#the video quality isn't that great and i can't find a higher quality version but i will try my best 🙂‍↕️

[somenights]

Hellooo, can you gif BoA kwon 's "The Shadow" please? Thank in advance ☺️

hello! so sorry i haven't had the time to do this 😞 as soon as i get the chance i will try my best!

[aflawedfashion]

You make such beautiful gifs, the quality and coloring are simply wonderful.... I'm slowly getting into making gifs myself but I'm really struggling since my results come out looking muddy/low quality whenever I upload them (for example, uploading on twitter) .

And so I was wondering if you were ever up to making a tutorial on what your process is to get the results that you get.

Thank you for sharing your work with us, always a pleasure to see.

Thank you! Happy you like my gifs!

Learning to gif is a journey, and most people's first gifs don't turn out as nice as they want them to, so you're not alone. There's a lot of trial and error involved.

As for tutorials, I follow the same steps as most of the gif tutorials you'll find on tumblr. If you're not using Photoshop to make your gifs, you might want to try it. I'd recommend just finding a tutorial on how to make gifs in Photoshop on tumblr and working from that. Aside from one caveat, which I'll get to later, I don't have much to add about the gif making process that hasn't already been said.

The requirements for Twitter are a bit different than Tumblr as Twitter processes gifs differently than tumblr (and Twitter is worse). I don't make twitter gifs very frequently, so I can't give you the best advice for that. What I can say is that you'll need your gifs to be large enough for Twitter. You'll want to look up the optimal size for gifs on twitter because the last time I posted gifs to Twitter, the optimal size was larger than Tumblr. Once you figure this out, you should be able to make pretty good gifs for Twitter.

In terms of general gif making, for best results you should use HD files. This is going to be key. You want to use either 1080p or 4k, and in my experience, 4k doesn't significantly improve gifs unless you want to zoom in, in which case the extra resolution of a 4k file helps a lot. I use 1080p unless I want to zoom in.

You also want to make sure the file you download isn't overly compressed because overly compressed video is much more difficult to brighten and color. If you're looking to download an episode of a tv show, you may find a few different files. I usually go for the largest 1080p version because that will give me the best quality. The smaller 1080p files are noticeably worse quality than the larger 1080p files. They both say 1080p, but they are not the same - that smaller file size came with sacrifices. Ripping straight off a blu ray will usually give you great results, but the files can be very large.

Now on to the one thing I do differently than what you'll see in a lot of gif tutorials - I don't sharpen in Photoshop. I use Topaz Video AI. This is a resource-intensive program, and I run it on an expensive laptop which allows it to run quickly. It's not going to run well on everyone's computer, so if you're working with 1080p files, it's absolutely not necessary. I use it a lot because I like it, but sharpening in photoshop will be fine if you're gifing an HD file.

If you're working with standard definition content, Topaz Video AI makes a world of difference. If you're asking me about my gifs because you saw my Scrubs gifs, then, unfortunately, Topaz Video AI is the secret to how they're much higher quality than anything you'd make from the SD/DVD files that are available.

I do know that a lot of people have used Topaz Video AI (or a similar program) to upscale many older series, so if you're looking to gif a standard definition series, someone out there may have already done the work for you. For example, I know you can find upscaled Xena episodes pretty easily these days, which was not the case when I first started using topaz to make my gifs.

And if you can't find an HD file, you just have to make the best with what you have. Sometimes that's the only option.

Hope this is helpful!

[comeontaylorspeaknow]

Hello, Mae!

I shall dub myself "🌔 anon" for ease of future requests.

It would fill me with joy if you could find any live performance of any of the songs off of Fearless and make icons related to it. Fearless is my favorite Taylor Swift album- it holds a special place in my heart. I simply haven't gotten around to finding any of the live shows on video.

If you can't find any older Fearless related tours or concerts, anything related to it in the recent Eras tour would make me very happy.

I want to make an edits blog, you see, but I'm just not quite there yet and it would be a great honor to see you make some icons for me. You are quite an amazing person, I must say!

(PS. If you find any cool videos of any Fearless songs being performed live, could you link them please?)

Much regards,

🌔

Ok so hopefully this makes sense the first row of icons will be her performances (not fearless tour) then the next row will be fearless tour concert icons and the last row will be eras tour fearless era icons. I've linked videos so you can find these performances. If I couldn't find the performances I found the next best thing like with the fearless tour I couldn't find videos of August 27, New York City, New York of Fearless Tour performances. So instead I linked the full tour. Perhaps if I did more research or deep dived on YouTube I maybe would find something but I didn't want to keep you waiting any longer 🙈. Also click here for the icons! Let me know if you have any questions sorry if this was confusing!

Performances

https://youtu.be/jGxJqUZkFyw

https://youtu.be/5entjD8ZKb8 (I couldn't find very good videos of this one I'm sorry!)

https://youtu.be/7Rw8ywR83AI (This is one of the higher quality versions I could fine but it isn't all the performances.)

Fearless Tour concert (all from the same show)

https://youtu.be/-iJUXIYdAZs (this is a video of the fearless tour or journey to fearless dvd. This isn't the specific pictures I used but Its what I could find. I used fearless tour new york city sadly I couldn't find any videos of this specific show! That does not mean they're isn't videos of this specific show date I just couldn't find it easily.)

The Eras Tour (Fearless)

The Eras Tour March 17 - Glendale, Arizona (found 2 videos of this show they both of most of the show but may not be all. The third link is Taylor performing you belong with me.)

https://youtu.be/8XYhgt5e0cI

https://youtu.be/S4mA7PLuto4

https://youtube.com/shorts/u6uCwoixeaw?feature=share3

The Eras Tour May 6 - Nashville, Tennessee (clip of Taylor singing fearless.)

https://youtube.com/shorts/VTRLZJk3H_g?feature=share3