you always have THE cleanest, crispest, clearest gifsets!! I'm genuinely in awe every single time they appear on my dash, I always reblog them, even if its not a fandom I'm in. Is there a way you achieve this? Is it all in the settings or is it the quality of the downloads? <3
First of all, thank you so much, anon 🥺💙
Second of all, let's start by saying that your gifs will always look worse on mobile than they do on the web (tbh that's why I started using the website more), sometimes they can look blurry or more pixelated. There's almost nothing we can do about mobile, but we can try to improve it overall.
Use the highest quality that you can find, or at least always use 1080p, 4k or 2k can work if you have a nice pc and nice internet connection (which I don't have so I'm always using 1080p). Sometimes you can get away with 720p, but I recommend you don't do it (all my eskam gifs are 720p and sometimes they suffer horribly because of it). Also, I prefer to download raw episodes or just full episodes in general, I don't use scene packs, which can be found even on youtube, at all. I tried a couple of times and it completely ruined the quality.
2) Use correct post widths
Here's the post with the right dimensions. It will improve the quality on both web and mobile. Here are some examples and dimensions that I usually use:
That's what makes your gif nice and crispy, that's the flavor, anon :D
Smart Sharpen is located in Filter > Sharpen > Smart Sharpen.
I'm going to show you some examples of before/after sharpening and give you the settings that I usually use (i made the gif brighter so you could see the difference):
Before using Smart Sharpen:
After using Smart Sharpen:
As you can see it became more detailed and less blurry. I'm always applying the Smart Sharpen filter twice, but with different settings.
That's for the first time (I know some people are using 0,2 and 0,4 for radius; 0,3 usually works fine for me but sometimes I lower it if my gif is too pixelated):
And after that, I apply the filter again but with these settings:
That's the way to make your gifs look fresh out of the oven.
That's the last step, and let me tell you, there isn't going to be one correct answer. You just have to experiment with settings and see which are making your gif look the best.
That's basically it, anon. I hope it'll help you :D If you have more questions - feel free to ask them, I'm always happy to help. You can also dm me here or on discord (if you have my dc of course).
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