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“Am I supposed to be grateful to have survived this?”
- Brenna Twohy, Forgive Me My Salt
Hey!! How do I get into making gifs? Any tips for a beginner? I literally know nothing about it just that the I'd like to start. Also is not having photoshop a big obstacle?
Hi there! Yeah I can give you some tips to get started! Keep in mind I use windows to make my gifs and not a mac.
So to get into gifmaking you don't need to have photoshop. If you find that you enjoy making gifs I do recommend you look into getting photoshop (and there are ways of getting it without paying *raises pirate flag*) but to start there are several online programs you can use.
Here's a few that i've used before I learned how to do it in photoshop:
photopea
ezgif
giphy
imgflip
makeagif
This is an excellent tutorial to using photopea to make gifs
Each one of those will allow you make a basic gif. For complex coloring, sharpening, layouts, typography, blending, etc you'll want to upgrade to using photoshop because the quality is just way better and you can do so much more but when you're just wanting to get start all of these websites are great places to learn.
I also recommend learning how to take screencaps because I find it's a lot easier to make gifsets using screencaps than it is to try and screen record, cut, and upload videos.
My recommendation for screencapping is KMPlayer. It's a video player that you download to your computer and has a very easy way to save screencaps. Then you can just upload the jpgs into whatever program you're using to make gifs.
I made a basic gif making tutorial using photoshop and kmplayer here if you want to take a look at it.
Basic gifmaking steps:
Get your video. You can download it through pirating sites or use dvds or screen record. I download from sites like soap2day.to.
Take screen caps of the specific scene you want to gif OR cut your video to just the scene you want
Upload either clip or jpgs into the chosen program
Set the speed
Do any trimming of the scene and/or cropping the sides you want to do
If your program allows you (some don't) you can sharpen it, brighten the colors, add text
Then just save it as a .gif
Some other things:
The higher quality video, the better quality gif. 1080 is better than 720. Try to get a nice quality video if you can
Some websites will have a watermark on it that can't be removed so keep that in mind. Another reason why I prefer using photoshop.
Try to keep the gif either the same speed as the episode or just a little slower. Too fast isn't good.
That's all I got for now! If you have any other questions please feel free ask! I'd be happy to help with anything!