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My name is Manon. I am 23, and I am a huge potterhead, as you have probably noticed already. I love Ginny Weasley to bits and pieces, and I'm a hardcore Harry/Ginny shipper. Seriously, it gets pretty intense.

Other things I like include Doctor Who, the Hunger games and Veronica Mars. I am slightly addicted to the musical "Wicked".

This is a personal blog, but I post about 95% Harry Potter . The other 5% is a mixture of personal posts, Doctor Who and The Hunger Games. I like making gifs.

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How to get your gif under 500KB

Say you made your basic gif, but it turns out it’s over 500KB. There’s a few things you can do to get your gif under 500KB.

1. Change the dither or the amount of colours.

Go to File—>save for web and devices. You can change the dither %. Changing it from 100% to 99% usually makes a huge difference in the size of the file, but hardly does anything to the quality of your gif. You can also change your colours from 256 to 128.

2. Darkening your gif

Another way to reduce the size of your gif, is to darken it. You can do this by adding layers on top of your last frame/layer of your gif. Go to Layer—>new adjustment layer

- Brightness/ contrast: You can lower the brightness to darken your gif. You can also increase the contrast.

Before: 

after:

-Levels: You can play around with the levels to darken your gif

Before:

After: 

-Curves: Just play around with the curves a bit, until you find something that you like

-Exposure: Decrease the exposure to darken your gif

3. Reducing the amount of frames

If you don’t want to darken your gif, or it didn’t reduce the size of your gif enough, you can always try deleting some of the frames of your gif. Removing every 2nd or 3rd frame is always an option, or deleting frames that you don’t need in the gif. 

These are just a few ways to reduce the size of your gif. Hope it helped! 

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Basic Gif tutorial

How to make a basic Gif

I use Photoshop CS5 for mac (click here for Photoshop CS5 for PC) & Screenium . 

Step 1: Select the part of the video you want to gif

Obviously you need to know WHAT you want to gif before you can start making your gif. Open your video and set it to start playing right before the part you want to gif

Step 2: Record the bit you want to gif

Open screenium (or any other program you might be using) and set it to fixed area, like so: 

and select the area (youtube page, Quicktime player, etc) you want to record, like so

Press record and start your clip. When you got what you wanted, you can press cntrl + alt + c to stop recording and stop your video. Once you’ve gotten the part, you can export it

Step 3: Import the clip into photoshop

Now you have to open the clip in photoshop so you can start giffing it. Go to File —> Import —> Video frames to layers. 

Then select “Selected range only” and tick the “Limit to ever…frames” box. I usually do limit to every 4 frames if it’s a longer clip, and 2 or 3 if it’s a shorter clip. This way it’s not importing every frame from the clip, but only every 4th frame, so you don’t get a shitload of frames. Then press play to select the part you want to gif.

Step 4: Making the gif

Now you’ve imported the clip into photoshop, your photoshop screen should look something like this:

You always want to try and keep your gif under 15 frames, or it will be too big to upload onto Tumblr. Here you can delete any frames you might not need. Maybe you started the clip too soon and you can delete the first or last couple of frames, or you can try and delete a few frames here and there to shorten the gif. 

Now that you’ve gotten your gif down to 15 or less frames, you want to resize it. The best size to use on Tumblr is 500 px wide. Any wider, and Tumblr won’t let you upload it, any smaller, and people will hate it. Just go to Image —> image size and change the image width to 500 px.

Now you might want to change the speed of your gif. Just select all your frames, click on one of them and the following window should pop up

I usually do mine at 0.12 seconds or 0.15 seconds (you can select this by selecting “other” at the bottom of the window)

Step 5: Saving your gif

To save your gif, you go to File—>save for web and devices, make sure it’s under 500KB, and press OK! 

TADAAA, YOUR GIF IS NOW FINISHED

Please keep in mind that this is my first ever tutorial. My next tutorial will be on reducing the size of your gif & adding effects and stuff. 

Please know that if you ask any questions about gif making on ANON, they will NOT be answered.


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