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#HITFILM EXPRESS GIF TRIAL#

( UPDATE: Tumblr no longer restricts gifs to 3MB, but the quality will drop the higher the size. Them’s the breaks with tumblr’s restrictions. If your video doesn’t fit, you have to pick the best part, split it up, or speed up the gif. It’s a decent length, and it helps me reach my <3MB goal.

I generally aim to make my gifs 1.5 to 2 seconds long.

Not that their opposites don’t work at all, it just takes more effort! Lighter colors work better than dark, monochromatic colors are easier overall, and simple, motionless backgrounds are a godsend.

The more contrast, colors, and movements there are in the gif, the harder it will be make look good.

Or resize to 177px and give it two friends. If you have a tall gif, consider making a pair, sizing them both to 268px, and putting them together. Resizing the gif for the spot you want will make composition and filesize a ton easier to manage. ( Here’s an example of one of my photosets using all three.) To size for the tumblr dash, change the Image Size to one of the following widths for a photoset: If I go higher than 10, I know the video has too much information, and I need to go back and adjust something (length, cropping, color, etc). So logically, if you want a cleaner gif, you want as little Lossy as possible. The more Lossy the gif, the more the information is compressed (which leads to a smaller-sized file)-but the more grainy the gif becomes. What is Lossy? : In short, this is the quality of the gif. You can mess around with the color reduction, compression, and quality, but this is what’s worked best for me.Īdjust your Lossy to lose some file size and get it below 3MB, but be careful not to use too much! Here’s a close-up of my default settings for gif-making. (Or “File > Save for Web…” if you’re using an older version of Photoshop.)Ī window will pop up with a bunch of settings.

Tumblr only allows gifs that are 3MB or less, otherwise it converts to a stagnant image. Once you’re done making your gif pretty, here’s where things get technical. Using any adjustments from the Image menu will only affect a single frame in your gif and not the entire duration. It needs to be from the the Adjustments window ( Window > Adjustments). It’s generally just up to the look you want to achieve, and what works in the final gif. Sometimes I finagle with the colors a bit by adding a warm/cool filter, or messing with the contrast and color balance filters. Make sure you disable “Delete Cropped Pixels” at the top menu so that you won’t lose the original information if you want to adjust the composition later. Click and drag either side of the timeline bar until it’s the desired length.Ĭrop the Image : Use Crop Tool ( C ) to crop your video. Trim the TImeline : Open the Timeline window ( Window > Timeline). TRIMMING & CROPPINGįirst, I trim the timeline of the FRAPS clip and crop/compose the image. This is where we’ll do everything from here on out. Once I have the video I want, I open it up in Photoshop.

#HITFILM EXPRESS GIF TRIAL#

The trial version of FRAPS only allows you to take 30 seconds of video, but that’s plenty for our gif-making purposes. To capture my video, I use FRAPS, but you can use whichever recording program you’re most comfortable using or want to learn. This tutorial assumes you already have some working knowledge of those. I’ve gotten a few questions on how I make my gifs nice and smooth on tumblr, so I figured I’d give a rundown on my process.