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So first you have to open your gifs in photopea and make sure they're the same number of frames.

Once both of your gifs are made and have the same number of frames, you'll go into the second gif and right click on it and pick the 'duplicate into' option, where you'll choose to duplicate it into your first gif.

Once you have them together in the same place, you'll change the blending style (which is the dropdown menu next to opacity) from 'pass through' to 'lighten' for both gifs. This step isn't technically required, but it helps you visualize how you want to place your gifs easier.

In order to move your gifs to where you want them to be, you have to select all the frames of your gif (otherwise you'll only end up moving one frame). You can do this by clicking on the first frame, then hold down the shift key while you select the last frame. Then you're free to move both gifs to where you want them!

Once you have your gifs where you want them, now comes the blending! Click on the raster mask option, which I've circled.

Next, you're going to get a brush. It's best to turn the hardness down, because then you're won't be as, well, hard lol. With a soft brush, it's easier to blend more naturally. And use whatever size you want.

With the raster mask, to erase what you don't want in your gif, like the harsh lines and things blocking parts of your other gif or whatever, you want to turn the color to black. Then, if you erase too much, you can change the color to white in order to add it back in!

One more thing about the raster mask, since you'll be adding it both gifs. Whatever part of the gif you want to erase make sure you're erasing the part from the gif that mask is applied to.

If that's confusing, what I mean is: I have my gifs labelled 'joey 1' & 'joey 2'. Joey 1 is the gif on the right and Joey 2 is the gif on the left. So, if I want to have more of the Joey 2 gif in my blended gif, I have to erase the parts of Joey 1 from the mask applied to Joey 1. (Hopefully that makes sense!)

Once you're satisfied with your blending, you're going to select both folders the same way you selected frames when moving your gifs. Then, you're going to click the layer dropdown menu up on the top and scroll until you get to the animation tab which has 'make frames' 'unmake frames' & 'merge' in it. You're going to select merge and you're done!

Just save it as a gif with whatever dimensions you want! And congratulations, you've made your blended gif !!!!!!

For that particular gif, I just recorded that whole scene and made it into one gif. So the shot of Pacey you see is just the camera cutting away from Joey to Pacey!

However, if you want a gif that looks like that but with scenes that aren't connected. All you have to do is make whatever two gifs you want and then duplicate one gif into the other. By right clicking on one of your gifs to open this menu and clicking the duplicate into option and then clicking on your other gif from the dropdown menu.

Once you have both gifs in the same project, you can just save them as a gif and you'll have a gif that looks like that gif!

I use two programs to make my gifs: inshot pro and photopea. Photopea, if you don't know, is a good free version of photoshop. You can make your gifs simply by using photopea, but I like to use inshot to make my gifs and color them.

To get inshot pro, all you have to do is google "inshot pro apk" and you'll be able to find the paid version free. The one I used was from "inshotapk.net" You should have no problem unless your phone doesn't allow you to download outside apps.

All you have to do with Photopea is look it up and it will bring you to the site. One thing: I have noticed that Photopea works better on Chrome than it does on FireFox, so just FYI.

This is what the beginning screen of Inshot looks like. To get started on your gif, click on the "video" option and it will bring up all the videos you have in your camera roll, so just click the one you want and it will bring you to the next screen.

This is what the screen will look like once your video opens.

To get to the part in my video that I want to gif, I go into precut and slide until I get to the general area that I want, than I select the checkmark and use the sliders on either side of the video to narrow it down to the exact part I want.

This is an option that depends on what side of gif you want. If I wanted the standard 540x304 px, I would leave it with no frame. But since I want a 540x 540 px gif, I selected the 1:1 option and dragged it to where I wanted to gif.

Next up, I do speed. Most of the time I do 0.70, but if the gifs are short or the movement is very fast I'll go down lower.

Now comes the fun part: Coloring! Select the filter option and then select adjust. The first thing I do is sharpen, I turn it all the way up to 100. Next, I do film grain, I usually turn it between 30-60.

Next I do lightness and contrast. If the scene is really dark, I'll usually turn the lightness all the way up. I never do that much contrast probably about 10 usually.

Then I do warmth. Sliding warmth to the left gives the gif a vague blueish coolness, while sliding warmth to the right gives the gif a vague orangeish warmth.

Next up, I do tint. Sliding tint to the left gives a greenish color to the gif, while sliding tint to the right gives a pinkish color to the gif.

Next up, I do saturation. I usually don't do a lot of saturation, because adding too much makes the gif very orange.

Next, I do shadow. I usually slide shadow to the left which deepens the colors, but if the gif is incredibly dark, I slide it to the right which brightens the gif even more.

Next, I do hue, which is the opposite of tint. So, to the left is pinkish and to the right is greenish. I usually do a greenish tint and a pinkish hue.

Step 1:

Open Photopea. Once you're there, go to the file menu in the top left corner of the site. Click on the new option, which will prompt the above box. Determine the size of your canvas. Since I used four gifs sized 268 x 150, I figured the size by multiplying both the length and width by 2 and by adding 4. Which is the size of the spaces between. Leave everything else the same, except changing the background from white to transparent.

Step 2:

Open the file menu again and select the gifs you wish to use.

Step 3:

Go into one of your gifs. Select all the frames by clicking on the frame at the top, holding shift, and scrolling down to the last frame and clicking on it. Once you've selected all your frames, open the edit menu to the right of the file menu. Go down to copy and click on it.

Step 4:

Go back to your canvas, open the edit menu again, and go down to paste and click. Your gif will appear and you can now move it to your desired position. Make sure all your frames are selected when you move it.

All your gifs will appear in the left corner, so I reccomend making the gif that you wish to place there the last one you add to the canvas. After adding a couple gifs, your gifs will appear below the left corner gif, so if you're adding more than two, it can get troublesome.

Step 5:

Once you have all your gifs added to your canvas and in your desired positions, select all the frames of a single gif. Next, click the folder icon. This will group all the frames together. Make sure to do each gif separately.

Also, delete the background layer.

Step 6:

This is how your menu should look after grouping each gif into its own folder. Select each folder in the same way you do frames.

Step 7:

After selecting each folder, open the layer menu at the top. Scroll down until you reach the animation tab. Select it and click merge.

Step 8:

This is how your menu should look after merging the folders and you're done!