depends on what you mean by slow motion, if you want it like in movies you need to take a shitload of caps (like everyframe) and then just use a slow timing. if you mean that kind of pretty effect that’s slow but not slow somebody told me you need to make every other frame slower than the rest but I never tried it myself

I think unless you know how to use curves (which I still don’t tbh) they most likely will show all the low quality especially in gifs so I try to avoid them as much as I can (a little bit here and there doesn’t hurt). another thing crucial with low quality is size, the smallest the better so don’t go try do a 500x200 gif with a 480p quality it will turn like crap no matte what coloring you can invent. you can see what I mean here: the video is the same 720p quality and the coloring is the same but here I used a liiittle bit of curves and did the gif slitly bigger and you can see all the pixely grain and it looks like crap, here I didn’t use the curves cause the scene was bright enough, the gif is smaller and the quality looks perfect (there’s still some pixely noise in the background but you can’t get away from it)

as for I save my gifs if you go in my first tutorial there’s a picture of all my options :)

do your writing then duplicate the layer and make the text layer under it another color, in this case yellow and then move it a little to the left or right whatever you like and you’re done :)

Tutorial #21: How to cut a gif in shapes

it’s very easy and in the video you get to see a bit how I make a gif even tho I apologize for the orrible coloring but I had to keep the video under 10 minutes so I couldn’t play with it a lot. the steps are pretty much these (in the video I did a circle but you can use every shape you want obviously) and the final result is here

as always is you have doubts, questions or requests my ask is always open <3

• first you need to make a text layer and choose a dark color
• then this
• then this
• then press ok and you’re done

you can either work on the circle then save it and then you paste it on top of the “color” gif or when you do the black and white (I use a gradient map) and you can use the mask to make the layer apply only to the circle like this

example of what are we going to do

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Tutorial #19 : how to erase the background and making a silhouette

it’s all showed in the tutorial above but in case you can’t understand what I did these are the steps

• choose your picture, resize it and sharpen
• with the magnetic lasso tool outline the figure (don’t worry if you make mistakes I did too and you can fix it later)
• make a new layer and fill it with a color a little bit darker than the main color of the background. for example if you have a blue background it will look nicer if you make the layer above it blue and not red, you can if you want obviously but it won’t look as nice especially if you have particular hairstyles like I did in this picture. This goes for the erasing background bit, if you only want a silhouette you can use whatever colro you need it to be
• once you have your basic layer you can go around the outlines filling in where you missed a spot or erasing what you have on your picture
• once you’re done make another layer under it and fill it with black or white and merge the layers so you can use it where you need the silhoutte to be or just merge everything if you just want to erase the background

as always if you have doubts or questions my ask is always open <3

• first you need to do your gif and color it
• then you have to do the two (or three) layers of text
• now keep the ctrl key pressed and select the frames where you want the first text to appear (in my case the first 16 frames)
• and click on the eye next to the second text layer so that only the first one is visible in those frames
• and then do the same thing for the second part of the gif, select the layers and then make the first text layer invisible
• the result is this
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• if you want some frames in between without any text just select those frames and click on the eye of both text layers
• and that’s it same thing goes for three layers or 50 :)

since I didn’t do that graphic and that girl is amazing I feel really wrong doing this but this is how I would do that effect

• duplicate your base
• filter->surface blur-> radius : 15 px , threshold : 19 px
• switch the layer mode to lighten (you can lower the opacity if it’s too much)
• I added a curve and a contrast layer
• then a dark blue/light blue gradient map (you can use any color it just has to be dark/light)
• and to finish a black/white gradient on soft light
• and this is the result
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• here’s the psd if you want a closer look