[Original Doll]

I have a question... ^^ I've been making these kind of .gifs for awhile now but my biggest problem is the quality of the pictures.

Example: This is a request from jinn...

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g244/liv...hymxm_101-1.gif

See how the guys/girl picture is a little distorted and the colors are just 'blah' (excuse me, I don't know a word to describe it ^^) Before I put it in .gif format, the quality of the picture is great, it's absolutely fine then, when it's in .gif format, and I upload it, it looks terrible. Tell me, how can I keep the picture still looking great/high quality.

Programs used: Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Adobe Imageready 3.0

thanks...

--bae

Use .png format, the quality is much better!

[STAR_x.]

hii ! thanks for all the tutorials ^^;;
i learned a lot in less than 30 minutes ! =DD you guys are awesomee<3
thanks for all the hard work ! keep it up !

[LiVEyourLiFEx]

In regards to the 'ulljjang' styled photos, I have to be honest.
I'm a big fan of photo retouching, but there's a limit to what I like to do to photos.
Although it's sometimes just fun to mess with the shapes and features of someone's face, I prefer a more 'natural' change. Just an enhancement as opposed to complete facial restructuring. So it's highly unlikely that I'll be posting a tutorial for that specifically.
But I'm sure someone else will be able to come up with something.

As for the kind of 'enhancements' I generally make to photos, you can see an example from the changes I've made to a photo of Lisa's face below. I've added some eye shadow, eye liner, a bit of lip gloss/lipstick, changed her eye color, sharpened the focus on her eyes and lips and smoothed out her skin (including removing some birth marks). I like for people to look at the result and think 'Hey, I never thought I would look good that way.'

Before


After

wow. could you create a tutorial on this?
it would be amazing..

[macy]

Try 'Window>Workspace>Default Workspace'.
They may have gotten moved offscreen.
Sometimes when you run games or a full screen video on certain players, the change in resolution confuses some programs. And they try to put the items back where they think they should be. Photoshop/ImageReady kind of do this poorly.

Let me know if that works or not. If it doesn't work, you may have to trash your Preference file, and restart ImageReady.

Thank-you so much Jason! It works for me now. I can't explain how much this has helped me! I really appreciate it.

[jasonyc]

wow. could you create a tutorial on this?
it would be amazing..

I'll be more than happy to put one together for you. Maybe it'll be a video tutorial.
But unfortunately, my Mac is going in for repairs today. And I won't be seeing it for a few days. And I'm too much of a Mac user now to crank out a quality tutorial on my PC.
Remind me in a few days.

[I.Heart.JaeJoong.Kim.]

well I read all I could find on making gifs =O but I can't seem to really find anything that will help me really because I'm not trying to make a video gif~

I have Photoshop elements 4.0, and I was wondering how to make gifs on there?
can someone please help me ^^ or point me to a reply in here with a tutorial on it.



~heheh my first post xD

[aymei]

Question, does anyone have some Photoshop CS 2 tutorial sites? xD

Oh & can someone make a tutorial on how to make silhouette's on PS7 or PS CS2?

[jasonyc]

If one cannot complete the simple task of looking through the list of tutorials at the beginning of this thread, and/or looking through the entire thread for answers to their solutions before concluding they need to ask a NEW question that hasn't been previously answered, following a tutorial on such a complicated program like Photoshop is going to be near impossible. I have stressed this point over and over in this thread.

Why bother living life when you can just ask someone who's lived it how they did it?

I'm probably just mad 'cause I had to send in my MacBook Pro for repairs.
Then again, laziness is the number one killer of creativity.

[I.Heart.JaeJoong.Kim.]

If one cannot complete the simple task of looking through the list of tutorials at the beginning of this thread, and/or looking through the entire thread for answers to their solutions before concluding they need to ask a NEW question that hasn't been previously answered, following a tutorial on such a complicated program like Photoshop is going to be near impossible. I have stressed this point over and over in this thread.

Why bother living life when you can just ask someone who's lived it how they did it?

I'm probably just mad 'cause I had to send in my MacBook Pro for repairs.
Then again, laziness is the number one killer of creativity.

um is this pointed at me?
I read what I saw on video gifs and something about dots on gifs nothing about normal gif though like the one live_laugh_cry made.

[jasonyc]

um is this pointed at me?
I read what I saw on video gifs and something about dots on gifs nothing about normal gif though like the one live_laugh_cry made.

It wasn't aimed at anyone in particular. Besides, you stated that you LOOKED at the tutorials. You didn't just skip to the end to ask 'How can I make a gif?'
Well, there's good news, and there's bad news.
The good news is that gifs are all the same. They work in the same way any animation works. Frame by frame. Whatever you put in those frames determines what the animation consists of. So you can probably follow one of the already posted tutorials, and learn some animation basics.

The bad news is that Photoshop does not do gif animation. Some versions (all the latest ones) ship with a program called ImageReady. It's included in the package and install. ImageReady works in conjunction with Photoshop (or by itself) to create the animations. I don't believe Photoshop Elements ships with ImageReady.

On second thought, yes. This post was aimed particularly at 'aymei'.
It's like they do it on purpose to make me flip out.

[sammie]

how do you achieve the flowery borders

[infinityyy]

^ I'm pretty shure it's a brush.

In regards to the 'ulljjang' styled photos, I have to be honest.
I'm a big fan of photo retouching, but there's a limit to what I like to do to photos.
Although it's sometimes just fun to mess with the shapes and features of someone's face, I prefer a more 'natural' change. Just an enhancement as opposed to complete facial restructuring. So it's highly unlikely that I'll be posting a tutorial for that specifically.
But I'm sure someone else will be able to come up with something.

As for the kind of 'enhancements' I generally make to photos, you can see an example from the changes I've made to a photo of Lisa's face below. I've added some eye shadow, eye liner, a bit of lip gloss/lipstick, changed her eye color, sharpened the focus on her eyes and lips and smoothed out her skin (including removing some birth marks). I like for people to look at the result and think 'Hey, I never thought I would look good that way.'

^ I didn't see this when you posted it
jasonyc, Your photo enhancing is awesome. It's natural and I like how you really could achieve that look in reality.

[aymei]

really? o_o me?

i didn't see on the list about silhouette tutorials so I just wanted to ask. sorry. nvm me asking then, ill just google it or something. -.-

[pachi_A]

question about GIFs

what type of programs would everyone reccomend for gif making? the way i make gifs is rather complicated, and i wanted to find an easier way.

- well, first i extract the clip i want using OSS VIDEO DECOMPILER, leaving me with many very big and bad quality caps.
- then i will open all of the files (usually around 70 pictures) onto jasc psp, which is much easier and faster to use than ps when resizing. but the enhancement tools in there arent as great as ps, so when i do the regular enhancements such as brightness/contrast, curves, it doesnt turn out GREAT! ~ i'm also not very experienced with psp.
- after that i will open up all the extracted files onto jasc animation shop3 to crop the desired size, while loosing more than half of the files, to create a good KB size for soompi.
- and i will then take it to adobe imageready and perhaps add a design.

so all together it'll probably take me an hour or two, just to make one gif.
does anyone have more simple programs i could use? is muddiemurada's gif tutorial the easiest? what are other people's methods? or is this just the way gifs are supposed to be made?

[m1ckyy_yoochun]

Can someone please teach me how to blend with photoshop 7.0?? i really want to know but i don't know how..and the one for BASIC BLENDING i think that's for something else..and advanced photoshop...so please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks in advance<333

[<3KIMZ<3]

^ if u dunno how to use masking, then u can always play around with the blend layers.. the scroll down menu on the layers palette.. i tend to use the "screen" one a lot. ^^ and just play around with the opacity and fill... and if there is a part that is blocking someone's face while blending, then u can just erase that part of the pic (with this, u can also play around with the opacity of the eraser so that not all of the area is erased).

with masking, u can use 2 or more pics and on the top layer, press the mask button(either on the tool bar or the layer pallette) and use the marquee to go from left to right(make sure its black on white tho) and then flip the colors so its white on black and use the marquee again to go from right to left and the 2 pics should blend.. masking is a little harder to explain... but if u search, i'm sure u'll find many tuts for it.

[catchthesky.]

Can someone please teach me how to blend with photoshop 7.0?? i really want to know but i don't know how..and the one for BASIC BLENDING i think that's for something else..and advanced photoshop...so please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks in advance<333

Hmm. I 'm not sure if PS 7.0 has this but... this is hard to explain. -0-
If you click the rectangular or cicular marquee tool (the top left button on the tool box), do you see a long box on the top that has all these fill out stuff? There should be a box that says 'Feather - 0px' Change the 0 to a 30 or a 40 (depends on the two pictures you're trying to blend)
Then make a marquee between the two images (the place where you want to blend) and press 'Del' key on your keyboard. You can click as many times you want and it'll blend smoothly. (Make sure the two images you're trying to blend is set as 'Layer One' and 'Layer Two'. Not 'Backround' and 'Layer One'. =DD)

I hope you get what I'm trying to explain... -0-
`sara

[m1ckyy_yoochun]

^ you see..i don't get the layering. thingi...see when i open a picture..and it says background on the layer pallete.place...and when i open another picture..it says the samething and the other picture is gone..you know...like there should be 2 boxes(?) for each picture...but i only have one...and when i open another one..the first open disappears . hope i'm not making it difficult...

[kiki]

question about GIFs

what type of programs would everyone reccomend for gif making? the way i make gifs is rather complicated, and i wanted to find an easier way.

- well, first i extract the clip i want using OSS VIDEO DECOMPILER, leaving me with many very big and bad quality caps.
- then i will open all of the files (usually around 70 pictures) onto jasc psp, which is much easier and faster to use than ps when resizing. but the enhancement tools in there arent as great as ps, so when i do the regular enhancements such as brightness/contrast, curves, it doesnt turn out GREAT! ~ i'm also not very experienced with psp.
- after that i will open up all the extracted files onto jasc animation shop3 to crop the desired size, while loosing more than half of the files, to create a good KB size for soompi.
- and i will then take it to adobe imageready and perhaps add a design.

so all together it'll probably take me an hour or two, just to make one gif.
does anyone have more simple programs i could use? is muddiemurada's gif tutorial the easiest? what are other people's methods? or is this just the way gifs are supposed to be made?

maybe next time when I make GIFS I'll post a tutorial.... they take forever to make and muddie is extremely patient to be making all of those captions and at the same time write out all of the step-by-step directions...

The way I make it is very similar to Muddie's way. My way is probably even longer than her's since I can't load wmv files onto adobe imageready.

Programs I use:
- Adobe photoshop
- Adobe Imageready
- Windows Movie Maker
- And occassionally TMPGEnc to change the file names and all that good stuff.

Windows Movie Maker caps everything I use... What sucks about it is not being able to load the cut version onto imageready and call it a day. I have to move the file one slide at a time and cap. The caps I'd say are pretty good, depending on what kind of quality file you start with.


^ these were awful low quality caps that I worked with... I think they turned out ok.


(it gets pretty boring if you asked me, but the end result is always ohhh so entertaining to watch, anyway that explains why it takes me forever to finish/get inspired to make them) yes... I do get stuck with a lot of captions so sometimes I just skip around. I open each file on PS and create a new file to copy and paste all of the pictures. Just like if making any graphics, PS is great for messing with the quality of the captions. B&W are great to work with when you've got terrible quality stuff. use PS to make the background and add text and then open it to Imageready to save as a GIF.

NO matter what method or differnt steps you come up with, it'll take you a long time to make them.

[viruz]

I don't know what happened but each time when I'm using the text tool and I press enter the next like is all the way down the page. Anyone know how to reverse this?