Blending - Tumblr Posts
Just got my very own art set. And it's my first time to discuss blending. And I'm so proud of the final result.^^✨
Just some Hannibal art that my brain demanded I spew out at 12:33 in the morning.
Come on Jace... Quick! The sun is catching up... I will not be able to walk here when the sun reach this side... hahahaha... but first.. let me take a selfie. Hahaha I'm blending with the floor... Hahahaha 😎⛱🌅 #cleaning #sunny #tuesday #summer #hot #blending #beach #beachlife #homesweethome #relax #inspired #love #instapost #instalike #instafollow #like4like #follow4follow #igerasia #igerthailand #igerphilippines #asianboys #man #boy #bear #chub #cub (at Pattaya) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCVDHQenDYa/?igshid=1o1g3rn9vr7bp
Digital painting
Portrait study for Photoshop class. I did some changes in the eyes and hair. Blending and different changes in opacity of the colors.
P.S This picture was provided for us as a reference for studying purposes only.
first attempt at blending some colors. this was a pain to make and took hours but im proud of it. thank you @lazulelle for the... very large amount of help.
A water colour painting on canvas gift I made as a gift for my grandmother. Shown here is a Northern Black Widow spider.
Little nugget of advice that really changed the way I approached painting. When I started blending like this it was a real turning point for my art quality.
Forgot to add that lighting conditions and other variables in a piece make the hardness you want to choose somewhat variable. Drawing things like skin is more of a hardness range than it is a hard rule.
Eheh…get it? Hard rule? (aaaaaaaaaand i’m done).
The blending in your Lucas gifset was absolutely gorgeous! Do you have or know a tutorial on how to do it?
Blending Tutorial!
Firstly, thank you for the compliment anon! Now, I'm going to go through the process considering that you already know how to make regular gifs and know how to use adjustment layers, so I'll be focusing specifically on blending but if you need those tutorials I can make them, just ask!
This is gonna be our end result after the whole process:
This specific gif from this gifset(with the typography removed) is focused on a color palette with only two adjacent colors so it's a bit easier to make the blending look good but this process works for any kind of gif! So let's start the tutorial!
1. Get your desired gifs into the same canvas
These are the two gifs I'll be blending for this gifset. Make your gifs and resize them to the size of your final gif. Remember to turn the layers of each gif into Smart Objects so that you can move them around properly when blending.
I usually make the gifs and just copy and paste one of them onto the canvas where I made the other one. You can also make your gifs and save them separately from each other first and then put them into the same canvas, but I prefer to make all adjustments except for resizing in one canvas so I can tweak the positioning of each gif as well as the coloring so everything looks the way I want it to.
2. Put each gif into a folder
This will make it easier for when you start using adjustment layers on each gif so that the adjustments don't interfere with other layers.
3. Set layer mode to screen
Set both folders to Screen, this will help blend them together better than if you were relying only on the opacity of the layers. I also usually create a new layer and use the paint bucket tool to color it black. Your gif should look something like this:
And your layers like this:
The black background makes sure there aren't any transparent spots in your gif when you use the layer masks to blend them as you can see here:
4. Create layer masks
Select each group one at a time and go into Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal All. Your layers should now look like this:
5. Start erasing each gif on the layer mask
Use a soft airbrush to erase each gif to your liking. With layer masks you can use the eraser tool or the brush tool. Layer masks work based on color value(how light or dark the color is). The darker the color you paint with your brush the less opaque it will be. Painting in black will erase the area completely and painting it white will make it completely visible. The eraser defaults to the same effect as if painting with a brush in black.
This is the final result of the blending:
This is how each of the gifs look after I erased them with the layer masks:
This is what my layers look like:
As you can see I've erased one of the gifs way more than the other, that's because I only erased parts of the gif that would interfere heavily with the gif I wanted to be more visible. Make sure to move around the timeline of your gif to see if you need to erase more or less of each gif since the person or thing you're trying to keep visible can move around and get covered.
6. Make your color adjustments
If you've already made your adjustments before pasting both gifs into the canvas you can skip this step. Since this gifset was focused on orange and yellow I adjust my colors to match that. I keep my adjusment layers in groups inside the respective gif's folder so I can turn them all on or off easier and so they occupy less space in my Layers tab.
And this is what the colors look like in the end:
7. Export your gif
This is what my export settings look like:
This doesn't interfere with the blending and a lot of these settings are personal preference but I thought it was worth sharing.
And finally we've arrived at our final result as shown previously:
Other blending tutorials:
Now the links to some other blending tutorials that might have different methods(sometimes because of different desired outcomes). I'll be tagging the creators for if anyone wants to look at their content!
Tutorial using gradients and lighten mode by @linda-darnell
Tutorial using erasing with layer masks by @eddiediaaz
Tutorial adding color on top by @miriammaisel
Tutorial using screen and color layer modes by @disaster-lineage
That's it! Hope this was helpful!
Would you mind going over how you did your coloring set like this? /post/678272066966978560/jaskiers-feelings-for-geralt-as-expressed-by it's so beautiful
i like to call this the @yenvengerberg method, as she is the absolute queen of this type of coloring and i am in awe of her talent and how she always nails these perfectly. the trick is to basically to color the two gifs you want to overlay separately with complementing colors and blend them.
(slightly more detailed explanation under the cut)
select the two scenes you want to blend. color them like you would normally, and then add a color layer on top (layers -> new fill layer -> solid color, and then set the blending to ‘color’). choose two colors that complement each other. i usually choose two scenes where there isn’t too much movement - as you need to avoid coloring the face/body. don’t worry too much about the background - even if the original gif doesn’t look great (like the first gif here, where the background players look all yellow 😂), you could probably edit it later.
when blending two gifs i also usually like to crank up the black, either by using selective color layer -> blacks -> add more black %, or by adding a new curves layer and using the 'set black point’ tool.
overlay the two gifs together, and that’s... pretty much it. you can add some brightness/contract to make the colors sharper, or play around with the color layers you chose earlier to make the end result prettier if the colors don’t really mesh that well with each other. :) add layer/group masks in the areas where you want to highlight one gif over the other (in this case, over jaskier’s face).
it really depends on the scenes you choose, the colors, the brightness, etc. - but after you blend the two gifs, look at what you get and just play around with it!
for example here, after blending, due to the gifs being very bright, i got these lovely shades of dark pink - so i added a couple more touches of it between the layers to highlight them.
and, yeah, that’s pretty much it! let me know if you have any more questions!
A tip for blending when painting digitally: use a transition color! I quickly made this when my brother asked for art advice while I was working on a painting for my best friend. (I was watching a lot of makeup videos to pick out her gifts).
hello! hey! quick psa!
when mixing skin tones, always mix in lighter and darker complimentary or analogous colors (such as pinks, reds, and purples) to change value, don’t just add black or white to change a value
this way you get a real nice looking palette like
instead of a dead looking palette like
unless you’re going for dead, in which case carry on
My first time drawing with markers and it kinda worked. Blending is very difficult.
Cute, lil' fae girl for the timeline. I actually love this one a lot! Just posted the painting process for this piece on my Youtube Channel, so please don't forget to check it out!
Art by me - @thistle-fae -
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