#ps tip

You can make the canvas a little smaller (ex: making a 245x160 px gif 245x145 px). I don’t really like doing that mostly because I have a thing for 245x160 but that’s a personal thing. Depending on what’s in the parts of the canvas you’re getting rid of, this can make the gif size a lot smaller without changing the quality of it at all. Of course, this can also crop out something you want in the gif

You can use a black/white gradient to make everything greyscale. The gif won’t immediately go down in size (in fact, it might go up) but from there you can lower the amount of colors from 256 to something lower without drastically reducing quality. If the rest of your gifset isn’t black and white, though, this can look out of place.

You could pull a classic tumblr (excuse me while I shudder at remembering the 500 kb gif size limit) and make a portion of the gif static. If the clip you’re using is from a relatively still shot, you can do what I did when I made this gif seven million years ago. The camera was still but this clip had a shakey effect you can still see in the parts of the gif that moved that made the gif a lot bigger than the 1.05mb limit tumblr had at the time. To make the gif smaller and more of the background static, I duplicated one of the layers, placed it above all the others and used a layer mask to erase the parts of the gif that were in motion. This can drastically lower the file size, depending on how much of the gif you make static.

Similar to the last one and just as classic tumblr gif: you can paint part of the canvas one color. Here are a couple of more recent examples where I did this for aesthetic reasons as opposed to for size reasons (1, 2) and screencaps from the clips i used to make those gifs (1, 2). As you can see, the originals didn’t have the sections of pure black. To achieve that, I just created a new layer and used a large brush with 0% hardness to paint over parts of the background with black. Instant size savings.

okay so! i can't really share the psd, cause it's one of my base psds that i use for everything with couple little changes lmao but i can tell you what i usually do

it really depends on the video of course, but to achieve the warm soft look and get rid of the blueish/pale coloring of nct life you basically want to enhance the reds using color balance (that's usually my very first layer, if the video looks blue i just enhance the reds, if it's too yellow i'm trying to fix that etc.) and selective color, it's always very random and i add couple layers sometimes, for example:

i enhance the blacks usually using selective color as well, adjust levels and curves and just play with the colors until it looks good to me

on top of everything after 70 layes of selective color i add exposure and this is basically how it usually looks like, depending on the video

my favorite tip to get rid of one annoying color is using hue/saturation, for example if a music show or idk a piece of clothing has annoying blue tint you can make it purple or completely black and make your gif look more hq