#try 10 things and photoshop crashes and refuses to reopen

[baoshan-sanren]

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I was tagged by @leonzhng​​ for this NiF set 💕💕💕  thank youuuu 💕💕💕

I’ll be tagging:

@mylastbraincql​ for this mdzs network anniversary set

@theyilinglaozus​ for this gorgeous woh set

@wangxianbunnydoodles​ for this One Basking in Infinite Glory set

@sassassassins​ for this amazing woh set

@tiesanjiao​​ for this vincenzo set that personally came to my house and tore my heart out

okay so this is the gif

0. software (Mac)

Quick Time Player for screen recording

iMovie for .mov to .mp4 conversion

Photoshop 22.3.1 (that says it will work with .mov clips but that is a bold-faced lie)

1. planning

yeah I don’t do that 😂 

my planning is like

these scenes, although a few moments/minutes apart, look to be filmed from the same angle/perspective

I bet they’d look nice by themselves 

then I screen record the whole 2 mins or whatever, tuck the clip away in a folder, and 80% of the time forget it’s there

which is why my laptop memory hates me

2. creation

Quick Time Player 

Screen recorded the 2 min scene w/no sound 

I trimmed 3 clips with Quick Time out of the 2 minute video, all of them about 2-3 seconds long

Made sure I quit Quick Time completely, or it will make iMovie crash lol 

iMovie

Imported the three clips

Exported as .mp4 

(settings)

then made sure I quit iMovie completely too, or it will make Photoshop crash lmao

Photoshop

Import video frames as layers

Trim + Resize (usually I start with 800 x 1200 or 600 x 900 depending on whether I’m working around hardcoded subtitles, logos, etc. bc that gives me 540 x 360 which is a size I prefer)

Convert to Smart Object

Sometimes I do my own sharpening, but here I think I used this action by rubyred (I think? I don’t remember) 

Before I start fiddling with colors, I always check if I have a psd that might work well with the scene (remember I’ve done no planning, so now I’m just flying by the seat of my pants)

By some miracle, I had saved the psd for the coloring I made for this Legend of Fei gifset + threw it on there to see how it looks

And it looked all right :)

If I remember, I throw on my watermark (I did for this one, yayy)

Export - Save for Web

If the gif is over 10MB I go back and trim some of it off (which is a guessing game bc trying to actually play a gif on Photoshop crashes it every time)

Ideally post (usually I just schedule the set for the next open slot in my queue and completely forget I made it until it posts) unless I look at the set in my drafts, decide it’s trash, delete it, and watch like 3 hours of mriad instead

I’m trying to remember what I did to get that coloring and I’m pretty sure it was nothing crazy, there were some blues + greens + cyans in there I selectively enhanced and then just lowered the saturation all the way down. Selectively enhanced the black + maybe increased yellow on selective red? I feel so stupid that I can’t even remember what episode this NiF scene is from so I can go back and see what the original colors were, and make like, reasonable deductions about my own process lol

Thanks to that psd, this NiF set actually only took about 15 mins to make, when this one (where the psd comes from)

had actually taken like 2+ hours and 3 Photoshop crashes AND I forgot the watermark RIP (don’t be like me kids, save your psds + remember your watermarks)

🥰