Hi, Anon! I’m sorry this took me a few days to answer but I struggled making this tutorial (not because the process itself is difficult but it is difficult to explain it properly.) Anyway, here’s the gifset Anon is asking about. I hope this is easy to understand and I also included a .psd file of the layout :)

PSD FILE OF THE GIF ABOVE & TEMPLATE

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Hi, Anon! I used an overlay which I got from here :) I don’t know if you’re familiar with overlays but here’s what I do:

SMALL OVERLAY TUTORIAL

First I make my gif as I usually do and in that gifset this was the base I was working with (a gif with 37 frames):

So, next I take screencaps of the overlay I’m using and I make sure it’s got the same number of frames, in this case 37. Now I put my overlay screencaps above my gif and this is what my photoshop looks like:

Notice how I placed my overlay between the text and the base gif. The text thing is optional but I liked the text to stand out.

Now, as you can see this overlay’s background isn’t completely black but gray, and I didn’t want that. I added a Selective Color layer and increased the “Black” in the “Black” tab to +100. This is how it looks now:

The difference is noticeable right? Well now onto the last step. I went to my overlay group layer and set the Blending mode to Lighter Color and the Opacity to 50%.

This step depends on your personal preference so feel free to play around with the Blending Modes and the Opacity and see which ones suit your gif best. With those settings I got my final gif:

And that’s how I work with overlays! There are so many nice overlays in youtube you just have to use keywords like camera, vhs, old video, lightleaks, etc. Overlays can completely change your gifs and turn a simple gif into a beautiful and complex one!

absolutely! thank you so much 💙

here are a few examples of my color isolation sets:

the substance (yellow) || beetlejuice (red) || us (red) || conclave (blue) || sleeping beauty (cyan/blue) || crimson peak (yellow) || smosh (purple) || conclave (red)

beneath the cut, i’ll walk you through my coloring process!

notes: tutorial assumes basic gifmaking knowledge & i’m using adobe photoshop 2023 (though afaik, your version shouldn’t matter much)

i don’t color my gifs until they’re sharpened and i’ll give you a quick overview of my process: file -> import -> video frames to layers -> trim any extra frames -> crop to desired dimensions -> run sharpening action (i used this tutorial and just made it into an action) which also converts to timeline

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Hi anon! I’d be happy to go over my preferred methods for colouring!

First resort (ideal):

• Painting over shots with little movement (the first method in this tutorial)
• Colour manipulation using selective colours (the second method in this tutorial; alternate tutorial -> i also sometimes add a hue/saturation layer on top to manipulate the cyans/blues as well)

Second resort:

• Keyframes for shots with consistent movement where it’s easy to hide “imperfections” (tutorial 1, tutorial 2)

Last resort:

• Frame by frame colouring -> DISCLAIMER: the way I do this method is the easiest way I’ve gotten it to work for me but that also means that it’s very inflexible when it comes to editing any of the colouring afterwards. Once you start colouring in frame animation mode you’re basically locked in so you need your gifs to be exactly the way you want them prior to adding your colour
• So in this tutorial I’ll go over how I do my frame by frame colouring as well as how I create actions to automate the repetitive parts of this process! (Some resources that explain how to create actions are here: 1 2)
• To use the select subject feature you will need Photoshop CC 2018 or later

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hi anon!! i’m honoured that you like my colouring 🥺🥹 i’ll walk through colouring one of the tommy scenes you mentioned (3rd gif from this post), but i use the same steps for all my gifs, just with slight variations on the settings! i’ve also been enjoying cool backgrounds and warm skin tones lately, so that’s the effect i aim to achieve!

this is the base gif that i’ll be using, and this is after i apply my sharpening. tutorial under the cut:

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