10% Chance of Rain

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[10-percent-expected-rainfall]

I clung to your hands so that something human might exist in the chaos.

Nick Burkhardt & Adalind Schade // GRIMM 5x19

[galindaelphaba]

If you could, would you please make a tutorial on how to combine multiple gifs into one? Thank you so much.

Hi of course - this is super simple so hope this makes sense :)

As an example I'm going to combine the first two gifs from this set into a single gif (since these are already made I won't have the colouring or anything else in the files)

tutorial below the cut

I make my gifs in timeline. As said for the purposes of the tutorial these gifs are coloured already. if they are from the same scene you don't need to have them coloured already, you can colour the first gif and use the same colouring on the canvas

have your first gif in the timeline

drag the second gif to the same canvas and place it on the gray area. this will result in your second gif on top of the first.

take the second gif and drag it into the same layer as the first gif. this creates a "video group" and the gifs will play one after the other. save the gif as normal

If you want to do this using frames here is how:

select all frames in your second gif (do this by pressing shift and selecting from the first frame to the last frame)

click on the symbol at the top of the timeline bar and select 'copy frames' from the drop down list

go to your first gif and go to the last frame

go to the same menu and select 'paste frames'

in the pop up box select 'paste after selection' and press ok

the frames you copied from your second gif will now be in your timeline after the first gif.

you can now save the combined version of this gif

[10-percent-expected-rainfall]

GRIMM || S1E17 vs S5E11

[color-palettes]

Sail the Frozen Seas - Submitted by SeesawSiya

#02263c #04627e #4b8fa4 #859bb2 #fedfc0 #e5bca0

[color-palettes]

i keep forgetting what i’m supposed to feel - submitted by tragicgooses

#FEF8D3 #FFB87F #F1896F #C4DED9 #A8C5CE #E05377

[color-palettes]

strawberry cheesecake - submitted by jellyrainboots

#F61950 #F95E86 #FFACBC #FDF9F8 #FFEBDE

[riickgrimes]

can i ask you what are your sharpen settings for tsitp? your gifs are so beautiful! the coloring is so soft! 🥹

Thank youuu! I use the same sharpen settings for everything. I use this action pack

And I use #3 for 268px gifs and #5 for 540px gifs

[watson-emma]

Can u please post a gif tutorial? Or colouring tutorial? ur gifs are so lovely and look so smooth. What sharpening do you use? I just wish I could gif like you:(

Wow you’re so sweet thank you so much! And don’t put yourself down! Everyone improves with time. A lot of people make way better gifs then me but sure I’ll show you how I color! For how to make a gif I followed this tutorial on Photoshop CC. As for how I sharpen my gifs I use a gif action given to me by my friend (and only three of us have it) so I can’t give that away.

How I color:

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After:

I start with curves and what I do is press the auto. Then I do the same to brightness/contrast and levels. You don’t have to add all three of these only if you want to. AND you can still adjust it if it doesn’t feel right.

We get this result:

Next I used color balance. First I mess with midtones. Now this is all you depending on how you want it to look. Mess around with it but don’t go too crazy.

After if needed I adjust shadows.

Next I work with selective color. Again totally just play around with it. I do the reds first.

Then I go ahead and do the yellows and I make it have less since that’s the color I’m going for (also because the background and her face is somewhat the same). Don’t add too much color like lets say more than 50+ because it can get grainy. If you want more coloring add another selective color and add from there.

Last I add black I tend to do around +5 all the time. But I ALWAYS tend to add blacks except if the scene is super dark.

I also sometimes add vibrance if I feel I need more color, but for this it doesn’t need. Also vibrance sometimes makes your gifs grainy if you add to much so be careful when using it.

So in the end I only used this many (sometimes more selective color if needed).

End result again:

[sabrinaacarpenters]

I’ve gotten a few questions on how I made this gifset, and I figured I would show you, since it’s really not that complicated if you choose the right scenes for it. 

This tutorial includes 3 versions of color isolation for gifs and assumes you have basic knowledge of Photoshop and gifmaking.

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[ruanbaijie]

Hi, tian guan ci fu Gifset is really cool! May I ask what textures effects you used ✨

https://www.tumblr.com/ruanbaijie/814271276333121536/animangacreators-challenge-58-egg-hunt-prompt-3

hi! i used a combination of the noise filter (first two images) and the grain adjustment layer (last image):

[becauseofthebowties]

Hey, how do you make those beautiful gif ? Like with this quality, etc... Thanks :)

hi!! thank you for asking, i’m gonna try to make a little tutorial on how i make my gifs :)

first of all i use hd versions of the episodes, either in 1080p or 720p. i use 1080p for later seasons but i only have 720p for seasons 1 to 7 and honestly i think the quality’s good enough, so don’t worry too much if you don’t have 1080p.

i use kmplayer to take caps from an episode and i capture every frame (so the gif will be smoother) in its original size (to keep the best quality possible).

then i load them into photoshop, crop them with the ratio i want my gif to be and resize them to be the right tumblr size (540px wide for one column gifsets). at this point, this is what my raw gif looks like (i use a frame delay of 0.06 second):

1) SHARPENING

to improve the gif quality i am now going to sharpen the gif.

my general sharpening settings that i use on all my gifs are the following:

amount: 100% radius: 0.7px remove: gaussian blur

then i use a second sharpening but only for close up gifs like this one (otherwise you can’t really tell the difference so i don’t bother with it):

amount: 20% radius: 0.4px remove: gaussian blur

so now my sharpened gif looks like this:

2) COLORING

now on to coloring! i don’t really have a base coloring because i make a new coloring for every gif or gifset BUT i have a base ensemble of layers that i use and tweak to make all my colorings:

however, i rarely use all of them at the same time.

the important ones that i use every time are the following:

curves 1 (rgb)

vibrance 1

selective color 1

gradient map 1

brightness/contrast 1

then the others are optional and depend on the situation:

levels 1: i sometimes use it for very dark scenes

curves 2 (colors) or color balance 1: for color correction (for example bunker scenes to tone down the yellow)

color fills 1 & 2: i use these as an overlay with a very low opacity in order to get a more cohesive look between my gifs across a gifset, or just to get a warmer coloring in general

selective color 2: when i’m looking to enhance certain colors and a single selective color layer isn’t enough

now for this particular gif, here’s the layers i used (only the ones that are checked):

and to better understand how i use them, here’s how each of these layers affect the coloring:

and here’s the final product:

3) EXPORT SETTINGS

finally, the quality of the gif also depends on the export settings you use.

basically i always use either adaptive diffusion or selective diffusion. i always try both and compare them to pick the one that looks better for each gif but it really depends on the gif, sometimes adaptive will look better and sometimes you’ll wanna go with selective.

for the gif in this tutorial i used adaptive diffusion with these overall settings:

there you go!! i think i covered the important steps of my gifmaking process, i hope it was helpful and don’t hesitate to shoot me an ask if you’ve got any specific questions!

[i remade the gif from scratch for this tutorial but i originally posted it in this gifset]

[bcnoist]

would you consider releasing the action you use to make gif icons quickly? i've tried countless times to make my own but it never works out right :(

hey!! ok so, since i can only send you my resizing action (bc u need to make your saving action yourself, if i sent mine it’d have my folders’ settings and wouldn’t work) i’ll just write a quick tutorial for you about how to make an action in order to resize & save your gif icons. tho, note that this works on pre-made gifs! you can use @oliviaholt‘s action in order to make gifs from scratch. if you still can’t do it, lmk and i’ll link u my resizing action <3

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[jugheadzarchive]

Updated gif tutorial ➣ How I make my gifs and use timeline to set the frame rate

This is the quickest possible technique that I’ve come to learn how to make gifs. This tutorial is image heavy and mostly beneficial for those who have a mac, although I’m sure you could take the same steps on a pc. 

What you need: -photoshop (I use CC 2019) -quicktime player -probably basic knowledge on how to make gifs

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[cilly-murphy]

this feels like a very foolish question, but i've been looking for days and i can't seem to find any other way, so i was hoping you could help me out! for gifs like post/676190237446291456, how do you edit out the background of the original gifs? or do you blend them?

hello! don't worry, no question is foolish anon. to be honest with you anon, this gifset took me like 10 hours a day for 5 days to make so like. i used so many different methods for so many different effects that my brain is fried. there are a lot of people who rotoscope but i didn't do that here. looking at some of them, imma tell you what kind of techniques i used. mind you, this gifset is a beast so if i tried to explain what i did here, it would take me a week in itself so imma tell you some tips.

for this i tried to find light scenes. the lighter the background of a scene, the easier to create a silhouette of the character. so this scene of arthur getting crowned has a white background and with a gradient map, black selective color and heavy levels it became a silhouette. the gif on top, i used this levels adjustment

above my normal coloring, to make the contrast as popping as i could.

i assume this is the one you were asking about? this gif took me 5 hours in itself, like truly anon i went on a journey. these two scenes i used have mostly black backgrounds, so with coloring, a solid black background underneath, blending and some solid color at tiny parts the background was popping out, i did it.

this one was easy enough, that arthur scene is very basic to use for these kinds of gifsets. light background, back shot, easy to do work with gradient maps. i don't usually use exposure, but i used it for this one to tone down his head more. also i used white solid color set to soft light on his left so the text would be more visible so i wanted the gif to look more contrasted.

my dear anon, this is what the layers of this one look like. i'm scared to even look 😂 from what i remember for the boat, i again used big levels layers, solid black color layers set to soft light and normal for corners and basically painted it. you see that it doesn't move a lot so it was possible. oh i also deleted a lot of parts around it, zoomed in a lot to find missing spots, this one was work. its blending mode was screen.

this one was tricky because i had to add the whole gif with 3 gifs inside the colin one. that scene is from the living and the dead and it had a light background. so a mix of gradient maps and levels again. black selective color didn't work well here because it was fucking up the background of the gif, but black selective color in general is very tricky. it can ruin a gif a lot so only use it when it's an emergency.

and that's about it, i didn't show you all the gifs because a. tumblr in asks only lets 10 photos and b. i used the same techniques i talked about already. i hope it was helpful! if you would like help with anything else, my askbox is always open <3

[10-percent-expected-rainfall]

GRIMM || S1E17 vs S5E11

[cilly-murphy]

Hi! If you don’t mind me asking, how do you do the torn paper effect thing in your edits? (Btw your gifs are always amazing and I love them!!)

hi! thank you so much, it means the world 💚 i don't mind at all, i always love to help anyway i can! i'll be using this gif from my pinned gifset for this, tutorial under the cut

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i always look for them online, either google or freepik or behance. just type *torn paper png* *torn paper transparent*. i don’t have the link for the one i used here so i uploaded it here for you. you have to always be careful when you’re searching for them because many times (even if you’re looking for pngs) the background isn’t transparent. you can also use a brush to create it yourself that you can find here, it’s not a method i use but it can maybe work better for you! i open the torn paper on photoshop and i place it on top of my gif this is what we have now but i don’t like how light and fake it looks

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so i use this b&w gradient map, set it to linear burn blending mode and then right click clipping mask

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now it looks more ragged but i’m not satisfied yet so i will use a texture

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i used this concrete one (you can search on google and use any kind of texture you want and give the torn paper any look you wish) and i set it to multiply blending mode, 10% opacity, then right click create clipping mask

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this is what our gif looks like now but can you see that the edges of the torn paper look a bit weird? like black on top of the red?

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i go to my original gif, create a new layer and paint it black. then add a layer mask on it and while using a soft 0% hardness eraser tool brush, start deleting parts from the right side of the gif. you might wanna also duplicate the layer once or twice so it looks perfect! and now we have this 

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voila! i hope it’s all understandable, anything else you might need, my ask is always open! ❤️

[kvtnisseverdeen]

okay can i ask: HOW did you color the gorgeous green alicent cap and pink cap here? I'm SO in love post/695248863493324800/house-of-the-dragon-104-king-of-the-narrow

hi!

first off, thank you for the kind words :)

here's a general picspam tutorial: x

picspam inspo/prompts: x

here's a tutorial on how to color these house of the dragon caps:

let's start with the alicent cap:

step 1: fix that dark lighting

add a curves or brightness layer

add a color filter layer - this will help with the yellow lighting & these are my settings:

step 2: light leak textures

after that i added textures which were these and changed the color to only green by using hue and saturation adjusment + set it to screen

and that's literally it! basically just used a lottttt of light leaks and textures that were green but the main component was the color filter that made the cap have more cool tones. if you wanted to make the coloring red for example then you’d use the warming filter on the color filter adjustment! :)

alright moving on to the next cap:

step 1: fix that lighting again!

like the prev. cap, i used a curves layer and color filter layer except i used the violet filter

step 2: add gradient map layers

use the gradient map adjustment layer and set it from a dark to light color of your choice + set it to soft light OR screen (adjust opacity as needed)

step 4: add light leaks

for this specific cap i only added the light leaks on the corner (same one as above + changed it to pink) and set it to screen

and that’s all! hope this helped :)

as always, my inbox is open to any questions or comments!

~farah