#lasso tool copy paste practice

[literaryspinster]

This is probably unhinged but I didn't see a single one of you trying to stop me so who's fault is it really? 🤷🏾‍♀️

[nemisisnemi]

forgot to post this one whoops

quick 10 min sketches

[blondeaxolotl]

So, what method do you use when drawing to keep going?

I personally always seem to struggle to finish an art piece and can never get myself to fully focus on learning the entirety of anatomy, etc.

I crave to finish an art piece again, I miss the feeling, but I haven't been able to do it in a long long while, I'm just hoping for a little advice, not sure who else to go to cause I don't have any friends but I look up to you a crazy amount so I figured I'd give this a shot, this isn't forced to answer by the way!

I don't want you to feel like you have to answer this.

If you do or you don't, you're still really cool, your art is awesome and inspiring and your aus are as well.

Heck, you're a pretty damn cool person too, art really does reflect artist sometimes huh?

Anyway, I'll get out of your hair, keep up the amazing work <3/p

When it comes to finishing an art piece that you know you want to finish but suddenly lose the motivation to

What I usually do (this might not work for everyone but it somewhat helps me so it helps you as well then that's awesome) is when I'm in the middle of drawing a piece and I suddenly lose interest or motivation, or something isn't going well which is making me lose patience. I just put the pencil down, and go do something else for a while until I get the urge to continue or try again. Example I go play video games for a while or maybe watch a movie or youtube for a bit, just giving yourself a small break from drawing until that motivation to draw comes back and then you go back to that piece and try again. And basically how ever often that happens (aka losing motivation, patience, etc), you just repeat the cycle until you're slowly getting closer and closer to finishing that piece (You can also doodle on the side as a refresher but I don't recommend starting a whole new piece when you want to finish your first one, usually for me I just end up forgetting the last drawing completely because I accidentally started a new project 😭 but that might be a me problem if it doesn't happen to you then it's a-okay) This is mostly what was helping me finish projects since I have a short attention span and often lose motivation and what not so I constantly do this FDSFDSDSF.

Now for anatomy, I'm not the best at anatomy myself but my first advice is don't immediately give up if your anatomy isn't perfect on the first try, it won't always look good on the first attempt which is why it's okay to go through a few trial and errors before you get it to a point you like it enough to continue. Also I'm not a professional and I suck at explaining things and honestly I know jackshit about anatomy I just wing it most of the time. But I can give you small tips that come in handy when drawing poses!!

We're gonna use a reference for this, when you have a reference for a pose you want to use. A good way to get a hang of the pose is by tracing over it with simple shapes (such as cylinders, circles, triangles, etc) and then redrawing it with those same shapes to again get the hang of the pose, you don't have to really do it but it's a good practice so I recommend it. Then, after you have your pose, you can take the lasso tool (or selection tool) and then just resize body parts to your liking so they fit your style more!!! And ofc now you can draw over it and use it as a base for the character you want to use it for.

Now that's the first method, but I have a second one which is fun, I call it "frankesteining", which is where you grab 2 or more images and then take body parts and paste them onto the main reference picture you want to use.

Like here, you like the pose of the first reference, but wish both of the models arms were on the hips? Fear not! Just grab another image of a model who's arm IS on their hip

Then carefully erase the arm/body part on your main reference that you want to replace with another. Select the arm/body part of the second reference with lasso tool, and slowly trace over it so you can copy/cut it out and then paste it onto your main ref

Like this! Now remember, the reference doesn't need to look aesthetically pleasing, after all you're just using it as a reference, so it's okay if it doesn't look perfect!! You can do this with many body parts as you want btw, just keep cutting and pasting until you get the pose you wanted!!

And finally just draw over it! Using the same methods as the first one, shapes, redraw and all! No one will ever know you were playing pretend dr frankenstein with the reference pictures before this!

Now these are the methods I use when posing characters, they might not always come out right the first time but if you keep trying you'll eventually get something you like a lil more than your last ones!! You can also just use a 3d model posing website/app and then screenshot the pose and redraw it from there. But this is if you're one of those people who for some reason just can't get the hang of those damn 3d model posers (aka me)

GUHH THIS POST IS SO LONG IM SORRY, I hope my rambles helped you out at least a lil bit and I hope you continue your journey in making art, believe in yourself and eventually everything will turn out alright in the end stay strong fellow artist 💜

[scarlet--wiccan]

How'd you make Quicksilvers suit blue in some of ur comic edits (Love them btw )

I typically just use the Hue and Selective Color tools in Photoshop. Pietro’s costume is all one flat color, outside of the black and white accents, and because I’m changing it from from one cool tone to another, it’s usually really easy.

I always start by making a lasso selection around Pietro’s body so I can copy and paste it into a separate layer. That way I can manipulate the colors on the suit without effecting the rest of the image, and if I need to blend out the edges or clean up any details, I can just use the eraser. In general, I think it’s good practice to copy things into separate layers, even if you don’t think you need to. It just gives you a lot more freedom to make adjustments.

I have a cracked copy of CS6 on my old computer, which is what I use to do heavy-duty photo editing, like for my cosplays, but these days I make all of my comic edits on Photopea, which is a free-to-use Photoshop dupe. It’s not as powerful, but I’ve gotten pretty good at getting it to do what I need for los-res graphics.

[upseotool]

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[fundamentlsbiddy]

26/2/25 Week 2

today we are using the photoshop to change images. I duplicated this boat. I did this by selecting the boat and copying the imagine onto another layer, once that was done I used the brush tool with a masking layer to change what was shown and not from the imagine I copied.

I worked on changing a certain peace of the picture. I changed the orange to be a different colour by using the different tools such as the elliptical tool and the polygonal lasso tool, these allowed me to add and remove from my selected area which i then turned into a masking layer allowing me to change the colour of the orange. this one I had lot of trouble thing due to me feeling ill at the time.

In this photo I changed the hue on the middle of the plant. This was done by using the Quick Select Tool and I used the Polygonal Lasso tool to fix up the selected area. Then I turned the selected area into a mask which I then linked a Hue/saturation layer to change the hue of it. this was similar to the past project which made it a lot easier this time as it was just remembering what to do

With this imagine I used the object selection tool to and the masking layer to remove this bird from the imagine, then I used the brush tool, with the eyedropper tool so I can go around the edges and darken/crisp the bird up so it fits with the new background more coherently. then I opened the new background and drag and drop the bird into the new imagine, then transforming the bird which flipped the bird so it faced the right way.

for the last two imagines I was off sick so I had to do them without much to any help. this made the last two more difficult but allowed me to practice the skills another day making it easier to remember them

[ellienevill1]

Compositing Homework

The two screenshots above are the forming and creating process of the trampoline, which is the first vector image that will be imported into the Photoshop file as a smart object. This vector object is made up of ellipses, many uses of the pen tool as well as a lot of grouping and colouring to give the tramp a bit of dimension and a 3D life effect. I did this on the side of the tramp making a shape with the pen tool sort of like a reflection, then coloured it in lighter to give that shiny effect. Also with overlapping ellipses with a darker shade, to look like the tramp is being used at that time. This tramp was not too hard to do, but I enjoyed creating it as it had small challenges it, especially the legs as it took a small amount of work to make the handles work accordingly to create a dipping effect (as seen above). Once the image was completed I then grouped it together.

This is when the vector image was placed into Ps as a smart object (as seen below) and I repositioned it to where I think looked appropriate under the jumping man. This part was difficult as I found it hard to locate how to reshape and move the object by actually directly selecting it and then playing around with it.

This is the menu that comes up when you paste the object from Illustrator and you have to select it to make sure that it is put into the file as a smart object when placed. This is a major step in compositing.

This was the creation idea of the second vector object which was a bird that I had copied off one I had found on the internet. The bird, shows anchor points, broken points colours, shapes handles etc. I enjoyed creating this bird as I enjoy having something to go off and understand how to put different pieces of the bird together when using the pen tool to create and shape the bird's body, feathers and legs. The legs were great practice for using broken points to do harsh turns as such. Broken points were also useful when doing the birds tail as it had 3 turning points. Once I was happy with the shape and colour, I made some adjustments with the direct select tool and made it look rounder as well. I then added the bird features on its belly, and under the eye and added a stroke on each section of the outside of the bird to really appear as a vector image.

Once my bird was complete, I then inserted it into Ps as a smart object, the same process as the trampoline. I thought the bird would look appropriate on the man's foot as it was a pretty flat surface and would give the idea of it showing that the man is jumping very high that he is at the bird flying hight almost. Once I was happy with that, I then moved on to my 2 raster (pixel) images.

Original images below:

My first raster (pixel) image was of a wall growing plant of flowers to give the image some true nature depth in the image to make the wall look older and more bust etc. I began by inserting the full image into the file, with the image already being a complex image, with a lot of busy backgrounds and flowers going in different directions and not being fully together. I began by selecting the quick selection tool that gave a direct rough go at getting all of what Ps thinks is all of the flowers. Once I was happy with that, I decided to go to select, press inverse and then delete everything opposite to what I had selected on the flowers. Once that was done, I then used the polygonal lasso tool which is selecting what I'm deciding with my mouse. I removed what I think look out of place until i was happy with the result. I then placed the image in where I felt it worked best and then selected the blur tool to make the edges not look as harsh and blend into the wall a bit more. I am not completely happy with how i would have wanted it to come out, just because it is a very picky image and was quite complex in selection where I could spend hours fixing and tweaking until it was perfect. Overall, I am happy that it came out ok and think it works well in the image.

I then moved on to my second raster (pixel) image which I chose to be a graffiti spray paint can as it seemed appropriate considering the background being graffiti. I repeated the same process as the wall flowers by using the direct select tool, and this image was easier since it was simpler with the plain background to select the paint can perfectly. I then did a few touch-ups by selecting its layer and adding a bit more brightness and saturation to the can so that it could be seen a bit better. I then placed it where felt appropriate in his hand and felt ok about it.

The above is the completed image of the 4 adjustments to it. I am overall pretty ok with how it came out. I am happy with my vector creations as opposed to my raster images as I think I need more practice with it, especially with more complex backgrounds to images. I think everything in the image works well together and doesn't seem completely all fitting as I think they all work with what the original image was, I also think that the image can't look perfect in terms of how it has fake vector objects in it. Reflecting on it, it was a good learning experience and I got very invested in creating my vector objects throughout this task as it gave me more confidence etc.

[eeievui]

Do u have any advice for getting started on making graphics? I’d love to start making poke graphics but i have no experience :(

If you’re brand new to photoshop, I suggest googling some tutorials for beginners. I’m happy to help others with specific issues, but you’re better off having an expert teach you the basics than some nerd with no formal background in graphic design lol. The tutorials will help you get familiar with photoshop so it’s not so overwhelming when you start using the program. With that in mind:

Play around with photoshop. Don’t worry about creating something to post on tumblr, just open an image in ps and practice editing by experimenting with the various tools and settings. 

Start simple and work your way up from there. When you feel comfortable with the basics then you can try creating more complex designs

PSDs can be useful when you’re new since they show you how someone achieved a certain coloring, but don’t rely on them. I don’t use PSDs since they almost always require adjustments, and at that point I’d rather just create my own coloring from scratch. But they can be useful as a learning tool.

If you sharpen your images, use smart sharpen since that gives you more control of the results than the other kinds of sharpening filters

I use levels adjustment layers for brightening images. Sometimes I use the curves tool, but I rarely use the brightness/contrast tool. I just think the levels tool provides better results

I get the vast majority of my images from bulbapedia. I’ve been really spoiled by creating graphics for pokemon because the images have transparent backgrounds (you need to save the image and then open it in ps; if you try to copy/paste a transparent png, it will have a black background) so I rarely have to cut out an image (i.e. erase the background) which is amazing because it is my least favorite thing to do. It’s super tedious and I don’t have the patience for it lol

If you do have to cut out an image, use the polygonal lasso tool or the pen tool. Don’t use the magic wand tool since it’s too unreliable

This is just personal preference, but tumblr has a thing for either using colors that make one’s eyes bleed or bleaching the colors from an image. I’m not a fan but I realize this is subjective and what looks good is up to the op. If you do like lighter colors then I suggest reading this tutorial by @anue on using pastels

I listed a bunch of resources that might be helpful here

The best way to be inspired is to just focus on what you love rather than what’s popular. There are some characters who I couldn’t care less about and having to create an edit for them would be a chore. So if you want to make several edits in a row featuring your favorite pokemon then go for it!

[shinesurge]

Hey I really love the glitchy art you've posted recently? I've never managed to make it look so convincing, would you be able to explain how you do it or give advice on drawing glitchy things? It's okay if you can't.

Hi! Thanks so much, that's kind of you haha. I use Clip Studio so some of it will be relevant to that program specifically, but the general idea is really simple and ought to work for any layered drawing program you're using.

I'm gonna use this panel from my comic as practice!

Usually when I'm doing glitchy effects it's a combination of the lasso tool and layer blending modes. Once I'm finished with the drawing I want to mess up, I flatten the image and make several (usually square) selections, then copy and paste them into a new layer. Drag them around until you're happy with them! If you want more distortion, once you move them to the new spot you can select the base image layer and repeat the process from your squares' new position. 

Deselect everything, make adjustments if you want. Make TWO copies of your new little glitchy bits and drag them in different directions, still mostly overlapping each other, then start trying different blending modes. I usually like to set one layer to Linear Burn and one to Add Glow to get a dark and a light, but you can use whatever you like! 

Easy glitching! Aside from this it's really just applying this idea in different ways until you get an effect you're happy with. Clip studio has a lot of glitchy brushes you can download from their assets library, and I like using those as shapes or extra textures if I need something more dramatic.

New layer, take your brush and scatter a pattern randomly over the area, select it and turn off the layer with the brush strokes. 

A mess! You can also just use this technique with a brush you like once you're finished distorting the original image.

There's a lot more you can do with distortion besides this! You can add localized color adjustments, you can pull your particles from a completely different image and superimpose them onto the original, and playing around with copies of the linework can really fuck something up hehe. My advice, as someone who regularly needs to come up with visual weirdness for a lot of different things in my work, is to think about what's causing it. If it's an actual screen of some kind, think about how that screen's components could fail and how that would look. If it's a hologram, its entire shape might change and you could use a layer filter to pinch or drag it before adding the effects by hand. A distortion coming from a magical source might use completely different shapes than what we're working with here. Get weird! 

[lilygreyham]

Fundamentals 1: Week 5

22nd March

We were given a homework task this week to find two images, one that would be selected, cut out, and then superimposed onto the other one. Exactly what we just practiced with the hummingbird but now with the freedom to choose our own images. I really didn't know what to do for a while but then had the idea of finding a realistic dragon image and putting it onto a grassy landscape (game of thrones kind of stuff). Here are the two images I am going to use:

The first thing I do is work on selecting the dragon to create a cut out. I create a copy of the background image of the dragon and get to work. I used the magnetic lasso tool to help me quickly go over the outline of the dragon to create my selection. The magnetic lasso tool really helped me with the awkward edges and it was fairly easy to control and delete points if they went off track. Here's what I ended up with after creating my mask:

I knew it wasn't going to be super tidy so I placed the mask on a layer background that colour matched the mountains in the background landscape image so that I could see which areas I needed to erase/ blur out. Unfortunately I forgot to take a screenshot of what the dragon looked like before I erased all the white ares around the outline but here's what it looked like afterwards:

I'm ready to place the dragon onto the landscape photo so I copy and paste it onto the image:

I feel like it doesn't quite match the lighting of the landscape so I open up my curves palette, ensure that it will only effect the mask, and make slight adjustments to the brightness of the dragon by making the shadows slightly darker and the highlights slightly lighter. This creates some more intense shading on the dragon which suits the shading of the landscape a bit better. I also wanted to adjust the saturation of the dragon as the landscape is quite vibrant and I wanted to see if making the dragon slightly more saturated would help it fit into the picture (even though I'm very aware it's not going to look super realistic because it is a dragon). Here's how the adjustments turned out:

The image below is my final result. I am actually pretty happy with how this turned out. I knew it was going to be hard to make the dragon seem like it was actually flying around in the grassy landscape but I think I've done well given my new experience and skills that I learnt today with Photoshop. I think if I were to add more to this I would want to add a shadow on the grass that is underneath the dragon to make the image a little bit closer to appearing real. I did play around with trying to make a black copy of the dragon which I turned upside down but after fidgeting around too much and not being happy with how it looked I eventually called it a day and gave up. Overall, this was quite a fun homework task and it showed me how I can mess around with Photoshop tools in my own time to improve my skills.

[kobemoorcmp-blog]

Product Photography Photoshop Practice

One of the images taken today during college was done using the same lighting setup explained in a previous post. However I used a piece of glass from a photo frame in order to get a nice reflection of the controller. Although the image turned out fine, there were some anomalies. For example dust particles, scratches and unwanted reflections.

How I removed scratches and particles from the image: 

The image above is what I managed to create using a variation of techniques. Some of which were removing scratches and dust particles within the image.

The way I removed the vast majority of scratches and particles, was by duplicating the original image. Then converting to a smart object. Afterwards, I went into “Filters” then “Noise” and selected the option “Dust and Scratches” once on the Dust and Scratches option screen. I changed the radius to around 21 with the threshold being between 5 and 11.

Furthermore, I held the alt key and clicked on the new layer mask icon. This created a layer mask that was fully black. I now then selected the brush tool and made sure that the primary colour was white. 

Finally I painted over the specs and scratches which made them mostly disappear.

How I removed the unwanted reflections:

The way I managed to hide the unwanted reflection, was by first using the lasso tool and copying a segment of the image that did not have either the product or reflection in. With a section of the image copied, I pasted it onto the main photo.

Pressing control t with the copied image layer selected, I transformed it to fit the unwanted reflection area. After I have the copied image over the unwanted reflection, I created a layer mask. With the layer mask selected, I then had white set as the primary colour and selected the eraser tool. Using the eraser tool, I got rid of any part of the image that overlapped with the main product. 

Sources that helped: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLTIf3lBYbI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Z18aZqKtI

[smubuh]

♡MAKING CC IN PHOTOSHOP♡

I finally decided to make a CC tutorial. However, after finishing the screenshots I realized why I have been avoiding this. It’s a VERY LONG tutorial and it’s definitely not the easiest! If you are trying to make CC, please do not get discouraged. Keep trying and practicing, none of my cc works out the first or even fifth time!  (This tutorial does not talk about meshing!)  Keep reading for the tutorial.

Step 1. Open up Sims4Studio and choose Create CAS standalone. Yours may look different if you are on PC (I use MAC).

Step 2. Choose a piece of clothing you would like to work with. I am choosing this skirt because I like the mesh and it’s white so it can be recolored easier. If the clothing is not white, try this photoshop tutorial to make it white.

Step 3. I named this TeresaSkirt inside a folder I created called Teresa and clicked save.

Step 4. Once the display opens, click on diffuse and choose export.

Step 5. I saved this as TeresaBase and clicked save. This is what will open in photoshop.

Step 6. Once I open this in photoshop, I am going to duplicate the layer so I can make the skirt high waisted.

Step 7. On the duplicated layer I am going to select the top half of the skirt with the rectangle selection tool.

Step 8. Next I am going to take the move tool and move this selection up.

Step 9. Before I go any further, I am going to save this photoshop file, do this often while making your file to make sure you don’t lose any progress. I saved it as TeresaBase.psd.

Step 10. Now let’s save it so we can see how it looks in sims4studio. Normally I would save as a .dds file but I will save as a .png just to see how it looks. I always save as test.png, I use this same file to test throughout my cc making.

Step 11. Go back to S4Studio and click on Diffuse and then import. Choose the test.png file. This looks like the height I want. If it wasn’t I could go back and adjust as needed.

Step 12. Back in photoshop I would like to clean up the line between the bottom and top layer. So I click on the erase tool and choose a brush at the size 91px with a hardness of 0. I click on the top layer and erase just at the bottom of the layer so now they look blended together.

Step 13. Next I will go to Layer>>Merge Layers to merge both layers into one.

Step 14. Now to clean up some of the repeated shadows. Since I duplicated the skirt to make it higher, some of the shadows can look weird since they are exactly the same. So I am going to take the Clone Tool, with a brush size of 37 px and a hardness of 0. I also set the Opacity to 85%.

Basically the clone tool will duplicate anything you choose. On a Mac I hold down Option (ALT) and a little Target comes up. I click on the area I want to clone. That is now my source, I now click anywhere, not holding any buttons and I will start to paint over other areas. You may have to play with this tool a little bit to get the hang of it.

Step 15. You can see above the before and after. In the second screenshot the shadows are more varied.

Step 16. Next I am going to create a layer mask to cutout some of the skirt by clicking the “Add Layer Mask” icon.

Step 17. Then take the Polygon Lasso tool to select an area to cutout. I am cutting out part of the hip.

Step 18. Next take the Paint Bucket Tool and make sure the MASK is selected in the layers window. Anything black will be removed and anything white will remain, so I will fill in the selection with black. (Tip: If the mask is selected it will only let you use black or white) Now that selection is gone.

Step 19. Now we need to make sure we still have the selection so that we can duplicate for the other hip. Hold Command and click on the little mask thumbnail. This will select the mask. (It might still be selected from before)

Step 20. Now make a new layer by clicking the new layer icon from the bottom of the layers window. Choose any color and fill in the selection on this new layer using the paint bucket.

Step 21. Then go to Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontal. This will flip the shape we just made.

Step 22. Now I am going to duplicate the layer by right clicking the layer and choosing duplicate. I need to because half of the hip is on the far left and the other is on the far right. Now I am going to move each shape to where I want the skirt to be cutout using the Move Tool.

Step 23. I save really quick as test.png again to make sure the shapes met up where I wanted to, looks good! If I needed to adjust I could.

Step 24. This next part a little tricky. I want to add these new shapes to my mask. So first merge the two shape layers into one by clicking merge down on the top shape. Then I will select the shapes by holding Command and clicking the top layer thumbnail in the layers window. The shapes should be selected. I clicked on the little eyeball so I couldn’t see the pink anymore, just the selection. Then I will click on the MASK and fill in the selections I made just with black to cutout the skirt. Delete the top layer with the shapes.

Step 25. Now let’s add some darker edges to those cutouts. Command+click on the MASK thumbnail to select the mask. Then create a new layer, and go to Select>>Inverse. Fill in the selections with any color. I just chose grey.

Step 26. Set the fill to 0%, this will hide the layer but we are going to add a stroke. Go to “fx” at the bottom of the layers window and choose stroke.

Step 27. I chose a stroke of 1px, position is outside and I chose a medium grey. This will just create a little darker edge on those cutouts.

Step 28. Now I am going to add some stripes across the cutouts. Go back to the skirt layer and grab a long thin selection with the Rectangle Selection Tool.

Step 29. Copy and paste this selection onto a new layer and drag it to the bottom, under the skirt layer. Then I am going to go to Edit>>Transform>>Warp. I just chose Arch from the presets on the top bar. I set the bend to 12% so it wasn’t just straight across. 

Step 30. I duplicated this layer 3 more times to make more stripes. I moved each one to where I thought it looked best using the move tool. I then held down SHIFT and selected all of the stripe layers and right clicked and chose Merge layers to merge all of the stripes together.

Step 31. I don’t want these to just be solid gray so I added a smaller inner glow. Double click the layer or click “fx” and choose Inner Glow. I set the Blend mode to Multiply, Opacity is at 12%, Choke is 15% and size is 3px. Adjust these until it looks good!

I then duplicated this layer twice (one for the left and one for the right) and added them to the other cutout sections as well. I had to save as test.png a couple of times to check and make sure the stripes lined up. I then went to layer>>merge visible.

Step 32. Once everything was merged, I deleted and sections I didn’t really need. Save this as teresabase.psd for recoloring later.

Step 33. To create a shadow we are going to add a white background by making a new layer, filling it with white and then moving it to the bottom.

Step 34. Now click on the skirt layer and click on “fx” and then choose color overlay. Change the color to white (#ffffff) so the whole skirt is white. Then also choose outer glow. I set the glow to Blend mode: normal, Opacity: 24%, Noise: 0%, the color is #333333, Spread: 5%, Size 4px. Click OK.

Step 35. Save this as a shadow.dds file, I downloaded a MAC .dds plugin from here. MAKE SURE YOU CHECK MIPMAP.

Step 36. Save all of your recolors as .dds files as well (make sure mipmap is checked)

Go back into S4Studio

-- I saved a white.dds file so I imported that into diffuse (this will be my white swatch)  -- I uploaded my shadow.dds into Shadow. -- For specular, I just click on make blank. -- For normal use this .dds file to import into normal. -- Leave the Emission alone

Also if you want to import a thumbnail you can use this template: THUMBNAIL TEMPLATE.  Make sure the thumbnail is on the first swatch.

You obviously might not have a screenshot yet for the thumbnail, but you can always go back into S4studio and add it later once you have tested the cc.

Step 37. Before you save, go into categories and uncheck Allow for Random.

Once you add all of your swatches you can save and test in game!

A lot of CC making is testing, redoing, trying something else, and failing and trying again so just keep at it!!

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Hey! Love your edits. I was wondering if you could take us through how you make your edits? And any tips on how to start with editing?

I COULD try and livestream the whole process because one single edit I post is quite literally, a combination of different edits, some parts are even completely redrawn based of canon material and references.

I think the best thing to do is to just show you in rough lines how I created my last edit:

Also seems like the perfect time to post all my wips and bonuses! which isn’t much but… yeah

1. BACKGROUND

So first I searched for a healing pod for Keith to sit in. 

So I headed to an episode of Voltron which featured a lot of empty healing pods :S1 EP9: Crystal Venom. Eventually I found this screencap:

So I edited Coran (+ the annoying watermark) out and voila:

I’ve made a canvas where I could drop the rest of my photoshop shenanigans in later on!

2. KEITH IN THE POD OUTFIT

Okay, this one is a lot trickier. To recreate Keith wearing the outfit I used the following images:

Keith’s body came from this screencap:

Keith’s head came from this screencap:

I redrew Keith’s entire pod outfit onto Keith’s body more or less? 

I used a couple of screencaps of Lance wearing the outfit for design + color reference, pretty much how actual artists do it when they have to draw things from the show!

This image came in really handy because there I could also color pick the shadows on Lance’s chest & shoulders.

Now, to actually start DRAWING, the following tools will be your life savior:

1.

The brush tool to create lineart, which you’re going to draw right on top of Keith’s body. Since the pod outfit is really basic and the animation of the show is literally just black lines, you can make a really basic outfit from just…well.. lines. 

Also to make sure your lines are anti-aliased, exactly like in the animation, use these settings:

Since your brush is really small (from 3 to 4 px in diameter), your hardness has to be at 0% (that’s what she never said). It’s the softest (and most anti-aliased) you can get.

2.

The color picker to take samples of the colors of the pod outfit (including shadows!). You’re going to use this A LOT to take samples from the outfit on Lance himself.

3.

The polygonal lasso tool to select areas on Keith’s body to so you can fill in entire areas. With this tool you’re going to color your lineart (on top of Keith’s actual BOM suit, lmao)

For the shadows, I’ve used the shadows that were already on Keith’s body.

It should give you this result:

(also yeah I flipped the canvas because my POD is headed in a different direction)

 If you still notice some imperfections, you can always fill them in again with the brush tool, or if you’re unsatisfied with how the shadow looks you can always fix it up with the polygonal lasso tool as well!

For the next step I’ve selected out Keith’s head from the first screencap, pasted it onto Keith’s body, messed around with the colors a bit, to make it match the color scheme (I always use Color Balance & Selective Color for this)

Since Keith was still hunched forwards to much IMO, I’ve used Liquify (Filter > Liquify) to straighten him up and I’ve copy pasted Keith’s left arm onto his next one so that his joint is pointing inwards, so his arm isn’t sticking out as well.

which gave me this result:

As you can see I’ve also kinda remastered his hands, and I’ve also removed the knife from his fingers. And I’ve also made Keith’s hair longer (because I wanted to, for the angst), all redrawn the same way as the pod outfit.

(I’m so sorry this is so hard to explain but my editing process is literally just and endless repeat of drawing, coloring and shifting until everything is exactly how I wanted to be ;; the more time you spend on photoshop the better you get at seeing details that are easy to patch up. It really comes with practice. ORZ)

3. SHIRO

For the upset Shiro, I’ve made a transparent gif. The Shiro I’ve used comes from this scene from S1EP9: Crystal Venom

But since it’s OLD SHIRO, not Kuron, I had to edit his entire outfit + hair so that it looks a bit more like Kuron in s3. And yes, this also means, redrawing every frame, because in this particular scene, Shiro is turning his head. Luckily his outfit isn’t that much different. He just has an… obnoxious white collar. 

For his bare arm and Shiro’s hair I used the same coloring technique for Keith’s pod outfit, although the lineart won’t be really necessary here (since Shiro’s already kinda blurry looking anyway)

This is the raw transparent version

(I know his white tuft is normally cut shorter but… just a dumb detail jhegz, nobody noticed anyway)

I extended the time of the first and last frame to 1 second, the 2 in between are 0,1 seconds.

the frames have also been reversed. Since in the episode, Shiro sighs at Keith & Lance first and then looked over to Pidge and Coran in that moment. 

But in my edit, we want Shiro to look at Keith first, so yeah, I manipulated that a little by reversing it.

3. ASSIMILATION

So now that I’ve both got my Shiro/Kuron and my Keith I’m gonna slap them onto “the scene” aka that screencap I’ve edited.

Here’s a quick GIF of all the actions I’ve underwent to finish the scene up. Since it’s the just the finished psd of my edit I’m just making a recording of me selecting all my layers again :’D I didn’t… actually record myself making it because that’s would have taken me a WHOLE DAY.

Before this I’ve also cut out some parts of keith’s body because he’s IN the healing pod, he’s not chilling out on top of it.

To give Shiro that blue-ish glow I’ve used blending mode -> outer glow with opacity 14%

Also, GOLDEN TIP:

Adding shadow really make a scene 500% more dramatic

To add shadow I’ve made a new layer, and used a black & white gradient with the gradient tool. 

For this edit I’ve added 2 shadow-layers.

I’ve done plently more animations on this edit after I was done with actual editing. But for now I’m gonna skip this part because it’s just all very basic GIF making. Also my ADHD is kicking in ^^’

I hope this explained it a little? I apologize that I didn’t go into detail, but it would’ve taken SO MUCH time otherwise. Again, making such an edit takes me a full day to make because 70% of the time I spend my time drawing or cleaning up details.

If you’re interested in a doing livestream of some kind, LMK! 

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Practiced in Adobe Photoshop again to create a self-portrait animated gif and i used a technique my professor showed me. I love the beauty of waterfalls and the calmness they sometimes have and I think they kind of represent me as a person and how I flow through life so calmly and without rushing. 

Basically I needed to make edits onto layers before I could group them and make them a gif. It was a long process of “select all-copy merged-create new layer-paste” and turning on and off layers in order to group them for the final frames. 

This process was a lot more complex when working through it and I did have a challenging time due to my inexperience with this technique. I do believe that working more with this technique in the future will improve the smoothness and flow of my work with creating edited animated gifs, as well as my understanding of the technique. I would also know to add detail and create more realistic features to the edits.

-used lasso tool to cut out the background of the image, used different brush tools to create the flow of the water and splash affect at the bottom with a total of 4 Frames to create the gif.

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