3/18/2023 0 Comments Smart gif maker tutorialDon’t leave it up to your eye, I promise it won’t work) I do mine at 93% but whatever works for you. Make sure your dialogue lines up in the same spot in every gif. (a tip though: USE THE RULER IN PHOTOSHOP. This is where I will direct you to these tutorials here and here because these are how I learned and they do it better than I ever could. ![]() Once you’ve done all the coloring you want to do, now you can add dialogue. Slap a scene into photoshop and figure out what color/light works for YOU The ONLY thing that can help you here is practice. And because Roswell is addicted to YELLOW YELLOW YELLOW, I alter yellow a lot to try and balance it. Me personally? I use selective color A LOTĮSPECIALLY blacks. Once you’ve done that, you can do vibrance, hue/saturatio, whatever you want (keep in mind that the more “vibrant” the gif, the fewer frames you can use) And when I say rarely, I mean basically never.) Spend lots of time here learning what each sliding color scale does (tip: I RARELY use the magenta/green colors. You’ll find your style VERY quickly here. That dropdown will let you adjust the color in shadows, midtones, and highlights. I want it to be deeply saturated (especially the curls and facial hair) Now we’re cookin’ with fire! It’s still too orange but now the gif is highlighting what I want it to. It’s better to have it a tad too light than too dark (at least for me!) (yes he looks orange, yes that will be fixed) I start with curves.Ī good place to start is just to hit “auto” and then adjust from there, which is what I did here. This is the part where EVERY gif maker is different. If it’s a dark scene….well, that’s when you’ll want to die. Now, we’re lucky here because A) we have a good quality download and B) the scene is in natural light so we really don’t have to do *too* much. The adjustment tab is where you’re going to add light, brightness, saturation, whatever your little heart desires. There’s no color! We gotta see those curls in technicolor, darling. Now, you could leave it here, and still have a gif.īut that’s no fun. We have 37 uncolored frames with the correct width and the desired height. This particular gif is 269 pixels in height, based on…well, what I think looks good (A plus for teaching here) Once you’ve got the width you need, then you can start cropping to get the height you want. I’m making a large gif (540 pixels, a common size for me personally) so I set it the width here (the height will be adjusted later) A good rule of thumb is 35-40ish frames for a 540 pixel wide gif, 70-100 for a 268 wide gif, and even more for a 177 pixel wide gif (I don’t often use that size…as you can tell) Frame count depends A LOT on how big the gif is, the way you color, how vibrant the colors, how you’ve sharpened it, etc. The little garbage can icon is, unsurprisingly, where you will delete frames you do not need. These are the frames you’ll be working with. Now when everything is imported, you’ll see your “timeline” at the bottom of your screen. Also there is a limit to how many frames you can import–don’t worry, Photoshop will sure as fuck yell at you when you try.) ![]() Use the tabs at the bottom to further isolate the moment you want (advice: always import a few frames before and a few frames after the part you want. ![]() IF you’re using MP4 files, you do NOT need to limit to every 2 frames unless you just want it to be a super fast gif and hey, no judgment. (if it’s a whole episode/movie/whatever that you’re giffing from, trim it in Quicktime first so you’re not just throwing the whole thing in there and then trying to isolate from there. I only use MP4 files–I find it the best and easiest way to make gifs *shrug* Import video frames to layersĪnd then you’ll isolate which portion of the clip you want for your gif. Step 1: Import your video clip into Photoshop. HERE is where you find the dimensions for gifs on Tumblr for them to work properly. There are a MILLION gif tutorials on youtube and Tumblr but I figured I would show you guys how I personally do it, and maybe that will help! I’ll show you how to make this gif, and god help you because I’m bad at teaching. I’ve had a *lot* of questions really about gif making.
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