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BRIANA CUOCO as JENNY GREEN

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES (2024 -) 1.08 | THE CASE OF THE HUNGRY SNAKE

#dead boy detectives #dbd spoilers #jenny green #her reaction is great #thanks for tagging me 🙂

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@lgbtqcreators event 21: beginnings and endings // creator challenge: blending

-- do you know how much i miss you?

#good omens #ineffable husbands #oi #from good breaking to sad breaking #<3 this set #thanks for tagging me 🙂

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GOOD OMENS (2019–) 2.05 • "The Ball"

#good omens #ineffable husbands #aziraphale learning things the human way #cute #thanks for tagging me 🙂

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KHONSHU in MOON KNIGHT 1.03 | “The Friendly Type”

#moon knight #khonshu

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GREASE (1978) dir. Randal Kleiser

#grease #ahsggf

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@pscentral​ event 26: minimalism

"You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other…" – Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

#good omens #ineffable husbands #!! #this nice & heartwrenching also #thanks for tagging me 🙂

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NINA DOBREV AS ELENA GILBERT IN THE VAMPIRE DIARIES SEASON FIVE EPISODE SEVENTEEN "RESCUE ME"

#the vampire diaries #elena gilbert #:)

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GET TO KNOW THE MEMBERS ▻ elle (@anson-mount) comfort movie: big hero 6 ↳ Hello, I am Baymax, your personal healthcare companion.

#big hero 6

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@usergif back to cool event | challenge 4: TYPOGRAPHY ↳ GOOD OMENS (2019 - )

Come what may Do you ever long for true love from me?

#good omens #ineffable husbands #💞💗💓

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“The important thing is that when the bangle was used the last time, it saved my life.”

MS. MARVEL (2022-)

#ms marvel #🫂

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How to get Tumblr's Dead Boy Detectives badge (non-USA citizen edition)

The badge not showing up in the TumblrMart because you don't live in the States? Fret not!

Let's talk about VPN. I use Windscribe. (https://windscribe.com) If you're using Windscribe for the first time, the promo code is PALE2023 for 30GB

Click on "Have a Voucher?" to enable the Voucher Code field. Complete the sign up and download the program.

Finish installing the program and log in.

Turn the power button on. The white circle in the top right. The vertical line in the circle should point up. Choose a US location. Pick any one with the heart outlines. Mine is Chicago Cub from the US East section.

Moving onto step 3. Before we go to the TumblrMart, take a detour to (https://www.tumblr.com/settings/account)

You've succeeded if you see a US location in your current session.

The maximum amount of magnifying glass badges you can get is 50. You just click on the claim button 50 times in the TumblrMart. Blue button with black text, if I recall correctly. I got 50 to eliminate "I only got one" regret.

You can use the badge on your main blog and sideblog. Not on sideblog which has at least two people in it.

The Dead Boy Detectives badge won't be in the TumblrMart forever so don't procrastinate! Get your souvenir ASAP! 🏃

#dead boy detectives

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SHADOW AND BONE SEASON 2

#shadow and bone #david x genya #ahhh #flashing gif

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His Dark Materials

3.01- The Enchanted Sleeper

#his dark materials #gifmakers ❤️️

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EARLY SCREENING OF DBD LIKE WITH SANDMAN S1?!?!

Hoping the sign up will open when official accounts post about it…

Oh new logo on early screening poster.

#dead boy detectives

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Our Flag Means Death + Not a Bot Tumblr Description Generator (insp)

#ofmd #little flower!

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TOPAZ AI TUTORIAL

i was asked to do a tutorial for Topaz AI (a software that enhances screencaps), so here it is! :)

[tutorial under the cut]

i’m going to gif a 720p YouTube video from 12 years ago as an example. it’s the bottom of the barrel when it comes to image quality, but in the end, you won’t believe it was once so shitty. here’s the gif, without any editing:

THE APPLICATION

Topaz AI is a paid software for image enhancement. you can download it for free, but your images will have watermarks. here's a random link that has nothing to do with this tutorial.

you can use Topaz AI as a Photoshop plugin or use the software separately. i will explain both methods in this tutorial.

USING SEPARATELY

it’s the way i do it because it’s more computer-friendly, the plugin can take a toll on your PC, especially when you’re dealing with a lot of screencaps. 

you first take screencaps as you normally would (if you don’t, here’s a tutorial on how to do it). open Topaz AI and select all the images. wait a while for the software to do its thing.

on the left, there is your screencap untouched. on the right, is your edited version. if you click the edited screencap and hold, Topaz will show you the original, that way you can compare the versions even better than just looking at them side by side.

Topaz AI will automatically recognize faces, if any, and enhance them. this can be toggled off, by disabling the “recovering faces” option in the right panel. it’s always on for me, though. you can tweak this feature by clicking on its name, the same thing for the others.

Topaz AI will also automatically upscale your screencaps if they’re too small (less than 4k). it will upscale them to achieve said 4k (in this gif’s case, the original 1280x720 screencaps became 4621x2599). i suggest that you let the app upscale those images, giving you more gif size flexibility. you can change into whatever size you want if you want something less heavy to store. don’t worry though, even these “4k screencaps” are very light megabytes-wise, so you won’t need a supercomputer. it might take a while to render all your screencaps, though, if you’re on a lower-end computer. (the folder with the edited screencaps ended up being 1GB, but that’s because it contains 123 screencaps, which is a lot of screencaps for 4k giffing).

two options won’t be automatically selected, Remove Noise and Sharpening, you will need to enable them to use them. rarely i don’t use Remove Noise, as is the best tool to remove pixelization. the Sharpening option depends on the gif, sometimes your gif will end up too over-sharpened (because of Topaz’s sharpening and later your own). that said, i used the Sharpening option on this gif.

next, select all images by clicking the “select all” button. you will notice that one of the screencaps’s thumbnails (in my case, the first one) will have small icons the others don’t have. this is the screencap you enhanced. you will need to click the dots menu, select “apply”, and then click “apply current settings to selected images”. this way, every screencap will have the same settings. if you don’t do this step, you will end up with one edited screencap and the rest will remain untouched!

all things done, click “save X images”. in the next panel, you can select where to save your new screencaps and how you want to name them. i always choose to add a topaz- prefix so i know what files i’m dealing with while giffing.

just a note: if your way of uploading screencaps to Photoshop is through image sequence, you will need to change the names of your new screencaps so PS can perceive that as a sequence (screencap1, screencap2, etc). you can do that by selecting all the screencaps in your folder, then selecting to rename just one of them and the rest will receive numbers at the end, from first to last. you don’t need to rename them one by one.

here’s the first gif again, without any editing:

without Topaz enhancement but with sharpening:

without sharpening, only the Topaz enhancement:

with Topaz enhancement and sharpening:

her skin is so smooth that it is a bit unrealistic. i could have edited that while tweaking the “Recovering Faces” option and/or the “Remove Noise” option, but i prefer to add noise (filter > noise > add noise) when necessary. this way, i don’t risk not enhancing the quality of the screencaps enough.

i added +3 of noise, making the gif look more natural. it’s a subtle difference, but i thought it necessary one in this case. you can continue to edit your gif as your heart desires.

VOILA! 🥳

AS A PHOTOSHOP PLUGIN

if you have Topaz AI installed on your computer, Photoshop will recognize it. you will find it in filter > Topaz Labs > Topaz AI. while in timeline mode, select the filter. the same Topaz AI window will pop up and you can tweak things the same way you do when you use the software separately. by using the plugin, you don’t need to upload your edited screencaps or use screencaps at all, a video clip (turned into a Smart Layer, that is) will suffice. the downside is that for every little thing you do, Topaz AI will recalculate stuff, so you practically can’t do anything without facing a waiting screen. a solution for that is to edit your gif in shitty quality as you would edit an HD one and at the very end, you enable Topaz AI. or just separately edit the screencaps following the first method.

this is it! it's a very simple software to use. the only downside is that it can take a while to render all screencaps, even with a stronger computer, but nothing too ridiculous.

any questions, feel free to contact me! :)

#tutorial #giffing #🤯 #i'm going to try this out soon! #thanks for tagging me 🙂

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5 minutes of episode 1

episode descriptions

deadboysforhire.com is a redirect, not a separate website like thesandman.com

hooray! episode 1 is no longer titled "pilot"

#dead boy detectives #sweet news on my birthday