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gossip girl colouring tutorial

hello! i’ve gotten a few asks about how i colour gg. my colouring has gone through a bit of an evolution since i started this blog and has slowly gotten better i think (i hope!). so this tutorial will cover the typical way in which i currently colour. i do tend to just colour each gifset from scratch (although i do have a few psds saved that i sometimes use as bases), meaning the process might vary from gif to gif. so i’ll take you through the process of 2 gifs of different scenes so that you can get a feel of my general technique and adjustment preferences!

FIRST GIF:

so the first scene i’ll gif is from s1. this is an indoor scene which is a bit tougher in terms of maintaining quality while brightening (outdoor daytime gg scenes are, like, the easiest thing to colour ever i think lol). this is what my gif looks like resized and sharpened without any colouring:

so i ALWAYS start with a curves layer. pull it upwards near the middle to brighten the midtones, and pull the bottom left point to the right just a touch to deepen the shadows slightly. sometimes for dark scenes, i’ll brighten some mid-shadows with another point, which you can see near the bottom left.

then i just kind of add a smattering of brightening layers as i see fit. here, i did another curves layer in which i brightened the highlights a little with a point closer to the top right (not too close though lol), an exposure layer with +0.34 exposure, a levels layer (to brighten, drag the middle point to the left; to deepen shadows a touch, drag the left point into the middle), and a brightness layer. this is the gif after the first round of brightening:

next, i’m gonna add a black and white gradient and set it on the luminosity blending mode. this deepens shadows, takes away a bit of saturation, and adds some contrast. to tame it down, i’ll add a brightness/contrast layer and lower the contrast. then, i’m gonna add another curves layer to keep it bright.

now, i’m gonna do a bit of actual colour adjustments. my personal favourite is colour balance, but some people prefer levels or curves, and i use those too. play around with the tones in colour balance until it’s what you want it to be, but don’t go overboard! i think i rarely go over, like, 8-10 on any colour. and i stay away from the highlights tones at all cost. i already like the colouring of this scene so i’m not gonna do that much, just make sure no colour is too dominant.

to finish it off, i’m gonna do a bit more brightening, very lightly. (note: sometimes with a gif like this i might add a dark brown photo filter, which just really neutralizes all of the colours in a way that i like, but i chose not to for this one.) here’s the final product:

SECOND GIF:

now an outdoor scene from s6! resized and sharpened, no colouring:

again, literally always my first step, starting with a curves layer, brightening midtones and deepening shadows:

again, adding a bunch of different brightening layers until i like it. here, i added a second curves layer, an exposure layer, and a levels layer.

then, black and white gradient on luminosity and a levels layer.

a vibrance layer because this gif is colourful enough for a vibrance layer to look nice, and because it’s a daytime scene and an outdoor scene, it’s bright enough that it won’t look weird. i lower vibrance and up the saturation; makes it much more colourful than just directly upping the vibrance. then i add a colour balance layer and a levels layer to play around with colours! i’m also gonna add some greens, yellow and blues with a selective colouring layer to brighten the trees in the background and serena’s dress. just for fun!

the contrast in this is now a bit much due to so much colour, so i’m gonna lower that a bit, add a levels layer to brighten midtones juuuust a bit more, and a selective colour layer to restore as much of the colour lost in the brightness/contrast layer as i can without bringing the contrast back... if that makes sense. and then we’re done! here’s the final product:

#gossip girl #colouring tutorial #i didn't think i would get to this this week but i finished school stuff earlier than anticipated so i had time today!#i hope this is helpful #please ask if there's anything that's confusing

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serenagaywaterford · 5 years

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1) Okay, I'm late (bc rl sucks), but I'm back and I'll gradually address everything. "Also do not feel any pressure to respond to my multiple essays! I understand completely!"The same goes to you, bc I feel like I'm bothering you too much. That being said, I truly enjoy talking to you. Not only you offer fresh/perceptive insights into the characters' minds (which made me a. reconsider scenes and motives, b. wanna rewatch S1 --some scenes you're commenting on are SO fuzzy in my head-- mind you,

2) 2) I’m already rereading the book), but you also provide such hilarious, sarcastic lines (some of them are absolute killers).

3) personalities” I know you have an inkling of who’s who. :D But damn, that ‘lesbianing’ bit had me giggling. Kudos, fellow anon. Since we’re on the subject, I have another question about your fic (if you don’t mind): is it post s2 or s1/s2 canon divergent? b) “Add horrid fangirls to that and it’s a big ass no lol.” Ugh. Fandom smh manages to sour my opinion of characters/ships/series I personally like. Especially when fans start pestering the creators to cater to their whims or harass actors

4) or start ship wars. Double ugh. c) “So, that’s the Mass Effect connection!” Two more similarities: i. Mass Effect’s Miranda Lawson got a lot of fandom hate back then (even though she was a famous character), just like Serena. ii. She has a back-and-forth, bickering (hateful but not THAT complex) relationship with another female character. d) “I have seen Westworld! Well, okay, just the first season. I got too tired/confused to get past the 2nd season premiere.” Oh, sorry. I shouldn’t have

5) assumed. Believe me when I say it’s a good thing you stopped watching when you did. The overall quality of the series remained pretty much the same (e.g. acting, cinematography, direction), but, oh boy, some new plot twists (which I usually like) are SO OVER THE TOP in order to impress (?) the audience. It’s reached a point where some characters are unrecognizable, bc they’re servants to the plot. Maeve has a lot bigger arc in S2 and Newton is thriving (imo, S2!Maeve >> S1!Maeve), but so is

6) Strahovski/Serena. :D e) “don’t go around bitching at people who say shitty things or stuff I don’t agree with, or blocking anybody who doesn’t like her."Ah, another thing we have in common. There were times I’ve been blocked by fandom people (with beautiful edits) that I NEVER interacted with (except for maybe reblogging from each other). That’s not me complaining. Like I said, each to their own.I just find this phenomenon funny at times. Story time. Once, an out of nowhere anon (whose msg I

7) didn’t publish, bc drama is SO not my thing) said they’d block me, bc of an uploaded gifset for a canon pairing (which wasn’t to their taste apparently) that was tagged as #[series]edit (although the ship!portmanteau was right there, too, so that people could easily block it). I remember being like: "Okay. Good for you, anon!” LOL. f) “I dunno if you see spoilers but there’s one about them.) She needs therapy so much more than a cutesy feelgood storyline.” I did NOT actually, but feel free to8) enlighten me.

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I am sort of back! (RL does get in the way of incredibly lengthy essays about fictional TV shows!) NO APOLOGIES NECESSARY!! I am just so happy I get to read all these excellent thoughts, analyses, and feelings you have! (and that we clearly share lol, including the sheer amusement of your writing!). I really want to write more at the mo but my hands are doing that weird old lady thing where you can see the veins popping out and it makes me v uncomfortable to look at. Especially since I have little baby hands. I hate it.

Ok, I’m now kneeling on the floor and the computer is on the kitchen island. This is better. I cannot see the top of my hands.

SO. Where was I? OW. my kneeeessss. This is a bad idea.

I’m so lost. Fic question. right. It’s post-S2. Like… quite post-S2. I didn’t even deal with HOW or WHY June is back in the Waterford’s house tbh cos I can’t be bothered to sort that out. (Thanks, show.) So, it just assumes that for some reason, she’s back. Which, if the BTS pics/video is to be believed, that’s the case anyway.

Fangirls (and boys ofc) ruin so much for me. Even if I like the same thing initially. Ugh. Then sometimes they’ll annoy me so much that I end up liking the complete opposite of what they like. Dunno why.

No worries about Westworld! It’s a reasonable assumption! Please don’t apologise, my friend. I do agree that Thandie was very good in S1. IIRC, her character was my fav (other than Clementine lol). Yvonne S2 was just next level shit to me. Like, what you’re saying makes me wanna give S2 WW another shot but when shows get overcomplicated, they’re not much fun anymore when I’m like “BUT WHAT IS HAPPENING LOL”.

>> “There were times I’ve been blocked by fandom people (with beautiful edits) that I NEVER interacted with (except for maybe reblogging from each other)”

EXACT SAME. It was actually in THT fandom most recently lol. Like, I reblogged one of their pretty edits once. Ever. I didn’t even say anything snarky or bitchy or rude in tags. I don’t think I added any commentary at all. Next thing I know? BLOCKED. Never interacted with them in any way whatsoever. (Typical N/J fangirl lol.) It’s the strangest behaviour and it’s that kind of thing that sours me towards sects of fangirls, and sometimes even the characters they like. Maybe that’s just petty but I think it actually just reinforces pre-existing feelings I had towards the character or pairing.) The only blogs I block are ones that are gross, RP, or spam. (RP blogs is a long history of them stealing and spamming and adding awful commentary to my posts way back in the day, so I just… block em. lol.)

>> “they’d block me, bc of an uploaded gifset for a canon pairing (which wasn’t to their taste apparently) that was tagged as #[series]edit (although the ship!portmanteau was right there, too, so that people could easily block it). I remember being like: “Okay. Good for you, anon!” LOL.”

Oh. My… WHAT. There’s a very odd sense of entitlement here that seems so peculiar to me. Like, that’s what the blacklisting feature is for? I’ve put every version of my most despised pairings, characters, etc. and it works? Very rarely does it miss on. I guess we’re just dramaphobic, mature old fandom farts. Like, “Kids, let me sit you down and tell you about this site before you could block things. Before even XKit was invented…” Not to mention every other website ever lol.

HOLY GROSS… I just got up and a centipede fell off me!! WHYYYYYY. THIS IS WHY I DON’T SIT ON THE FLOOR. (we live near the beach/woods so we get lots of bugs no matter how clean we are…) no more painful kneeling for me i guess…

OKAY. Spoilers. It’s not much but other than the June in Martha costume (which was shown in the teaser Superbowl trailer anyway by now)… there were set pics of Emily, Sylvia, Nicole, and Luke all happy and smiling. IIRC. I can’t find the post anymore. So it may not have been in character. But I dunno… it all seems… too easy? Like, I’m glad Emily is safe but omg. She’d better not be all hunky dory “I stabbed a lady and threw her down the stairs, murdered another, and ran a dude over with a stolen car, but now I’m Canada, I’m all healed!” (Not including the heart attack/crotch kicking here cos that was fair play to Emily. She deserved that.) Like, honestly, as much part of me was like YESSSS at all of those, still… that’s grievous bodily harm with intent to kill, flat out murder, and vehicular manslaughter. For Emily to do those things, you don’t do those crimes without being really broken and damaged. And… yeah. That doesn’t magically disappear when you hop over a border.

#spoilers #Anonymous

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