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#baby THE MANDALORIAN | Chapter 20: The Foundling

#* #star wars #the mandalorian

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SABRINA CARPENTER Espresso (Behind the Scenes)

#sabrina carpenter

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THE CLONE WARS | S05E20, The wrong jedi

#star wars #the clone wars #tagged 💖

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@lgbtqcreators creator challenge — color get to know me meme: [1/??] female characters ↪ KRISTEN BELL as ELEANOR SHELLSTROP in THE GOOD PLACE (2016—2020)

There is no answer, but Eleanor is the answer. (in/sp)

#oh my god this is amazing!!! #the good place #tagged 💖

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favorite characters ♡ elle woods

If I’m gonna be a partner in a law firm by the time I’m 30, I’m going to need a boyfriend who’s not such a complete bonehead.

#legally blonde

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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! :)

#ohhh this is so useful!! gonna experiment with it later 🏃🏻‍♀️ #resources

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PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE 2019 | Céline Sciamma

#portrait of a lady on fire #tagged 💖

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Tangled

dir. Nathan Greno | 2010

@pscentral event 26: minimalism

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NATALIE PORTMAN as PADMÉ AMIDALA Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

#star wars #padme

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu) (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma

"Your mother will let you go out alone tomorrow. You'll be free." "Being free is being alone?" "You don't think so?" "I'll tell you tomorrow."

#portrait of a lady on fire #tagged 💖

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Caro mio ben credimi almen senza di te languisce il cor

@lgbtqcreators bingo: blending

#euphoria #tagged 💖

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THE CLONE WARS BRAIN INVADERS

#star wars #the clone wars #tagged 💖

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ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter

#* #sabrina carpenter

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I believed in you and your love. Please do not let me down and save my family from this war. Take them out of Sudan so that they can enjoy some stability and security.

This is my house after it was bombed in June and we are inside it

Save my family please🙏

#donations

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rb and tell me what’s your most re watched movie.. and be honest

#high school musical maybe?? bc it was on disney channel lol #probably the first one ... i like watching it when it's on tv (this applies to any of the hsms) #i need to rewatch them on english ... never did it lol maybe later this week i need to watch something

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PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma

#portrait of a lady on fire #*

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— the haunting of bly manor

@lgbtqcreators event 21: beginnings and endings @lgbtqcreators creator bingo: quotes

#god this is soo pretty i love it sm #the haunting of bly manor #tagged 💖