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Combined gifs tutorial
Faceclaims used: Lee Jieun, Jeon Jungkook
Coincidentally I think I might need a closing banner for my fanfic Vigilante or not idk. So today I will be showing my process of making a combined gif and turning it like a tutorial of some sort. It's actually really easy & you only need two apps and it doesn't require talent or any expensive softwares etc:
- Canva (or just web version)
- Picsart (or any alternative of Picsart)
I will try my best to explain nicely :D
1. So first, open the Canva app or just the website version of it. I got no storage so I'm using the web version 😭👍 and then the next step is tap the '+' button I circled with yellow.
2. After you tap the '+' button, it leads to here and you can tap Uploads → Videos → Upload Media to upload the gifs you want to use in the graphic. It's better if you choose the ones with colours that can mix/blend easily. You'll understand what I mean in the next few steps.
3. Upload and drag your gifs. Make sure it's like um, properly lined? You can crop the gifs of course. You can also rotate the gifs horizontaly, vertically or put the other above or behind the other until you think they are placed the way you want them to be.
4. Now again, tap Uploads → Images → Upload media. ALL RIGHT LISTEN: yall see the weird transparented pngs with weird uneven opacity that I uploaded here? You'll need them. This is why you need Picsart or other alternative application of it. Wattpad has limited images you can put in one chapter so I'll explain by words the things you gotta do with Picsart here.
- open the app
- tap on a transparent background (picsart provide it so)
- pick any colour or image with the colours you think can be used to blend the edges of the two gifs you placed. in my case, I need like light brown and white so yeah.
- after that, use the eraser function (you can adjust the eraser's opacity, hardness & size) to make it seem weirdly uneven and like blending ?#/_? like how my pngs up there look like.
- save the results.
and then you upload them to Canva.
5. After you've uploaded them, you can put them out on to the page. Drag and adjust them to cover the lines/edges of the two gifs. Big brain right? This is the broke and non-professional way yall, modern problems require modern solutions. Idk how other graphic makers do this but this is my way. 🕴️Basically just put out as much as you need and adjust the almost-transparent-fading PNGs (idk how to call them) to make it look like you actually somehow blended the gifs.
6. And then there's this feature too in Canva which you can use to add texts/subtitles.
7. You see umm the Vigilante PNG I uploaded is actually cropped and then I uploaded another just to crop it again for the 'ANTE' part ahaha. By the way Canva give generous amount of free fonts you can use 👍 aaaand yeah basically just put whatever subtitles you want now. Once you're done, tap the 'download' button (the one I circled with yellow).
8. I highly suggest you download the gif in its MP4 Video file type instead of Gif type to make the size smaller. Trust me I compared, it's more convenient if you use the MP4 route. So anyway, now download the video which we are going to convert into a gif.
9. I always use this website ez.gif.com for gif matters. Just tap Video to GIF → choose file → upload the video → convert into GIF.
9. And then of course you gotta crop the new GIF now because of the white blank parts. Simple though.
10. A reminder that you can only upload GIFs under 3MB to Wattpad so if the size is over that, you have to use the optimize feature. Just adjust the compression level so it fits just enough.
11. So it's done here if you're here when its size is uploadable to a Wattpad chapter. 💃
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But there might be people like me who prefer gif banners with borders so I'll explain by words how I do it using the same ez.gif.com website.
- after the MP4 Video is converted into a GIF and cropped properly, tap 'Effects'. When you scroll down, there's a 'Border' effect you can add and adjust the thickness of the border along with its colour.
- now after you then apply the selected effects, you'll encounter a small problem which is the GIF flickering with noise effects but the website will give you the option to unoptimize the GIF.
- tap the given option/text whatever to unoptimize the GIF. It increases the size (you can optimize it again later)
- after unoptimizing, you can now apply the selected effects like before and this time the GIF result will not have flickering/noise problems.
- the size is probably over 3MB at this step so you can just optimize it again from here.
And this is how it'd look like with borders then.
I hope this chapter helped because y'know sharing is caring. It's really easier than how it looks with this way lmao.
In the next chapter, I'll show how I put PSDs/filters on the GIF.