Well, if I want to make a picspam and my cap is, say, 1280x720px and I want my picspam to have e.g. 18 caps, I’ll open a new document sized 1280x720 and then go to Canvas Size and set the width of the new document to be 300 percent and the height 600 percent so that when I start placing my caps there they would all fit perfectly.

Also, a handy way to check if your caps/photos are aligned is to use the grid tool (it places vertical and horizontal lines over your graphic so you can check if your caps are aligned or not at any time) :)

If I need caps from an episode that’s just aired, I take my own caps. And if it’s an older episode, I use the homeofthenutty and disparue galleries most often :)

Oh, well I don’t do it the same every single time - I quite like to experiment actually - but it’s basically ALWAYS a combination of curves (to make the cap brighter), color balance and a lot, and I mean A LOT of selective color layers. And like I said, I don’t have a plan - I just love playing with all the selective colors till I basically tell myself it’s enough. It’s like - if the cap is kind of yellowish, I will want to accentuate the yellows, so I’ll play with the yellows. I hope that makes sense. And sometimes I’ll also make a couple of fill layers and colour them pink and blue and set them to soft light (to about 60% opacity and 50% fill). And if the cap still look kind of boring to me, I’ll break out the big guns, i.e. go vibrance-crazy. And erase the parts of the cap that are too saturated. And that’s basically that :)

I first colour caps individually (using contrast, curves, selective colors and a couple of fill color layers) and then put them together in one file where I continue editing them together (more selective colors, color balance, some vibrance/hue-saturation and sharpening). And thank you, glad you like them :’)

Thank you, but like I already said a few times before I actually don’t know anything about themes and I’ve had this one for a really long time. The link to the original theme does not seem to be working anymore so I’m really sorry I can’t be of more help to you.

I don’t use PSDs, I do my own colouring :)

Well, I edited the caps first and did everything there was until I added this “effect”. I basically used my finished product and duplicated the layer and changed this new layer’s colours (using different gradient maps and playing around with colours and hues until I liked what I saw) and then I moved the upper layer a bit to the right and lowered the opacity, erased the bits I didn’t like (e.g. shadows of the upper layer on their faces in the lower layer) and - voila!

• oxoniensis
• slayground
• -redux
• two-percent
• planets-bend-between-us

I’ve never made any tutorials and I’m not sure I will ‘cause I suck at explaining - and you need to be really thorough and precise when making a tutorial; also I’m a lazyass :D And even though I don’t feel like I’m somebody who is entitled to give any advice on colouring ‘cause my way of doing it is far from perfect/the one I’d like to achieve one day, here are some tips from you:

• vibrance is your friend. Not your fuck buddy - so be gentle with it. However, if you have to choose between abusing vibrance and saturation, always go with vibrance.
• Selective colour is da bomb. Once upon a time I had no idea I should use it, but then one day I was experimenting in photoshop and I started playing around with selective colour AND IT WAS AWESOME. Basically, you can make any colour you like pop, e.g. if you’d like your yellows to be more yellw, play with yellows. Simple as that.
• Layers. Yes. If you’d like to change the colour of your cap, add a layer and fill it with the colour you like and then set the opacity of the layer and change the style of the layer. Soft light can be pretty handy, as can lighten and screen.
• Colour balance - also for playing around with colours, obviously, but it’s more ‘general’ than selective colour as the entire cap will change its hue.
• Curves are also handy - you can make your cap brighter, darker, you can also change the colours if you screw around with blues and reds. Just be careful with curves - you might want to lower the opacity of that layer afterwards, or the difference might be too big.
• … and I guess that would be it. This is basically what I use most. I also slap some textures on top of everything, erase the parts I don’t need, change the opacity of the texture, set its style - and voila! It’s done.

Hope I managed to help you at least a little bit! Just remember - the most important thing is to EXPERIMENT and have fun. Don’t be afraid to try new tools, screw around with colours and curves and you’ll achieve your own style. Good luck! :)