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Discussion: Archived: Random Thoughts (#5)
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Originally posted by Bellerophon
This is Instagiffer's work. I'm pretty damn impressed, I wonder why Photoshop doesn't let you save your gif without the grain. |
It's because Photoshop forces a limit of 256 colors; if you have a ton of colors, it's going to be grainy.
I still prefer Photoshop because of the versatility and the ability to choose what scenes you want. With Instagiffer it has to be a straight shot of however many seconds you want it and all, no shuffling or customization. The best avatars are made by editing the video in Photoshop to select scenes and order them properly, then saving that video and going into Instagiffer to make the actual gif.
All this hassle is why I also sometimes love a simple .png avi, as my current one. 
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Originally posted by fireaero
I'm still learning photoshop, but I think it's because they force some of the settings, like how many colours you can save it with.
My finished product is always 10% of the quality I see in editing mode 
Yeah, I'm finding that most of us are missing, like LiMe. They could be back soon.
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Same, it sucks 
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Originally posted by Retro
It's because Photoshop forces a limit of 256 colors; if you have a ton of colors, it's going to be grainy.
I still prefer Photoshop because of the versatility and the ability to choose what scenes you want. With Instagiffer it has to be a straight shot of however many seconds you want it and all, no shuffling or customization. The best avatars are made by editing the video in Photoshop to select scenes and order them properly, then saving that video and going into Instagiffer to make the actual gif.
All this hassle is why I also sometimes love a simple .png avi, as my current one. |
What do you mean by saving the video? Once you load the video frames into layers, it's not a video anymore
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Originally posted by Bellerophon
Same, it sucks
What do you mean by saving the video? Once you load the video frames into layers, it's not a video anymore |
Layers? Honey, you're doing it the hard way.
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Originally posted by Retro
It's because Photoshop forces a limit of 256 colors; if you have a ton of colors, it's going to be grainy.
I still prefer Photoshop because of the versatility and the ability to choose what scenes you want. With Instagiffer it has to be a straight shot of however many seconds you want it and all, no shuffling or customization. The best avatars are made by editing the video in Photoshop to select scenes and order them properly, then saving that video and going into Instagiffer to make the actual gif.
All this hassle is why I also sometimes love a simple .png avi, as my current one. |
I never thought of using both of them Lemme try.
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Originally posted by JonJo486
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a caillou ebolaween 2014 sized mess
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Thank you.
Good Will King
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Originally posted by Retro
Layers? Honey, you're doing it the hard way.
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What's the easy way? Everyone makes gifs by loading them in like that 
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I'm so fangirling over Jessie Mueler recently... her voice is literal silk
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I feel like it would have been much better if they told you guys the truth, even something vague like they're going on a trip to Switzerland. Why lie 100%
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Thanks You seem really nice.
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Originally posted by Bellerophon
What's the easy way? Everyone makes gifs by loading them in like that |
Download a video, open it in Photoshop, use the tracker (the little red line) to cut it up and keep the scenes you want.
From there, you can:
a) crop it and change the image size, then use Export > Save for Web (Legacy)
b) save what you have as a video, open that video in Instagiffer.
Way more simple than importing as frames or layers or anything.
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Not most people owning Pokemon GO and Kim K's game and nothing else
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Originally posted by Retro
It's because Photoshop forces a limit of 256 colors; if you have a ton of colors, it's going to be grainy.
I still prefer Photoshop because of the versatility and the ability to choose what scenes you want. With Instagiffer it has to be a straight shot of however many seconds you want it and all, no shuffling or customization. The best avatars are made by editing the video in Photoshop to select scenes and order them properly, then saving that video and going into Instagiffer to make the actual gif.
All this hassle is why I also sometimes love a simple .png avi, as my current one. |
Yh but with instagiffer you CAN select scenes you want and then put them together. It's actually very easy. Make the scene you want, save the frames in an empty folder with the click of a button, make the second scene, then easily paste the frames of the first scene either before or after the second scene. It's not hard at all.
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Originally posted by Retro
Download a video, open it in Photoshop, use the tracker (the little red line) to cut it up and keep the scenes you want.
From there, you can:
a) crop it and change the image size, then use Export > Save for Web (Legacy)
b) save what you have as a video, open that video in Instagiffer.
Way more simple than importing as frames or layers or anything.
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okay i'll have to try this version next time i'm making a gif, so the quality remains HQ that way then?
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Originally posted by Bellerophon
This is Instagiffer's work. I'm pretty damn impressed.
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Originally posted by KasioKas
Yh but with instagiffer you CAN select scenes you want and then put them together. It's actually very easy. Make the scene you want, save the frames in an empty folder with the click of a button, make the second scene, then easily paste the frames of the first scene either before or after the second scene. It's not hard at all.
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It's not "hard" per se, but imagine if you have a lot of different scenes that you want that are relatively short or that are way out of the original order. It would get very tedious and long.
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Originally posted by KasioKas
okay i'll have to try this version next time i'm making a gif, so the quality remains HQ that way then?
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For me it has, yes.
I mean, always use an HD source video.
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Originally posted by Retro
It's not "hard" per se, but imagine if you have a lot of different scenes that you want that are relatively short or that are way out of the original order. It would get very tedious and long.
For me it has, yes.
I mean, always use an HD source video.
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Ofcourse! Thanks i'll try it out next time. 
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I would download Pokemon but my phone is broken
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Quote:
Originally posted by Retro
Download a video, open it in Photoshop, use the tracker (the little red line) to cut it up and keep the scenes you want.
From there, you can:
a) crop it and change the image size, then use Export > Save for Web (Legacy)
b) save what you have as a video, open that video in Instagiffer.
Way more simple than importing as frames or layers or anything.
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Lemme try this. Thank you
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I have like 4 in rotation. Haven't even completed one cycle though.