Hi, Regina is my absolute favourite in ouat and you made her stunning in this gifset ✨
I was wondering how did you make glitch effect from green to b&w, Would you please post a tutorial?
Hi! Thank you so much! the start of the tutorial is below the cut but because it's multiple gifs and I could only add so many photos to a post to explain, I have had to split it onto another post but I have put a link at the end when it's time to move onto the next one. :) if anything doesn't make sense or if anyone follows this and it helps, i would love to know either way!
Glitch effect tutorial used on this set below the cut
note: credit to this tutorial which was very helpful when i was making the set but i didn't feel it explained how to do the b&w gif and that's what took me a while to figure out, so if anything on this tutorial isn't clear, that one should also help. this will be slightly different because in my set i made it so the glitch faded into each other and i've added my own flare to it but the basic technique is the same.
create 2 gifs the same size, you can add whatever colouring, sharpening etc you like, one in colour, one in b&w (you can do 2 in colour but for the purpose of this i'm doing one b&w to show how to do both versions).
i'm going to do the b&w gif fading into the colour gif on this tutorial (bc that's just what i started editing first) but obviously if you're making a full set decide which gif you want to fade into which because the first part of the gif will have the glitch effect on the end and the second will have it at the beginning so it will matter for the final outcome of your set
PART 1 - B&W GIF
if you edit in frame animation, you must convert your b&w gif to the video animation timeline otherwise the colours will not show up on the glitch effect. you can do this by clicking the lines menu above the frames
i usually colour in frame animation because it plays quicker to preview how it will look and then convert to video to add my sharpening at the end but it's personal preference how you create your gifs.
hold control + select all of your frames > right click > convert to smart object
all of your frames, colouring etc should all be in one frame now, select it > click the lines menu above the animation timeline again > convert frames > flatten frames into clips
you should now have a longer list of layers that make up each frame of your gif
this is because we need to convert back to frame animation to edit the glitch effect onto individual frames. if you don't flatten the frames to clips the gif will not play when it's converted because 1 layer will equal only 1 frame. it may seem long winded to go back and forth but it makes sure all your colouring is already included in the frames when you make it glitch. if you add the colouring afterwards it will change the colour of the glitch effect or turn it black and white and it won't be very visible (if anyone has an easier way i'm very happy for suggestions, i was just figuring this out as i went and found the glitch didn't work on the b&w gif any other way for me!!)
now we go back to the 3 lines menu > convert frames > convert to frame animation
if you get this pop up, press continue. it's fine because we have each of our frames in their own layers now
your frame animation timeline will initially load with just one frame
go to the lines menu again > make frames from layers
now all of the frames will load, but they will be at 0 seconds (except the first frame) and we need to make them all run at a playable speed, so go back to that same lines menu above the timeline > select all frames > select under any frame where it says 0 sec. > other > i usually put in 0.05 but do whatever works for you
PART 2 - ADDING THE GLITCH EFFECT
pick a frame about 5 from the end, select it and select the corresponding layer with the eye icon next to it to show it's the one visible
right click > duplicate layer (or just press control + J)
then on the copy of the layer right click > blending options (or double click)
in the advanced blending section, untick R > ok
make sure the move tool is selected
now using the arrow keys on your keyboard move that layer either left or right as many notches as you like (i've started out with 10 here)
hold control > select both the visible layers
right click > merge layers
now move onto the next frame and corresponding layer and repeat the same process (i have no idea why my ps decided frame 46 doesn't exist so ignore that dkjddj)
if the frame(s) below is still visible, just click the eye to hide it so only the one you're working on and it's copy layer are showing
this time i've moved the layer 6 notches to the right as below
keep going until you get to the end of the animation. you can move each layer as much as you like either side just play around with your gif and do whatever you think looks good! if you want to do more than the last 5 frames or less than them, do that too! just remember that we are also going to put a glitch on the coloured gif then combine them, so the final glitch effect will be longer
when you're done, you might have to go back to the first frame on your animation and hide all of the layers you've just edited because on mine they all visible so the gif won't play
then go back to the end of the gif and make the right layer visible on the right frame again (hopefully this makes sense)
so far, the gif should play something like this
to make it smoother i picked a few frames earlier in the gif, before the start of the glitch at the end to add the same effect to the first frame i edited was number 32 (layer 'frame 45'), so i'm going to add it to frames 25 and 26 as well
then i selected the last frame and layer > filter (at the top of the screen) > blur > motion blur
then pick another frame and corresponding layer > filter > noise > add noise
do this to a couple of frames of your choice with the glitch effect on too, it makes it a little more grunge-y which i think fits with the concept that it's supposed to be glitching/broken
now it looks like this, subtle but in my opinion notably smoother
go to the left side of the screen under the frame timeline and click the convert to video timeline button
once i've converted it back to the video timeline, i like to select all of my layers again > right click > group from layers (or select all and control + g). i'm going to rename this b&w so it doesn't get confusing later
I can only add 30 images per post so this tutorial is CONTINUED HERE!
