hey becca!! i dont know if you like answer ps...

hey becca!! i dont know if you like answer ps questions but,,, i was wondering 2 things: how did you make those duo color gifs? especially the ones were everything is black and white except for certain things. and if there was any way to up the quality of a gif? like sometimes the video quality is shit so is there anyway to make it better??? thank you !! your edits are beautiful and you are very talented !! have a great day <33 – from Anonymous

Don’t worry about asking! I love explaining things!

To answer your first question:

It’s actually a lot easier to make gifsets in one solid color than make 2-colored gifsets, haha. For the latter, you really spend a lot of time tweaking with the adjustments until you really have the desired colors. And the amount of time you spend coloring one single gif very much depends based on how bland and different your original gif was.

Take this gif for instance:

I went from this:

to this:

The change is pretty drastic but I assure you that the technique I used for this is pretty simple!

For this you’ll definitely need your swatches. So you better open up your swatches on photoshop and grab the following colors:

Since they’re the brightest possible RGB-red and -blue, they’ll be very easy to find, and since we’re going for an extremely saturated GIF anyway, these colors will be very easy to achieve.

First of, you’re going to need your timeline on photoshop to be in Video Timeline, which looks like this

I prefer to keep it this way because (in my own opinion) it’s way more versatile should you be working with costumized layers.

You’ll achieve this by clicking on the button on the bottom left of your timeline.

For the next step I’m gonna use a pretty simple trick.

Open up a new layer and at this on top of the timeline which is your gif. You can fill in this layer however you want to. In this case, we are going to use those swatches we’ve grabbed earlier to mark down the areas we want in this particular color. In this case, we want the background to be bright red and the teludav-y thing bright blue. So we’re going to grab our brush and make a swatch on top of your gif as a reference.

From this point on, our purpose is to use our adjustments and work ourselves up to the point that this gif is in the exact same colors as those swatches we’ve added.

SO for this you select your GIF timeline and start coloring! To achieve this I definitely suggest starting of with Selective Color and If you still don’t have the exact color that you want, add a second layer of the same adjustment and tbh…. you can use as many layers as you want… trust me.. it’s works. You can go completely freestyle with the adjustments as long as your background is bright red and the center is bright bue!

Since the example gif is pretty easy, the amount of adjustments I used are pretty minimal.

This is how it looks like!

It’s really hard to give an accurate tutorial on how I exactly color this stuff, since the complexity and difficulty highly depends on how your GIF looks…. But I definitely start out ALL THE TIME with adding those swatches! They come in REALLY handy if you’re making a gifset where the EXACT same colors are required, which I do all the time.

As for the black and white gifset. This is pretty much the same principle, expect you can use Hue/Saturation to cancel out all the colors you don’t wanna include, which is this icon: