#squidish

i originally learned to gif in 2017 but stopped after a couple years so when sunny consumed my soul again in 2023 i had to re-learn the technical steps. this tutorial is incredible, i now make gifs using that method. it also introduced me to actions which speed up the process. op's dicom action and save actions are godsends, i sometimes adjust the sharpening if a scene looks over-sharpened but that's pretty rare.

idk where you're at in the process so apologies if i'm over-explaining but some other notes:

-i used to mostly use other people's psds to edit coloring but now i edit my gifs myself because sunny's lighting is often weird. if i use a premade psd i usually put it on lik 20% opacity

-usually i will put a curves layer and literally just hit auto and use that

-with sunny most of the time you'll want to add a color balance layer. for highlights and midtones, go like 3-5 points toward the blue side to make it less yellow. same general premise if a scene is tinted another color

-i almost always add a selective color layer to make the blues and greens in a scene brighter. i always reduce magenta in greens and i also reduce yellow in cyans/blues. % varies depending, just mess around with it, selective color is my fav to fuck around with

-vibrance layer after selective color

-i'll sometimes adjust brightness, contrast, and exposure but only if the lighting's real fucked up

-i just use arial for captions, my other settings for text below