cal taking a nap with bd after they come back from an adventure.
my ancient computer finally died in a way i couldn't fix and finally, finally...i am set up to do digital art again. i've tried a couple of practice pieces but this is the first one i feel is close to good enough for the art blog.
not perfect, but better than anything else i've made for WAY too long. so hopefully this is the beginning of this blog becoming more active again!
(this is based on pictures my mom took of me taking a nap with my favorite cat years ago. i miss that little guy.)
Hey! I was wondering if you're doing your GIFs by way of Photoshop.
I'm getting into GIF making, either for tumblr or personal purposes, so I'm learning to make them and trying to find the right presets, but the problem I have is the size of the GIF is enormous (~50Mb for a 3-second GIF). I was wondering if you have some advice for me.
I usually download the movie, record my screen through OBS Studio (better than Filmora, where the quality drops significantly), then convert the .mkv file to .mp4 and I suspect this may be the first part of my problem, that my video files are too big?
Then, I get the files into Photoshop and I suspect the presets add A LOT of size to the file, especially the noise filter. I'm not getting great results by limiting the GIF to 24 FPS and I can drop from 256 to 64 colours, but the file will always be too big and not as low as the ones I see on tumblr (-10Mb, always).
There it is. I was just wondering if you have any advice for me, which I would greatly appreciate. Thanks!
hello there!
yes, i use photoshop for my gifs. i can explain my process a bit, with some tips i found make a great difference when it comes to quality. it's all under the cut.
first of all, i don't use a screen recorder to capture the scene i want to gif - this usually results in loss of quality from the source material. i use handbrake to just clip the 5 or 10 seconds i need. it looks like this and in order to cut you just need to insert the timestamps.
i also make sure the exported file has the original size.
reading your message, my first thought was if you're resizing your gifs after importing the frames, because 50 mb is insanely huge.
so, after importing the frames in photoshop and cropping the gif, you need to resize it (the standard width of a gif on tumblr is 540 px). the process here is you select image -> image size -> set the width to 540 and the height to whatever value matches your desired ratio.
this is where a gif will go from over 60 mb (in my case) to less than 5.5 mb.
after doing this, you sharpen and use any other filters and colouring. of course, the size will change depending on how you edit the gif, but there's no way to make it as big as 50 mb.
another thing to watch when trying to improve the size is how many frames your gif has. i've seen in your message you said 3-second gif, but usually time doesn't tell you much, especially if you gif different media (i gif a lot of video games for example, and 3 seconds can mean different things depending if the footage was captured at 30 fps or 60 fps or more). so instead, just look at the number of frames from your gif.
i work in timeline and it shows here:
for hq footage, i try not to have more than 60 or 70 frames in a gif, because then it usually becomes bigger than 10 mb. if the difference is not big, i just delete a couple of frames to match the size limit.
i really hope this helps, but feel free to ask if you have any more questions, i'm just glad people are still trying to learn how to make gifs in this economy 💗
when tumblr dies i'll live under your bed and you can say out loud what you would post and i will say LIKE or REBLOG it'll be just like we're still here
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