Digital Art Gimme Half

Discussion in 'Arts & Graphics' started by Rissy, Jul 17, 2012.

  1. Rissy Queen of the Clouds

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    So I'm just now learning to use photoshop for .gifs and it's a lot of fun
    I made a few just for CnC. x:

    Sorry, I haven't made any new icons or tags, I've been a little low on resources/stocks since I had to downsize a lot for my new MacBook to transfer only the things I need. D:
    So, just enjoy these new .gifs I have

    Oh, and I was wondering if anyone knew why how I could maybe make their sizes a bit smaller without losing it's quality? Tumblr isn't accepting half of these, so it's really frustrating. :c

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    Excuse the terrible video choices, they're the only thing I had in my video folders at the moment so

    They're Beyonce's Halo, Bring Me The Horizon's Pray For Plagues and Chelsea Grin.

    Taa-daaa~
     
  2. Llave Superless Moderator

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    Good lord, the loading time of these was quite extensive.

    GIFs are always wee stinkers I must confess. But for just starting out, you did a good job. Most people I have seen cut too many frames out rendering the piece obsolete for using, as it skips tremendously.

    I'd have to say my favorite one of these is the zipping mouth one. (Not sure what that's from...) It seems sporadic and fun for a GIF.

    In regards to making the file size smaller, I believe you can do the following:

    File > Save For Web > (On the right side by Presets, there's an arrow button, click that.) Optimize to File Size > and then set your specs. The program will try to lower the amount of color used to make it as close as it can.

    If it's still too large, you may have to crop some frames and raise the frame delay to make it a little more smooth. Also dimension sizes can help tremendously, as well as cropping certain completely unnecessary areas out.

    Hope this helps and keep it up! GIFs can get frustrating, heck I still get ticked off by them lol.
    Good first set nonetheless.