can u teach me how to make a gif? i'm recently learning
A lot of people have been asking me this, and I never got the time to get around to it. But now I do! So, here we go!Before I start please know that this is the way I make gifs. I just wanted to make that clear since there are a lot of other ways to do it!
Let’s do this!Alright, let’s begin with capping the scene you want to gif. (if you already know how to do this, you can skip this part). I have KMPlayer on my computer to make screencaps. I don’t know how to cap with other media players. Open KMPlayer and insert your dvd/video you want to gif. Then click Ctrl+g to see your settings. Mine look like this: (the settings are in dutch, but just make sure you get the numbers right).
Now, choose the scene you want to gif, and click start/stop on the settings window to start/stop capping. (Btw, the larger the video file, the longer it will take to screencap). This is how it should look:
When that’s done you can open the caps by opening photoshop; click ‘File’, ‘Scripts’, followed by ‘Load Files into Stack’
Now, click browse, select the caps and click on the OK button. The frames will start loading, this might take a while (depending on how many caps you selected).When that’s done click this little button to convert to frame animation.
Follow these 2 second steps closely: click the button on the right top of your timeline and choose ‘Make frames from layers.’
After that click that button again and choose ‘reverse frames’. If you don’t do this then your gif will be saved reversed, and we wouldn’t want that!!!! (well, unless that’s what you’re aiming for haha).Now we have all our frames neat and tidy. It should look like this:
Now you can start cropping (changing the size of the gif). I’m going to change mine to 245 width and 150 height. You can change the size by clicking ‘image’ on the top sidebar, followed by ‘image size’. Enter the size you want your gif to be and it’ll be converted!
So far, my gif looks like this:
Up next you can choose a coloring you have saved, or created yourself, and put it over your gif to make the colors bright and stand out! When you’re done coloring click the button on the right top of the animation timeline and choose ‘Flatten Frames Into Layers’
When that’s done you have to change the frame delay time of your gif to whatever you fancy. Some people like fast gifs, others like slow motion gifs. Select all the frames and click on the arrows next to time, underneath the frames. There you can enter any frame delay time you want!When that’s done you can sharpen the gif. To sharpen all layers at once choose the button on the right bottom and convert back to timeline animation (the same button we used before in this tutorial to concert to frame animation).
Then, select all the frames in the right sidebar:
Go to the upper sidebar and go to ‘Filter’ and ‘Convert to smart filters’.
After that you go to ‘filter’,’sharpen’ or ‘smart sharpen’ (that depends on your likings).Now your gif is almost ready to be uploaded onto Tumblr! The only thing we still need to do is save it.Go to ‘File’ and choose ‘Save for web and devices’
Here’s what my saving settings look like:Make sure the gif is below 2 MB when you save it or else tumblr won’t be able to upload it. If your gif it above the 2 MB limit you can try to lower it by deleting some of the frames until it reaches 2 MB.
Hope this tutorial has been helpful and have fun giffing!!If any of you have a question or problem while giffing you can always leave a message in my askbox and I’d be happy to help!
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