Ive been asked how I make my CD gifs so here's a tutorial...
This tutorial is HEAVILY based on @lonely-coconut 's tutorial (which you can find here), but I feel mine is a bit more developed and a little different.
There is also a video at the end that shows how to do everything more in depth so definitely watch that if you want I guess.
Step 1. Find pics of the CD you wanna make gifs of.
I usually use discogs for this, but sometimes discogs doesnt have what I need and I resort to just looking up "[insert album name] cd" and try to find pics thag way. Occasionally, I can't find any solid straight-on pics of a cd or its case, which in that case I have to do some photo-manipulation to make it look nice. I also sometimes color-correct the pics I find if the colors look weird.
Step 2. Get them lookin right.
This step is easier to see in the video but basically just overlay the pic of the cd onto a png of a cd and put the album cover into a cd case frame (if its not already in one..)
Step 3. Make the cd spin
Go to this website and use the clockwise spin mode to made it spin..
Step 4. Resize your stuff to make it compatible with eachother
This is also easier to explain if you watch the video but basically just go to ezgif and crop n resize the stuff so they fit together and the cd isn't like super small compared to the case or anything like that.
These graphics dont have any standard size i dont think, but mine are (as of recent) standardized so that the cd pngs are 2048x2048 pixels, the cd gifs are 253x253, the cd cases are 304x266, and put together the gifs are 430x266 pixels.
Step 5. Overlay the CD case onto the CD
Go to overlay on ezgif and put the cd case about halfway over the cd. You'll probably need to expand the canvas size to do this, just crop the empty pixels when you're done.
Heres the video tutorial
Oh oh oh and heres a couple CD case png overlays I use when I can't find good scans of the CD cases
I have this CD png overlay (that've been collecting dust for a long time...) too, if someone needs. You just need a program to crop an image into it, ibispaint can do the work
Would you be open to making dividers themed off of liminal spaces and analog horror?
I love your stuff so much 🤎 no pressure to do this at all, I'm sure you're getting a lot of requests as it is
you are too kind, thank you so much! 💖 and YES this was such a cool request - I had so fun making these! I really hope they match what you’re looking for!
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