#adventures in gifmaking

[wikiangela]

Agatha All Along 1x08 🖤

[shaunashipman]

something I love about gifmaking, and art in general, is when people find symbolism in my gifs that never even occurred to me. they're like, "oh wow i never noticed that" and i'm like, "babe me neither"

[pariaritzia]

Deva and Varadha in SALAAR (2023)

[aenslem]

my mortal enemies (not the ladies, the ladies are the loves of my life, I mean the filters in media)

[felixravinstills]

tricks or treats 😼🎃🎃👻👻👻👻👻🗣️🗣️

Happy belated Halloween! Here's some gifs that I already posted of Coral, but without Festus being in the way!

Below the Cut, I've included a little peek into what these look like without editing for fun!

Honestly, the movie coloring really is quite nice for these gifs, but for the set these were going in. I needed them to be lighter... Also if they're brighter they strain my eyes less!

[lucy-lockwood]

"Bloody Amateurs."

[khaotunq]

making the ep5 gifset like Sand, Sand, SandRay, Sand, oh there are like 5 other characters here's Mew I guess, Sand, Sand, SandRay, SandRay, uhhhh Boston???, SandRay, ......sand.

[emmatriarchy]

scott... scott pull your knees together, man. you're manspreading.

[stannyramirez]

gif makers are a blessing to this world. do you know how hard we work? yw.

[barrowsteeth]

your gifs are always so crisp and clear. how do you make the magic happen??

thank you! i i've answered this question before but my process has changed a little since then so here's an update!

first and foremost, i start with the highest quality video possible. i only work with 1080p or higher, and the largest file size i can find.

once i've picked my scene(s) and imported the files into photoshop, i always follow the same flow: crop | color | sharpen | tweak | export.

i won't go into too much detail about color but one thing to keep in mind is that it's likely you will lose quality with drastic color adjustments. i prefer to make several minor adjustments as opposed to drastic changes because they're much easier to undo if you find you've lost your way. i use the eyedropper tool and/or the individual color sliders on my base layers (levels and curves) on almost every gif. these layers do a lot of heavy lifting to even out coloring (curves are especially helpful in decreasing the yellow/orange hue that is so common in a lot of media these days). then i follow up with a combination of contrast, exposure, channel mixer, selective color, hue/sat and vibrance, as needed. i hand color all of my gifs so the layers i use vary greatly from gif to gif. in the sample pics i've included below, you will see that the only color layer i used is hue/sat. the rest of my color adjustments were made in the first curves layer. i'm also using a gradient map to adjust the background color of the scene, which is important to keep in mind when you're doing your coloring.

next up, sharpening! i use the sharper action in this pack as a base, which applies two layers of smart sharpening. next i add a high pass filter (filter | other | high pass) which i think adds an additional pop of refinement to a gif on top of the smart sharpening. you can read all about high pass here. i typically use a radius between .5 and 1.0, then set the blending to soft light. finally i add a noise reduction layer (filter | noise | reduce noise), set the strength 3-5 and preserve details to 15-20. i usually set the opacity of this layer to 40-60% but again, it varies from gif to gif. i know some other gifmakers who like to add a gaussian blur at this stage instead, so i'd suggest playing around with both settings to find what works best for you.

and that's basically it! i may make a few color or brightness tweaks to the final gif but otherwise it's ready for export.

here's a look at my layers panel and a frame from a gif i'm working on for an upcoming set at various stages in the process.

this all may feel like a lot of steps but once you figure out what works for you, it becomes second nature and part of the fun. sorry for the delay in answering and thanks for the ask! feel free to message me again if something isn't clear. 💜

[whenthegoldrays]

okay someone help me. if I have the dvd of a movie, how can I take the file from there (? don’t even know how to phrase it) for gif making?

[wikiangela]

"Like that?" "Yeah, that works."😍

[shaunashipman]

I don't gif for the notes I gif for the psychological damage I am accused of inflicting

[pariaritzia]

-The sultan, however big the problem was, wouldn't deploy his formidable army. Instead, he would go to only one man. Whatever the sultan wished for, he would bring it to him. Whatever the sultan rejected, he would destroy...Khansaar changed the fate of a lot of people. But what changed the fate of Khansaar was when two best friends became arch enemies.

Release trailer for SALAAR (2023)

[aenslem]

the problem with using 2160p files for gifs and tons of filters and layers to make the gif look good

spent more on screencapping and uploading caps to ps for one gif alone and it's been 10 minutes you bitch, and nobody will appreciate the efforts lmao

[cyberpunkedd]

every time i come back here after being away for a bit, it's less and less notes on gifsets and it's so sad to see.