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gif sharpening tutorial

This is a method for sharpening gifs without having to click each frame and layer to sharpen them individually.

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ludus

easy gif tutorial for Mac

This is a pretty easy tutorial for an alternative method of making HQ gifs on a Mac quickly and without losing any quality. It also includes a gif sharpening trick that would be useful on PCs.

*Summer 2012 update: Perian, the important program for this method, has stopped updating. It still works perfectly fine for me and I have yet to have any problems with this method, but if anyone does, please let me know! I’m poking around to see if there are any other easy, free alternatives just in case this method stops working. If you know of anything similar (basically any combination of programs on a Mac that will allow quickly exporting small mov clips from mkv video), please let me know so I can look into it!*

Okay, so this is designed as an alternative method for Macs because KMPlayer only works on PC, so I’ve searched for a simple solution for ages and finally found it. Unfortunately this plugin (Perian) doesn’t work on PCs, so this method will actually only work on Macs. However if you have a PC this isn’t completely useless to you, skip to step 7 for a really easy method of sharpening gifs.

Here’s a quick explanation of why I make gifs this way. You don’t have to read it, and it will make more sense if you have already experimented with making gifs, but it does explain things.

Photoshop has a really great feature called Import Video Frames to Layers, which basically means you put a video into Photoshop and it makes the frames for you. This is a thousand times easier than taking the caps yourself. But you want to try and make gifs from 720p video, which is usually in mkv form. This tutorial works for any quality video but I really encourage using 720p, it will make your gifs look so much prettier. (Sidenote: check out this photoset for the difference between 480p and 720p. The first two gifs are made from 480p, the second from 720p. It’s a pretty noticeable difference, and that’s why sticking to HQ video is your best bet.) Photoshop only recognizes Quicktime format videos, and mkv isn’t one of those. And for that matter, even though technically avi (which is usually 480p video) is a Quicktime format, those videos are most often formatted with codecs that Photoshop can’t recognize, so it won’t import those either. Mov formats are pretty much the only thing it seems to consistently be able to import, so that’s what we want to get to.

So if you want to use this feature, your only option is reformatting the video, which takes forever and often means you lose quality. And it doesn’t make sense to reformat an entire video anyways since what you need to make gifs is just short clips. VLC player has a transcoding feature that allows you to cut clips of video and put them into a different format, but I find it doesn’t work well with mkv video. Quicktime has a GREAT feature for exporting small clips of video without losing quality, but again, mkv videos can’t be opened in Quicktime, and avi only can be if you have Quicktime Pro. Until I finally found the solution to this! That solution is Perian, which is a plugin that allows you to open most video formats in Quicktime. So we’re going to use the export feature of Quicktime to make the clips for gifs and then the import frames feature of Photoshop to make the actual gif.

To sum up, this is what you need:

Photoshop CS3, CS4, or CS5. I use CS5.

Quicktime Player X (just the regular version that comes with your Mac if you have OS Snow Leopard or Lion, the app symbol is a gray Q with a blue center). This does not work with Quicktime Player 7, because for some reason they decided to make a lot of the features only available on Quicktime Pro for that version.

Perian, a completely free and safe Quicktime plugin

your video, preferably 720p mkv, but this is also useful for avi (480p). When I download clips from Youtube or Vimeo to make gifs out of I use Clipgrab and save them as mp4 in the highest quality available.

optional: VLC player- I usually watch the video in VLC and have it open in Quicktime at the same time, so when I get to a part I want to make a gif out of I switch to Quicktime, export that clip, and then go back to VLC without losing my spot. But that’s just because I’m kind of weirdly pathological.

This probably all sounds really complicated, but trust me when you get to the gif making it is really simple. This is kind of long but only because I tried to be as in depth as necessary. So let’s get started.

1. Download and install Perian. You can do so here, it’s free and I promise that it’s completely safe.

2. Open your video in Quicktime. Just drag the video onto the Quicktime icon and if Perian is installed it will open. It may take a minute or so for the file to actually open, especially if it’s long, but let it load for a bit and I promise it will open. If a message pops up telling you to use Quicktime 7 instead, right click the file, go to Open With —> Perian - Open in QT Player. Unfortunately if your file is over 2 GB it may not open in Quicktime X, and you may have to download Quicktime 7 Pro instead if you really want to gif that file. (Edit: I do now have Quicktime 7 Pro and have been using it to make gifs of large files, if you plan on doing the same the process is slightly different and I’d be happy to help you out with it - just message me and I will explain.)

3. Trim (in Quicktime) the clip you want to make into a gif. This is where watching the video in VLC can be helpful, because the longer the video is the trickier it is to get the right clip and you can look at the time markers in VLC and go by that. You can go to Edit —> Trim, or just press Command T. You should get something that looks like this. Now move the yellow markers to the clip that you want and click Trim. It may take a little playing with this to get the right clip. It’s okay to have a little bit of the scenes around the one you actually want (and sometimes necessary to get the whole thing) but try and trim it to a relatively small size.

4. Export the clip. Go to File —> Export. You should get a window that looks like this. It’s really important that you change the format, otherwise it won’t export in mov form and Photoshop won’t be able to read it. Change it to 720p (or 480p if that’s the highest quality you can get) like this. Then export the clip. A little dialog box will pop up while it exports and then it should disappear when it’s done. Make sure it shows the file ending in .mov, if it doesn’t then you didn’t change the format properly. Once you’re done you can press Command Z to go back to the original video if you want to make more than one gif out of it.

5. Import the clip into Photoshop. Open up Photoshop and go to File —> Import —> Video Frames to Layers. (Side note: if you ever get a message that says you need to switch to the 32-bit version of Photoshop to do this, all you need to do is go to your Applications folder, select Adobe Photoshop, press Command I, and check the option that says Open in 32-bit mode.) Change “Range to Import” from From Beginning to End to Selected Range Only. Hold down the shift key and move the slider to get the clip that you want. Check the Limit to Every “x” Frames box and change the number. For very small or short clips I use 2 or 3 frames, or 4 or 5 for longer clips. This is what it all should look like.

6. Edit your gif. There are many ways you can do this, this tutorial isn’t really going to focus on that. If you want it to be 500 px wide for Tumblr, you should really aim for it to be under 15 frames (or use a static background, but I’m not going to get into that) and consider cropping the height to something like 250 or 200 px. You should have a box that looks like this. If you don’t, go to Window —> Animation and it should pop up. You need to select all the frames and change the delay speed by clicking the small arrow under the frame like this. I usually use .15 or .2 depending on what the gif requires. Now you can add layers to alter the gif by going to Layer —> New Adjustment Layer or Layer —> New Fill Layer. I usually do a Curves layer to lighten things up, a Vibrance layer, Selective Color to bring out any colors that I want, and then go from there to color the gif which is generally different each time.

7. Sharpen the gif. This actually makes a huge difference in quality so it’s really important that you do it, but it’s kind of a pain in the butt. You can sharpen each layer separately by selecting the frame, selecting the layer, and then going to Filter —> Sharpen —> Sharpen. Or you can use this easier method, but it’s optional. Either way I recommend sharpening before you size the gif down, because it will be better quality. Every time you size down the gif you will lose quality. If you would rather do it frame by frame (which could be easier if you are just starting gifs because it’s easier to change the file size later on) that’s perfectly fine and in that case just do that, skip the rest of this, and move on to saving the gif.

Update: I’m taking out this part because I made a whole separate tutorial for sharpening that explains it much better. You check that out here.

8. Save your gif. Go to File —> Save for Web and Devices. You can also play your gif here to see how it looks. The most important thing though is that your gif be under 1MB so that it will play on Tumblr. If you save it with a size over that, it won’t play. The size is shown in the bottom left of this window. If it’s only slightly over, you may be able to get it under by saving it with less colors (which you can alter manually, so instead of going straight from 256 to 128 try options in between and see what you can get), or by saving it with a different setting (Diffusion tends to be a slightly smaller size than Pattern). If it’s way over 1MB you need to consider going back and removing some frames or maybe cropping it to a shorter height. This is how my window looks, which are my preferred settings because this gif was under 1MB without me having to fiddle with it.

9. Post on Tumblr! Post your gif, tag it so that people will see it, and keep experimenting with Photoshop. This tutorial is kind of cobbled together from the many other tutorials I’ve read, from my own experiments in Photoshop, and from stumbling across Perian in a blog post from 2008 by sheer luck. It’s the method that works best and easiest for me, but you’ll be able to figure out if it does for you or not. My ask box is always open for any questions that you have. I’d also recommend checking out fuckyeahresources, they’re great for Photoshop tips.

This is my final gif:

For reference, the unsharpened version of the exact same gif. Sharpening is important.

#beginner

hawkeyedriza

Hey Ria! :) I was wondering how you make a GIF transition from beginning to end like how yours does in your sidebar (it's almost like a slow flash idk how to explain it :/)

So here’s a tutorial on how to make this transition effect on this gif:

It’s pretty simple, soooo *teacher voice* let’s get started

fuckyouharrystyles

The transition photoset thing tutorial:

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No, I didn’t come up with this idea so don’t call me “creative” or anything because I feel really bad for taking credit for someone else’s creativity. The inspiration is on the original post indicated as the “x” after the corny quote. It’s basically this folks x or

; So this is just a 3 gifset version of it (yes, I’m lazy) but, you’ll get the sense of it.

Open up the gifs, sharpen them, apply a .psd, whatever special thing you do

So now, duplicate the first animation frame!

After that, go to add a new color layer to your gif

Now, select animation frams 2-the very last one and click the color fram off

Now, duplicate the whole gif, (right click<duplicate) and then go to the second animation frame, and flatten the image

Now, resize the image’s width to 140px (the height should automatically resize aswell).

Now, still on the flattened image go to Filter>Blur>Motion Blur at the top menu, and the settings are

Now, since the gif is going to “slide” onto the next gif, it’s going to be horizontally at 0 degrees. (If you’re going to make the gif slide down, then the angle should be 90 degrees)

Back to the gif, now duplicate the solid colored animation frame about 6 times

Okay, now drag the flattened image onto the gifs

Okay, so now move the layer to the very left edge.

Go onto to the second one and then move it a little more, and then the third one and so on, until it reached the middle. It should probably look something like this.

Then, you gotta do the same thing for the ending transition thing, but with the last animation frame flattened. BUT make sure the the second, third, fourth, etc gif has an extra blank, black animation frame at the very beginning and for ALL THREE an extra animation blank black animation fram at the very end.

Now, that you’re done with the gifs itself, it’s time to adjust the timing. Since, for the very first frame there are 30 frames that have a time of .1, (the very last blank black one does not count) the second gif’s first blank black frame’s time should be 3. All you have to do is multiply the duration for all of the frames by 10. Now, the third gif’s first blank black animation frame should be 3 seconds(the time from the first gif) + 2.3 (the time from the second gif)=5.2 seconds.

Now go back to the very first frame (add the time for the second gif and the third gif. (2.3+3.2=5.5)) and change the time to 5.5

Now, go to the second, and change the duration of the very last blank black animation frame to 3.2 (that’s the time of the 3rd gif) AND THERE YOU HAVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FEEL FREE TO ASK ME

yummihoes

Photoshop Tutorial- Gif on pic edit

So, I have received a number of ask about how to make an edit like this or this. This tutorial is quite simple, what you need is patience and be familiar with making gif and editting.

First, to start making the edit, you’ll need a suitable gif and a picture. The gif needs to be a black and white gif, with white background so that when blending the pic will appear at the black part of the gif. In both the example I made the gif from a video resource, which you can find it here .

Editing the pic/gif as you like (sharpen, brightness/contrast, etc). Also, slow down the gif to 0.1s, so that it’s slow enough to see the pic. Merge down the pic, save the gif.

Important: The gif needs to be in black and white. The black part can be kept as it original was, but the white part must be entirely white (#ffffff). So you need to use some adjustment on it, like Levels, Brightness/Contrast, etc. If not, when blending the pic, it would turn out like this.

Open both the gif and pic, drag the pic into the gif so that it appears on top of the layers of the gif.

Select all frames of the gif, use the Select Tool to move the pic to the position you like (you also need to select the pic layer)

When the pic is in the position, with all the frames selected, at the top left corner of the layer window, select Lighten, or Lighter color as I use here (or you can choose Screen, depends on how you want it to look like). The pic will now be cut off of the part that is white in the gif, only visible in the part which is black. (You have to click on the pic layer then choose Lighter color.)

From then you can fix the pic into better position, resize it and if there’s some white dots from the gif that appears on the pic , you can use brush in black and paint over the layer with the white dots.

Run the gif and tada~ it’s done.

If you want you can add texture, some other adjustments and text (like my sidebar image).

Tips:

This can apply for gif on gif edit too. But to have 2 gif blended together with the inner gif visible enough is such a pain and took lots of time. However if you’re patient enough, just blend the 2 gif together by Copy all frames of the gif that will be the inner gif (to appear in the black part of the outer gif), select all frame of the outer gif and paste the inner gif over with the Paste over selection option and continue like making gif on pic edit.

When moving the pic around, don’t forget select all the frame then use the select tool. If you don’t, the frame you selected will be the only one with the pic in the new position and not the other. It’s quite a pain so pay attention to that.

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a graphics tutorial masterlist →

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♚ 99mockingbirds tutorials ↳animation/gif ↳blend & texture 1 ↳blend & texture 1 ↳collage ♚ wicked-fate tutorials ↳20 graphics tips ↳basic gif ♚ mareluna3000 tutorials ↳gif “flash effect” ↳how to create an action ↳the tweening effect ↳merging two gifs ↳gif black out ↳basic gif ♚ lovephotoshop tutorials ↳using psds ↳using actions ♚ neverlands- tutorials ↳cutting & cropping ↳graphic tips ↳basic gif ♚ slayground tutorials ↳basic graphig ↳using textures ♚ callmebrandon tutorials ↳basic gif ↳blur image slideshow ↳basic screencap ↳shaking gif ♚ -redux tutorials ↳using textures ♚ ex-posed tutorials ↳cutting & cropping ↳basic icon ↳adjustment layers & selective color ♚ ettudis tutorials ↳blending & texture 1 ↳blending & texture 2 ↳blending & texture 3 ♚ redcarpet&rebellion tutorials ↳base making ↳using the lasso tool ↳hard cutting ↳image preparation ↳graphic tips ↳basic blending ↳ icons one and two ↳ blending one two three four and five

#masterposts

thinkps-blog

How to make the lyrics gifs 2.0

THIS TUTORIAL WILL TEACH HOW TO MAKE TWO TYPES OF LYRICS AND WITH THIS TUTORIAL GIF, YOU ALREADY HAVE BASICCONCEPT OF HOW TO MAKE A FUCKING GOOD LYRICS GIF :-D

Like those ones :) ex:

FIRST ALL

you know the difference between frame and layer, right? because we are use these terms a lot.But if you do not know, frame is in animation and layer in the layers box(F7).

open a new document (ctrl + n), I like 245x180 and 245x245, but it’s just what I use.

Select the color I teach a few styles, and how to do them. The first tutorial will be how to do this:

Well, you start by duplicating the layer(layer>duplicate layer…>ok) And choosing another color for this, a color similar to the previous (or not, this is just to be harmonized)

Now, click Duplicates Selected Frames

Now click the first frame and drag it to where you want to start.

Like this:

Now click the second frame and drag the second layer (the duplicate layer) to where you want it to end the ‘curtain’ (?) haha anyway, should look like this:

click the first frame and then click on Tweens Animation Frames leave as follows:

so let like this:

(if you want to make it slower or faster, increase the number of ’FRAMES TO ADD’)

Should look like this :

now add the first words. write something that fits the part where you put an end to the second layer Now drag the words to under the second layer (background copy)

before:

after:

you can position your writing here

Should look like this:

Now, you need to duplicate a layer and for over all and delete it with the eraser (e)

then you can do something with the brush or put some png and etc. With another color of course.

Your gif should probably look like this:

hehe,really really weeird!HAHA OK,we’ll fix it!you come here:

click in Select All Frames and disappears the layer (PNG layer)

Now you click the last frame and come back the layer must be like this:

Type the rest of the words and add it to the last layer(PNG,marge down this words with this png) Now you do the same thing that you did before: Drag the layer(PNG) to where you want to start the gif

and then add another frame (duplicate the last frame) here:

and drag to where you want to finish then you click on the penultimate frame and then Tweens Animation Frames and let like this:

your gif should look this now:

duplicate the last frame and also the first layer Now you drag this layer you now doubled and put on top of the first words should look like this:

go here again:

and click in Select All Frames

disappears the layer

click back on the last frame and put back the layer and drag it to where you want to start this part of the gif

add more frame and put a layer where you want to finish the gif

there you click on the penultimate layer and then Tween Animation Frames and ok.

add more one frame. Add another and puts the second sentence (with PNG) until the end because THIS CAN NOT APPEAR. again in the penultimate layer and go in tween animation frames and let you know how Now add a frame and delete the second color

In the penultimate frame selected,go back in tween animation frames and ok is done

Now,how to do this:

Open a document Write something

Double the frame select the first frame and the words and come here

choose what you want, I chose ARCH leave as follows:

Now select the frame 2 and the words again

and go in that tool (CREAT WARPED TEXT)

choose again ARCH and leave it in print

click the first and then Tweens Animation Frames let so:

must be like this:

Now select all the frames come here and click Select All Frames

go there again but now click Copy Frames select the last one and go there again and click paste frames … > paste over selection > ok now go back and click Reverse Frames must be like this

to others, just change the style of Warped text :)

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Now,how to do this:

Open a document

Duplicate the layer, now paint with another color click the frame and drag the layer (backgroung copy) to wherever you want the open the ‘window’ duplicate the layer again (the layer new) with the frame still selected, drag the new copy back to wherever you open the window, but on the opposite side of the other duplicate the frame and drag the layer to the middle, so that the ‘window’ closes click the first frame, and then Tween Animation Frames and leave it in print

should look like this:

you can do many things with this tutorial, just be creative. Ok, see you next :D

LIKE THIS POST IF HELPED YOU,ANYTHING, JUST ASK ME!

itsphotoshop

How to add falling snow to a gif:

Some people requested this.

I use Photoshop CS5.

Like/reblog the post if you find this tutorial useful.

Example:

More examples inside

+ how to add “white noise” to a gif

itsphotoshop

How to put colored parts in a black&white gif (2 different ways)

Anonymous asked how to make this.

I use Photoshop CS5.

Please like the post if you think the tutorial has been useful.

Final results:

WAY NUMBER 1 With this way, you use the colors that are already in the gif (for example, the apple is already red).

[ STEP 1 ] First of all, make your gif, but don’t make it black and white yet. You can sharpen, add topaz and whatever, just make your gif as you usually do and save it. My gif:

[ STEP 2 ] Ok so for this step you have to download Quicktime (search for it in Google and you’ll find it). Go to File > Import > Video frames from layers, write *.* and click Load > OK. Now search for your gif and click Load again. Your gif should show up in photoshop like this.

[ STEP 3 ] Now we’re gonna create a b&w Gradient Map. Make sure your colors in the Toolbar are black&white [image] and go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map. Now you have to make sure every layer has its own gradient map. To do that just right click in the first gradient map > Duplicate Layer. Do that a lot of times until there are as many gradient maps as layers and put one gradient map over each layer [image].

[ STEP 4 ] Now you’ll see your Animation window looks like this, so your gif looks like this and yeah that sucks. To fix it, just make sure you selected the first frame, and click on the little eye next to each gradient map (except for the first one) [image]. Now select the second frame, and click in the little square (not the white one) next to the 2nd gradient map and the little eye will appear. Select the 3rd frame and click on the little square next to the 3rd gradient map and do that with all the frames/gradient maps. Your gif should look like this:

[ STEP 5 ] Now, do you see the white big square next to the gradient maps? That’s called mask. So, if you select the mask, you click on the Brush Tool and you paint the gradient black, you will see the gradient doesn’t work anymore. What you have to do is paint with black the parts of the gif you want to be colored. You have to do it with each gradient map. My gif:

WAY NUMBER 2 With this way, you can put colors that are not in the gif (like the green apple).

[ STEP 1 ] Make your gif as normal. Sharpen, add topaz, a psd and a black&white gradient map (i explained how to do that in Step 3 of the Way 1). Now save your gif as normal and do Step 2 in the Way 1:

[ STEP 2 ] Now look at Steps 3 and 4 in the Way 1. You have to do the same but with Normal Layers (transparent layers). To add that kind of layers just click on this icon at the bottom of the layers window

[ STEP 3 ] So now you have to select the first transparent layer and paint it of the color you want wherever you want, and then change the Blending Options and the opacity until you like the result. You have to do that with all the transparent layers:

Hope this helped :)

itsphotoshop

How to make this:

crazzyliife asked how to make something like this.

This tutorial is really long so you have to be patient.

I use Photoshop CS5.

Please like the post if you think the tutorial has been useful.

The images are in Spanish but i think you can understand them.

[ STEP 1 ] Make 3 different gifs: the first one 245x90px, the second one 245x80 and the third one 245x88px. All the gifs must have the same frames and duration. Mine are gonna have 13 frames and 0,1 of duration. Don’t sharpen or add a psd. These are my gifs:

[ STEP 2 ] Don’t save the gifs. Make another one. It has to be 245x258. Its number of frames doesn’t have to be like the other gifs, but mine is going to. And its duration has to be the same too:

[ STEP 3 ] Go to the 4 gif, go to Image > Canvas Size and do this. Your gif should look like this:

[ STEP 4 ] Now cut your gif like it already is. It means: don’t cut anything, but this will delete the parts you deleted when you changed the canvas size, because they’re still there. To cut it select the crop tool [

] and do this (the gray background is the PS background):

[ STEP 5 ] Select all the frames and all the layers, click this icon [

] and click Copy Frames [image]. Now fo to the 1st gif (the 245x90px one), select the last frame, click on the same icon and Paste Frames. Now click “Paste After Selection” [image]. Your gif should look like this:

[ STEP 6 ] Go to the gif 4. Go to the History Window. If it doesn’t appear in your PS, go to Window > History. Now, remember when you changed the canvas size to 245x90px? Click on the step before you did that, so your gif should look again like this:

[ STEP 7 ] Now change the canvas size again. Image > Canvas size. This time do it like this.

[ STEP 8 ] Repeat steps 4 and 5, but in the step 5, paste the frames in the 2nd gif and not in the 1st. So it should look like this:

[ STEP 9 ] Repeat step 6. Now change the canvas size again. Image > Canvas size. This time do it like this.

[ STEP 10 ] Repeat steps 4 and 5, but in the step 5, paste the frames in the 3rd gif and not in the 1st or the 2nd. So it should look like this:

[ STEP 11] We’re calling GIF 1 at the one we created in step 5, GIF 2 at the one we created in step 8 and GIF 3 at the one we created in step 10. So go to GIF 1, select all the layers and go to Layer > Group Layers. We do it because it’s easier to work with.

[ STEP 12 ] Now do step 4, go to Image > Canvas Size and do this. Your gif should look like this (the gray background is the PS background):

[ STEP 13 ] Go to GIF 2. Repeat step 4. And Group the Layers again. Change the Group’s name to Group 2. Click this icon [

] and click Copy Frames (like we did in step 5). Now go to GIF 1, select all the frames, click on the same icon and Paste Frames. But now don’t click “Paste after selection”, you have to click “Paste over selection”:

[ STEP 14 ] Repeat step 13, but now with GIF 3. The Group’s name should be Group 3.

[ STEP 15 ] With all the frames selected, click Group 3 in the Layers Window, make sure the Move Tool is selected [

] and move it at the bottom of the gif. Now select Group 2 and put it in the middle. It should be like this (yes, it has to be a pixel betweet the gifs):

omfg this tutorial is so long and now the worst part comes

[ STEP 16 ] You’ll se GIF 2 and GIF 3 don’t move. Well, you have to make them move. Make layers of group 2 visible [image]. Select the 2nd frame and click on the square next to the 2nd layer. An eye should pop up [image]. Easy, right? Well, now you have to do it with every fucking frame (select the 3rd frame, click on the square next to the 3rd layer, select the 4th frame, click on the square next to the 4th layer, select the 5th frame, click on the square next to the 5th layer, etc, etc, etc).

[ STEP 17 ] Select all the frames except the first, and click on the eye next to the first layer. Now GIF 2 should move.

[ STEP 18 ] Repeat steps 16 and 17 but with GIF 3 (Group 3). All the gifs should move and look like this:

[ STEP 19 ] Ok so now you have to add the polaroid texture. This one is the texture you have to put. Download it, drag it into your gif, make sure is over all the layers and change from “Normal” to “Multiply” [image]. Your gif should look like this:

[ STEP 20 ] Now add a psd and a black and white gradient map. Make sure the gradient is under the polaroid in the Layers Window and the psd under the gradient map [image].

[ STEP 21 ] Select the frames that are part of the big gif [image] and click on the little eye next to the gradient map.

[ STEP 22 ] Now select the rest of the frames and make sure the white square next to the gradient is selected [image]. Click the Eraser Tool [

] and erase the gradient map like this:

You can also delete those parts with the Rectangular Marqee Tool [

[ STEP 23 ] Select all the frames and in the Layers Window, select Group 1, 2, and 3. Now click this icon at the bottom left of the Animation Window. Now go to Filter > Convert to smart object. Go again to Filter > Sharpen > Smart sharpen and my settings.

[ STEP 24 ] File > Save for Web & Devices and make sure you change from “Once” to “Infinite” at the bottom left. And that’s all!!!!!!

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AND

YOUR

GIF

FINISHED

YEAH.

I REALLY HOPE THIS HELPED OR I’LL KILL MYSELF

24 STEPS

UGH

the big gif looks like shit but whatever

again for you:

octaviareyes

hey there. ok so this tutorial was requested a few times but i didn’t had time before to make it. it’s a tutorial for this photoset and focuses on this gif:

it’d probably be the best to follow this tutorial if you already have some knowledge of photoshop. :)

step one: make your gif. there are a few things you should keep in mind when picking the scene which you want to gif: - if the person you want to be black and white doesn’t move too much. in my gif katherine walks, which made it quite hard to do everything. i seriously spend way too much time on that gif :’) - make sure there’s a contrast between the background and person. if the background is black, and the hair and shirt of the person are also black it’ll be hard. - make sure you don’t have too many frames. sure, a gif with 30 frames looks good but i would only do that if you have lots and lots of time. because otherwise it’ll be your dead. check? :) now just make your gif like you usually do, crop it, sharpen it, add a psd etc. i used this psd but with a few changes so everything would be a little more vibrant. now just save your gif. i have this:

(i just picked a scene where elena barely moves so it’s easier) step two: when your gif is saved go to file> import> videoframes to layers and search for where you saved your gif and just open it. now you should get this frame:

just leave everything as it is and press ok. this way your psd is merged with the layers, which makes everything easier. step three: now it’s time for a black and white gradient map. if you don’t know how to use those, here’s a tutorial for that. i picked a gradient which is a bit brownish. now make sure EVERY LAYER has it’s own gradient map. your layers should look like this:

my gif now looks like this:

step four: this is the hardest part. for this part you need to understand what a mask is and how it works. i am seriously in love with this tool. ever wondered when you look at a psd and that white square is on the layer? (this thing here:

) well that’s a mask! masks are pretty simple. when the square is white the layer is visable, but when you make the square black the layer doesn’t work anymore. ok, now i re-read that, that doesn’t look so simple. but that has probably more to do with my explaining issues, because masks are really easy! they’re great to make one part of a adjustment layer visable and the other part not. for example, look at these layers:

the bottom two layers are all just normal white, but the top one is white with something black written on that. because i did that my gif now looks like this:

see?! the gradient works on most parts on the gif, except there where i wrote something in black. masks really are amazing, also when you make graphic. because have you ever had that you blended two images together, and then later decide it’d look better if you hadn’t erased one part of an image? well if you erased it you can’t bring it back - but when you used a mask to erase parts you can just bring back that part with white. i’m so sorry if you can’t understand it because my explaining sucks, so if you still don’t understand: search on google! ok so now we’re actually going to work with the masks. click on the mask of the gradient from your first frame and fill it with black. as you can see now, the gradient doesn’t work anymore. i do this because you see the difference in an imagine better when it’s in color so it’s easier to get your edges good. if you did that it should look likes this:

now get the polugonal lasso tool (or - if you cut out images more often - and prefer another thing than do that. like if you prefer using the pen tool - use the pen tool! if you use the eraser normally you now have to use the brush in white, because remember > white = visible) now just start doing your thing! if you use the lasso tool or the pen tool, just select your person first. i recommend zooming in quite a lot, so you can see everything better. don’t worry if you mess up a bit, we can fix that later. :) my selection looks like this - i know, not perfect at all.

and now fill your selection (REMEMBER - NOT THE LAYER BUT THE GRADIENT MASK) with white. my image and layers now look like this:

as you can see, my edges are a mess :’) but there’s an easy way to fix that, just zoom in again, take a small brush and paint over the edges that are still colored. step five: happy? now it’s time to make the white line. i probably do this in a way too hard way, but it’s the way that works for me. make a new layer on top of your gradient. then hold down CTRL and click on the gradient mask. see how it makes your selection again? then fill that selection with white ON THE NEW LAYER YOU CREATED. now deselect it, and with the arrows on your keyboard move the white thing a little. i always do two to left or two to right. i never do up and down, because well i just don’t like the way it looks. but it’s your own choice of course. it should look like this now.

not really what we want, huh? press CTRL and click on the mask again to make the selection again, and then just press delete. if it’s good you now only have your line. mine now looks like this, with next to it how your layers should be:

and now comes the best part - cough - you have to repeat step four and five for all the other layers. ITS A PAIN IN THE ASS - BUT IT LOOKS NICE. at least, when you spend time on it. i made mine fast - and became lazy after five frames and i ended up with this:

see, when you don’t spend much time on it it’ll be a disaster :’))))))) (can i just mention how ugly my line looks???????) ok so this is it i hope i at least one person with this - i doubt it - because i’m horrible at explaining. but i did my best. :)

maggins

3D photoset tutorial with transparency

I never tried, but I suppose that’s easy too. You just have to go to each of the layers and erase the space limited by the white stripes.

In frames in which nothing changes it’s easy: just follow these steps until the selection between the guides, and go to each of the frames and erase the selection from their correspondant layers:

(you can use either the Eraser tool or just press the Delete or Backspace key)

As for the frames with the arrow… Well, you take the Lasso Tool:

And put it on these settings:

What I did was put in on “Subtract from Selection” mode and modified the “Feather” settings to 2px. The bigger the value of the Feather, the blurrier the selection becomes, and that’s why I’m going to increase that value as the arrow comes closer and closer. But this depends from gif to gif, so you have to fit the settings to the demands of your gif.

Then just Erase/Delete, and so forth on the next frames

There are cases in which one selection is only good for one particular frame, so you might have to do it all over again (put the guides in place, make the selection and THEN remove bits of the selection), OR, if you prefer, you make a separate layer with the margins painted in white, put it to invisible, and when you need to make a new selection, simply click on that layer, go to ‘Select’ > ‘Load Selection…’, and then on the box that appears simply click ‘OK’. And there’s the selection again! :D

The final result:

I usually don’t do this because it takes a lot more work, and I’m a lazy butt and it makes little difference when you’re on the dashboard viewing these gifs.

henrytudors

Empty Lines Gif Tutorial

For Anon.

I‘m going to be doing a gif tutorial on how to make a gif with empty space, or white lines, in it. I’ll be making this one as an example:

The goal is to make it look like your chosen person or object is hovering outside the white barrier lines, creating a floating effect.

For this tutorial, you’ll need Photoshop and a decent set of skills and knowledge of how PS works.

I‘m going to be doing a gif tutorial on how to make a gif with empty space, or white lines, in it. I’ll be making this one as an example:

The goal is to make it look like your chosen person or object is hovering outside the white barrier lines, creating a floating effect.

For this tutorial, you’ll need Photoshop and a decent set of skills and knowledge of how PS works.

First, you need to chose and resize or crop your frames that you want to use. It’s best to use a small amount of frames-this process is long, and can be tedious, taking several hours. However, it’s not that difficult. Make sure your rulers are visible. After you’ve gotten all of that done, you need to create some guiding lines.

I create guiding lines by taking my mouse and pulling over from the left side of the screen by the ruler to the right.

Since you want to make the space inbetween equal, use your rulers to help you measure out how far apart each line is from the next. You want them to be about a quarter of an inch, or about 10 pixels, apart.

Now, we’re going to use the polygonal lasso tool.

Next, you need to draw the shape you’re making by connecting lines into a polygonal shape. Some can be simple, while others may be more difficult, like this:

Now, make sure to avoid the person or object you’re trying to make “float” or cut out. You don’t want to accidentally snip off a part of that, or that’ll ruin the whole concept.

Next, you need to make a layer from the cut:

And then delete that layer so that it disappears and you’re left with that lovely blank space! You have to do this for each and every one of the layers. I’m sure there could be an easier way out there, but I don’t know it. Make sure to leave those guidelines right where they are the whole time!

Now, on to the tedious part! This is all just erasing the background that’s left! Using the eraser tool, at a small amount of pixels, erase all of the background left that you don’t want shown in the empty space! I’d also suggest zooming in a bit so you can see it better!

From this:

To that:

Sometimes you have to get really nitty gritty, and use a really small eraser, so you can cut out shapes like this:

Once you’ve done that on every frame, you’re through! Just color, set your timing, and you’ve got your gif! If you think I’ve missed something, just drop me a line!

ollivanders

3D IMAGE/GIF TUTORIAL

My very first tutorial showing you how to convert a 2D image to a 3D image.

You’ll need:

-Photoshop

-Triaxes StereoTracer (link in text)

First, we’ll need to make a depth map. A depth map is basically a black and white gradient filled version of the photo.

black = farthest / white = closest [greys are in between]

1. Open the image you want to turn into 3D in Photoshop. In this example, I’ll be using the THG poster.

2. Select the ‘Polygonal Lasso Tool’ (or ‘Quick Selection’) and click the option ‘Add selection’ (so you can be able to select more than one area without a continuous selection)

then use the tool to select the floor

(ignore the choppiness of my selection, i’m too lazy to make it exact)

Create a new layer. Layer > New > Layer

3. Select the ‘Gradient Tool’ and make sure the gradient is black and white

Click and drag the Gradient Tool within the selection downwards and you should have a layer containing a gradient for the floor

You can keep adjusting the gradient accordingly by clicking and dragging until you get a realistic sense of depth from the gradient.

4. Continue selecting objects and creating new layers for each of the gradients until you get this result:

(I could’ve worked on the Mockingjay pin but since I’m lazy, I just desaturated it and lowered the brightness)

5. Resize your image to a width of 500px or lower. Image > Image Size

6. Merge depth layers and apply ‘Gaussian Blur’.

Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur… [radius: approx. 2.1 pixels]

7. Save your depth map. Make sure your depth map and original image are the same size.

8. Open up StereoTracer (click demo when it asks for activation)

9. Click Project > New and click the option for ‘Original Picture and depth map’

10. Open your original picture and depth map

11. Go to Image > Generate frames…

Set number of frames: 8 or 7 and parallax: 5 or lower [parallax=amount of 3D]

(I suggest to not use numbers greater than 8 for frames and 5 for parallax)

12. Click ‘Start’ and the frames should be generated

13. Test the animation by clicking the play button and it should work on the preview above!

Then stop the animation

SINCE THE PROGRAM IS A DEMO, IT WATERMARKS ALL OVER THE GIF IF YOU SAVE IT. I’M GOING TO CONTINUE THE STEPS ON HOW TO SAVE THE GIF WITHOUT THEM

14. Scale the image to ‘100%’ on the upper-left corner

15. SCREENSHOT EACH FRAME [STARTING FROM ‘FRAME 1’] FROM THE PREVIEW AND PASTE IT ONTO PHOTOSHOP

I know it’s tedious, but it’s better than having watermarks.

16. Continue onto Photoshop as though you’re making a GIF and create new frames for each set of images.

Note: I have 10 frames even though I set 7 in StereoTracer. This is because I had to reverse the GIF with 3 frames to make the animation smooth without a jump.

17. Go to File > Save to Web… and save your 3D GIF!

MAKE SURE TO ADJUST GIF SETTINGS TO MAKE IT BELOW 1MB

AND THERE YOU HAVE IT! You just made a lenticular 3D image!

heyyysol

i’ll be making this:

starksfell

Gif Tutorial

How to make a gif that looks like this:

Making this gif is not too difficult (but you should be comfortable with making gifs and stuff like that), it’s just quite time consuming. Alright, here we go :)

heyyysol

Ok so this is my first Photoshop tutorial. I wasn’t really sure how to go about doing this, so I used a lot of other tutorials as reference. I’m not the best at explaining so I hope you guys could understand what I was trying to say. Constructive criticism as to how I could improve on explaining or just improve the overall tutorial is welcome with open arms :). If you have any questions feel free to ask me, and yeah. May all your future photoshop endeavors be full of happiness and joy~ and I’m going to stop blabbing now.

*I use Photoshop CS5

*If you have any questions please message me off anonymous so I can reply to you privately

Step 1: First make your 2 pictures, one for the background, and one that will fall and eventually cover up the background, like this:

When you make you pictures, make sure it has the right dimensions for you to be able to cut it up the way you want to. The pictures I used were 245 px by 343 px because I wanted 5 squares across and 7 squares down and each of the squares were exactly 49 px in length and width.

Step 2: Cut up the 2nd picture however you want using the slice select tool. It can be found with the crop tool. To find it, right-click the crop button and press slice select.

Once you have done that, click the picture you want to cut up, and this should show up at the top

Press divide and put whatever settings you want. Like I said, I divided my pictures into 5 columns and 7 rows, evenly spaced. You can also choose to divide it by pixel.

Once you have done that, your picture would be cut up, but you have to save it properly. Go to “save for webs and devices” under “File” like you would for gifs, but instead of saving it as a GIF, save it as a JPEG, or a PNG picture, whatever you will.

Ok, so I saved mine on my desktop and when go to it, it’s a folder with all the little pieces of the picture as separate pictures, like so:

Step 3: Put the 2 pictures together. This is what I think is the most tedious part of the whole job, just because it takes SO LONG. Especially if you cut it up into more pieces, the more work it is lol. Open up all the pictures in photoshop. Also, start a new canvas with the same dimensions as the big picture. In this case, 245 x 343. It’s also a good idea to keep the original picture open for reference in case you don’t know what piece goes where. Now, copy and paste (dragging the layers WILL NOT work) all the little pieces onto the big blank canvas and put them together to look like the original picture.

Now you have something that looks like the original picture, but it’s actually composed of the pieces that you cut.

Select ALL the layers, and move them to the background picture that you made. Then, while ALL the layers are still selected, move them to the top, and out of the picture.

Step 4: Now it’s time to animate the sequence, yay! :)

The first frame you should have shows the background picture.

Next, make a new frame by clicking that paper icon next to the trashcan. Find the piece that you want to fall first, and position it halfway down the background picture, but still in the same vertical position. It’s important to have them in the exact same vertical position so it falls in a straight line rather than flying all over the place. So it should look something like this:

And your timeline should look like this:

Tween it with the previous frame by clicking that button that looks like a ball flying through the air. Check off position only, cause you’re only focusing on the movement of the frames, and nothing else. However many frames you choose to add, but remember the more frames you add the bigger the size of the overall gif and it has to be less than 1 MB.

This creates multiple frames transitioning the first and the second frame, so the little pink square moves smoothly down the picture.

Make a new frame after the last one. Move the little picture all the way down to the bottom, still in the same vertical position. Also, choose the next little picture and move it halfway down the picture, like this:

and your timeline will look like this:

Once again, tween the with the previous frames. You have to keep the same number of frames you added the last time so that it will flow consistently. For the last tween, I added 4 frames, so this time I will also add 4 frames.

Keep doing this until you get to the end of the row. When you get to the last picture in the first row, move the first picture from the second row halfway down as well like this:

So that there is no pause in between the falling.

Continue to do this and also tweening your frames as you go (it’s more confusing to do it at the end because you end up with like 100 something frames). You don’t have to do this, but it’s a good idea to always play your animation every once in the while to make sure you haven’t made any mistakes, because if you catch a mistake when you’ve finished the whole thing, it sucks to have to go back to fix that, and every other frame after that it has affected.

When you’re finished all the rows, your last frame will look like this:

and your timeline will have a whole bunch of frames like this:

Step 4: Finishing up everything.

This last animation is purely up to choice. Like you don’t HAVE to do it, but I like it when the end of my gif transitions into the beginning of my gif, so that’s why I do it.

This part is just how at the end, the pink picture pulls up the reveal the blue background picture again.

Ok so go back all the way to the first frame that you had that just shows the blue picture, and duplicate it. Then drag that duplicated frame all the way to the end, after the last frame, like this:

Tween it with the previous frame, and you will see the transition of the whole pink picture moving up to reveal the background blue picture.

That way it looks like the whole gif continuously moves with no pauses.

Finally, you can play around with the timing of the frames so that some frames (such as the background and the whole pink picture) last longer.

AND THIS IS THE HAPPIEST PART BECAUSE YOU’RE FINALLY DONE!!! Go to “save for webs and devices”, and this time, save it as a GIF. You might have to play around with the settings to make sure it’s less than 1 MB so it will work on Tumblr. To make the size smaller, decrease the number of colours you’re using.

When you’ve done that, press save and you’re good to go! YAY :)

ohinalbion

Tutorial # 9: How to make a movie poster GIF.

pscs5

requested by anon

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Welcome to this tutorial. If you know how to make a gif, this is very easy. If you don’t know how to make one, check this tutorial out.

Once you imported the clip you want to use, make sure you crop or scale the image down to 500 pixels. You do this with the “Image Size” (cmd+alt+i or Image -> Image Size) or Canvas Size(cmd+alt+c or Image -> Canvas Size) tools.

Now you can create the canvas you want for the poster. I like the size 500px x 650px. Go to the Canvas Size tool.

Type in 650 pixels to the “height box” and fix the anchor like I did in the image below.

Now make a new layer.

Move this layer under the lowermost layer and fill it with 100% black.

Do this by going to Edit -> Fill or by clicking shift + f5 (fn+ shift + f5 for those who use a macbook).

Then check “black” in the “Use” pop down and press OK.

Now you have to smoothen out the transition between the black background and your GIF.

Make a new layer and move it over the topmost layer of your GIF.

Choose a soft large brush and carefully paint over the image. Make sure you use a low opacity for this, because this will make it easier for you.

Now you can colour the image. Use a PSD you like or do it yourself. If you don’t know any PSD files, you can check out mine or lookbackseeforward’s ones. I did it like this:

Now it’s time for the text. The “trick” is simple. I just copied the font of the original movie poster.

Drag this to your image. (Just click in the image and drag it to your file with your mouse.)

Now scale it to the right size.

Choose the “Magic Wand” Tool and a tolerance between 20 and 50.

This will probably only work if the contrast between font and background is quite high. Now click on the background colour and the Magic Wand will select all the colours around the font. If you need to add more colours to the Wand’s choice, hold the “Shift” Button pressed, while adding other parts of the image.) Press the delete button.

Now you can erase the rest of the image with a soft eraser. (This is easier than picking up all the colours with the Wand tool.)

I also added the credits that are usually on a movie poster. I added the credits of the Deathly Hallow poster, because one can barely read it, and I found this one in a quite good resolution ;).

Do as you did with the film font: Drag the image to your gif and erase everything you don’t need by using the Magic Wand and the Eraser tool.

You can also paint with black over some parts.

At last, I added a texture to the GIF. You can find the one I added here. (I’m so sorry that I can’t give a credit, but I don’t who originally made this texture. If you know who made it, please let me know!)

I also set the layer style to screen and softened some parts with a soft eraser to make it look more smooth.

That’s basically all. :) I can’t give so much detailed properties, because a lot depends on the GIF you’re using, like colours, fonts, contrast and so on. If you have any questions, please ask me. :) I will try to give advice if possible.

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