Sorry if this has been asked before but how do you make your gifs? They're so well made and always look amazing!!
Wow, thank you!! That's so nice of you to say!
As for how I make them? There's kind of a lot to it so I’ll try to sum it up as best I can. I’m not gonna explain every step because it’s a lot but I’ll post some screencaps with the programs and settings I tend to use often. I'm not sure how much you want to know, or already know about gif making (I’m sorry if I'm going over stuff you already know) but this is a quick and basic rundown of my process:
First thing I have to do is download whatever video I need to make the gif/set I’m working on. How I do that varies depending on what I'm giffing. If it's from a show, I download full episodes using *cough totally legal means cough.* If it's a Youtube video, I use a program called Any Video Converter.
If I'm giffing from a site I CAN'T download from (like Twitch), I use a desktop screen recorder called Xbox Game Bar (it came with my computer) to record clips of the video I am giffing from.
Important to note that I always use the highest quality video that I can. HD 1080p and higher if possible. You can get away with lower quality videos but depending on the size of the gif you’re making, it might not look as crisp and clear, and that will affect how good your gifs come out looking.
Once I have whatever video I'm using, I then use a program called KMPlayer to turn the scene I'm giffing into screencaps (frames).
^ (KMPlayer settings)
^ I load these frames into Photoshop...
...which Photoshop turns into a stack of layers/frames that I can then save as a  gif later.
I do all my editing from here. Cropping, coloring, text, etc.
I can’t really go into detail on my coloring because it’s different for every scene, but this is a look at my adjustment layers by the end:
Also here’s a link to a quick explanation of how I use each adjustment layer.
When I’m done with editing, I convert the layers into a video format like so:
(Convert to video timeline)
Select all layers EXCEPT for your adjustment layers. (I grouped all my adjustment layers to make it easier.) Then Convert for Smart Filters and Sharpen that layer. There’s different ways of sharpening but, again, it’ll depend on the scene your giffing. Some scenes need more sharpening than others.
^Once that’s all done, it’s now a gif that I can save.
The settings in this window change with almost every set of gifs but these are some general settings I use.
And with that, I’m mostly done. There’s other things that can be done at different points of this process and I know this isn’t as in-depth of an explanation as it could be, but if there's anything specific you're interested in learning or steps you want further explained, I’d be more than happy to go into it more. I also have a few tutorials on various techniques I’ve used here.
