[moonlight.]

Originally posted by C SLAYCLAIR

Yes, on photoshop its transparent idk why when I save it, its not

damn, i know nothing about transparent tbh
i would suggest asking Satan or this member Josh, i think they've done it before possibly?

[Vin]

This thread is EPIC. Thanks for this tutorial, moonlight. I can't wait to use it.



...Vin

[Bellerophon]

AH @C SLAYCLAIR sis, you've gotta select all the frames in the timeline, right click on one of them, and click "Dispose".

[moonlight.]

Originally posted by Vin

This thread is EPIC. Thanks for this tutorial, moonlight. I can't wait to use it.



...Vin

omg no problem! im so glad you like it and will use it for your gifing adventues
if you ever need help or questions or anything, this thread and I are always here!

Originally posted by Bellerophon

AH @C SLAYCLAIR sis, you've gotta select all the frames in the timeline, right click on one of them, and click "Dispose".

omg thank you for posting this. i really didnt have any clue on transparent questions

[Bellerophon]

Originally posted by moonlight.

omg no problem! im so glad you like it and will use it for your gifing adventues
if you ever need help or questions or anything, this thread and I are always here!



omg thank you for posting this. i really didnt have any clue on transparent questions

No problem! I tried making a transparent once and I was like "WTF why is the frame repeating itself " so it made sense to me when I fixed it.

When you select all the frames and right click, a little thingy like this pops up, and you just change it from "Automatic" to "Dispose", or else PS will keep all the layers and stack them on top of each other. Normally this wouldn't matter with a regular gif, but since you want a transparent one, previous layers will show up because your gif is moving around.

[Same Ol' Mistakes]

This thread is absolutely helpful, thank you so much moonlight
I made my first gif/avi ever anyway

[theycallmemaraj]

^ that slays
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moonlight, everytime i try to Save To Web it keeps coming up with an error saying the file is too big... but theres under 100 frames

[moonlight.]

Originally posted by Same Ol' Mistakes

This thread is absolutely helpful, thank you so much moonlight
I made my first gif/avi ever anyway

omg no problem love! i really didnt expect this thread to go anywhere tbh but im glad you find it helpful, it means alot to me honestly
& omg your gif looks great! the teaser too yas

Originally posted by theycallmemaraj

^ that slays
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moonlight, everytime i try to Save To Web it keeps coming up with an error saying the file is too big... but theres under 100 frames

an error? hmmm, it shouldnt say that tbh. even with files that have 1000 frames, ive never gone through that before. would you mind if i ask you to screenshot it? there has to be something else doing it because if its under 100 frames like you said, something else has to be up

[Same Ol' Mistakes]

Originally posted by moonlight.

What you do is this and I'll tell you in order (if you need screenshots let me know and I'll be glad to do so)

1. Make your first gif (set it to the time you want it to and sharpen it.
2. Make sure you save your first gif (cause photoshop is horrible and will randomly shut down at anytime) and then make your second gif and repeat Step 1
3. Once you've made your second gif, select all the frames in the timeline and over the little drop menu click "copy frames". Once you click that, go back to your first and select all the layers to the right side and then right click and it'll say "Paste frames over previous or after" and ALWAYS put After (unless you want them before)
4. and boom, then you got a longer gif with multiple scenes lol. If you need screenshots I'll be glad to give them to if you need them xx

OMG thank you so much for this! I was getting crazy cause last week I was trying everything but didn't work. I'll upload my avi later

[moonlight.]

Originally posted by Same Ol' Mistakes

OMG thank you so much for this! I was getting crazy cause last week I was trying everything but didn't work. I'll upload my avi later

omg of course! no problem at all

[Clover]

does anyone know how to make gifs less grainy?

[Zhuge Liang]

Originally posted by Clover

does anyone know how to make gifs less grainy?

+1. Mine always look so LQ and pixelated, even if it's not as grainy, it looks so bland. I don't know where I went wrong. The video I use is HQ and I followed all the instructions correctly

[Clover]

Originally posted by Techno

+1. Mine always look so LQ and pixelated, even if it's not as grainy, it looks so bland. I don't know where I went wrong. The video I use is HQ and I followed all the instructions correctly

i've noticed that using HQ videos usually makes the gifs even more grainy. it has to do with the number of colours.

[fireaero]

Thanks for this tutorial! When you mention about adding a PSD, is that just adding a preset of filters/masks?

[Ibrahim]

I load my videos directly into Photoshop, but it has to be a compatible format. I also do all of my edits while it's still HQ before rerendering into a smaller resolution. Sometimes artifacts or dithering is inevitable for files that contain a lot of contrasting colors, or for scenes with huge swings in light and dark tones.

You may also have luck doing advanced effects on After Effects or Premiere and using that program's engine to re-render the file. But if your file is huge like the following, it's going to push the limitations of the gif format and cause dithering because it only has a 256 color palette.

[Shendelzare]

bookmarking this thread

[Avariko]

I had 539 frames for this but when I saved it it said there's 500? Why did Photoshop leave frames out of it? Is there some kind of limit or something?

[moonlight.]

Originally posted by Clover

i've noticed that using HQ videos usually makes the gifs even more grainy. it has to do with the number of colours.

Originally posted by Techno

+1. Mine always look so LQ and pixelated, even if it's not as grainy, it looks so bland. I don't know where I went wrong. The video I use is HQ and I followed all the instructions correctly

did y'all use sharpening actions as well? and it also depends on the color tbh. that's why coloring is sometimes important because sometimes a plain gif can look a mess and a half lol. please let me know what else so we cna all figure out what's going on tbh.

Originally posted by fireaero

Thanks for this tutorial! When you mention about adding a PSD, is that just adding a preset of filters/masks?

a PSD is just a folder that has customized selective coloring/bright-contrast/curves/levels/color balance all in it. it just makes your gif brighter and more colorful and basically bring it to life in a way

Originally posted by Ibrahim

I load my videos directly into Photoshop, but it has to be a compatible format. I also do all of my edits while it's still HQ before rerendering into a smaller resolution. Sometimes artifacts or dithering is inevitable for files that contain a lot of contrasting colors, or for scenes with huge swings in light and dark tones.

You may also have luck doing advanced effects on After Effects or Premiere and using that program's engine to re-render the file. But if your file is huge like the following, it's going to push the limitations of the gif format and cause dithering because it only has a 256 color palette.

exactly. all videos have to be .mp4 format most of the time to work in photoshop (if not then the video wont even open and it'll say 'error' or something like that. now i dont know much about After Effects so i'ma go with what your saying on that lol.

Originally posted by Avariko

I had 539 frames for this but when I saved it it said there's 500? Why did Photoshop leave frames out of it? Is there some kind of limit or something?

hmmm, i think this happened to me before?
what you have to do is basically break up the scenes you want to gif. gif one part (sharpen it) then do the same for the rest. after you did it to every gif, copy and paste each of them to the original gif so it can all be 539 frames. that way, when you save it, they won't get deleted or erased or anything. (i hope that made somewhat sense??)

[Clover]

Originally posted by moonlight.

did y'all use sharpening actions as well?

i was going to try and use the action that you shared on the first page but it says it only sharpens up to 289 frames and all of my gifs have more frames than that

[Avariko]

hmmm, i think this happened to me before?
what you have to do is basically break up the scenes you want to gif. gif one part (sharpen it) then do the same for the rest. after you did it to every gif, copy and paste each of them to the original gif so it can all be 539 frames. that way, when you save it, they won't get deleted or erased or anything. (i hope that made somewhat sense??)

Oh, yes I understand perfectly. I've done couple like this.