#ps help

Load Files Fast action opens up a folder where you put your own screencaps in and loads the caps in PS and makes it into a smart object. You will need to configure this yourself since it uses my own folder. Click on Load Files Fast, select "Record" button and then choose File > Open, navigate to the folder that you use to store your screencaps, select the first cap, click on the "Image Sequence" option on the bottom right of the dialog box and then click "Open". It will then ask you to specify the frame rate, I use 25, then click OK. Then you click on the "Stop" button and your action is saved. [video on how here]

After it is put into a Smart Object, I use one of my crop presets I've made. To load them into Photoshop, click on the down arrow next to the crop bottom, click Load Tool Preset and select my preset.

Then I choose a sharpening I want to use. I'm either use 'high pass' or the 'sharper w/o grain' one.

OPTIONAL - Brighten action, brightens the scene using 'Screen' mode. I use these for really dark scenes.

After that I color the gif and add text if needed.

If I want to change the frame delay, I use the 'frame delay' action and set my delay to 0.04 and then save the gif!

Full disclaimer - there is no real set method for what I do to colour my gifs, as it changes depending on the gif and my mood. In the case of this gif I used lots of selective colour layers, but I have also used channel mixer in the past to correct similar issues or have done most of the correction in curves (like in my basic gif tut). I will also add in the case of my header gif, I applied the previous colouring from my theolizzy gifset, so I'll try and recreate how I got the curves but it may not be exact.

Step 1: Start with your base gif sharpened and ready to colour

I always start any gif with a Curves layer.

I select the white eyedropper tool and select a white point on the gif to get a base to begin my colouring.

For this gif I selected the bit of confetti in the red box

This is what the result of the curves was there

As it can be seen this added some brightness but the scene is still very yellow

To start with I go into my curves layer and start by manually adjusting the RGB channels.

Normally to get rid of yellow, I would add more blue. But this will not work for this scene. This is what happens when adding more blue:

So instead of just adding more blue I go into each channel and adjust to get a better foundation for what I can colour later.

I started with the green

Then added more red in

then added a bit more blue

After that I went into the main channel and dragged the little black slider down to add some depth/contrast

This is what my final curves layer looked like

My next step is to add a Vibrance layer (which I do for all my gifs)

After that I started working in the selective colour layers. As the tint is quite strong I used a lot of layers and built upon them.

For the first selective colour I adjusted the reds and yellows

These adjustments resulted in this, which is already looking more natural but needs some more adjustment still

I went back in the reds and yellows again and adjusted further

leading to this which is a pretty good result:

The gif now is mostly colour corrected but I still want to do some minor adjustments (cos I'm a perfectionist) so I make another selective colour layer.

This time I just add some more cyan to the reds, which is a small change but neutralises a bit of the shadows which were too bright for me

Next I take out some more yellow as the tint is still there a bit

The above is pretty good, but I decided I wanted to do another curves layer on top to do a final bit of colour correction.

I manually went into each colour channel and adjusted as so:

I started by adding more blue as now I can use this to get rid of the remaining tint without it looking weird

the gif was now slightly magenta/pink so I added a bit of green to balance it out and slid the bottom slider a bit to add some depth back into the shadows

Then I added some red. I also dragged the black bar at the bottom to add a bit more depth/cyan to the shadows.

This is the final result of the basic colouring for the scene I did.

First of all, this is what you’ll see once you extract the files from the zip. I know it’s in Spanish, but I got you!!

So you will have to click on the Adobe.Downloader.dmg file, ok? I know Mac won't let you download it, so go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Security.

Click on “Open Anyway.” It’ll ask for your Mac password or Touch ID, just enter it. The point is that the app will finish installing. Then something like this will open.

(Heads up: don’t get too excited. I know it’s cool to have all the Adobe stuff available, but you need a specific patch for each app. I’m still trying to get the one for After Effects. If I manage to get it, send me a message and I’ll pass it to you.)

OK. Alright, now you’re going to click on this gear icon. You need to make sure everything shows up exactly like I’m about to show you, okay?

Once you’ve super double-checked everything, go to “Cleanup,” select all of them, and then click “Start Cleaning.” That’s it. close that tab.

Now, look for PHOTOSHOP. Click download, BUT pay attention you CANNOT download the latest version!!! The patch only works for version 26.2. you’ve been warned.

Then go ahead and download it, and make sure it’s actually downloading all the files. Once it looks like this, close the app.

k so back to downloads, go to the "ps installer" folder and click adobe activation tool.

open ur applications folder and click the photoshop app. then hit start activation, it’s gonna ask for ur macbook password, so just type it in. the log at the bottom should say it's done correctly. close that and open 'no account patch ps,'

hit continue, continue, and click adobe ps patch.

hit install, activate it, let it access ur downloads and ur literally done. just look it up in spotlight and it should be there.

and tadaaah!! done, that’s it. you can delete everything you downloaded with no problem, you already have photoshop installed ✨

we'll start with a basic gif that's already been cropped and sharpened down below:

the first step i always take with any gif i'm working on is curves. now usually, i use the bright eyedropper and select the lightest part of the gif to brighten it up, but the outcomes weren't to my liking (which is normal). so i took it upon myself to manipulate it myself and came to this:

here are the results after:

now we're no longer in the dark! my next step is to use brightness/contrast which i always have the same input when i use it. even if a gif is already light enough, i think it adds needed dimension which i tend to go for:

and after that layer, we're left with this:

a slight change, but change nonetheless. if you're worried about your gif being too bright, leave this layer out! otherwise, let's keep going.

the next step i use in my colouring is levels. i love using levels for more contrast in darkening. like brightness/contrast, i use the same settings about 99.99% of the time:

after that, this is what the gif is looking like:

brightness/contrast and levels are my main two nonnegotiable layers that i swear by when it comes to any gif, since they're nearly always the same.

next, is color balance. since the skintone is more red than i'd like, i go in with more greens and cyans to help counter the magenta and red hues going on. i use all three channels: shadows, midtones and highlights. like always, it's up to your preference, but i prefer a more cooler tone if i can manage. here are my settings for that:

and this is what we have to work with after:

you can stop here if you're completely satisfied, however i have one more layer that i like to use: selective color. if contrast is what you want, i feel like this layer truly helps deepen the colours that are already present in the gif as well as able to take them away if need be. since her skintone is still on the yellow side, i want to take more of that away, but not so much to where the gif looks dull. below are my settings for how i achieved that:

and here is the final completed gif: