#misc: tutorial

okay so i’m just gonna show you how i made each edit ... for the this one i used my phone and these apps ...

phonto is for adding text, you can also download your own fonts of dafont. and polarr is for adding colouring / filters whatever u wanna call it.

so firstly i downloaded my screencaps from homeofthenutty (which is unfortunately a very temperamental website but it’s the best screencap website i’ve found so far).

so onto the actual edit ... i started off my adding my colouring in polarr

then i added a light leak

(i couldn’t remember which one i used previously ahdkkf so i just picked a random one for this)

and i did the same for the other picture which i used (same colouring, same light leak - different angle) also you can save your colourings in polarr by saving it as a style

you will get better at colouring over time ... and there’s loads of presets and tutorials out there to help you as well !

lastly (as this edit was actually quite simple) i added my text in phonto which is relatively easy to use, and i would recommend downloading your own fonts ... you can always come and ask me for font recommendations bcs i lOvE fonts ajdkfkkf. you can just go and play around with the text until you land upon something that you like.

OKAY NEXT ! x

so this one i also did on my phone using these apps

same as last time but also using picsart as well which you can do various things on but i just used to place the images

so same as before i added my colouring for each screencap ... i think i used a different colouring for the middle one of i’m remembering correctly.

then to lay it out as i did i used picsart and went on freestyle :

and then i picked out my three edited screencaps and fiddled around a lot until i got them how i wanted

there is probably a way better application for this because it is very fiddly and requires a lot of patience to get it lined up evenly and the way you want.

after you do manage to get it how you want, i just cropped down my image size on polarr so it looked more even.

then i just added my text on phonto, and overlayed two fonts together to make it look a bit like a postcard or smth lol idk what i was going for haha.

okay last one ! x

this one was my first proper edit on photoshop / lightroom so it’s not the best ...

so i added my colouring on lightroom cc which has the same kinda layout as phonto ... kinda but it’s essentially the same thing.

i transported the coloured screencaps over to photoshop where i added highlights on dean’s face using the dodge tool on a duplicated layer which i put on the blend mode luminosity. i did the same on the screencap with cas in it and added highlights to the background and lighter parts to make it pop a bit more.

i also selected the background on both of them separately using the quick selection tool and went to filter > noise > reduce noise to make it a bit smoother.

then i just added the text on photoshop and voila done !!

if you have ANY questions AT ALL, want me to explain something in more detail or just want more tips, my ask box is always open <333

anyways so firstly i screen-record whatever scene i want from this site (currently the best one i have found) using quicktime as its already built in to my laptop.  

then i save the screen-recording to my laptop and whatever.

and now into the actual gif making itself ...

so open a new document and then go to files > import > video frames to layers and click onto your screen-recording then this should pop up :

make your selection for what part of the scene your going to use (drag the two little triangles on the bottom) and then make sure ‘limit to every 2 frames’ is selected as this will prevent the gif from being too big. then press okay. 

now all your frames will be imported and make sure your timeline is visible by going to windows > timeline so something like this should be visible at the bottom :

then you gotta shorten down the frames in your gif to anywhere between 60-80 frames and to do this click on the frames you want to delete by clicking on the first frame, pressing shift and then while still pressing shift click on the last frame you want to delete so you should now have a several frames highlighted as a selected. then just press the little bin underneath the frames and they should be deleted !! 

next you’re going to want to change the length of each frame by selecting all of the frames you still have left (shift + click) and then press on the number on one of the frames which should currently be selected as 0.02 and you’re going to want to go to other and change it to 0.06 or 0.07. this tutorial should help explain it a bit more if you’re still confused. 

next make sure your selected on the first frame (or any i don’t really think it matters tbh) and then go to the three little lines at the top right of the timeline and click ‘flatten frames into layers’ :

the frames will then appear over on the right where your layers are. i usually delete all the other layers so only the frames are left (what you just created) and then put all of the frames into a folder to make it neater. 

then i sharpen my gifs by using this tutorial  (you’ve already flattened the frames into layers) so basically all you now need to do is press play on the action once you’ve downloaded it (oh and also make sure you have windows > actions turned on so you can actually get the actions and then should be up with your history) and also make sure before you press the action that you have the first frame of your gif on the timeline selected and the first frame in the layers selected. 

so after you have sharpened all you now need to do is colour your gif/crop/add text ... you can send another anon if u want a tutorial on any of those !! 

and then to export your gif go to file > export > save for web (legacy) and then after it has loaded this should come up :

also these are the settings i use ^^ (also i only have 20 frames ahdjdj bcs this was just an example and i didn’t want to wait several minutes for the export thingy to load by having more frames) 

also make sure that the width of your gif in the image size is set to 540 pixels or below because of tumblr’s stupid file size limitations. and also make sure that your gif is under 10M or otherwise tumblr won’t upload your gif (the M is over on the bottom left under the word gif.