#gifs tutorial

For 30fps (normal) gifs:

For ultra smooth 60fps (usually for ts files):

60fps is fantastic for short shots, such as live performances where the camera changes scenes every second or two. It gives you HD quality without the gif seeming too short. 

Be aware that in order for the 60fps processor to work correctly, you either have to have a file that specifically states it’s 60fps or a .ts file (found on sites like twitter, kpop24hrs.com, etc). 

Even if you process a normal .mp4 or .mov file with 60fps, it’ll just double every frame and you’ll end up with a weirdly slow gif. So just use .ts or 60fps videos okay? 

PS export settings for either 30fps or 60fps

These export settings stay the same for both. Most important thing you can do is set your gif to original, NOT optimized. Toggle between them and you’ll see why.

Final comparison

Here are two gifs of the same scene. Both gifs have 60 frames, and are using the settings above. You can see doing 30fps allows a longer scene, while using 60fps looks smoother. So it really just depends on your preference.

Hello! I'd like to introduce my GIF Making Demo! (Without sound, sorry!)

Here I show two ways to make GIFs. An absolutely FREE way and a way that does require some money.

This tutorial doesn't go into depth about the programs themselves, but it does show exactly what I do in each program.

I try not to handhold in this video. Feel free to pause, take notes, etc when watching, but I didn't slow things down or narrate (w/ text) every click I'm making.

The programs in the video: Bandicam (Screen Recording Software) (Free versions and Pro versions available) VSDC (Free Video Editing Software) (Pro version available, I think) Adobe Premiere Pro (Video Editing Software) (Paid Program)

Here is a list I used when finding free video editing programs.

While Bandicam does have a watermark (as seen in the video) I do show you how to remove it when making GIFs.

A few notes: I've only used VSDC today for this video. I have downloaded MANY a free video editing software and this one is by far the best. I did not mess too much with it, but I'd highly advise one to go through a manual, tutorials, and the like to find out all of its hidden features.

I'll admit, it is NOT very beginner-friendly and may have a bit of a learning curve. But if you know editing software or are tech-savvy, it'll be a breeze. One HUGE PLUS for this program is that it does not give your videos watermarks!!

My method is with Premiere Pro which is why I can move along so fast with it. If you need any assistance please reach out to me!

This is just my own method, so it is definitely not the "one true" method of GIF-making. If any other GIF makers have any other input, feel free to share! :D I've got post-nap brain so I'm sorry for my ramblings

Here is the GIF made with only FREE software ⬇

Here is the GIF made with a paid software ⬇

DISCLAIMER: I am NOT an expert, my whole process is more sheer luck and a few mental breakdowns, followed another tutorial that I can't find again and just learned the rest by messing around in photoshop, but I'll try to explain what I do when I make gifs because people have asked me to! Hopefully it will be understandable lol if there's a better way to do things I simply do not know

hi thank you so much for checking in, i haven't fully recovered from canada but i'm doing okay. let's say i'm less angry about it and i'm trying to remain hopeful for the rest of the season. i hope you're okay as well 💘

thank you so much for liking my gifs! i am not the best person for tutorials, i'm usually shit at explaining but i can give you some basic pointers. i'm not super skilled with photosop, so i use the most basic settings to colour my gifs, like

luminosity / contrast

exposure

color balance

selective color

for example, for this george gif, i used the following settings (sorry my default language in photoshop is italian, i hope you're still able to understand it, the settings are the one i listed above, in order)

luminosity / contrast and exposure:

color balance (halftone and highlights, again not sure this is the right terminology in the english version):

selective color (i love giving some red tones to neutral colours, they usually make the gifs a lot more soft looking):

and these are my sharpening settings. i use smart sharpen -> amount 500 and radius 0,4, then i select gaussian blur

there's literally nothing else i do (mostly because i don't know how to use other settings), the only feauture i sometimes add is "curve", which i use in order to fix excessively yellow lighting. also colouring highly depends on the starting material, sometimes you have to use a lot of layers of colouring, others a couple would be enough (like luminosity and exposure). you can do many trials and see what method works better for you! there's no standard procedure for gif colouring.

i can suggest you these tutorials, they're super helpful if you're a beginner.

(1) Hi so I’ve had a couple of anons asking me how I make my gifs (some specifically hsmtmts gifs lol) so I’ve decided to write up a... – @galindaelphaba su Tumblr

https://www.tumblr.com/shnehollander/811540934596739072/hi-i-feel-like-i-havent-seen-an-updated?source=share

Challenge: From your creations, choose GIFs and do a split of before and after adding colouring!

Thanks @steveroger​ for the tag and for the colouring tutorial! I learned something new today :D 

Giffing is fun :))) 

I don’t think that I have one specific style or process of colouring thing, each scene/gif is different. That said I do tend to challenge myself nowadays to the darkest scenes possible, cuz I like to torture myself and want to see things.

It’s mostly just tries and errors. Discovering Channel mixer was a revelation. Thank you @kiraslight​

My gifs are simple in composition, non-talking and big. I LOVE making big gifs. 

As for colouring it’s more about removing something than adding. 

Like here all blue was removed to make sunlight more vibrant. 

I’m getting really tired of all those bleak and ugly colour-filters in the movies. 

Like the greenish blue

or yellow

or purple (who the hell does that???)

Sometimes I just remove all the colours completely :D 

So yeah.... big b&w gifs are my love :)))

I think it’s very good that the gif-makers can actually show what they are dong in their gifs. Layers of layers, masks, filters... to fix, to enhance, to show, to make pretty. 

People tend to think it’s easy, not timenerves consuming and it is not. It’s hard, it’s a lot of work. That’s why reposting really hit the nerve :(

COLORING/BRIGHTENING TUTORIAL [ requested by an anon ]

so i don’t think i got what anon wanted, but i had a bit of fun anyway. mind that i’m sick and coughing and my head is about to explode, so i may be a tad incomprehensible.

(as for sharpening, i mentioned the action i use here)

(all i use is brighten/contrast, hue/saturation, vibrance, selective color, levels, and sometimes curves about which you can read here )

1. ugly yellows

so i have this gif i want to brighten but also make it look more human than instagram-colored.

the one thing you want to do here is to play with saturation and its color ranges, then tone down everything, and then bring up and tone what you want. 

this is what i almost always do, sometimes i double the layer, sometimes i change the opacity to 70 or 50%. thanks to this your gif will be brightened but not as if a lamp just appeared in front of the person of the gif and made white dots on their face. it brightens everything evenly.

then there go:

and the effect:

2. easy coloring

on this gif i have an easy job to do. i have blues, and blues, i think, are the easiest to play with.

what you wanna do here is basic brightening and then toning down everything. then bring up what you want to bring up. it’s important when you color gifs with people because without this you’ll orange or yellow the hell out of their faces if not careful. 

so brighten it, and then:

(changing the blending to ‘color’ allows you to color evenly, it kind of blurs the color instead of bringing it up pixelized much)

and duplicate the last layer

effect:

additionally, if you use hue/saturation, you can play with the blue:

3. blues blues plus saturation

in this one i can afford myself saturation. it’s also easy with a lot of blues, but it still has people in it. i find it the most difficult to partially color gifs with people in them.

the road:

and the result:

4. so, uh. greens.

greens are the weirdest because you want to get them right. depending on a situation, the green will change. as for mysterio, we can go into the military-esque greens. if it was grass, we’d go for yellowish.

because the gif is already bright, i go down with the brightening layer’s opacity.

double the selective color layer, change the opacities of the SC layers to color.

and the result:

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I’ve had some issues in the past where people have reposting my gifs without credit, i usually see that their posts end up gaining lots of likes (we’re talking 10k+) and they have not linked anything to my OG posts.

Anyone who makes gifs knows that these take time and effort to make. I dont consider myself strict with these rules, they’ve very basic and its just doing the bare minimum of showing respect for creators in fandoms.

How to give credit:

If you are uploading them to Twitter/X and pinterest, add the original link to your post. For example if you repost my gif onto twitter, you can put the link in the thread. NOT my @, the link.

Regular gifs with only few edits to them. This includes colouring and sharpening. Can you repost? Yes. Is credit required? No, but it would be appreciative.

Gifs that include gradients and text: here are 2 examples:

Can you repost? Gradients yes, texts no. Is credit required? Yes, put the original link of my gifset post in your post/thread.