if i just never use money again then i’ll never need it again and then i’ll never have to sign up for more shifts that i actually don’t want anything to do with
I like to fuck around and waste time for at least ~6-10 hours per day, and let me tell you, that really puts some pressure on your schedule. you have no idea how busy I am
Which sucks cuz I actually liked the kiwi. And I only ate less than half of it. And my stomach thought I was trying to poison myself over half of a furry fruit
I don’t believe in karma but I also actually do because every time something bad happens to me (i.e. me discovering I’m almost certainly allergic to kiwis after having one for the first time today and proceeding to feel awful and nauseous for at least 2 hours) my mind immediately thinks ‘this is because of the Bad Thing you did yesterday’
i love you female characters who make selfish choices they know will be bad for everyone. i love you female characters who think they're making the right choice but make things worse. i love you female characters who are making the right choice but noone else understands it.
So, I recently discovered an INCREDIBLY cool series that I only just found out about. I’d seen screenshots here and there, but for a while I wasn’t brave enough to watch something unvetted, but I’m so glad I took the chance.
I love a school setting in media, and I love mysteries in the style of Lemony Snicket: a tangled web of secrets with useless adults, who serve as a backdrop for the kids. And this series combines those things I love so well!
I decided to draw the two queens, since their designs were what first caught my attention. Hats off to these fabulous style icons
this is not the exact question but yk, good exuse for me to do an updated giffing tutorial!! so here's
PRINCEMICK'S 2025 GIFMAKING PROCESS!
for this you're going to need:
- OBS
- Adobe Photoshop
(doens't matter what version of the programs)
I'm gonna explain to you how to get a basic gif like this!
(with the 30 picture limit I'm going to ignore the colouring part for now, if you want to know my basic colouring process pls do tell and I'll make a separate post about that!)
this process is a 5 step process including:
- recording
- timeline
- shape and size
- sharpening
- exporting
step one: recording
I tend to screen record bc of live giffing and I prefer the control over frame rate so I use OBS. OBS itself is a pretty simple program, all you're gonna have to do is click on the plus in the sources panel
and click on display capture and here'e youre gonna have to select the screen you want to record and click on ok and thats it
then when you click on start recording it will record your screen. there are a few things you have to change when your obs is new in settings. in 'Output' you're gonna make sure your Recording Path is somewhere, you can find it back. all the other settings you can keep as they are they dont change much but these are the settings I use
then you're gonna go to video and you're gonna have a bunch of settings abt resulution, most of these dont need to change this should be auto linked to the settings on your monitor/screen. the only thing that I change and like is changing the fps values to 60.
step two: timeline!
now we've recorded smth and know where it's saved so we're gonna open Photoshop. when you open photoshop you can just drag your MP4 file on your home screen and your workspace is going to look something like this
then, what we're gonna do is look for the part were you want your gif to start and we're going to put our little slider on that part and cut it down to that like this.
next, we're going to click on the lil arrow at the end of our video file and change the speed percentage to 50%, this shows down the gif to a little bit slower then is natural which I prefer.
then, I make my gifs abt 2 seconds, this makes it long enough that it isnt to short but is also small enough for tumblr to be able to process it. the length of your gif you can see at the bottom of your timeline right there
I'm gonna turn this recording into three gifs so we're going to go back to our little arrow and change the duration to 6 and grab the little slider and slide it to our 02:00f marker. these sliders are the selection that you're going to be exporting.
step 3: shape and size
tumblr has a size limit and size preference. you can post gifs upto 10mb and it prefers pictures in 5:7 540 format. so to try and make the highest quality gifs we're gonna try and keep to those.
we're going to do that by clicking on our crop tool in our tool bar
your video should get those little selection lines, we're going to ignore those and go to the top of our workspace and click on the little ratio tab and click on the 5:7
when you do that your file should look like either of these. we're going to be making horizonal gifs so we're going to make sure the crop is like that, if it's not you can right click your crop and click on rotate crop box.
now, this might seem strange but we're just going to accept the crop and click on enter, even if its ugly we're going to fix that later. so your workspace should look something like this now
now we're going to to go image -> image size
when you click on this this space pops up
what we're going to do is stick to that 540 rule,we're working with a horizonal gif so we're going to change the width to 540, make sure that little link on the side is on
(if you're working on a vertical gif you change the height to 540)
now, your crop should've gotten much smaller and your timeline should now be purple. purple means your gif is now a smart object!
(you can manually zoom in or clic Ctrl + 0 for windows or Command + 0 for mac and it will instantly fill out your workspace)
NOW, you can move your crop around and zoom in/out by using Ctrl (command) + t to move it around to a crop you think looks nice.
step 4: sharpening
now we're going to move onto something that very much changes per person so if at any point of this you think my choices are ugly just move it around and change it to how you enjoy it but this is my sharpening!
what we're going to do is select our layer and go to filter -> sharpen -> smart sharpen
these are the smart sharpen settings I use for my first filter
then we're gonna go to filter -> blur -> gaussian blur and add these settings
then we're gonna go to filter -> noise -> add noise and use these settings
then we're gonna go to smart sharpen again and use these settings
then one last time we're gonna go to smart filter and use these settings
then your gif is gonna look like this!
step 5: exporting
now that we're done with out basic gif I tend to add a good few layers of colouring but bc of the picture limit I'm gonna skip that for now.
to export a gif we're gonna go to file -> export -> save for web (legacy)
aand these are the settings I tend to use.
and again, play around with these especially the top 3, they change with every selection you make and is very up to preference.
the important part is that the mb at the bottom of your workspace right here is under 10m
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