#azefology

[spikedaily]

bless you people for creating this blog, truly

that's all thanks to @slayerbuffy it was their creation! <3

[taz-skylar]

Hi! Sorry for bothering. I really liked your Jinx gifset, it's beautiful!! I was wondering if you please could explain how you did the pink/blue outline around her? I tried using stroke option, but it applies to the whole gif instead of the edges of specific object and ticking off the channels in the layer options is giving me a completely different effect :( Thank u!

ahhh, thanks bud! i’m glad you liked that jinx edit!! 💙💙 you’re not bothering at all!! the info is down below under the ‘keep reading’!

for this tutorial, i’ll use the second gif from the jinx edit, since it’s easier to see on the black and white gif because there’s no other competing colours in it!

1) make your gif as per usual, and edit/colour it as to your liking (this is how my gif looks without the pink/blue outlines):

2) next your going to copy and paste the original gif layer two times (so there are 3 gifs of the same scene in total):

3) unclick the eye icon on the top most gif layer (in my case, i clicked the eye icon by ‘layer 3′):

4) double click directly on top of the second gif layer (in my case, i double clicked ‘layer 2′):

5) that will bring up a new box titled ‘layer style’, which automatically opens up ‘blending options’ tab (i don’t click on any other tab, i.e. like you did with stroke, i just stay on this tab the whole time for the pink/blue outlines):

6) here is where you will play around with the outlines (where it says ‘channels:’ and has R, G, B, with little check marks beside them):

7) for the pink outline, uncheck the ‘R’ and the ‘B’ channels (this makes the little grey box under the word ‘preview’ turn into a green box, since only ‘G’ remains check marked):

which in turn makes the gif more pink/purple (can be compared to the screenshot in step 1) 

8) click ‘ok’ to apply only the ‘G’ channel to the gif and move the gif over a bit so you can actually see the lines (i.e. move the ‘G’ channel gif 5 shifts to the right and 5 shifts down, etc.):

9) as you can see, there’s green in here that i don’t have on my jinx edit that’s because the ‘G’ channel controls both the green and pink highlights, so you’ll have to double click once again on the second gif layer (in my case, ‘layer 2′):

which once again opens up the ‘layer style’ box that is automatically opened on the ‘blending options’ tab

10) now you’re going to play around with the layer colouring themselves (i kept these 2 steps together because i usually just do them together instead of applying the colouring and then clicking again to apply another one):

for the gray colours titled ‘this layer’, i moved the arrow from the white towards the middle (where it now reads ‘138′ instead of ‘255′) because it gets rid of the green (if i had done it from the left, it would’ve removed the pink) now you can see the green is much less vibrant than the green in step 8

then after that was complete, i went to the ‘underlying layer’ gray colours, where i moved the opposite arrow (the dark gray arrow towards the middle, now reads ‘82′ instead of ‘0′) so it could get rid of basically all the left over green (there’s still a bit but i didn’t mind that at all since it’s barely noticeable)

and that’s the pink outline done! now i could’ve left it here and said this gif was complete, but because that gifset was all about the pink and the blues, i wanted to add a blue outline as well.

11) click the empty box (that you had previously unclicked in step 3) on the top most gif layer (in my case, i click the empty box by ‘layer 3′ so the eye icon appears once again):

12) you’re going to follow steps 4 - 10 all over again but now when you get to step 7, you’re going to uncheck the ‘R’ and the ‘G’ channels so only the ‘B’ channel remains check marked and keep going until you get to step 10

i hope this made sense! like i said in my jinx typography tutorial, i know it might seem like a lot but when you do this over and over again, you become so quick at completing it that it doesn’t even seem like you’re doing this many steps when you get the end result! i also explained everything in full detail (like even the small steps that you already seem to know, i.e. double clicking on the layer to get the ‘layer style’ box, etc).

send me another ask if you need any clarification or more help on anything above and i’ll try to help out as best as i’m able to, bud!

[cal-kestis]

So I recorded half of my usual giffing process for more detailed picture. I'm always staying on the first frame (as seen when you convert the gif to a smart object), but i still get jumpy frames.. i was thinking, maybe it's because i use the action before converting? (just couple of versions of sharpening i made myself). I tried to install another version of PS to see if it fixes the issue (i'm using PS21, i thought maybe there's some glitch with the timeline in it), but the problem is that the version i'm currently using is the only one i was able to get to work properly on my machine (i'm using an m1 mac), the other ones either very slow, or with broken "video frames to layers" function.. and thanks so much for your time!

hmm I think you may be right! the jumpy frames could be because of using the action before you convert. sometimes when I'm editing in frame animation, I notice that some edits only get applied to one frame instead of all (especially if I don't have all the frames/layers selected)

btw I also use PS on an m1 mac, but I'm using 2022. do you happen to have this selected in the menu that pops up if you right-click PS and select "get info"?

i'm gonna see if i can ask some other gifmakers if they know what may be causing this issue! if i get any different feedback, i'll be sure to reply to this ask so you can see it!

[cal-kestis]

HI! So sorry for the late reply! I figured, it was actually because of the action as u said! I had to duplicate it and then remove some steps from it so it would work properly specifically for the timeline, and i got rid of the jumpy layers :) As for PS, I tried to install the latest version, but for some reason when i check the "open with Rosetta" option, it works like 4x times slower than my current one, especially when i'm using the "video frames to layers" function... idk why that happens :/ And THANK U SO MUCH for your help, you're the sweetest! <3

oh yay!! you fixed it then!! i'm so happy i could be of some help <3 about ps22, I do know it's been finicky for some ppl but hopefully with the jumping issue fixed you can keep going with ps21! i'm so glad you were able to figure things out!!

p.s. if you're ever looking for different actions to try, i always recommend this action pack to my friends! it's for ppl who work in this gif method (frames to vt back to frames) <3

[cal-kestis]

Hi! Just wanted to say thank you for your fade transition tutorial, it's very useful! If u don't mind me asking, do u have any tips for what to do if you get jumpy frames after you convert frame animation to video timeline? I love VT cause it gives me the ability to animate effects, but also gives me this everytime, it's very annoying! The problem is that it's the middle of my gif, and not the beginning, so i can't add a freeze frame :( It looks just fine in frame animation tho (before converting), and i'm almost DYING FOR A FIX, cause it ruins pretty much everything.. thanks again!

hey! i'm so happy that tutorial was helpful!! :) hmmm the jumpy frames are strange... i haven't had this happen to me before. off the top of my head, the only reason i could see this happening is by accidentally moving some layers before converting to video timeline. but the fact that it looks fine when you play your gif in frame animation before converting to video timeline means that can't be it. do you mind telling me more about the steps you take between the gif looking fine and then noticing the jumps? like how are you converting, when are you cropping/resizing, etc? does anything look weird when you position the playhead on the exact spots where you get the jumps (like if you zoom into the timeline all the way)? feel free to DM me if you prefer! i'm happy to help in whatever way i can :)

[dcbicki]

Hi! Just wanted to say your gifs are gorgeous!!

Heyyy! Thank you sm! 💙

[summerportraits]

HAVE THE HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS ZSÓFI! You're wonderful ❣️Timeless squad forever! ♥︎

Thank you so much, Dasha!! 💕 So nice to see you back here on Tumblr!

[saint-cecilias]

Hey! I saw you reblog some of my Aziz edits, thanks so much! I take it from the tags that you wanna watch it.. You probably found it already, but in case you didn't, you can watch the show with eng subs here. There are some pop-ups, but an adblock will fix it for ya :) or you can search for "aziz" on yt and watch it with youtube auto-generated subs on the show's official channel. Hope that helps and thanks so much again :)

Oh thank you so much, sweetheart! I actually didn't find any links with english subs for it, so I'm really grateful for this. It totally looks like my kinda show lol.

And your gifs are so great!!