The other day I was showing my bff some of the stuff I made with ps and while he was very enthusiastic about it, he also said something that made me think:
“Is this hard to do though? I have no idea how photoshop works, so I don’t know if this takes a lot of time and skills or if it’s something that anyone could do in five minutes.”
I snorted pretty hard at the “five minutes” part, cause I wish, but then it occurred to me that most people are probably like my best friend, and having no idea how we do what we do, take for granted our gifsets (which are indeed not made through witchcraft, though I’m convinced some of us must have sold their soul to the devil).
I’ll forever remember that one person that commented under a colour porn gifset of mine “wow, I didn’t remember this movie was so bright and colourful!”
… That’s cause it wasn’t. I made it that way. Everytime you see a gifset, someone made it that way.Bright, dark, very pink, very red (or in my case very cyan), very colourful.
And it’s not just a matter of choosing all the scenes to gif (and consequently capture all those screencaps, decide where to crop them, resize them and, only after that, beginning the adventure that is colouring).
There’s a huge difference in what a movie/video looks like before we get our hands on it and after, and I think that’s probably one of the things that people who don’t make gifs tend not to realize.
Let me show you!
This is a gif of a scene taken from Iron Man 2. The only thing I did was resize it to 500pixels. This is what the actual movie looks like:
this is the exact same scene after I coloured it and applied my sharpening settings:
Now what you may think is “you just made it bright!”
It took me 12 layers of careful adjustments to just make it bright (which is not all that I did, btw) while trying not to bring out pixels (impossible with a scene as dark as this one) while at the same time trying my best to keep it under the 2mb limit (over which you can’t upload your gif on tumblr or it won’t move), and trying not to whitewash Rhodey as I lighten everything else. Let me tell you, none of this is particularly easy. It’s not impossible, but it’s not something you learn in five minutes.
Here’s another example:
actual movie:
colour porn:
Now the point of this post is that I’m hoping that people will see and understand that there’s a lot of work and effort on our part to make these gifs, so that everyone can appreciate them. And yet we see that effort easily dismissed every day when our works are stolen and reposted and people have no qualms about rebloging them anyway, cause after all they’re just pretty pictures made with a computer, what’s the fuss.
It took me two years of almost daily practice to get where I’m at now (and I still have a lot to learn), and that kind of attitude hurts me as a person before it hurts me as a content maker.
Blocking reposters and spreading the word doesn’t help much if things like this keep happening and no one cares.
This website is mostly made of gifsets and graphics (that’s not to undermine the importance of art and fics, I’m just saying that you see more gifs and graphics and photos than those other kind of wonderful content) and it would be a dream come true to see a bit more respect and appreciation for our category.
Leave nice tags under someone’s gifset you really really liked. Tell them how much you loved how they used that particular song/quote on that particular character. How happy you are they’re making gifs about your favourite ship.
Encourage content makers, you’ll be rewarded with more content.
Thank you for going through here before interacting with me. The first thing you should know is that my native language is Spanish, therefore I will have my misspellings occasionally because my English is not as fluent as I desire. I created this account with the intention to adapt the language a little more. The second is that I'm usually very slow with the replys. I am a person who suffer of stress, and I created this account with the intention to distract me to the day to day, not to cause me more headaches. Please be patient as it may take me longer than normal, but not is for you, it's my condition. Basics: not control my character. Do not try to change it. Do not try to improve it. Do not try to do him a better person. Jackson is like that and point. If he wants to be 'modified' it will, not because someone else want it. Due to the absence of Jackson in the past three seasons, it will be assumed that he returned to Beacon Hills after what has happened in the fifth season. I'm catching up with aforementioned, so it will be easy for Jackson not know what the hell happened, because even I do not know. Please do not control the actions of Jackson. If so, I'll let the conversation. My askbox is always open for memes, questions, etc. I suggest that if you want something OOC please speak it by IM and leave the ASK exclusively for interactions with Jackson. Any meme can become a convo if so desired, I have no problem with it. Do not force the ships. If there's chemistry great! But if not, please do not force it. +18 Topics will be on this blog quite often. Not only in the part of NSFW, but also in the field of psychological and physical abuse, homophobia, internal homophobia, drugs, among others. Since I'm older than 20 years, I absolutely refuse to roleplay smut with minors. I tend to roleplay content m/m over m/f and I'm not quite used to heterosexuals ships, but you know, I'm more of chemistry all. As time passes I will be adding more stuff, thank you for your attention!
Name: Jackson Whittemore (maybe hale?)
Age: 18/19 years old. (????)
DOB: June 15th 1995. (Jeff what the fuck)
Human eyes: Green.
Wolf eyes: Blue.
Hair: Blondie-brown.
Sexuality: Bisexual.
Status: ALIVE.
The rich kid who has everything, but at the same time has nothing. Insubordinate, spoiled and spiteful. He wants to be the best in everything, the best of the best. The most athletic, the best in class, the most striking. That perfect boy with a face chiseled by the gods, they who saw him know perfectly well that it will be a successful businessman when he grow up. But the same is that every night thinking about what would be, in what will be lying down. The nostalgia, feeling empty and does not belong anywhere. He who knows that its facade may collapse at any time. That has never said 'I love you' to his family for the simple fact of being adopted. Oh, Jackson Whittemore. It was the most popular boy in school, had the world in his hands, the perfect relationship with the most beautiful and intelligent girl throughout the county. Lacrosse team captain and Swimming. He was at the top, but all this came down when Scott McCall stepped from the shadows, leaving him aside in every sense of the word. He stopped shining as was usual, his life was centered on an obsession to know what was what made the other boy the hit of the moment. Steroids? Yes, that was one of the options that crossed his mind, but over time, days, weeks, strange events in the village, the boy, now co-captain of the lacrosse team knew that the skills of his rival was due to something that went beyond steroids. Something supernatural. Something he wanted. Something he got, but he became a murderer. The need to be much better, if powerful got him into a creature far from what he really wanted to be. The alpha bite, from Derek Hale, made him a murderer in a reptile shape mindless controlled by a psychopath classmate. After the hunt that was given, which was extensive, was finally killed by Derek and his uncle Peter, after he had given consent. Now, what no one expected is that the boy survived and eventually became what he wanted; a werewolf. One who has the killer's blue eyes.
Being controlled by a psychopath is not fun. (18 years old)
"It will leave your hands bleeding & your trust broken. "
MAIN VERSE;; It focuses mainly on the canon of history (first and second season). The location of it is not defined so it can be both in London and in Beacon Hills. The look is from the original story's background will not be guided in that timeline, but something happened to the last three seasons. Jackson still has nightmares and certain disorder after being controlled by Matt and then killed by Peter and Derek. His mental state was drastically affected by all this and, although still a jerk, has changed for the better.
before/on season one
I'm everyone's type. (15/16 years old)
"Just think about it; how would your life be without all this supernatural crap weighting down on your shoulder?" HUMAN VERSE;; Basically it focuses on Jackson's life before everything supernatural start, when he was not aware of the events between Scott and Derek. Jackson is a teenage who just wants to be the best of the best, even when it is the swim team captain and lacrosse, he feels the need of more and more, make proud their deceased parents.
genderbend jacky whittemore
All other verses in oneself. Jackson instead of being a boy is a girl; Jackeline Whittemore.
THE REASONS ;
The situation of my country and my mental situation will not let me work on a 'normal' place, so I decided to use the little skill in photoshop and html I have to see if I can earn some money for my family.
THEMES :
A simple makeover ( CODE + GRAPHICS AS BACKGROUND AND OTHERS +UPDATES TAB ): $22 USD
if you would like to commission a theme, you can go on and talk to me on via EMAIL ( airiscommissions@gmail.com ) you can also IM me here on tumblr.
DISCLAIMER ;
THANK YOU ALL FOR TAKE A LITTLE TIME TO READ THIS, AND BTW! PLEASE IF YOU WANT ME TO USE SOME KIND OF DRAWN, PLEASE TALK TO THE OWNER BEFORE TO SEND ME THE PHOTO/DRAWN! I WILL NOT USE THE WORK OF OTHERS FOR THE GRAPHICS UNLESS I HAVE THE PERMISSION FOR DOING IT, THANKS!!
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