justlikewildfire:

Alright, I thought I’d make this quick tutorial to show how different sharpening settings can improve the quality of your GIF and to contrast how they’ll look in the end. - Of course there are much more variations than the ones I showed, they’re just those I personally use the most.

But first of all, after you’ve made your GIF (which I won’t explain anymore how to do so), go to “Filter” > “Sharpen” > “Smart Sharpen…” and make sure you have all of the settings put in that you can see HERE. - Don’t concentrate on the highlighted parts though, these are the ones you’ll have to change to get the results as demonstrated in the images for each case. That’s it. It’s really simple actually, but very effective. :)

*If you have any questions, leave me an ask and I’ll try to help or be a bit more specific when necessary.

*Please LIKE or REBLOG this post if it was helpful/useful for you!

yeahps:

Brightening up a GIF 

• Once you get your GIF done you want to start out with Brightness and Contrast. This on can be a bit sensitive depending on your gif, because sometimes it pops out the pixels waaaay to much. This is my setting and maybe ten on and off for other gifs: 
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• Next we want to give the Gif just a bit of color without actually coloring yourself and just using natural color, so that would be Vibrance, here’s my settings and maybe just a pinch on and off other gifs: 
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• Now for the last one it’s up to you if you to use Curves, I use it to lower the KB on the GIfs by just using a pinch of it. Here’s my setting: 
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(Source: hazeofcolor)

yeahps:

how to make these .gif effects;

-cutting out people/objects in gifs-

 make a basic .gif and make sure that the object you are wanting to cut out stands out from the background

• there’s no need to sharpen, add a psd or anything like that because you won’t see that anyways
• this is my gif

1.  with the quick selection tool  and these [x] brush settings in use (you   can change the brush size depending on how small or big the area you’re going around is, but 20 is a good start),select the first frame and the first layer
2.  this will make a ‘marching ants’ outline around your selection
3.  if it selects unwanted areas like this [x]  don’t worry, all you need is to select this tool and do the same thing. but this time, click on the unwanted area until it outlines what you want it to. you cam zoom in if it makes it easier to see what you’re selecting
4. when everything you want is selected, like so  [x]  
5.  select the refine edge tool  and these [x] are my settings, then click ‘ok’
6.  press down ctrl + shift + i, to invert the selection. the background is now selected instead.
7.  click on the ‘add vector mask’  button (just under your layers tab) and your gif should now look a bit like this [x]
8.  click the brush tool —  i used these settings
9.  select the color you want as your background (i used  #f8be8f)
10. make sure that the actual image in the layers tab is selected and not the vector mask (it’ll show you which one is selected by a slight white outine around the preview)
11.  you can now brush in the picture. mine now looks like this [x]
12.  you repeat steps 1 through to 11 with all the frames. it’ll get easier with every frame.
13.  for the ‘filling’ you edit whatever you want to put in there but make sure you make it the same size as the gif and that you  drag it under all the layers like this [x]
14.  now you can add textures, text, brushes and whatever you want to it and make it look prettier because it might look too plain if you don’t. 

and you’re done. if you have any questions feel free to ASK me. please like the post if this helped or tag me in your gif so i can see how it looks

Tutorial: B&W except for one colour .GIF

exstar:

fourleafclover-taiga asked me for a tutorial about how to make it f but I didn’t like any that I found so I decided to make my own. Any doubts you have, feel free to ask me about it but if you’re anon it might take me a day or two to answer you ^_^

(The result without any adjustments is at the end of this tutorial, and my edited result is [here].)

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