as most of you know i remade semi-recently (from the same url) and i’ve finally gotten around to finish organizing my blog. so, i’m going to take this opportunity to ask for a promo!
im 24 and i like making gifs for flop groups and my alternate universe series is my pride and joy. my ults are seventeen, onf, and jbj95 but i post a bunch of other groups too
i have several sideblogs for other groups because i just have too much love to give and i am always up for learning new groups or meeting new people!
kmultiverse is a revamped (as of 1/1/2022) open network dedicated specifically to kpop posts that contain multiple artists, are set in an alternative universe, or are imagined in some way. for example, we reblog favorites of the year (multi), if a group were in a video game (au), or mockups for a fake album (imagined)
feel free to use the tag #kmultiverse in your first five tags to have it reblogged. there are no members or affiliates to this network, so this tag is open to everyone to use.
however, please make sure your post is one of the three categories listed above. if it is not, it will not be reblogged, and likely you’ll be blacklisted. if you’re unsure if it fits those requirements, please message me and i’ll be happy to help.
fanfiction will NOT be reblogged, though text posts in general are okay. reposted gifs and/or copyrighted material will not be reblogged, nor will anything that is considered NSFW.
with the tags and search officially being completely broken on all platforms (no new posts are showing up in them anymore), now feels like a good time to remind everyone that the only way to help creators is to reblog their stuff. even before the tags were busted most people found new creators through their content being rebloged onto their dash, and now, at least for the time being, that will be the Only way to find and spread things.
Fast reblog is a thing, you dont have to leave comments, you dont have to leave tags, just reblog stuff if you want to keep seeing new content being posted to this site.
and as a final note, with this change likes are officially completely pointless for content creators. up till now they served to boost a posts placement in the tag searches (a post tagged #girl with 40 likes would show up higher in the search than a post tagged #girl with only 10 likes,)
[outdated. the glitch was fixed a few hours after this post was made ^^ still reblog stuff tho]
were u ever like gahd these camerapeople again making yet another stage ungiffable. yeah me too.
sooo here in this tutorial i'm gonna try to explain how to pan gifs so ur subject can remain centered or at least not be out of frame, sth like this:
this is a more advanced tutorial, in a sense that i'll assume you know how to make gifs, not in a sense that this is complicated lmao, okay let's gooo:
essentially this is what's happening and what we gonna do:
before we dive into the how tho, it must be said that photoshop's timeline can only do linear movements so no easing. at times it can look unnatural or choppy or... frankly both. (if you want to know more about this look up ease-in-out animation curve, or easing curves)
part 01 · prepping gifs
as i wrote in my gif making process post i usually crop my gifs bigger than they usually will be. e.g. a 268px gif will be cropped to anything between 468-540px. sometimes because i want to have the opportunity to position the gif a bit differently but most of the time because i know 268px is a reeeaaalllyyy tight place and i need to make some movement adjustments especially for weekend music shows where the camerapeople seem to be on crack or just very into experimenting
part 02 · let the keyframe madness begin
whichever way you are making gifs just open up your gif and crop it to the final size, colour it and whatever else you fancy. once you have everything ready just open your video layer on your timeline (if you don't know where you will be able to see it in the video later)
you will see 3 tracks, transform, opacity and style. for this we will use the transform because it contains movements (but also resizing if that's what you fancy).
all we need to do is create keyframes which will define what is the position of the video layer at a certain time. so e.g. here we are moving this box to the right by 50px in 1 second.
to create keyframes click on the timer icon in front of the position label and photoshop will create you one. the active one will always be yellow. if you move on the timeline with your playhead (that thing that is moving) and you resize/move your layer photoshop will create yet another keyframe for you without you needing to click on it, because it will recognise the change. so all you need to figure out is when the movement starts and which position your layer should be, and the same for the end and ps will take care of the rest.
part 03 · some things to consider when panning gifs
now this is the part where it gets subjective and less tutorial like. so all i can provide is some explanation how i go about it and what i pay attention to.
tip #1: match the movement speed to the gif
whenever you are panning a gif it may result in the gif being choppy bc the framerate and your movements are not matching up, so it's either too fast and photoshop needs to move your image by too many pixels frame by frame or it's too slow resulting in basically the same thing but kinda reversed, either way it won't look smooth. this mostly happens when the original footage is moving (there is a quick camera pan/movement) and you are trying to keep it in place, less when the original is kinda still and the subject is moving. this is kind of a trial and error process: try moving your keyframes closer to each other or maybe further, add more/less movement between two keyframes and just see witch results in a smoother gif.
tip #2: try moving your gif once in one direction
there are times when your subject might go out of frame multiple times and you have the urge to keyframe the whole gif and keep them in center the whole time. however, as we do not have easing curves in photoshop the switch between moving something from one direction to the other one will be very visible. so try placing your subject in a way that you'll only need to make one movement and it's kinda okay all the way thru or pick the most annoying 'placement' you want to correct. here in this example it mostly bugged me that the gif was not centered at the end, but onda kinda remained in frame.
tip #3: pan your gifs when there is a quick zoom/movement
sometimes whatever i do the gif will look choppy regardless one movement or not. in these moments, and these moments ONLY we can be thankful for the sometimes unnecessary zooming that's happening and reposition our gifs while the zooming is happening. since there is already a drastic movement you can get away with basically anything, as long as you time the beginning and the end where the zoom begins and ends. also i must add that you can pan stage gifs way more and more drastically bc there is a lot of things happening in the background, so adding a bit of movement on top of all the other movements is less noticeable than... moving footage where e.g. the background is static.
✨something extra✨ · panning/moving other things
so what we looked at is moving the whole gif to fit into the frame we have, but with this technique obviously you can move all sorts of stuff, text, texture whatever you fancy. you can apply this process to the layer you wanna move and this is when you get these:
a sidenote: the fade effect is literally the same keyframe business but instead of playing with position keyframes you change the opacity keyframes.
aaand that is all, if you have any questions my askbox is always open so hmu <3
tagging @sanhwalynight bc of requesting reasons hehe
We’re happy to announce the emergence of another open network blog dedicated to circulating visual content of all your favorite groups and soloists, Idolnexus!
✩ We will track the tag #idolnexusedit for non-members and #idolnexusnet for member use, please remember to put it in the first 5-7 tags of your creation so that we can ensure your content will be circulated!
✩ Who is allowed to use the tag, do we need to apply to be a member?
Idolnexus is dedicated to being a free and open network for anyone to use! We will not be taking or considering member applications as we want this network to be as accessible as possible. We know you put a lot of hard work into your material, and we would like to return the favor by making sure you have access to easy circulation.
✩ What type of content will the network reblog?
We will only be reblogging posts that are of the visual variety. This means gifs, graphics, edits, etc. We will not be reblogging written content, so please do not use the network tag for those kinds of posts! Please also refrain from using the network tag for personal posts! Do not forget to include EDIT/NET at the end of Idolnexus to ensure your post makes it into the correct network tag!
✩ How do I apply to be a member?
The application will be here! Note that the application is both for members and moderators, so please read the questions carefully! Members of the network are privileged to live reblogs if the moderators are active rather than having to wait in the queue line for their creations to be reblogged.
✩ Do we need to be following the network if we are not members to use the tag?
It is not required for yo to follow the network, however, followers make the network go around! More followers means more blogs are being reached with your content in order for it to be circulated!
✩ I would like to be a queue moderator!
Wonderful! Please fill out the application on this post and we will get back to you as soon as possible!
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