something I love about gifmaking, and art in general, is when people find symbolism in my gifs that never even occurred to me. they're like, "oh wow i never noticed that" and i'm like, "babe me neither"
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absolutely love how leonard nimoy could show so much with his eyes alone
yes im giffing it and while this part kills me im making candy looking coloring for it
yeah that's better my suffering is now more vibrant
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Beloved Esme @itsallaboutbl tagged me (her post so u can see it done right) :))) thank you <3
Most popular / personal favs gifsets
I have published 222 gifsets this year, which is fun and possibly a bit insane.
I've made gratuitous use of the archive feature so I've linked that on the weird chance anyone but me is interested in every set I've posted. (December link, and then scrolling down will take you back month by month)
As usual, I've done this entirely differently to how I imagine it's supposed to have been done (nobody else is doing numbers, for example), but I have no self control at all and I'm currently really fucking low so I'm concentrating on this to keep from The Thoughts :)
21 in January
Most popular: the first of my First Kanaphan as Ryu in Wake Up Ladies sets, by a bit of a landslide. This did nothing until about summertime, at which point the notes went from about 150 to 700, lmao
Personal fav: Akk (Eclipse): there's one dog that won't get to see me smile (immediately smiles) because that smile will always kill me
(Honourable mention to this Ryu set because my own tags make me laugh, and this set that nobody liked but I can still hear)
17 in February
Most popular: 2023 is the year of our Lord, Mark Pakin
Personal fav: Jimbo, AKA: Moonlight Chicken's main character and there was also this because I'm a funny fuck
13 in March
Most popular: Obnoxiously long real-to-me kiss gifset (Eclipse)
Personal fav: Honestly probably the same as above, but perhaps S101: Tall being dragged by Tiny, and also Akk's hair looks excellent in those.
14 in April
Most popular: S101: Do a barrel roll!Ayan
Personal fav: wet Khaotung but also this progression of shots that nobody else liked
(also, also this one because THE HUG ok i'm never ok about it)
10 in May (20 posts show up, but 10 of them are gifs/gifsets I sent in asks to Chiara)
Most popular: Your World, My World
Personal fav: Navigate edit because I'm still so pleased with it, though I think the 3rd gif's text should be brighter and I probably should've made the twinkling stars more obvious, and also the One Life edit for Akk I did because it's important to me and I spent so long making the text work... and I'm still not sure it does.
14 in June (16 show up for June but 2 are tutorially/gif process things)
Most popular: Bold Gays: Ayan
Personal fav: Enneagram Type 8: Sean but honestly all the Enneagrams were my favs they were fun, and I keep meaning to revisit the idea
23 in July (24 show up but one's a gif explanation)
Most popular: Ray from the Only Friends official trailer
Personal fav: Khaotung Thanawat personally coming for my throat or my continued slow breakdown over Sean or the first OFTS/SandRay edit I did with the original teaser trailer orrrrrrrrr Ayan being unable to keep his hands to himself
28 in August (hello, Only Friends and Eclipse Anniversary, lol)
Most popular: Sand being a whole mood
Personal fav: Ray mad in a car because it's still funny and also First Kanaphan's personal character arc
27 in September
Most popular: Only Friends / Bad Buddy parallel that got me the most glorious threats <3
Personal fav: I can't pick. There's Ray's naa-ing, this single gif that lives in my head forever, the Brotherhood of the Travelling Bruise, and Sand AM/PM because thiiighs
17 in October
Most popular: K H A O A L A (which is still the funniest thing I've ever said)
Personal fav: SandRay calendar because I'm fucking proud of it, even if there are a thousand things I'd change about it now, but honestly all my sets for October were personal favs I enjoy all of them immensely. I really loved my SandRay Kesha edit. Mostly the first gif, but the rest were fun and only mostly maddening to make.
16 in November
Most popular: Yok & Mond and their shared braincell
Personal fav: Boston and Meredith Brooks
22 in December
Most popular: Twins characters/tag yourself meme/still haven't figured out what my intent was behind this set but I'm glad everyone's having fun with it
Personal fav: Bold Gays: Yok even though the yellow one makes me mad and I want to redo it, and also Alan because kfdsjkhgfdh
Tagging! As ever, feel free to ignore: @raypakorn @sollucets @chinzhilla @theedorksinlove @chickenstrangers @5racha @khaotungsfirst
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your gifs are always so crisp and clear. how do you make the magic happen??
thank you! i i've answered this question before but my process has changed a little since then so here's an update!
first and foremost, i start with the highest quality video possible. i only work with 1080p or higher, and the largest file size i can find.
once i've picked my scene(s) and imported the files into photoshop, i always follow the same flow: crop | color | sharpen | tweak | export.
i won't go into too much detail about color but one thing to keep in mind is that it's likely you will lose quality with drastic color adjustments. i prefer to make several minor adjustments as opposed to drastic changes because they're much easier to undo if you find you've lost your way. i use the eyedropper tool and/or the individual color sliders on my base layers (levels and curves) on almost every gif. these layers do a lot of heavy lifting to even out coloring (curves are especially helpful in decreasing the yellow/orange hue that is so common in a lot of media these days). then i follow up with a combination of contrast, exposure, channel mixer, selective color, hue/sat and vibrance, as needed. i hand color all of my gifs so the layers i use vary greatly from gif to gif. in the sample pics i've included below, you will see that the only color layer i used is hue/sat. the rest of my color adjustments were made in the first curves layer. i'm also using a gradient map to adjust the background color of the scene, which is important to keep in mind when you're doing your coloring.
next up, sharpening! i use the sharper action in this pack as a base, which applies two layers of smart sharpening. next i add a high pass filter (filter | other | high pass) which i think adds an additional pop of refinement to a gif on top of the smart sharpening. you can read all about high pass here. i typically use a radius between .5 and 1.0, then set the blending to soft light. finally i add a noise reduction layer (filter | noise | reduce noise), set the strength 3-5 and preserve details to 15-20. i usually set the opacity of this layer to 40-60% but again, it varies from gif to gif. i know some other gifmakers who like to add a gaussian blur at this stage instead, so i'd suggest playing around with both settings to find what works best for you.
and that's basically it! i may make a few color or brightness tweaks to the final gif but otherwise it's ready for export.
here's a look at my layers panel and a frame from a gif i'm working on for an upcoming set at various stages in the process.
this all may feel like a lot of steps but once you figure out what works for you, it becomes second nature and part of the fun. sorry for the delay in answering and thanks for the ask! feel free to message me again if something isn't clear. 💜
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