#giffing things

[feelingpure]

Fellow Travelers | The Orange Elephant in the Room

Alright, let's talk about it.

For those who've watched the available episodes of FT so far; I'm sure we've all noticed the citrus haze they all seem to be living in.

Especially if you've attempted to edit/GIF any portion of it. The struggle is real and I'm sure has inspired many colouring dilemmas.

And we're all asking "WHY?!".

Now, I'm writing this having not looked up anything about it. So I dunno if anyone responsible has made a formal confession.

One of my initial thoughts around it was; okay... so is this just a 1950s thing? But after watching (and rewatching) episode 2, I feel like it's part of the story in a different way; It's clearly a stylistic choice, yes (I should hope that doesn't just happen by accident). But it also seems to double as a narrative choice.

Putting the rest, with image examples, under a cut because it's kinda long.

Warm vs Cool

The conclusion I've come to is pretty simply, one that we've seen used across media in a lot of movies and shows. Warm tones used to colour scenes that are meant to literally be 'warm'; a loving environment or somewhere where the character(s) feel like they can be themselves. Cool tones used for scenes where it's quite the opposite; a cold hostile environment where the character(s) does not feel welcome. Gradients in between for all the neutral/'greyarea' spaces.

Consider

Cool/neutral outdoor bench scene (with park spies around):

Maybe it's an indoor/outdoor thing? No...

Indoors (even with the mandatory orange lamps nearby) they stay pretty neutral:

Night time/day time thing? No...

Night time vs day time in Tim's apartment:

Compare it to day time neutral alone Tim in the same room before. The difference is that he's with Hawk, out of sight of any would be naysayers.

So yeah, while I am mad about the colouring for giffing needs, I do think what they're doing is pretty neat, and the POC in the show look glorious in the warm tones.

The warm/cool motif is dialled up even more in episode 2, with the contrast of Mary's warm welcoming party and Hawk's cold af family gathering (even though they still have the orange lamps/sconces around, they add nothing to the warmth):

🥺 Ugh, Tim at Mary's party. Might be my favourite part of the episode, alongside the kissing n spooning. Anyway...

The transition of Mary from the same living room where she hosted that party, to the kitchen they were just questioned in:

That transition made me start paying more attention and go back to rewatch previous scenes just for colour themes.

Interestingly Hawk's apartment seems to live in this neutral/warmish space. It was more warm earlier in the episode, especially when they were in the bedroom the morning Tim left his glasses. But in general it's a lot less warm than Tim's apartment when compared; still their skin glows with a hint of tangerine:

Of course, not only the lighting/colouring but their outfit choices say a lot. Tim is usually in the warm browns with his dress, while Hawk pretty much sticks to black, white, grey (hints of a cool toned blues and reds in his ties). This coupled with the differences in their own living space probably reflects a lot about the character and how 'welcoming' they are to others. Idk... or I could just be thinking too much about it.

This is another really interesting transition in episode 2. As Hawk hangs up the phone in that cool toned side room, opens the door to the main room of a gay bar, the warm tones literally seem to absorb him in. Which makes sense, this is obviously a gay friendly place in San Francisco. He doesn't have to try to hide any part of himself, like he probably was still trying to do on that voicemail to Lucy just before.

Now, I could go through and screenshot a load more examples (some scenes with Lucy are interesting, and that lounge/club), but you probably get the gist, you see the pattern. If not before, on your next watch, you'll certainly see it.

This has got longer than intended; I'd be surprised if anyone got this far, I did NOT fully organise my thoughts before I started this, I just began rambling and I feel like it could've been more organised and laid out better. But if you have thoughts about the colouring, I'd really like to see those too. 🤗

#fellow travelers #orange #ft spoilers #ft motifs #tim laughlin #hawkins fuller #colouring #lighting #colour grading #tim x hawk #hawk x tim #gay #lgbtq+ #warm tones #cool tones #colour theory #giffing things #long ramble #this show make we wanna convert every pic/gif to greyscale

[my-rose-tinted-glasses]

I saw @yohankang and @gabrielokun do this and tagged myself because it looked fun to try.

I delete a lot of stuff for lack of space,, so I'm gonna use some of the latest ones I did cause I had quick access to those. Also this is the first time I did this so I kept changing where the edit or original were in the gif. Sorry about that.

I tend to keep my edits pretty simple, Itend to not get too fancy and try to match the original colours or the feeling of the scene.

Like this one, it was all about the sunflower so I just brought the yellow out more.

These were just more trying to get the sunset colours to match how I saw the scene. This is subjective. It's kinda what feels right to me. Edit outside the squares above and below.

This room in the show is very warm so I use that to guide me in pushing the yellows and oranges and also increase contrast. Edit is inside the circles.

I love using pink in different shades and a bit of noise for soft scenes.

Of course dark scenes are hard sometimes and I like to keep the blacks black, so it's mostly experimenting until I like it.

Edit inside the squares. This was really fun. I'll have to do this again sometime. I love seeing how different people use colours in gifs. It's really interesting.

Anyway I won't tag anyone because a bunch of people have done this, but if you see this and want to play, I'm tagging you.

#giffing things #gif colouring #rosygifs

[partiallypearl]

attempted to edit. utterly failed

#i need something to obess over #that’s not fate #personal #giffing things

[klinejack]

i was tagged like a month ago (sorrrrryy) by @logangarfield​ and @theedorksinlove​ to post some before + after coloring. thank you friends i love these posts!!! i was a bit underwhelmed by my pool of choices since i last did this 6 months ago but i guess some of these are okay ldkjgkdfgh ive tried to showcase gifs that were either particularly difficult to color (gifs 5,7,10 were painful) or really highlight the difference :) here are the sets you can find these gifs in: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

im not sure who’s done it this time around so sorry if you’ve already been here, but even if you haven’t this is a no pressure tag as always, i also adore seeing sets like this so if i don’t tag you but you wanna do it anyway pls tag me in it <3 @deanncastiel @jakejensen @xofemeraldstars @becauseofthebowties @buckhelped @chaoticevils @braedenhales @agentplant @penelope-garcia

#thanks again for tagging me in things even tho it takes me ages to do them ;sldgjlkdfgsdf #<33333 #tagging games #cowboycoven #giffing things #photoshop stuff #myedits #horror cw. #guns cw.

[bloodydeanwinchester]

god i have so many gifs that i need to make it's kind of insane. every time i watch a scene i want to gif i will handbrake the lil clip and save it on my desktop. then once i've finished the set i will delete the clip/clips. i currently have 14 bloody dean scenes(left), 3 destiel scenes(bottom), and 4 random scenes(top) to gif. plus all of the ones over the picture of dean are for one set im planning. im literally running out of space here 😩

#giffing things

[katherine-mcnamara]

She’s so cute but why is this movie coloured like this 😭

#giffing things #loml tho #crying my BEST

[missretrosthrowbackdiner-archive]

So I've come to the realization that the colors on my computer see fucked. That's why Paul looks so much redder in the face on that last set. I'm keeping it bc it's kinda funny considering the circumstances of the moment if giffed, but im still annoyed. I make normal face Paul, I wanna see normal face Paul.

#the other lesson here is that I should check to see how it looks on mobile beofre I post #blue rambles #giffing things #ugh

[mikkaeus]

i hate tumblr why is the post width 540 when it's not even taking up 540px across the screen im so confused. the most common laptop resolution google says is 1920 x 1080 so it's not even just me. yet posts take up approximately 1/2 of the screen. the maths aint mathing

#how did i only JUST realise this #no WONDER my gif looks excellent in image viewer and photoshop and manky on tumblr #like im sure compression is playing a role but also it's literally the wrong size #giffing things #if you zoom in on a gif sharpened to a certain resolution ofc it's gonna look blurry #ughdghdfhghghdfghgfhghgh #it's so CRiSP at the size it's meant to be im mad #not that anyone even uses tumblr desktop anymore but like #whatever. they're ruining MY viewing pleasure

[jemmalynette]

Maybe all the things you thought made you you aren’t really…you. Barbie (2023) / Fight Club (1999)

#legit the first thing i thought of when i heard this speech #barbie #fight club #margot robbie #brad pitt #crossover #gifset #parallels #my gifs #my edits #colouring by daily-hundred #barbie 2023

[anyataylorjoys]

POOR THINGS (2023) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

#poor things #poor things 2023 #filmedit #movieedit #cinemapix #cinematicsource #usertj #usermandie #useraurore #usersavana #gifs* #poor things spoilers #don't you love the way men always resort to their attempt in shaming women when they can't control them #her retorts are so perfect 😂

[thetidemice]

weird animal flipbooks i made

#they look better as physical flipbooks. theyre tiny btw the bull looking thing is like under an inch long #my art #animation #flipbook #gif #horse #bull #animal art #illustration #art

[bladesofkyber]

me: carefully organizes all of my Jedi: Survivor game clips by chapter and order in which they were taken & short description. gifs One Scene

also me: 200 gigs of God of War clips, pure chaos, no descriptions just going by the thumbnail. oh we wanted this scene? too bad. never stops giffing the game

#text post #i am a Mess #giffing things

[ofmdaily]

you know me better than anyone has ever known me, and i dare say the same is true for me about you.

#our flag means death #ofmd #edward teach #izzy hands #ofmd spoilers #ofmd season 2 #gif #our content #by nora #i want to gif so many more things right now but i have fuckass group therapy. ed should consider it #UNBELIEVABLY abnormal about this. for the record

[partiallypearl]

one day i will learn how to make graphics the way 2012 tumblr editors did and i wll be unstoppable

#i love the edits from that era #teen wolf editors from 2012 gimme ur secrets #giffing things #graphics things

[klinejack]

i was tagged by @becauseofthebowties to post some of my gifs showing before + after my coloring/sharpening; thanks celine i love you!!!!!! it’s been awhile since i did this but i tried to use more recent sets. here are the sets these gifs are from:

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

this is so much fun so im gonna tag a few people but no pressure of course!! and sorry if you’ve been tagged recently and i didn’t know.. i haven’t been seeing much of this stuff lately but i love everything you guys make <33 @xofemeraldstars @archivistsammy @nick-nellson @lengthofropes @alivedean @devilmns @hexbait  @heartcastiel @buckhelped @castiel @seraphcastiel

#thanks so much celine i love doing this #even tho i spent literally hours choosing the gifs to show in this set lsdkglkdghkdfg #tagging games #giffing things #cowboycoven #castiel #dean winchester #dean x cassie #destiel #charlie bradbury #saileen #supernatural #myedits #myspn #guns cw. #blood cw.

[bloodydeanwinchester]

i’m not kidding this camera raw filter has changed my life THANK YOU

you’re welcome kay!!! im so glad i was able to help<3 i find that when my coloring isnt quite what i want it to be it can be super helpful too it really is an amazing filter

#jenna.ask #giffing things