alex.

I have been using this method for a long time, honestly. But realized I have never made a tutorial on it, despite this being an entirely free way to make gifs, and I think something that could help people who want to make gifs but don’t have the money to spend on something like Photoshop! Or the confusion that I have felt with some other free programs. 

I’m going to be walking you through every step of this method to the best of my ability but please be patient with me and, if anything is confusing, feel free to ask questions.

I will be making two different gifs (one regular sized gif and one gif icon), here those both are in order of them being made:

What you will need:

GIPHY downloaded (on Mac/Macbook this can be downloaded for free through the App Store; on Windows this can be downloaded for free through the Microsoft Store).

Internet connection.

That’s it.

I recommend using Chrome or Firefox though, as I tried using Safari once and GIPHY was not working properly with recording things.

Please like and reblog if you found this helpful. Tutorial under the cut.

By clicking on the source link at the bottom of this post you will be able to access #206 gifs that are 270x180 in size from Outer Banks 2x01 - 2x03. These gifs were all made by me from scratch, for roleplaying purposes. Please don’t repost into gifsets/gif hunts or claim as your own. Please reblog if using. Hope y’all enjoy!  If you enjoy my gifs consider tipping me on ko-fi or donating to an indigenous cause, gofundme, or creator.

This pack was made for the fantastic and wonderful Jen from @lindleyz as part of the RPH Server Gift Exchange 💖

I'm respectfully going to decline answer this because it goes against my rules but I want to explain why to you (and to the other asks I've received like this so I’m addressing them all in one!) because I'm sure this isn't anyone's intention and not everyone saw my previous posts talking about this but I'm tired.

Please stop using binary terms for non-binary folk unless the non-binary person uses said term(s) for themselves. This includes "masc" and "femme". Somebody can identify with being "non-binary femme" but that's not the same as calling somebody who doesn't identify with gendered language something gendered. All because somebody might look "traditionally feminine" doesn't make them femme or make it OK for people to call them femme when the person themselves doesn't call themselves femme. Giving people labels they don't give themselves is harmful.

Secondly, please stop asking for "non-binary and women" suggestions, I'm tired of people treating non-binary people as women light and I’m convinced people say they want a non-binary faceclaim just to appear inclusive when they’re just being performative. It's OK to just as for a non-binary faceclaim.

Thirdly, women are also not inherently feminine. Please stop asking for "femme" or "feminine" faceclaims when in actuality you only want suggestions who are women.

Ways to ask for faceclaims instead:

"Can I please get suggestions for a women with tattoos?"

"Can I please get suggestions for a man with tattoos?"

“Can I please get suggestions for a faceclaim with tattoos?“

"Can I please get a suggestion for a non-binary person with tattoos?"

"Can I have suggestions for a non-binary person who wears make-up?"

"Can I have suggestions for a non-binary person with facial hair?"

"Can I have suggestions for a non-binary person who has long hair?"

“Can I have suggestions for X and their general vibe?“

HONESTY.PSD  *

so i've been hearing many a person having problems with not seeing the legacy text editor in the top right corner of their browser. it would look something like this for those who do have it:

from what i'm going to assume this means that the staff is on the roll with fully implementing and enforcing the beta text editor on everyone. not only that but i'm also going to assume that ( and wouldn't be surprised if ) they're going to be making a site wide update within the next month or two making it to where everybody has to use it regardless to whether or not they want to.

and not only that but it's also getting to the point to where the new xkit is slowly but surely breaking for people because of how outdated it is and the staff enforcing us to use the beta text editor. so i definitely recommend y'all getting xkit rewritten for when the day actually does come for us to permanently use beta text editor.

a couple of addons i recommend y'all getting would be of the following:

limit checker: this. is. an. absolute. life. saver. i kid you not. it tells you the number of asks you sent as well as text / video / videos / etc. posts you've made among a few other things. it's super neat.

mass deleter: unfortunately this only deletes stuff from your drafts and queue but it's definitely worth getting if you have tons of stuff and / or are a hoarder.

mass unliker: i like to sort through my likes every once in a while tbh but if it gets out of hand and you tend to have 8,645,132,154,568 likes then feel free to use this so that you don't have to go through each and every thing in your likes.

mutual checker: do i really need to explain this one?? being able to see who you're moots with via dash is 1,000,000 times easier than going to your followers and CTRL + F nonstop.

tag replacer: having a mass tag replacer is, without a doubt, an absolute life saver. this is especially useful for us roleplayers who tend to change our aesthetics from time to time and have updated our tags. and even if you don't change your tags regularly it's still worth getting this.

tag tracking+: this lets you know when you've been tagged in something!! ah!! 10 out of 10 love it.

timestamps: this is a must for just about all of us in the tumblr rpc. it lets us know when those we follow / moots have posted! so that definitely helps out a lot. it also allows you to choose between the standard format and iso 8601 format, so there's that!

trim posts: okay ... so this addon was a little confusing at first but rest assured that it's 1,000,000 times easier now! in fact, you don't even need that tutorial anymore thanks to a neat little update they did within the past two weeks!

there's a bunch of other little addons you can pick from as well but these are some that i use and can't seem to recommend enough tbh!

Click on the source link for 65 GIFS of Evan Mock in Gossip Girl Episode 4, bringing my count up to 306 GIFS! Honestly this show is so bad, I do not recommend at all unless you like staring at pretty people 🤍 Please do not edit / use in crackships / repost / put in other gif hunts. Please like or reblog if you found it useful!

( contains: sexual situations, semi-nudity, kissing. )