Hey friend. Your gifs are so crisp and pretty. What do you use to get such fantastic quality?
Hey! Thank you so much, this is so lovely of you to say :D
I make all my GIFs in Photoshop CS6 so that's what everything will be referring to here. I'm kinda assuming a basic knowledge of gif making here so let me know if you need more lol but there are so many great tutorials already, this is just my basic settings.
I record my clips on PC to start with, using the Nvidia recording... thing.
I've seen a few methods of importing frames and idk if it matters but I use the File > Import > Video Frames to Layers option and import every frame in the section I want.
I do the usual croping and colouring and tbh I have never gotten the hang of knowing exactly what needs to be done with colouring by looking at the gif I just kinda... try stuff and see how it looks.
Basically I am not a fancy giffer lol, I just try and brighten and colour correct as much as I can. This tutorial helped so much with weird coloured or tinted gifs as well.
After I'm like, pretty happy with it, I will convert to a video timeline with this magic button then select all frames and make them a smart object.
Then I go Filter > Sharpen > Smart Sharpen with these settings:
After that I use the 'save' action from 'Rizz's Action Pack' here (the blog appears to have had a name change?) which takes everything and puts it back to frames so that I can set the frame delay accurately as for some reason saving directly from the video timeline doesn't seem to work consistently?
If I'm adding text I also do it here - it is much easier than doing it before sharperning or using the save action (as the latter will flatten the text onto the gif and you can no longer edit it). Also add any further colouring I think looks good.
For exporting as a gif, I've seen a lot of gif tutorials advise that a frame delay of 0.05 seconds is the best but honestly, for KCD2 I've found the sweet spot seems to be 0.03 or 0.04 seconds - at least from the clips I get when I record my gameplay.
I hope that helps! Let me know if you had any other questions :)
