OK here goes nothin (sorry if this gets confusing my PS is being a little bitch rn so idk)
so I’m gonna be showing how to do these kind of gifs:
When capping you’re going to have to look for scenes that look like you can crop them and blank out the background of one side or extend the background of one side, aka you’re going to want to find a shot where there’s a solid colour as the background so you can use the brush tool to fill it in.
Here are some example shots that will work:
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After you’ve chosen your scenes and capped them, load the caps into photoshop. Now before you resize your image, change the canvas size by hitting CTRL + ALT + C, if you’re capping with 720/1080p just take around 20px off of the height and width to get rid of the nasty border, so from 1280x720 down to 1250x700 will remove the border.
Then resize your image, this is important for what kind of crop you want to go for, I mainly resize to 420x235 or 340x190 pixels (duplicate the window in case you change your mind).
Then I open the canvas size tool again, and anchor it towards which edge/corner I want it to go and downsize to 245px width (or 268px whatever dimensions you’re using).
My choice of size for an 8gif set is 245x135px and for a 10gif set is 245x125px.
That’s just some decision making you gotta sort out yourself basically ^.
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The brush tool shouldn’t be used like hella freely because it’s just going to either be really obvious or just not look fab. I only use it when I know I can (ok but truth sometimes I’m lazy and don’t care)
Here is how I use it
STEP 1
(Sharpen your layers etc btw)
Select all your layers and reposition them to your liking.
Make a new layer ontop of your layer stack
Select the brush tool (B)
then hit ALT (presents colour picker) and hold it to select the background colour.
To do this hover over the area you intend to brush over and click the background of your image, then let go of ALT and brush across, then hold ALT again and move down a bit and click down and let go then brush across again, do this a few times till you fill up the space.
so once again:
STEP 2
Once you’ve filled in that space press play on your gif and check that the brushed area isn’t overlapping on the focal part of the gif so the face or their clothing etc.
If you do notice overlap get the eraser tool out (E) and set the hardness to like 50% also set the opacity anywhere between 30-70% and zoom in a little so you’re making sure that you’re just erasing the overlap.
Erase on Frame 1 and then press play again to see if you need to erase anywhere else.
Once you’ve erased everywhere then you’re ready to colour.
STEP 3
Drag your psd or colour it or whatever on top of the brushed layer.
Check the result, if the brush tool is noticable then make another new layer, over the top of your psd and repeat step 1 by getting the Brush tool out and selecting the background colour and fix it up.
If you can see the lighter patch to the top half of the gif^
this is after I covered it up again^
If you have this layer underneath your psd it’ll just look like this:
BONUS STEP
thefandomlivesforever asked if I could explain how to change the colours of these backgrounds, now generally these backgrounds are going to be yellow, neutral, white, or blue.
To change the background if it’s neutral/white:
This is the gif with just a psd on top:
Changing the background requires selective colour and sometimes colour balance and channel mixer, for this one I just used selective colour.
first I make the background brighter by doing this:
(absolute checked)
(relative checked)
To change colours you can just mess around, to make it purple I went to Neutrals, with relative checked, and dragged back the yellows completely, added a little magenta, and dragged back the blacks to add a little brightness.
As you can see it greatly affects her face, so you’re going to have to use the eraser tool, and erase where her face is. I also used a saturation layer of -30 and erased it off her face:
This method works if the subject is staying within a certain area and not moving much, so you can literally mess around all you like, and then just erase it off the important sections! (this explanation was brief if you want a longer one it’s going to have to be on another day when my ps isn’t stuffing around :\)
