#skatingthinandice

[eddiediaaz]

hi alie, please could you tell me how you made the lens flare and film grain effect on your recent rwrb fonts gifset? it looks so beautiful! i'm working on my very first gifset with blending and overlays and things, and i'd like to try my hand at learning some more new stuff 💛

hiiii! thank you!! <3

i've found these overlays on youtube over the years, i don't remember exactly which videos they were, but if you look up "film strip overlay", "kodak overlay", "film grain overlay", etc for the film one, you should find something that you like. same goes for the light streak one: if you search for something like "light streak overlay", you'll get a bunch of nice one. then i download them via a website (i often use y2mate) and make a gif with screencaps from the dowloaded video(s) like i would any other gif.

once you have your overlay(s) ready to go as a smart object, duplicate it onto your gif, on top of everything (or under the typography layers), but definitely on top of coloring and blending, etc. put the overlay layer in a group, and if you have more than one overlay, put each overlay in its own group.

if the overlay is mostly black with some white specs/other colors, set that group's blending mode to screen (or lighten if it looks better). this will make everything that is black in the overlay transparent. and if the overlay is mostly white with some black, you can use the multiply (or darken) blending mode (it will make everything that is white transparent).

the reason why i prefer putting the overlay in a group and change the group's blending mode, instead of the overlay itself, is because it's easier to change its color that way if you wish. to change its color, i use a gradient map layer. the colors should be black to whatever color you want, and this layer should go into the overlay group, and n top of the overlay layer.

for my gifs in this rwrb set, there was also actually an animated grainy overlay below these two overlays. i've uploaded it here as a psd if you want, since it's pretty light. i put that layer in its own group and changed the blending mode to hard light and the opacity to 10%. i only used a gradient map to change the color on the color steak one to make it more of a pastel orange color, the two other overlays are as is without any color correcting layers.

i hope that was clear enough :)

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[agrippinaes]

mary crawley + charles blake in downton abbey

requested by @misscrawfords and @skatingthinandice

#downtonedit #downton abbey #downtonabbeyedit #perioddramaedit #perioddramasource #period dramas #mary crawley #charles blake #mine #misscrawfords #skatingthinandice

[judasisgayriot]

@skatingthinandice @remembertheskittles aww I got twin asks from both of you!! Hahaha 🥰💖💖💖💖

I’ll do top 10 from my on repeat but only the first song on there from any individual artist for variety haha (so it’s not all fall out boy, unlike my blog currently lmao.)

Everybody Wants Somebody - Patrick Stump

All You Had To Do Was Stay (Taylor’s Version) - Taylor Swift

Cry - Carly Rae Jepsen

Bob Dylan - Fall Out Boy

In My Head - Jason DERULOOOO

(Had to skip so much fob/patrick/carly rae at this point lol)

Rose-Colored Boy - Paramore

If You Sing - Anarbor

New Religion - All Time Low

The Interview - AFI

The Calendar - Panic! At The Disco

#remembertheskittles #skatingthinandice #asks #thanks guuuyysss 💖💖💖

[sirtadcooper]

I was tagged by @skatingthinandice to share 10 songs I'm enjoying at the moment - thank you! :)

I find/become obsessed with most songs I like via fanvids - if that's the case here I've linked back to the vid. Enjoy! :)

I'd Let You Win by PORTS (Doctor Who)

Born to Run by American Authors (Doctor Who)

Don't Give Up On Me by Andy Grammer & R3HAB

Satellite by Two Door Cinema Club (Good Omens)

Born Bold by Valley of Wolves

Home by Dotan (Doctor Who)

Hey Now by Matt and Kim

I'll Carry You by Tommee Profitt (Our Flag Means Death)

Mary on a Cross by Ghost

Obsession by OK Go

I'm tagging some recent mutuals (only if you want to, of course!) - @homerjacksons, @burglarhobbit, @dearemma, @freddiesinnuendo and @crowleybrekkers. <3

#tagged #music #skatingthinandice #fanvids are so connected to music in my head it's impossible to think of one without the other

[ayo-edebiri]

hi, can i ask what font you use for your gif subtitles? i'm learning how to make gifs and i really like yours 💛

Hey :)

Thank you! I use arial rounded mt bold

#skatingthinandice

[dengswei]

hiya, just thought of another question lmao, what sharpening settings do you use? i use 1080px but my gifs tend to look low quality when it's one gif width at 540px 😅 yours look lovely!

heyy thank you 🥹 and omg my sharpening is actually really basic 🤣 , i do my sharpening after i resize the frames to 540px, this is my sharpening setting:

if i notice a lot of noise/grain i'll also add reduce noise with these settings:

if i notice later that i don't like the sizing & need to either make it bigger or smaller to fit whatever i'll either undo the sharpening (if possible & i haven't done too much like colouring or whatever) or i'll reload the frames, resize to the new positioning/sizing i want, and sharpen it again (i notice especially if you decide actually i want to make the frames a bit larger you lose a bit of quality so that's why i do this 😅)

#replies #skatingthinandice #editing saga

[ddagent]

💐🌷spread the love to the people you’re glad you’ve found in this corner of the internet 💐

Thank you, darling; such a sweet thing to say! <33

#skatingthinandice #question time #absolutely lovely asks I'm receiving atm!

[hammerbacks]

3 and 28 for the ask thing 💛

3. 3 films you could watch for the rest of your life and never get bored of? clueless, licence to kill, and bend it like beckham! they're all totally different to one another but that's why i love them all so much 😄

28. do you collect anything? not sure if this counts, but cds and vinyl? i love music so much, i've had a cd collection since i was in single digits so i've taken to collecting/playing my favourite albums on vinyl now that i have a record player as well ☺️

QUESTIONS I THINK WOULD BE FUN TO BE ASKED

#bought (what's the story) morning glory on vinyl today #i love that album beyond words #played it so many times in my car going to and from the school i worked at during lockdown #thank you for these katie ❤️ #skatingthinandice #ask

[liggytheauthoress]

3, 29 and 45 for the fic asks 💛

3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics? Protective partners and an overabundance of commas, that pretty much sums up my AO3 account.

29. What songs would be (or are) on a playlist for [insert fic]? Explain your choices if you want! I'm weird and don't really assign songs to my writing? But if I did I can guarantee that "Run to You" by Pentatonix would be on the playlists for like 90% of my fic.

45. What’s something you’ve improved on since you started writing fic? idk if it counts but I've gotten a lot more comfortable sharing my writing with people? I'm still self-conscious but it's gotten a LOT easier.

#skatingthinandice

[brynnmclean]

🌹 for you!!

Two sentences because I like them better together than apart:

Celeborn gasps into Halbrand’s mouth, silver hair spilling across the bedroll beneath them like metal veins in mines. Halbrand gathers precious strands between his fingers and cups the back of Celeborn’s head, cushioning it from the hard ground.

[one sentence ask meme]

#one sentence ask meme #i have a lot of starts to things! this is one of them #halbrand x celeborn #rough drafts #skatingthinandice #replies #thanks friend! #an uncorrupted mairon au

[apfelhalm]

👀 for the wip game

This is a snippet from a short roosmav & hangmelia fic that I never finished translating (but now that I'm looking at it, maybe I will - there's literally only a couple of paragraphs missing haha):

Mav isn't quite sure how he and Hangman, of all people, end up on the dance floor together, but here they are: arm in arm, both wearing their white dress uniforms, swaying to a lazy rhythm among the other guests.

He let Hangman take the lead because he's too old for squabbling and actually quite likes being the follow. And he has a feeling that the poor man could use the distraction right now. There's a pinched look on his face and he keeps chewing on his lower lip like he's missing his toothpick—the one bad habit he hasn't been able to shake even after all those years.

"Relax. You're already married, shouldn't you get the jitters before that?" Mav asks, earning himself a scowl.

#ask #ask game #skatingthinandice

[judasisgayriot]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! hope you have an amazing day 💛

Thank youuuuuu so much !!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖

#skatingthinandice #asks

[sirtadcooper]

5, 9 and 23 for the soft asks 💛

Hello! Sorry I took so long answering these. I've been a busy bee.

5. who do you feel most you around?

This is a tricky one - I exaggerate certain aspects of my personality to make it easier to interact with whoever I'm talking to. With some people I'm more about animals and hobbies, and with others I am more about fandoms and what I'm watching these days. I always feel like I'm suppressing something, even with my parents and best friends. So I don't know, really, although one friend does spring to mind who I suppress the least with, I think. I don't know how I'd cope with being fully myself around someone, this compartmentalising habit is very ingrained by now.

9. what calms you down?

Similar to my de-stressing answer from here, but I'd probably choose just being in a field with my pet sheep. They're very sweet and come over to say hello when they see me. Either that or taking the dogs for a walk and listening to a podcast.

23. favorite piece of clothing?

This is funny because clothes have been on my mind recently. Over the past few years I've been working to slowly but surely lose some weight, and the good news is I've reached a stage where I'm needing to clear out my wardrobe and almost start from scratch. The bad news is this costs money, so I've been sorting through and selling my bigger clothes. Anyway, all this to say that it's probably my t-shirt with my dog Susan on it, because people can say, "Oh, that's a nice t-shirt," and I can go, "That's my dog, Susan." I wore it to a dog show last year just so that would happen haha.

soft asks to get to know people | send me an ask

#ask #skatingthinandice #thanks for the questions! <3

[maxanor]

i can't believe i've finally found another taylor kelly stan!! i've been in this fandom for a year and had almost given up hope lmao 💛

oh i am so glad to hear it! the show introduced a hot bitchy redhead who would do anything for her job she cared so much about and expected me to hate her?? not on my watch!!! the 911 fandom hates her so bad but they just don't get her like me and you <3

#i don't ship her with buck but that doesn't blind me to their potential as bisexual besties #bisexual taylor kelly is REAL to me #asks #skatingthinandice

[dengswei]

hiya, i've seen your gifsets on photopeablr (the colouring is always so beautiful!) and i wondered how you managed to do the glitch effect transition? i'm still learning 😅

heyy! (thank you so much 🥹) for the glitch effect i followed this amazing tutorial ☺️

#replies #skatingthinandice #editing saga #i didn't do step 3.5 because i was lazy 🤣

[agrippinaes]

ooh i love your new icon, header and theme, it's so pretty 💜

thank you! 💜

#skatingthinandice #asks