and I'll work some magic
- Gifs for begginers
- Gif making
- Easy gif tutorial for Mac
- Blur effect
- Tweening frames
- Transition tutorial
- How to add transitions to gifs
- Reducing the amount of color on your gif
- How to make a 500px x 500px gif
- Two gifs on one canvas
- Multiple animations with continuous effect in one image
- How to put multiple gifs in one shape them
- Lyrics gif tutorial
- Gif inside gif
- Overlay gifs
- Another overlay gif
- Spinning effect
- Twirly effect
A lot of people have been asking me how I make overlay gifs. I’ve tried to explain as best as I could but I am one to admit that i’m very shit at explaining and teaching things, so sorry if I completely mess this up. I have pictures though!Difficulty: Medium? You need to have some basic gif making skills for this.
Program: Photoshop CS5
Feel free to ask questions if you don’t understand something.
mireena taught me this. go give her love! i just wanted to share it with tumblr :)
I’ve been asked so many times how can you do a beautiful coloring on gifs and keep them under 500 kb and let me tell you I’m no expert in colorings at all, 99% I don’t even know what I’m doing with my layers I just wing it and hope the optimization doesn’t kill it all but there are somethings that can help you smooth the optimization process and here’s a list under the read more
I’m using CS5.1, but it should work for other versions as well.
Photosets are really easy to do and can help you to overcome the gifsize limit by splitting your gif into more little ones so under the read more I’ll exaplin how to do photosets like this or more “complex” like this
here’s an example of what we will try to achieve:
AnonymousI use the KMPlayer to take screencaps. I have to make a tutorial for it but I’ll try to explain it shortly. (click on the thumbnails for a bigger size)
Open the video. Then right click on the video screen > Capture > Frame Extract (shortcut is Ctrl+G)
Then a window will apear with settings. Extract to is the destination folder; then you have the Prefix of the file name and the number of Digits; the Format of the screenshots which I recommend to be JPG and the highest quality, because JPG is the smallest file size; then Size to extract is the screenshot size which can be modfied below (the G is to reset); Frames to extract is how often the screenshots will be taken, so if you put 1 then you will have a fluent gif but with a short movement, while putting a 4 will mean having less fluency but more movement. I usually use 2-3.
And that’s it. Press Start and play your video to take the screencaps.
