Hello! I do make screencaps in order to make gifs. How come you can’t use screencaps? All you need is kmplayer and this tutorial. If kmplayer doesn’t work properly for you, I suggest you try and do this.

Yep! I think it works on everything, not just cougar town caps :)

Franklin Gothic Medium Condensed, with those settings:

here.

I was in a sharing mood so I thought I’d post a .psd of mine. It’s a purple/yellow-ish coloring that works on most Hart of Dixie caps and I guess it could work on other caps as well. Enjoy!

Thanks! I either use arial or ITC Franklin Gothic. :)

Don’t worry, anon, it does the same thing to me. Here’s what you need to do: do the stroke option thing on the first frame of your gif, then select all of the frames and deselect the effects options, like this:

Then re-select it, and the black border should be visible on all frames.

Hi! First of all: thank you! :) Second of all: I’ve got to say I pretty much hate this coloring now lol but I’ll try and remember what I did to come up with it. Also, I agree: TVD captures are the woooorst. I tried not using dark caps. Also the fact that this picspam is mostly 3*3 caps is helping the fact that it doesn’t look pixelated, because the caps are smaller.

• So first you have this:
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• Duplicate layer> set to screen. Duplicate until it’s bright enough (in this case: 4 times). You get this:
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• Layer>new fill layer> gradient> choose the default one (which is black to transparent for me) and set it to soft light. Then use another gradient layer, also set to soft light (and 50% otherwise it’s too bright): black to white this time. You get this:
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• New Adjustment layer> selective color. Don’t change anything, just set to soft light (and 50%) You get this:
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• Layer>new fill layer> solid color (set to multiply) and choose a (very) light beige color (in this case I used #ffeddf) you get this:
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• And then I used curves to lighten up the cap a bit, levels to darken what was already dark and sharpen. Ta-da!
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You just do your gif and then you select the part that you don’t want to see moving, copy it and past it over all the other layers.

Arial (bold, italic). I select the text, then go to layer>layer style> stroke and select a 2px black border.

I don’t have time to do a tutorial now ‘cause I have to go to work so I tried re-doing the coloring very quickly, here’s the psd (I have no idea if it works on other caps though).

Heeey! I don’t really know which graphics you’re talking about, link me to it? :) Nevermind, found it! To be honest… I don’t know xD I made that thing a year ago and I’m surprised of how nicely the background has been cut out ‘cause I’m not sure I’d know how to do that now O_o I don’t use the wand tool, I use the magnetic lasso tool and when I’m done selecting the area, right click >refine edge. Change the settings and it doesn’t look ‘smooth’. Hope that helps!

Hi! Well I didn’t get your first message so… :) Maybe you should try sharpening your caps? Caps are always a bit blurry at first so when you’re done with your coloring, go to filter>sharpen>smart sharpen. Hope that helps!

I don’t really understand what you mean about soft ligting?

Also ‘set to screen’ means that you have to select the ‘screen’ mode when creating the layer: 

(You can also change it after you created the layer: right-click>blending mode.)

Hope that helped! (also I totally understand that question because when I started using photoshop, I used to read tutorials and I didn’t know what ‘set to’ meant either so… xD)

Hi! I just select the edges with the rectangular marquee tool and then filter>blur. :)

Thank you! The last one I made was the Southland one and to be honest I didn’t do much ‘cause the un-edited version already looks like this. So I just needed a selective color layer set to soft light and I added a light pink-ish fill layer set to multiply. It looks good because the show is super gorgeous :)