (Also which font did you use in the text: “secret garden”?). I’m curious as to how you coloured with two different shades the gifs and the blending part ofc. Thank you in advance!! And sorry to bother, I really appreciate you taking the time to read this🥹🫶🏼 Ps: Pls don’t feel pressured to answer this right away, I know these things can be time consuming. Hope you have a great week🤍
Hi! I don't have the files for them saved and I don't remember the exact steps, but I'll try my best to recreate them for a similar result!
I started with putting all my gifs onto one canvas. The scene with small Otto holding Alicent's hands is on the bottom, then Emily's Alicent and then Olivia's on the top. I used lighten to blend them and that's how it looks. I added color balance for the top scene to make it match the rest in being very warm and yellow.
Then I added two separate layers with just some black brush under their faces to hide the background. And then you can see I added three layers where I painted over the top, Emily's face and the right side. The first layer is set on screen 15%, the other two are soft light, but on different opacity and the one on top I blurred a lot more than the middle one.
Then two more layers on top of the gifs, but under general coloring. I basically wanted to make the left side of the gif darker (so black brush with soft light) and then green layer set to multiply to add a bit more color.
And I think that was pretty much it!
Of course there's more to be done here, adjusting the coloring, adding more layers with soft light/screen, just to make the gif look smoother.
The next one! I loaded all three scenes I wanted to use for this gif onto one canvas and I put the one of them fighting at the bottom. Put my regular coloring on top of everything. Added a black and white layer and some curves for brightness for the bottom scene. I set the two other scenes to lighten blending and erased the parts in the middle.
I know Alicent's gif is different than the one in the linked set, but I couldn't find the exact scene. So it's not looking as good, because it doesn't blend as well, it's too dark, but it's ok, it's just for tutorial purposes and the steps would be the same for a better scene.
Then I added two layers on top of the black and white gif. That's where the color comes from. Layer 13 is set on multiply and low opacity and the Layer 13 copy is soft light (as you can see). For the final result I would definitely play more with those layers, maybe add another one with screen or another soft light, as long as I feel it's needed!
And on the top of everything I added two layers with the same colors, but I painted over the bottom parts of the gif. I could add more of the same if needed, if I saw that there's not enough color etc.
You can also see that I put the scene of them fighting on top, because I wanted to make it pop a little more. I added the black and white layer plus some levels to make it darker. It's not really a big difference and I don't know if I actually did that in the linked gif. But I often do copy bottom layers and add them on top, often erasing small parts of them, just to make the blending look a little smoother!
At that point I would color the two faces, add more vibrance or less (like I would do for Rhaenyra here, she looks way to orange). Maybe add more soft layer layers with the green and pink, adjusting as I go.
As for the font, its Monabelia. There are two layers there, the first is set to exclusion, the one on top is color - it gives that see through effect. I rotated it a little -it's normally not crooked. I added another text layer underneath but with the green, to give it a shadow.
And that's the result! It looks really rough and I would never post it like that xD I would definitely adjust the coloring, maybe add more layers, maybe play more with the colors on the font, just some final touches!
And that was pretty much my process for these gifs! It does vary tho, how I blend and it's often a case by case situation, but in general I like to put a lot of layers with soft light/multiply/screen for the color (and put them in different places in my psd, some on the bottom, some in the middle, some on top). And blending hugely depends on the scenes chosen and I often find that it's what's doing the most work, just pairing what looks good!
I really hope that any of this was helpful <3
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