Hi, guys! Before anything I just want to add here that this is how I do my gifs, I’m not a professional and there are a thousand ways to make gifs, this is just one of them. I really hope I made everything clear, but if you need any help or correct me in something, just send me an ask! I’m always open to learn and help <3
You’ll need:
FRAPS
Photoshop
The Sims Any game you want!
Step 1. After downloading FRAPS you will open it and go to the “Movies” page and check what your hotkey is (maybe when you click it a window will open saying that your video player is not compatible with the video type, ignore it), mine is F9 (I think is the default), but you can change to whatever you want, just don’t put any used hotkey like esc/tab/windows key, this kind of stuff.
Obs: for FRAPS to work you need to always have it open simultaneously with the game (you can open it while you are in game in case you forgot, that’s not a problem).
Step 2. Once you go in game (with FRAPS minimized) you will see some numbers on one of the corners of your screen, it shows that FRAPS is on baby (if nothing is showing try press F12 or F11).
Step 3. Ok, now you go where you want to make your gif, you can turn reshade on, off, tab, build mode, FRAPS works in game no matter what/where. You’re going to press your hotkey (mine is F9) and the numbers that once were yellow will turn into red, it shows that FRAPS is recording your screen, to stop the recording press your hotkey again, you will notice that now the numbers are back to yellow. Try not to wait too long to stop recording, we are doing a gif not a movie afterall ;).
Step 4. Nice! Now you can get out of your game, or minimize it, and go to Photoshop and open a new file, check on your FRAPS where your movies are located and open it in Photoshop!
Step 5. We are almost done. Check if when you opened your movie the timeline bar showed up in the bottom of your Photoshop, if it didn’t go to Window > Timeline, and choose Create Video Timeline
Step 6. The long purple/blue bar is your whole video.
Controls (play, pause, this kind of stuff)
Beginning of your gif
What part of your gif is showing up to you on your screen right now
End of your gif
Any edit you want to make
You can mess with 2 and 4 and choose where your gif will start and end and how long it will take, try not to do a long gif, long gifs are heavy, it’s harder to make it look good while have a size that can be uploaded on tumblr.
⚠ tip: edit after cropping and 400px is being a really good size to keep the quality 💛
Now just edit the way you want it to look! But know that this is not a photo so some tools might not work.
Step 7. Once you finish editing your gif you’ll resize it. FRAPS saves huge size videos, and again, they are heavy, we don’t want this. Go to Image > Image Size and resize the width to 600px (the new size is kind of optional, I use 600px because isn’t too small nor too large, but you can put any px you want here, just don’t make it huge!). Once you resize, a popup wil appear , just press ok (and now your long video bar is purple ;)).
Step 8. We are ready to save it! Go to File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy)
Step 9. Make sure the loop is set to “always” or “4ever” idk, you can press play to check the end result. Aaaand, keep an eye on the size of your gif, tumblr doesn’t accept gifs bigger than 10MB and recommends it lower than 5MB. Click on Save and we are done!
Here we go! You have your gif <3 This is the first tutorial I’ve ever done here so please correct me if I made any mistake and go into my inbox to ask anything at all, if I don’t know what to do we can search a resolution together. Hope this was usefull!!! Have a great day!