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Here is one of the videos I use to make when I was younger, that I edited and made from the videos the artists produced, for entertainment purposes only.

It goes to show that even though I you may feel like you know lots about editing today, you always compare to the past and realize that you may have actually lost something you once had. 

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Things you can do on Photoshop with images.

This one is more silly, as you can probably tell from the second image in. I had fun here and decided to make a little under-the-sea image.

I uploaded a base image that made it look like you were underwater.

I then opened another image of a fish and made sure it had a transparent background before I dragged it onto my original underwater image. I then right-clicked the fish and pressed ‘free transform’ to make it able for me to resize the image and move it about.

Here is how I dragged another fish into the picture...

Some images were in ‘index’ form, so what I had to do to make myself able to edit it, was go to ‘image’ then to ‘mode’ and ticked ‘RGB colour’ to unlock my image.

Once all of my fish were on my picture, I decided I wanted to make speech bubbles, so I went to the side bar, and selected the shape making tool, and selected ‘custom shape tool’.

I then went to the top, and selected the speech bubble, and placed it on my image wherever I desired.

I then added some speech in my clicking the ‘T.’ in the side bar, and clicked in the speech bubble to add the text. After this, I selected the ‘custom shape tool’ button and then changed from a speech bubble to a musical note and added these next to a fish; and changed the colour.

Once I had added these, I decided I was happy with my image, and finished up there by going to ‘file’ and saving the image.

Here is the finished edit:

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Editing a video into a gif; developed.

My ideas on making gifs have developed, and I have come across using PSDs and sharpening tools. In this post, I will show my developments along with showing you how to edit your own gifs in Photoshop.

Firstly, I uploaded the video, as usual, but made the frames ‘2′ instead of ‘3′ to make it a better quality.

Once the video had uploaded, I then selected ‘image’ went to ‘image size’ then changed the size to 700.

I then selected every video and made it 0.1 seconds from one another to flow easier.

Afterward, I selected all videos at the bottom then right clicked the files to the side and clicked ‘select similar layers’.

After this, clicked ‘convert to timeline animation’ on the bottom right to make putting a PSD on top actually work.

Then to make all the layers on the side come together, I went to ‘filter’ and clicked ‘convert to smart filters’.

To sharpen the gif, I went to filter, then to ‘sharpen’ then clicked on ‘smart sharpen’. 

I selected the among of sharpness out of 100% I wanted that suited the gif, then went to upload the PSD I wanted by going to ‘file’ then to ‘open’ and opened the PSD in photoshop.

I then dragged the PSD off from the tab section at the top, and pulled it over my original gif. I pulled the folder from the PSD onto my gif.

After this, you can edit the PSD as much as you like, but I liked it how it was. Again, I am not using this gif at all on this site, nor am I using this PSD either. It is only for educational purposes.

And that’s it! There’s much more you can do, but I will make sure to explore more and see what else can be done. But for now, this was the tutorial for putting a PSD on a Gif.

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Gif tutorial on Photoshop

 buHere I will show you the basic of basic tutorials for making a Gif.

Firstly, you download any video from Youtube through a mp4 converter, or if you have one of your own, use that through your files. Once you have done this, go to ‘file’ then to ‘import’ then to ‘video frames to layers’. With this, you need to locate your video, and double-click it.

When you have selected your video, this will appear.

You then hold down the shift button on your keyboard and select the part of the video you want to upload into a gif. I selected the ‘select range only’ and ticked the ‘limit to every...’ but changed the ‘2′ to ‘3′ to reduce the size of the file.

This is what it should look like once you have uploaded it...

Then you’re pretty much done! Unless you want to change the size of your gif, which you can do if you go to ‘image’ at the top banner, then to ‘image size’ to change it to a smaller size. I then saved the gif to my documents by pressing ‘file’ then ‘save to web and devices’. It should then show a pop-up that you can automatically save into your documents.

In my next upload, I will show the development of my gif making abilities and how you can possibly make your gif look and seem even better.

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I do NOT own the contents of this video, it is for educational purposes only to show what my tutorial can make out of videos.

The original videos are from: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcL0MeVZIxM&t=151s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdWeRBbjsUg&t=129s

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How to edit a video in windows movie maker; dogs edition.

During this tutorial, I need to clarify that all videos were taken from Youtube, and I, nor the Youtube owner, owns these videos. They are free to share and are not our own.

As usual, to begin with, you upload all the videos you need onto movie maker.

I then created a title by clicking title on the home page, then changed the volume of each video to the maximum by double-clicking them and pulling the toggle to the maximum.

For one video, however, I wanted no audio, so I dragged the toggle to the minimum/mute.

I then double clicked on each video and trimmed each video down to the length I desired; and often used the little up and down buttons by the time to be more accurate with my timing.

In comparison to the other video tutorial I have made, I decided to instead put music on this one to add a lighter funnier tone. To do this, I went to ‘add music’ and selected a song from my files.

Once I added the audio, I made it fade in at the beginning so the music didn’t start off too harshly and suddenly. 

I then edited the colour and font of the text in the opening by double-clicking the font and going to the top right of the application and selecting the desired colour.

I then wanted the end video to fade out to black, so I clicked the video, then went to ‘animation’ and added the fade on the video.

To match the video fading out, I then wanted the audio to fade out with it, so I double-clicked the audio and clicked fade out to medium.

This is when I decided I had edited enough, and wanted to save the video. I then selected ‘files’ and went to ‘save movie’ and saved for a high-definition display.

This is the final development of the video I put together through this method. In my next post, I will show the result of this method put together.

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How I use to edit videos on windows movie maker.

Today, I’m showing how I use to make videos on movie maker, and later will show how I edit other videos, and how I have improved.

First, I created a video based on the effects of eating unhealthy eating. To make this video, I decided to load up Windows Movie Maker and upload all of the videos that were taken and edit them together. I opened up Windows Movie Maker and selected all of the videos I wanted on the program.

I then doubled checked I had every single video on there I needed and played through them to make sure all the questions in the video were answered.

I then re-arranged the videos to be in the order that the participants answered each question by dragging the video files.

After I rearranged all the videos, I trimmed each one to the correct amount of time, that cut out anything irrelevant by double clicking the video and pressing trim.

After, I went to ‘title’ at the top of the application next to ‘caption’ and produced a title for the beginning of my video.

After I created my title, I then decided to add effects to each video to make it flow better. To do this, I clicked the video then clicked on ‘animation’ to add the effects that I wanted.

I then edited the audio on each video to make it fade in after each section stating the question. I did this by double-clicking on the video, and going to the audio and pressing ‘fade in’ to then select the desired speed.

I felt like I had finished my video after this. The only additions I made was adding titles and captions onto videos, which I did by clicking on the captions button on the home page when I had selected a video. After this, i saved the video, and there we have it!

My simple tutorial for making a video on windows movie maker.