joseantoniosanchezserrano

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hey! i had a question, how do you make your gifs/edits ? love ur blog, thank you !!

ahhh thank u !!!! this is probably not what you asked for but i over explain a lot AHJSJDHD so i kinda made this very long rip

ok so for my edits i usually do it on my phone 🤡🤡 i would use picsart, polarr and phonto. sometimes i’d go into photoshop and add some finishing touches but usually not ahakkaks

i’ll be using this as an example because it has pretty much everything i use !!

finding photos

so. first you’re gonna find some screencaps !! sometimes i’ll go and take them myself if there’s not the specific one i want but usually i go here / here / here. i personally like better the first one because they’re more hd but the last two are good for shows/new stuff

here’s the link to tfatws screencaps. i click on ep. 1 and i chose this bad boi (but you can choose whatever you want !! i’m just using It example to guide y’all ahajsj)

cropping

this can be done in any app lmao but i go in picsart because it’s easier for me. the dimensions are 1920 x 805 but you can crop it however!! here’s a step by step if you’re unfamiliar with picsart

effects!!!

here’s the fun part. you can really do whatever you want a few of my favourites are: b/w contrast, noise, motion blur, radial blur, colour pop and more !!! here’s a step by step on what i did

text

i personally love this part. i use phonto because it’s easiest for me !! the fonts i used are poppins and prima demo. here is how to download fonts to phonto and here is how i did the text

now for gifs !!! im still very new to photoshop and trying to get the hang of it but here is my process !! i'll be using my header gif as an example:

getting the scenes

there are a few ways to get the scenes you want, i personally screen record (🤡🤡) which is kind of why my gifs are a bit low quality. you could download movies/tv shows and screencap (which is how most gifmakers would do it) but this way works for me so its what i stick with !! here is a good tutoral using screencaps.

photoshop

so yes photoshop my biggest friend but also my biggest enemy. this shit is very complex at first but from looking at tutorials on tumblr and youtube ive managed to figure it out here / here / here / here are some good ones !!! (note: the last link is more for photoshop in general and not really gifing ahakjsjdjd its long but super helpful!!)

bringing in the video

just go file -> open and click the video you want !!

cropping

im gonna crop it to tumblr header dimensions which are: 3000 px x 1055 px and you get this:

now im gonna resize it to 540 x 190. go image -> image size

make sure it’s on pixels !! make the width 540 (the height should automatically change with it but if not make it 190)

colouring

here’s how did it !!

sharpening

this is very much influenced from this tutorial. making an action for this part is very handy because you’ll do this every time. click here

saving/exporting

the final part !! go file -> export -> save for web (legacy) this will take a minute

here are my settings. i still don’t exactly *get* the save for web options lmao i use what’s recommended but feel free to fiddle with them !! here is a good tutorial explaining the options.

that’s all !!!! ik this was long and a bit confusing so feel free to ask me anything you’re not clear with !!