Thanks for the mask tutorial! How do you then apply that mask to effects? I'm looking specifically at gifs that have strong background colors but flesh tones are intact.
no problem!
i think with those kinds of sets, you have to pick the right scene. if you can, find a scene that already has a solid color in the background so it’s easier to work with.
if you can’t find a scene with a solid bg, pick one that’s close and has very little movement.
also – i already have a colorporn tutorial here but i literally can’t find that file anywhere, so i’m going to use a different gif to show you how to mask things.
please like / reblog if you find this tutorial helpful so others can see it, too!
basically you cap, import, make your gif as normal. if you don’t know how to do that, i have a tutorial here.
to start off, you have your gif. (this one’s already sharpened)
add your base psd
now!! before you make any more adjustments or mess with masks!! turn your frame animation into a video timeline by clicking this icon
and then your timeline should look like this
select all of your gif frames in the layers tab on the right (but not the coloring!!) right click and find the “convert to smart object” option and click that.
altogether it should look like this
and back to coloring!
that blue line on her face was bothering me so i made a selective color layer under the base psd and go to the “cyans” option where it says colors and put the cyan one to -100 and now it looks like this
it changed quite a bit of the background so i clicked on the mask part of the layer and i painted over the background with a black brush (tutorial here) so now it looks like this
(you can actually see where i painted the background in the photo above)
then i added a hue/sat layer, went to the cyans tab.
settings: hue +5, sat +100, lightness 0
NOW there’s that pesky little corner.. basically i painted over the left side of the gif with a color that matched and now it looks like this (ignore the dots, it’s the way i saved it)
now i added another hue/sat layer, cyans tab again
settings: hue -10 / sat +100 / lightness -5
and now you have your finished gif!
here’s what the layers bar looks like in case you’d like to see which parts i painted on the masks :)
i hope this tutorial helped! sorry i linked to other tutorials, but it seemed silly to re-do them so i linked instead~
as always, feel free to message me with any other questions :)
anonymous said: tried the potplayer tutorial but it won't let me select all frames???
i just screen-recorded how i import frames so you could see what i do.
if you want to select all the files in the folder instead of selecting a few like i did: click in the window the files are located and hit ctrl+a
(or click the first file, scroll to the bottom, and hold shift as you click the last file)
