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[schroddycat]

Nice tutorial. Can the OP adds some advanced techniques like adding texts or rage faces on animated gifs?

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

I've made a couple of gifs with Jasc now, but I'm having trouble with one. I've tried uploading it to tinypic and imgur, but on both site it failed to process. It's not a size issue. It's well under tinypic's allotted 5 MB, and I even made a copy compressed to maximum proportions with the same result. I just tried photobucket, and the upload stopped at 94% and there was an error. Jasc didn't have a problem recognizing any of the jpgs I used, so I don't think it's a corruption there.

Any ideas?

 

[Teknoman]

First gif ever:

Thanks for the tutorial, finally I can make my own gifs.

EDIT:

Second, messing with the cropping option (which is great, since it hits all frames).

Damn this is awesome.

 

[SolarKnight]

Awesome tutorial, thanks.

Just a question, with the method in the OP, what's the easiest way to add text?

 

[Wazzim]

Thank you so much!
First attempt:

 

[ItAintEasyBeinCheesy]

Finally used this thread.

.gif from

"Sure As Hell Not Jesus" - Cosmo Jarvis

 

[jediyoshi]

Got around to trying my hand at cinemagraphs.

Tutorial I used. Basically once you get how masks and the animation tool work in CS5, you're set.

 

[Medalion]

This is a very helpful thread, dunno why I missed this or probably the dozens of others like it

Will give it a try tomorrow

 

[jediyoshi]

 

[Medalion]

I've already been practicing in the Community-age thread but this is one of my first attempts at animated gif

Practicing removing some frames to cutdown on filesize, and changing the display time 3/100's of a second, 4/100's of a second etc etc

 

[Snuggles]

You'll probably wanna add one more second to that animation, but nice work.

I've made a ton of GIF's since this thread hooked me up with the knowledge.

 

[Medalion]

Round 2

Round 3

 

[jediyoshi]

 

[Fantastical]

That's good! Who is that moving? I know it's the Tested cast plus a few others, but I don't recognize the woman.

 

[jediyoshi]

That's good! Who is that moving? I know it's the Tested cast plus a few others, but I don't recognize the woman.

Gratzi! It's Veronica Belmont of Revision3's Tekzilla.

 

[Fantastical]

Gratzi! It's Veronica Belmont of Revision3's Tekzilla.

Oh right, I always hear about her but I don't think I've ever actually seen her. Thanks.

 

[Fry]

Just made my first GIF ever

Feels good man, thanks OP

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Here's a question? Anyone know where I can get a free font that looks decent and has a black border around the text? The plain text can be hard to read against certain backgrounds.

Example: My text

What I'd like

or

 

[Dedication Through Light]

oh thanks, I just tried it today, nice tutorial

via phi brain

 

[DeadTrees]

Here's a question? Anyone know where I can get a free font that looks decent and has a black border around the text?

Fonts are just mathematical representations of shapes--they don't have inherent colors.

Borders can be added trivially in Photoshop CS4 and later, and apparently you can do this in Paint.net with a plug-in. Or try duplicating your text in a lower layer in whatever editor you're using, changing its color, and enlarging it slightly.

 

[Master Milk]

I went through this earlier in the day while I was bored in class and made my first gif. I didn't optimize it so it's kind of big and won't be posted.

Great thread, great experience.

 

[Gui_PT]

Double Post, crap

 

[Gui_PT]

you can actually do it in Animation Shop, but I'd recommend other programs to do lots of text.

In animation shop
Create a transparent image
Use the text tool to type whatever you want
Select the image, copy (CTRL+C), paste after current frame (Shift+CTRL+L) how many frames you want the text to be
Select all text images (CTRL+A), drag onto animation frames you want.

How do I create a transparent image?

Could someone please help me with this?

Edit: Ugh, I can't get this to work.
If I send the images to someone, could you please add the text? I'd really appreciate it

 

[roosters93]

Just wanted to say thanks!

 

[Femmeworth]

Are there any good plug-ins for GIMP that provide better dithering methods? I typically make my .gifs using a combination of VirtualDubMod and VirtualDub, but the end result can come out rather compressed with no options for dithering or anything. So, I've switched to GIMP lately, and it only has two dithering algorithms built in. I found one plug-in meant for Photoshop that also works with GIMP, but it's a bit too complex for me.

 

[Dedication Through Light]

The most annoying thing with gifs is getting them to fit tiny size restrictions on say tumblr (500KB no bigger than 500 x 500), that litrally just 5-10 frames...

 

[Femmeworth]

The most annoying thing with gifs is getting them to fit tiny size restrictions on say tumblr (500KB no bigger than 500 x 500), that litrally just 5-10 frames...

The only thing you can do is decrease the number of indexed colors to decrease the file size.

 

[Plywood]

The most annoying thing with gifs is getting them to fit tiny size restrictions on say tumblr (500KB no bigger than 500 x 500), that litrally just 5-10 frames...

NO

Do not upload to tumblr, upload to imgur.com/abload.de/min.us and then post the gif on tumblr.

 

[Maklershed]

Just wanted to say thanks!

That's so nice of you Mr Oizo

 

[roosters93]

That's so nice of you Mr Oizo

Uhhh this is awkward.
My name is Flat Eric.

 

[chickdigger802]

So are there any good ways to capture the screenies for mkv?

 

[Femmeworth]

So are there any good ways to capture the screenies for mkv?

This is how I learned to make .gifs from .mkv files. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IOWRM0dyEg&list=FLzfkZAJGtGI58Q_bIPG4JWg&index=16&feature=plpp_video

 

[Tom_Cody]

My first attempt. It ended up being more difficult that I thought to make a clean looking looping gif.

 

[GhostRidah]

Anyone know any tips on a way to delete frames faster in ps?

When working on big gifs and trying to delete a lot of frames, its so time consuming to hit that garbage button and click frame by frame.

 

[Complex Shadow]

Here's a question? Anyone know where I can get a free font that looks decent and has a black border around the text? The plain text can be hard to read against certain backgrounds.

Example: My text
http://k.minus.com/ibt7nRBU3jFq7I.gif

What I'd like
http://i.imgur.com/szwnO.gif or http://i.imgur.com/xUg5C.gif

i have the same prob. anyone have a solution?

 

[Plywood]

Anyone know any tips on a way to delete frames faster in ps?

When working on big gifs and trying to delete a lot of frames, its so time consuming to hit that garbage button and click frame by frame.

It's possible to highlight more than one frame and delete them:

If you're on windows click on a frame then hold shift then click on whatever next frame you wish to delete a set of frames.

i have the same prob. anyone have a solution?

Well that's just Arial with a Stroke, what you do is you:

1a. The text button
1b. Adding the text

2. Add the stroke to the text via blending options

3. Duplicate the text layer so you don't have to add the stroke to every frame

4. Repeating myself.

And of course make sure the text layer is on top of all the other layers.

 

[Plywood]

Added pictures to better explain.

Spoiler

Possibly made worse with my bad instructions? No idea.

 

[GhostRidah]

It's possible to highlight more than one frame and delete them:

If you're on windows click on a frame then hold shift then click on whatever next frame you wish to delete to delete a set of frames.

I know about that, but its not possible to select a frame then skip a frame and select the next, and so on. The way you listed is good to delete batches of frames I agree.

Example - I want to select frames 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and more without clicking each frame and the delete button.

Bingo maybe I can create a action to do it for me.

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

Great thread. Thanks a lot.

 

[Loofy]

Thanks for the thread.

Here it goes.

 

[roosters93]

You'll probably wanna add one more second to that animation, but nice work.

I've made a ton of GIF's since this thread hooked me up with the knowledge.

Is that Blake Lively? What's this from?

Feels good to have a PC that can render and edit HD files nice and quick without waiting ages.

ooooh nice

 

[NH Apache]

Thanks for the tutorial. Captured the pics via Virtualdub, then Jasc. Culling is so damn important, wow.

 

[Gui_PT]

I'm wondering if someone could help me.

I need to make a gif out of a swf file but Avidemux doesn't support it.

Does anyone know of any reliable software to convert swf to avi or mpeg4?

 

[NH Apache]

I'm fairly certain FormatFactory can handle that.

 

[Gui_PT]

I'm fairly certain FormatFactory can handle that.

Unfortunately, it's not one of the supported filetypes =\

 

[alr1ght]

It's possible to highlight more than one frame and delete them:

[IdMG]http://i.imgur.com/JO8Ja.png[/IMG]

If you're on windows click on a frame then hold shift then click on whatever next frame you wish to delete a set of frames.

Well that's just Arial with a Stroke, what you do is you:

1a. The text button
1b. Adding the text

2. Add the stroke to the text via blending options

3. Duplicate the text layer so you don't have to add the stroke to every frame

4. Repeating myself.

And of course make sure the text layer is on top of all the other layers.

This works for pasting text on all frames. How to add text to certain frames only?

 

[MRORANGE]

already had jasc years ago, but that Youtube converter helps a lot thanks! :

first try:

 

[Hawkian]

yay thread!

go thread go!

Thank you so much for the tutorial!

wow, from what, is that?

 

[BGBW]

So are there any good ways to capture the screenies for mkv?

I used to use a rather complicated method that involved removing the subtitles from the .mkv converting .mkvs into .movs trimming them in QuickTime and it was all just a bother. Then I discovered that MPlayer has a really easy way of just spitting out images of every frame.

-vo jpeg -ss hh:mm:mm -endpos 10 -nosub

Just fill in the time of where you want to start recording and replace that 10 with how many seconds you want to record. the '-nosub' part can be removed. jpeg can be replaced with png if you don't fancy the compression.

In Photoshop you can use a script to load all the images in a stack. File -> Scripts -> Load files into stack. Once they are loaded, in the animation window's menu select 'Make frames from layers'. For some reason this will make the animation backwards due to the layer order so just select 'reverse frames' from the menu. Tweak it up and you have a ready to go gif.

I use MPlayer OSX Extended and this code is entered in the Advanced Preferences tab.

 

[Messofanego]

I just want to say, this has been incredibly useful.