Well, the Princess' methods are very simple! She would be glad to teach you.
A bit long graphic tutorial under cut ^_^ (all art by Iinquint on twitter)
First, we import the frame or mask you will use. You can find these by searching "rentry frame".
Then, we will import our picture and erase any excess outside of the frame.
Then we usually add a chibi, You can do this by finding chibi art and erasing the background.
And now we will add any PNGs to the graphic. We chose circle laces for this.
Now we will duplicate the layer of our chibi.
We then use the Stroke Outer filter to find dots that weren't erased, we will go to the top original later and erase where all the exposed dots are.
After that, we delete the layer & reduplicate it. Then we use stroke outer for a white outline, and then a black one. If the chibi or whatever you are using is white or very light already, feel free to reverse the white & black.
Then we add glow outer (usually around 1-2px)
Continue this process for everything
Save it
And then we will import it into a new canvas through 'import picture' & then use the grayscale.
Now, We do not always use a gradient map. But feel free to try out gradients to see if it looks nice on the graphic. Either of the 2 top sites work.
Find a gradient that looks nice. If none fit your vision, feel free to skip it.
Now, import the new image and then add textures. Play around with blending modes & opacity until it looks right.
Boom! You've made your very own graphic.
Now for animated graphics...
(No visuals) If you'd like one where the small chibi moves, move it to be angle -5, save it, and then angle 5 and save it. (Also adjust angles if the 5 looks weird.)
Import the images into ezgif gif maker and turn on "Don't stack frames" and adjust delay time. (I usually use 80ish)
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Animated graphics 2
Import your graphic into capcut. Add a green background or whatever color is not present on your graphic at all. Add the gif you want on the graphic. Adjust for all the images to go on for equal times so it works.
Ezgif > Mp4 to gif > Remove Background > Select hex code of background > "Replace hex with transparency" > Adjust Fuzz > Optimize
And voila, your graphic is completed! Feel free to adjust in ezgif effects if needed.
the ultimate beginner metadata tutorial !! by a dummy :3
HEY PALS AND PEOPLE doing some tips and tutorials ,,,, kinda explaining the metadata that people do in rentry
the site already have a "tutorial" on the "how" window, these on the post are the ones who need further explanation
i will put in topics and try to do my best on this, its a long read!
• the border i will be using for example its by @/suturical on this post
• now, how to understand this and make the magic happen?
GOTCHA!!!
1. Borders: container adjustements
• the least important thing is the container width, you can put as you please but i use it on 400px — 610px, its just my recommendation
• now the padding is important, its basically the distance between the border and the elements of your rentry
• example: padding on 25px
• example: padding 20px
2. Borders: slice
• the image slice is basically how much it will slice your border and repeat it, i recommend using it 20% – 40%, however adjust as you please!
• example: slice 37%
• example: slice 23%
big difference isnt it? and i only changed the slice part, nothing else!
3. Borders: width
• basically the width of the border, adjust as you please but i also recommend to put on 30px as its the maximum size you can put
• example: width 30px
• example: 15px width
4. Borders: repeat
• this is another thing that dont have much secret and explanation about, there are 4 repeating types for borders, they are:
• stretch: will stretch the original size of the border across the entire container
• round: most used, 'normal', will make your border get around the container
• repeat: will repeat a certain part of the graphic image across the sides
• space: will give space between the repetitions
• onto the next part, text!
2. Text: font applying
• ngl its pretty simple, first catch ANY font of the google fonts site and do like the screenshot above, detail, if you font name has a space between the name (example: playfair display) you MUST put the _ to substitute the space, or it won't work
• but if the font name doesn't have any spaces, write it normally
2. Text: text size
• also really simple, explore the sizes on the rentry, i use it 10px – 25px, adjust to your liking!
2. Text: coloring
• tired of coloring all sentences manually? just do the code from screenshot and input your color! it can be written like i did or the hex code/whatever!
• you can still color things manually even when using this
• final with all these changes:
SO THATS IT! the most important actually :33
hope it isnt confusing, any questions please send an ask!
tagging oomfie @chokingonchairs bc finally got the courage to make this and yu asked for hehe ^___^
I USE ALIGHT MOTION!! you can actually create icon masks on ibispaint or other app i just use alight motion beacuse thats where im more comfortable in, i havent do icon masks for month so i was curious about making tutorial
Decided to make my own tutorial on how to make gif stamps!! Lmk if any wording needs to be changed/updated or if you have any questions :)
I will be using this stamp template here, but you can use others! You will just have to figure out different resizing for the gifs if so.
Step 1: Go onto ezgif.com and click resizer
Step 2: upload your gif, and resize it to 93 x 48
Step 3: after clicking Resize image, click add image
Step 4: Extend the canvas size 1 time, then insert the overlay (the stamp template at the start of this post) and click upload image
Step 5: Set the location of the frame to 42 x 22.
Step 6: scroll all the way down, and click create animation. Afterwords, click crop.
Step 7: Click autocrop, then crop image.
Step 8: To save the gif stamp, you can hold on it if you’re on mobile, and I’m assuming you double click if your own computer. You can also click save.
by clicking in the source link you’ll find 02 different dash icon templates made by me from scratch. credit is not needed , but do not claim as your own ! if you enjoy this or you use it, please reblog or like this post . thank you !
• Make a shape, ratio 1x1, choose an even number so it will be centered.
Delete the background if you want only the shape to be repeated.
• Edit -> Define New -> Pattern
✨ We’re done!
The pattern will be saved in the default folder on Photopea.
• To save the pattern on your computer/device you need to open a dropdown menu on the pattern.
• New fill layer -> Pattern Fill.
You´ll see your newly created pattern at the end of the default ones. Click on the pattern then on the arrow pointing down, export as .pat.
Your loaded patterns will appears below the default ones.
Hi! In this tutorial, I'll be teaching the basic techniques in my 'You are Jeff' x Christine graphic gifset!
This was a request by @wormpool! I'm not a professional at this, though, so my Photoshop techniques are very basic and even a little roundabout at times, but this is the way I make things. This isn't a difficult gifset to achieve. It is TIME CONSUMING, though.
I'm also not gonna be teaching coloring here, as I have taught my process here before.
Because I decided to teach the basics first, this tutorial is divided in three parts:
This is part one where I'll teach the basics. Here is part two, where I teach how to make the speedometer gif and adjacent. Here is part three where I teach how to make the red, Jackson Browne gifset.
I RECOMMEND THESE ARE READ IN ORDER, AS ONE ASSUMES YOU KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT IN THE OTHER PARTS.
If anyone is curious as to how to make any other one of these graphic gifs, let me know and I'll make a separate tutorial for it!
You will be learning how to make these two gifs first:
Which are the basis for 90% of the entire graphic giset. I will be calling them first one and second one respectively on the tutorial, to spare images.
Anyway, let's get to it!
[all tutorials]
Intro:
First of all, I'd like to say that most of the fonts employed on the gifset were default system fonts, them being:
⋆ Trebuchet MS.
⋆ Times New Roman.
⋆ Tahoma.
⋆ Arial Black Italic.
All available on Windows, except for Biró script free, which I used for the handwritten parts. Here's where I got it. The problem with this font is that it only contains the letters, so all the periods and commas used were usually Tahoma.
That being said, Biró script is one of my favorite free fonts of all time simply because it looks SO MUCH like regular handwriting, in a way most handwriting script fonts aren't able to achieve.
Ok, second of all is that this tutorial assumes you know how to make gifs. I have a tutorial for this as well, which starts by discussing the best programs for grabbing frames and goes all the way into the gifmaking proper. Armed with knowledge, this is really all you have to know to learn how to make this, I’ll be teaching everything else.
Third of all is that the film in question does not need to be super high resolution for this gifset to work. Because you’ll be making smaller gifs that will be within a bigger gif, it won’t seem low-rez at all. This works wonderfully with my Christine release specifically, because this movie is not an easy movie to sharpen.
Last, the main thing I have used in this gifset is the rectangle tool. I used that for EVERYTHING. So I will first be teaching you how to use the rectangle tool when it comes to gifsets, as more or less a basic step.
I'd also like to say that the very first gif on the gifset, this one:
Was made using a tutorial by @clubgif, which is here. I just didn't round the borders and made my bg black and white with a bunch of noise on top. The line on top of the word 'motorbikes' was made using the line tool.
Ok, now let's get into the basic steps!
P.S: There is a rounded rectangle tool already, I just forgot about it. I will not be using it for this tutorial, but you can!
Step 1: Open your frames on Photoshop, like you would a normal gif you’ll make. You can also have the gif done already for this step, as it's what I'll be doing by using one of my Arnie ones.
Because I’ll only be teaching you how I used the rectangle tool, you don’t need to have any more gifs for this step or worry about anything else atp.
This is my workspace:
Step 2: Take the rectangle tool
And draw a rectangle of whatever size you want on the canvas. In my case, it'll be one that will cover most of it, like so:
(I have my 'properties' window on my sidetab, and you can make sure it shows by going on window>properties).
Now, don't worry if the rectangle isn't perfectly symmetrical, you can fix it by altering the dimensions up there.
Step 4: Shape your rectangle. In the middle there, below the size settings, you'll see a white rectangle with a red line crossing it, a black rectangle with a gray one in the middle and a 0px beside it. This is basically where the magic happens. The white with the red is irrelevant for all of what we are doing here, as it fills up the rectangle with a solid color, but the one beside it is the border of the rectangle. It doesn't show now because the px. is set to 0. I usually set it to 1. Then, I click on the rectangle with a gray one in the middle and set the color of that to white, like so:
You have a rectangle now! On top of your figure! Yay!
The thing is that it's not rounded and a rounded rectangle is what I used for basically 90% of my gifsets. To achieve that, you basically go down here and set all the borders to 10, 20, 30, 50px, whatever you want! Most of mine were 10 or 20, like so:
Now, if you want one side of your rectangle to be sharp, all you have to do is de-select the icon in the middle of the round dimensions where it says 20px and you can now manually alter them, without all being affected, like so:
If you saved your gif like this, it would literally look like a gif with a white rectangle on top. As long as your rectangle is on top of everything, it shows no matter what.
Step 5: Now that I taught the basics of how to work your rectangle, let me show how I made the borders. Basically, you'll create a new layer under the rectangle and on top of the layers you already have, and paint bucket it black. Or red. Whatever color you want, I'll go with black for this one. You should have something like this:
And your layer tab should look like this:
(remember I'm using a pre-made gif, otherwise it'd say frames over there). Now, you right click your rectangle and select resterize layer:
After resterizing, your layer will no longer be considered a shape by photoshop, but just a bunch of lines over the canvas. This means you can no longer edit the shape to be whatever you want, so make sure your shape is perfect and in place. Now, select it using the magic wand tool. After that, click on the black layer underneath, and delete the selection, like so:
Now your gif shows! Then, so the rectangle doesn't show anymore (unless you like the white border, your call), delete it, and you'll have a perfectly black border (or any color), on top of your original gif. Cool, huh? This is what the gif looks like now:
As you can see, I wasn't lying when I said this is the basis for like 90% of everything I made. All my gifsets were basically a rectangle with the gif underneath.
Step 5: So... How did I make the first one? The canvas is a black box, which I showed how to do already, but the gif is only on the side.
Ok, let me reverse engineer this: This is the time for you to decide the dimensions of your canvas. In this tutorial canvas and gif are different things. Canvas is the black thing and gif is the small thing. Easy, I promise.
The way I decide the size of my canvas is by selecting my crop tool and going here:
This here is gonna decide the size of your cropping for you, basically. In the case of this specific gif, it's 540 and 326. Every canvas was 540 in width and whatever in height, because I found out it mostly doesn't matter on tumblr anymore.
Let's say you only have the gif open, like in the first tutorial I made, and you have nothing else, not even the rectangle. You can literally drag the crop box with the dimensions around and make a transparent canvas around your gif, like so:
Because the dimensions are already selected, they will always be the same. Then, you do basically every step I mentioned before: Rectangle around the gif where you want the gif to show, black layer, resterize rectangle layer, delete selection with the black layer selected, until you have this:
Then, you basically create your design the way you want! For a basic, one gif graphic set, this is as simple as it gets, and it lets you create really cool stuff. For example, the second one is just two of these gifs I just taught, one on top of the other.
Bonus step: To get the rectangle on top of both, like here, with the writing, you make another rectangle, and select the box with the red line crossing it:
Then, you select the color, in this case white:
Make sure the border section is the one that has the red line across it now, cause we will not be using it, and it affects it sometimes cause Photoshop is v specific.
Now, I usually like to make the text layer separated from the rectangle layer for multiple editing reasons (it's difficult to edit text that is on top of the rectangle, but if you try to use the text tool on top of it, it'll basically try to force you to merge the two), so I resterize this layer right away tbh. Then, I add text:
You can also make all of this in another canvas, then add that on top (like literally: New canvas>paint bucket it white>text tool to type what you want>merge layers>copy>add on top of your gif layers). Honestly, Photoshop is pretty forgiving nowadays, but this is how I did most of the ones I did on my gifs. I also used the rectangle tool to frame my texts, same thing as I taught, I just didn't delete it in the end. All rectangles, babey.
Part two will be concerning how I made the Christine Speedometer gifset:
and part three will concern the Jackson Browne, all red, triple gif gifset.
Part 2. | Part 3.
graphics that were made in this tutorial will be under the tut! They are available for free use, credit is unneeded but appreciated
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⠀♡ ⠀⠀link is here — > https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP86sq2bm/ (simply do not believe tumblr will allow me to post a 6 minute video, so tiktok it is)
my alt user (for png used in this tutorial) @ounerih & 6 renders by @reverserenders
⠀⠀⠀ 𓏵 finished graphics, god i love 6…. ⠀ ⸺⠀⠀requested by: anon
⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀i lowkey need to remake my graphic account
⠀⠀⠀ also an example of how these graphics would look together
