Hey! So I’ve already done a small tutorial on how I do my really bright/colour porn/colour palette gifs, so I’ll do this more of an example on how I make my regularly coloured gifs, which are pretty vibrant on their own because i love colour!
then and now example:
Now, I’m not going to go through the entire gif making process. I’m going to go on the assumption that you know how to grab your screencaps, load them into photoshop, create your timeline and do your cropping/sharpening. If you don’t, @jakegyllenhaals has a VERY detailed tutorial here, including proper gif sizing.
So after loading your frames, and do all your basic cropping, you’ll have something like this:
Now, the first thing I do with gifs like these, is I want to take away the yellow tinge because I personally prefer to work with blue tinge. I do this using a colour balance layer. this will be different with each scenery, and sometimes even with gif within the same scene.
Now that I’ve altered my balance, I want to brighten my gif. This can vary between gifs, but I usually keep them relatively the same so long as the gifs arent extremely dark (i.e sewer scenes) or extremely light (some outdoor scenes that are white based.) I usually use levels or curves exclusively to brighten, because I find that brightness/contrast layers wash out the gif.
Now the lighting does still wash the gif out slightly, so I add a vibrance layer to bring the natural colour back out. This will also change per gif, but I only ever adjust the vibrance and not the saturation because the saturation alters the hue will bring out an unhappy red in the gifs.
I don’t particularly like the green tinge that’s happening in this gift at the moment, so I’ll usually add another colour balance layer and lean the blue more towards the yellow.
Even though the colours are bright, I’m still going to play around with the colouring to continue to get them to pop a little nicer. The first thing I add is create a selective colour layer and set the black to +8. Don’t touch any of the other colours, especially not “neutrals” and then I’ll add some more levels layers where the gifs will appear darker, while you’re still able to see everything and colours are vibrant.
You can probably stop here, but I myself add some more curves just as a finishing touch
and then you have a final product of your gif! This is also the same process I use as my base psd for most of colour porn/colour palette gifs as well.
— Anyone that has photoshop, is there a tutorial that goes step by step with making a gif? I’ve tried several ways, but I can’t seem to get them right. Any suggestions or tips are helpful! I appreciate it a lot, thank you!
— okay, so I'm broke. And I can't afford photoshop, anyone wanna gift it to me, or let me borrow their adobe account that they aren't using?? Because I wanna learn how to gif stuff and it looks so exciting.
I’m working on coloring a comic in Photoshop and I don’t understand why this is happening and what I can do to change it. Or maybe this is normal and I’m just losing my mind for no reason.
So for comic coloring, I’ve learned that you must first flat all of the colors. It’s used as a selection tool down the road so you can easily switch between sections of color using the magic wand. To flat, you make selections with the lasso tool, and fill with the paintbucket. But the point is to never leave any white so you must ‘bump up’ and select other colors.
I’ve played with settings for all of those tools and can’t figure out the differences. But after all of that I’m still getting these weird halo effects! It looks absolutely terrible and it makes it hard to do colors later on down the line.
Oh! And I’ve tried using online flatting software, which doesn’t have these effects, but for other reasons, I can’t use those programs because I spend more time editing it, and then the edits end up with these halos anyways.
Guys my computer is doing something weird with photoshop. Or maybe its my pen? Or maybe its Windows? I dont know but i can’t work like this #windowshelp #photoshophelp #computerhelp #photoshopproblems #windowsproblems #computerproblems
