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67 mixed icons

2011-06-02T21:41:59Z

[11] Celebrities (Cobie Smulders, Lola Glaudini, Jennifer Morrison, Olivia Wilde, Scarlette Johansson, Evangeline Lilly)
[03] Text icons
[53] Stock (horses, dogs, cats, wild animals etc)


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I'll Stand By You - A JJ/Emily Fanmix

2011-05-22T21:11:09Z

made for a crimelandfanmix challenge to the prompt

"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty." –Haniel Long

I'll Stand By You Playlist

01. No Matter What - Jeremy Camp

Every part of me is an offering,
I will set forth and lay it down at your throne
Because I live for you alone

No matter what it takes I will offer,
Everything I am I give to you
Even unto death I will follow,
No matter what the price I will give to you now

02. Always - Elliott Yamin

I might not always.
Get to spend my time with you.
And I might not always.
Do all that I'm supposed to do.
We have some bad days.
But it don't change.
That I always have and always will.
I'll always love you girl.

03. Always - Plumb

I will always love you more each day
I will always try to keep you safe

04. Endless Love - Glee Cast

And your eyes
Your eyes, your eyes
They tell me how much you care
Ooh yes, you will always be
My endless love

Two hearts,
Two hearts that beat as one
Our lives have just begun

04. Forever - Vertical Horizon

Call my name, it echoes in the walls around this room
Its all you

I don't know if you hear me there
When it's darkest and no one cares
I will hear you...

Forever
Forever
I will hear you
Forever
Forever

05. Nothing Without You - Vienna Teng

call my name
you know my name
and in that sound, everything will change
tell me it won't always be this hard
I am nothing without you

06. Fall Into Me - Sugarland

Before you turn the key
Before you fall asleep
Before you drift away to fight those
demons waiting for you in your
dreams
Before your arms are stretched
wide open
Before you reach into the sky
Before you’re searching for direction
And all the answers to your why’s
Fall into me
Oh, my arms are stretched wide
open
You don’t have to say a word
Because I already see
That it’s hard and you’re scared
And you’re tired and I know it hurts
Yes, it’s hard and you’re scared
And you’re tired and it hurts
And I wanna be the one you reach
for first

07. I'll Stand By You - Glee Cast

When the night falls on you
You don't know what to do
Nothing you confess
Could make me love you less

I'll stand by you
I'll stand by you
Won't let nobody hurt you
I'll stand by you

So, if you're mad, get mad!
Don't hold it all inside
Come on and talk to me now
Hey, what you got to hide?
I get angry too
But I'm a lot like you

When you're standing at the crossroads
Don't know which path to choose
Let me come along
'Cause even if you're wrong

I'll stand by you
I'll stand by you
Won't let nobody hurt you
I'll stand by you
Take me in into your darkest hour
And I'll never desert you
I'll stand by you

And when, when the night falls on you baby
You're feeling all alone
You won't be on your own

08. Your Call - Secondhand Serenade

Stripped and pollished, I am new, I am fresh
I am feeling so ambitious, you and me, flesh to flesh
Cause every breath that you will take
When you are sitting next to me
Will bring life into my deepest hopes, What's your fantasy?

Cause I was born to tell you I love you
And I am torn to do what I have to, to make you mine
Stay with me tonight

09. You & Me - The Cranberries

I don't pay attention to the ones who never cared
Find your own direction 'cos there's sweetness in the air
You will be the world to me and I will always be
Dwelling in this happiness, your gift of purity

Aahh, you and me will always be
You and me Forever be,
Eternally will always be
You and me

10. Comfort You - Eskimo Joe

I will come, come to comfort you
I will come, come to comfort you

11. Your Love Is A Song - Switchfoot

I hear you breathing in
Another day begins
The stars are falling out
My dreams are fading now, fading out

I've been keeping my eyes wide open
I've been keeping my eyes wide open

Ooh, your love is a symphony
All around me, running through me
Ooh, your love is a melody
Underneath me, running to me

Secretariat - Epic, Favorite Moment, End, Artist's Choice

2011-05-07T13:14:54Z

made for the fandomverse Big Bang - Prompts: epic, favorite moment, end, artist's choice

picspam (80 caps)
[11] gifs
[ 10] icons

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Water - Glee

2011-05-02T17:49:30Z

Made for the fandomverse Big Bang - Prompt: Water

[09] Gifs

Trust - How To Train Your Dragon

2011-05-02T17:45:32Z

Made for the fandomverse Big Bang - Prompt: Trust

41 JJ Icons (2x16 - 1x17)

2011-04-25T17:28:52Z

If you have a moment please go TO THIS THREAD and sign with "I support Team Magical Hair" to help Team JJ win the challenge over at crimeland.

And if you are a fan of Criminal Minds you should consider joining as well :) It's a fun challenge community with a lot of diversity split into 4 teams: Team Reid, Team Morgan, Team Garcia and Team JJ with a bunch of amazing and fun people :)
If you join, please tell them drieduphopes sent you ;)

[24] JJ in 2x16
[19] JJ in 2x17

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Criminal Minds 2x15 "Revelations" Icons

2011-04-03T12:59:39Z

[57] 2x15 Revelation Icons (JJ centric)


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58 JJ Icons (2x11-2x14)

2011-03-28T23:58:48Z

[01-01] 2x11
[02-14] 2x12
[15-41] 2x13
[42-58] 2x14


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39 JJ Icons (2x06 - 2x09)

2011-03-27T00:53:58Z

[13] 2x06
[06] 2x07
[01] 2x08
[19] 2x09

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6x18 "Lauren" Icons

2011-03-21T00:52:34Z

[37] JJ centric icons from 6x18 "Lauren" (spoiler warning!)

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20 JJ ICONS

2011-03-18T18:03:41Z

for character20n20

10 THEMES

Blur	Devious	Favorite Moment	Full Body	Green


Lonely	Negative Space	Relaxed	Sunshine	Three Plus

CATEGORY ~ 5 Senses

Touch	Sight	Smell	Hearing	Taste

ARTIST'S CHOICE

artist's choice 1	artist's choice 2	artist's choice 3	artist's choice 4	artist's choice 5

52 Stock Icons

2011-03-09T17:35:41Z

[52] Stock Icons (horses, cats, dogs, etc)

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20 JJ Icons

2011-03-03T01:29:03Z

for thebau20in20 's Round 16

10 THEMES

Behind the Wheel	Blue	Call Me	Face to Face	Ghosts of the Past


Hurt	Looking down	Secret	Something to prove	The eyes have it

5 CATEGORY - SMILES

#01	#02	#03	#04	#05

5 ARTIST'S CHOICE

AC #01	AC #02	AC #03	AC #04	AC #05

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47 Stock Icons

2011-02-27T11:29:21Z

[47] Stock Icons {horses, cats, dogs, quotes, etc)

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7 Wallpapers + Variations

2011-02-18T20:36:23Z

Size: 1440x900

[02] AJ Cook
[02] JJ/Emily
[03] JJ + variations

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Photoshop Tutorial - Animated Icon with border & text

2011-01-27T01:17:43Z

requested by kimi_pie

Basic stuff:

LJ's icon limit is 40KB, which means everything larger can not be uploaded. This limit is especially tricky with animated icons, since a lot of things influence the KB such as number of frames used, colors, size of the animated area etc.

Basically the more frames you want to animate, the smaller the animated area should be, which is why there's often used a border to smaller the animated part and with it, make the icon less heavy.

Animating a scene like I do in this examples requires enough screencaps from that particular scene which you hardly ever find in a screencaps gallery. I usually cap those myself and cap every 2nd frame which is enough for any kind of gif or animated icon to make it look smooth but not too heavy.

For those who don't have every 2nd frame screencaps at hand or just wanna practice with the exact same material I'm using can download the ones I used for this tutorial HERE

Put the screencaps you want to animate in a folder. Import them into Photoshop: File > Scripts > Load Files Into Stacks

In the window you get click "browse" and look for the folder holding your screencaps. Select all of them, click "OK", wait for your screencaps to load and click "OK" again.

If you only want a certain part of the screencaps to show on your icon, use the "Crop" tool (red square) to cut everything you don't want to show. Sine in my example I'm focusing on the hair, that's the area I'm cropping.

Now we have to resize the whole thing. Image > Image Size

Since we want a border around the icon, it has to be less than 100x100 px obviously. The more frames you have, the smaller your animated area should be to make the icon in the end as light as possible. As you can see, I went for 70px in width, the height will be filled automatically. Do not ever uncheck any of those boxes on the left bottom side. I won't even tell you why, just don't do it and no that's not an invite to do it. I'm serious, leave this stuff alone.

Now we have what later will be the animated part of the icon, but we want it to be 100x100px with a border. So we need a new empty canvas. File > New

Enter 100 for width and height and hit "OK"

Now you got tabs on the top. Switch back to your first canvas and select all your layers on the right.

Use "Move" tool to click on the image on your canvas and hold down, dragging it up to the tabs and over the new empty canvas until it shows where your first canvas was. Now simply drag it down into that area and let go. All your layers should now be on the new canvas.

Move the frames to where you want them to be in the end. You can always move them around later but that will just complicate things so better do it now. Once they're in place select the pixles of the animated area (right click on the layer > select pixels). You'll see a new frame around your selected area.

Time to prettify your animated area. I usually go for a Curves, Brightness/Contrast and Selective Color layer (in that order). To have the effect on all your animation frames you need to add those by clicking the list icon to on the right side under your color swatches.
Important: You have to select the area that's gonna be animated for every new adjustment layer again or it will effect the entire canvas

In my example I have
Curves: Output:165; Input:101
Brightness/Contrast: Brightness: 0; Contrast +100%
Selective Coloring: Reds: -7; 0; 0; 0, Blacks: 0; 0; 0; +4

And this is what we got now. The black frame on the adjustment layers tells us where it doesn't apply on the canvas

You can either leave the background white (or black, depending on your settings) or make it a different color. For this you need to scroll down in your layers to the background layer and select it. Then go to your toolbar on the left and click the "Paint Bucket" icon. Pick a color from your swatches int he right top corner and then simply click (your arrow should turn into a pain bucket when you reach your icon) somewhere in your icon area. (I went for a light grey here)

Personally I don't like it all that much if the animated frames just sit on the background like they are now. So I'm gonna add a frame.
First you need to add a new layer on top. To do this you can simply click the icon left to the trash can on the bottom of your layers or go to the menu > Layer > New > Layer
Next you need to select your animated area again by right clicking any of those and "Select Pixels"

To get a frame around it we need to "Stroke" our selected area. To do that go to File > Stroke

Now you can either leave the default and go for a white frame or click the white color swatch and pick a different one. I went for a dark gray to match the background and stand out a bit more than white would. You got 3 options how PS will stroke your frame. Outside won't overlap with your animated area, inside will put the frame inside your selected area, center will put it equally out and inside your selected area. I usually go for center with a 2px stroke since cropping an image gives it a weird lighter one pixel frame you can make invisible by putting the frame over it.
Once you've settled for color, strength of stroke and position hit "OK" and the frame now shows around your animated area as well as on the new layer you created before.

Now let's move on to the text. Click the "Type Tool" icon in your toolbar

When putting text on icons, I usually like to work with a bigger area than 100x100px so I just blow it up to 500% which you can just type in on the top bar in the "Zoom Level" but that's just a suggestion that has worked best for me so far.

Drag a type field over your icon and type the text you want in your font of choice (I used Badaboom BB) and pick a color. If you want more than one line to be on the icon I recommend putting each line into a new text layer to be able to move the around and see how they fit best on your icon.

I got two text layers, one of which I don't want to be horizontal so I need to "transform" it. To do this you need to go to Edit > Free Transform. Then simply move the frame you get around it whatever way you want to put it the way that looks best to you.

The text doesn't really stand out the way I want it to just yet so we need to work on that a bit more. Best way to do so is right click on your text layer and then go for "Blending Options"

Stroking will usually help to make letters more visible. Check the stroke box and select it to get the area where you can make adjustments. You can now play with the strength of the stroke (depending on your font I'd say 2 or 3px thick) and the color. I went for the same gray as the border around the animated frames. You can see how the thickness and color looks on your icon if the "Preview" is checked and play around until you're satisfied. Then hit "OK"

If you have more than one text layer and want the same effect on the others, simple right click on the text layer that has the effect, go down to "Copy layer style" then go to the text layer you want the same effect on, right click and go down to "Paste layer style"

Once you got everything where you want it to be when the icon is animated you need to create a new layer (Layer > New > Layer) over your adjustment layers and under your border layer.

Now select your animated area again by right clicking on a frame > select pixels. Then go back to your new layer, use the "Paint Bucket" tool, pick a color (either white, black or your background color is my suggestion) and fill the selected area with this color.

Click the eye next to your new layer to make it invisible since we don't need it just yet but having it already there will save some annoying click work later.

Now comes the animation part. For this we need to get the animation work area to show. Go to Window > Animation and a new area will show at the bottom of your screen.

In the animation work space you see one frame that shows your icon as a whole. Under it, it says "0 sec" which is the delay time of the frame when it's animated. Since I use every 2nd frame caps, I usually increase the delay time to make it run just a little slower. You can change the time by clicking the little black arrow and select a different time. "0,1" usually is enough to make up for the missing frame.

In order to animate we need to add more animations frames. Simply click the icon left to the waste bin and it will duplicate your first frame

This will be your second frame in the animation. To get it moving you now have to go to your layers and make the first of the animation layers invisible by clicking the eye left to it.

Duplicate your new animation frame again by clicking the icon next to the waste bin icon and then go back to your layers and make the 2nd one invisible. Repeat this until you've reached the last layer of screencaps. Keep the last one visible!

And this is what you should see once you've reached the last frame

Duplicate your last animation frame once more and then go back up to the last new layer you created, the one we made invisible before starting with the animation. Make it visible again by clicking the empty area where the eye used to be. Make sure you select the layer. Then go to the top of the layer area and type in the "Opacity" field 30%. The layer that hid your animated area is now see through.

Duplicate your new last frame once again in the animation area and now replace the 30% with 60%. The layer gets more solid now.

Almost there. Duplicate your last animation frame once more and now set the "Opacity" to 100%. Now the layer is solid again.

Set the delay time for this last frame to "0,5" by clicking the little black arrow again.

And you're done. To see what it'll look like once you've saved it, you can click the little play button and it'll run through the frames, showing you in your work area your animated icon. Also make sure that to the left of the animation buttons it says "forever". If not, click and select "forever" or it will only repeat the animation once or a limited number of times and then just freeze at the last frame.

Now all you have left to do is save. For gifs you need to save them a little different than still icons. Go to File > Save for Web & Devices

You'll get a new window where you can change settings. If yours don't match mine in the red square adjust them accordingly to get the best possible quality after saving. Since LJ has a 40KB limit for icons it's also wise to check the info under the preview area (blue box) how heavy it is if you save it right now. As yo can see my icon is 44,64KB, therefor too big for LJ. But since we're not that much over the limit we can easily fix this without having to delete any frames.

In your settings on the top right corner there's a box that says "Lossy" and allows you to reduce the quality. Just use the slider and drag it a little to the right and see how it changes the KB size in the info under the preview. I wouldn't go beyond 10 though or it just looks horrible in the end. If it's still too heavy with Lossy at 10 you might cancel the saving progress and see if you can delete a frame or two of your animated icon to make it less heavy.

In my example I'm good with lossy at 9. It says I'm at 37,32 KB, though Photoshop is for some reason a little off there. Saved the icon is 39,42KB so don't go for just a little under 40KB but aim for something around 37KB in the info.

Now all you gotta do is hit "save" and put it where you want it and you're done. Congrats :)

Feel free to show me what you made with this tutorial, would love to see some animated awesomeness :)

Basic Photoshop Tutorial - How to make a Tagbanner

2011-01-26T04:06:40Z

Requested by palm__tree

A beginners guide to cropping, basic coloring and text using Photoshop PS CS5. This is incredibly detailed for those who haven't really had a chance to work with Photoshop yet and look for a little guidance to get the hang of it ;)

My example is a simple landcomm tagbanner:

Pick an image: Working with cropping only, I recommend to chose a screencap/picture that leaves you enough space to either the right or left of the character for the text.

1) Open your chosen image and click the crop tool on the left side of your work area. The crop tool will enable you to resize your image in whatever way you want without screwing with the aspect ratio.

Now simply enter what size you want it to be and put px behind the number or Photoshop will autocorrect it to cm which is much larger(in land comms the tagbanners usually aren't supposed to be any wider than 300px so just enter this for your width in the top area. I didn't specify a height here but if you're resdricted to 150px I recommend putting it in there as well)

Now simply select the area of the image you want on your tagbanner. I selected pretty much everything, leaving a little bit of the left and right side to avoid any black lines that are so common for screencaps. When you're satisfied with your choice, simply hit enter and your image will be resized to your chosen width and height.

Now right click on your image in the layers and duplicate it. If you skip this step your image will end up having a white border around it.

2) Now let's start coloring. In the adjustment column to the right you have a tiny list icon.

Click and go to "Brightness/Contrast" which will ad a new layer to the layer column.

To the right you now have 2 sliders, one for Brightness and one for Contrast. Put the Contrast slider to 100%

This will noticeably darken your image, which is why we're now gonna add a "Curves" layer under the "Brightness/Contrast" layer the same way

Where you could play with the Brightness & Contrast before you now get a square where you can pull the line either up or down. Down will darken the image, up will brighten it up. Now simple drag it upward until your satisfied with the brightness of your image.

Now we need one last adjustment layer. Add above all the other layers a "Selective Color" layer

Now depending on your image, you can play around with the colors, enhance or decrease the intensity. I usually start off with the blacks to give it a bit more contrast but I stay in the range of +3 ~ +6 and then I just go for colors in the background/on the clothes I want to be more bright like blue and green. Just play around with the sliders to get a feel for it.

In this example I went for Cyans: +100, +100, -100, 0; Blues: +100, +47, -24, Blacks: 0, 0, 0, +6 and to correct the yellow on the face: Reds: -20, 0, 0, 0; Yellow: 0, 0, -7, 0

3) This is a step you don't necessarily have to do but I like to give the whole image a softer look. Highlight all of your layers and then right click and "duplicate"

Your duplicated layers should still be selected. Just right click of them and "merge layers" which will make it just one layer.

Your merged layer selected click on the top of the layers where it says "normal" and you'll see a bunch of other options (Feel free to try them to see what they do)

Select the "Soft Light" mode

It'll make your image a bit darker again and probably more yellowish. That's why we now reduce the opacity. Anything in the range of 50-75% should be fine. Just see what works best for your image. I went for 60% in this example.

Now to get a softer look you need to add a filter to your merged layer. Select it, then go to the top bar to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur

Now the higher the number is you put in the field, the more blurry the image gets. Since we have a soft light layer which isn't as "solid" as a normal layer, the blur doesn't show as much as you can see it would alter the image in the preview so you can easily go for 3 or even higher and it will soften your image overall a little which isn't much but a look I personally like.

4) Let's move on to the text. You can find a huge variety at www.dafont.com
Click the Horizontal Type Tool icon to the right

Now drag a field to type in on your image. It doesn't have to be in the exact position it will be in the end, you can easily move it around later.

Type in your text. In my example I made 3 of those text layers, one each for "Team", "Magical Hair" and "seabiscuit" to be able to move them around and see how they fit together best. Use whatever font you like and think fits the image. I went for "Cheri" in white. Since the white letters get a little lost int he background I'll be stroking them to make them stand out more. For this right click one of the text layers and click "Blending Options"

You'll get a layer style window. Go to the bottom and check "Stroke". You'll see the text layer you selected got now a black frame around the letters. You can either keep the black or change it. Since I have a lot of blue in my image I went for a blue stroke. Using a color that's already part of the background usually works quite well to make it look smooth in the end. Here I kept the 3px of stroking but you can play around, make the stroking thinner with a lower number or thicker with a higher one.

Now time to be ~~lazy~~ practical. To apply the same effect on the other text layers simply right click on the one with the effect and go down to where it says "Copy layer style". Then go to the text layer you want to have the same effect, right click and go to "paste layer style" and they all look the same

The text didn't look quite right there to me so I went for some moving around. To do this simply select all your text layers you wanna move around and go back to the top to Edit > Free Transform

You'll get a frame around your layers you can shift any way you want to. You can see which position I chose that suited me better than the original position the text was in, but that is really a thing of preference now.

And you're done! Now all that's left to do is save your image.

Go to the top again to File > Save as

In the window you get you can select which format you want to save your image as. If you save in the default .psd format it will save it Photoshop compatible and when you open the file again, you'll see every layer used and applied to create your image. If you want to have an actual image file you have to open the drop down menu and either select .jpg or the .png. The latter is much better though.

Congrats!

Hope this was understandable. If there are any questions, don't hesitate to ask :)

Iconaday Masterlist

2011-01-24T22:07:33Z

Will be filled throughout the year

001 - Space	002 - AC	003 - Seen	004 - AC	005 - AC

006 - Because I Love You	007 - Defeated	008 - AC	009 - Colorless	010 - Arm Candy

011 - AC	012 - AC	013 - AC	014 - Childish	015

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{50} How To Train Your Dragon Gifs - Part II

2011-01-22T00:17:12Z

to be continued

Rules:
+ Comments feed the motivation ;)
+ Feel free to snag & use wherever - if they go on a sticky post, I wouldn't mind some credit though
+ Don't repost on tumblr or such claiming as your own
+ Enjoy!

{50} How To Train Your Dragon Gifs - Part I

2011-01-19T20:56:15Z

to be continued

Animated Jennifer Jareau Mood Theme

2011-01-15T01:28:05Z

Made for a crimeland challenge (and my first mood theme ever).

Download HERE // Comment & Credit when taking. Thanks!

two_sox @ 2011-01-10T03:14:00

2011-01-10T02:14:12Z

[18] AJ Cook Law & Order:SVU Interview gifs
[08] AJ Cook Criminal Minds blooper gifs
[01] Paget Brewster Criminal Minds blooper gif

Criminal Minds Blooper Gifs

Icon Dump

2010-12-27T00:40:05Z

Okay before I reach 200 I thought I'm just gonna throw out all the icons I've piled up over the past few months. Some are leftovers from thebau20in20 & crimeland which you should totally join :)

JOIN CRIMELAND

[06] Lost Girl - Bo/Lauren
[06] Lost - Kate/Juliet, Kate
[84] Criminal Minds - JJ, JJ/Emily, Emily
[06] Criminal Minds - animated JJ, animated AJ blooper scenes
[06] Criminal Minds Cast - AJ Cook, Paget Brewster, Kirsten Vangsness
[07] Horses
[10] various TV shows (Alias, House, Community, Legend of the Seeker, Nikita)
[12] LGBT (some R rated)
[09] Randomosity (Elizabeth Mitchell, Olivia Wilde, Quotes, Kittens)

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[x] Comments are <3
[x] Credit two_sox when using
[x] No hotlinking
[x] Enjoy :)

Tutorial - Gif (Photoshop CS5 & CS3)

2010-12-14T05:08:01Z

Requested by princesslacus

Program: Photoshop CS5 (slight differences for CS3)

Before opening PS, there's the capping of course. I use KMPlayer, which worked out best for me so far. I usually cap every 2nd frame which is often enough to make a gif look smoothly but with longer gifs, it doesn't get too heavy or too much work.

To make it easy, I suggest you put the whatever you want to be the gif in a folder that has only those caps.

I made this incredibly detailed to avoid any confusion, so bare with me if you know most of the tricks already.

Fire up Photoshop - File - Scripts - Load files into stacks

Browse - search for the folder that holds your caps and select them all (I usually do it via selecting the first, scrolling to the last, holding ctrl and selecting the last) Click OK and depending on how many caps you have selected it might take a few moments until you see what's in the next screencap

OK - now it really does take a while, the more caps, the longer it'll take Photoshop to put them in layer over layer so be patient here

Once it's done loading you see the screencap that's the first for the gif. This is in CS5 the case, if I remember correctly though, the CS3 version didn't automatically put the caps in the right order. So if you notice the cap you see is actually the last, you have to click the eye on every layer to the right until the last and just go from the bottom to the top when animating but this comes later. For now just make every layer but the last on invisible.

Now usually the caps are way too big for a gif, since the bigger it is, the worse the quality gets. I usually stick to a 300px if the quality of the caps is good DVD or even Bluray (which was the case in my example). Just click the crop tool to the left then go up and type in 300px for width. You don't need to put in height!

Now simply select the area of the cap you want to have in the gif. Little piece of advice to make it extra neat: A lot of screencaps have tiny black borders. Some are just on the left, some are on both sides, some even frame the cap. Personally it disturbs me so I crop a little more narrow than the actual screencap. Once you've selected the area to become a gif, simply hit enter or just right lick and then "crop"

Depending on the original size of your cap, it might have been reduced in the zoom level which you will notice now. Just go to the top and put it on 100%

Usually caps are darker than what we like them to be. Thankfully Photoshop got lots of ways to improve the brightness and colors so just go to your right, make sure the top layer is selected, then click the "curves" layer. I chose to not just actually do something with it but if you usually handle it differently, go ahead and brighten it already.

After the curves I add a "Brightness & Contrast" layer. This time the symbol selection doesn't show because you put one adjustment layer over the other. You can either go to the top - Layer - New Adjustment Layer - Brightness & Contrast or simply click the button with the little arrow down with the list next to it, above where used to be the symbol selection and just click "Brightness & Contrast"

Unless the cap is very very dark, like a nightcap, I go for 100% Contrast. Now it does look a lot darker.

Back to the Curves layer: Now just pull the curve left upward until you have the brightness you'd like. Personally I tend to go a bit brighter than necessary but that's just my taste. Depending on the darkness of the original cap you can also play with the brightness on the "Brightness & Contrast" layer or add a levels layer

One more: Selective coloring. Add it the same way you added the "Brightness & Contrast" layer

With this one I didn't do much, I just increased the cyan (C: +100, M +100, Y: -100, B: 0) and blacks ( C: 0, M: 0, Y: 0, B: +5) just to get a bit more contrast in the background. You might play around a little here. I prefer not to change to much in the coloring except maybe getting rid of a yellowish shade on the skin or enhance colors like I did with the blue but of course you can go nuts coloring wise.

Like I said, I didn't change much in this one, the difference is only slightly visible mainly in the blouse and the background behind JJ. Now this is something I always do in gifs, simply because I don't like them to loop without a break at the end. I always put fading layers after the last cap, fading it out to a completely white layer before going back to the first one. If you don't want that you can skip the next 2 steps. If you do, then click in the right bottom corner the marked button, saying "create new layer" or up on the bar "Layer - New - Layer"

Use the pain bucket in the left toolbar and fill the layer with white or whatever color you prefer. Then click the eye next tot he white layer to make it invisible for now. We're gonna need it at the end again, but if you add it now, it'll save you a few annoying clicks later.

That was preparation, now on to animation! On the top bar click "window" then "animation"

It should give you another window at the bottom of your screen/photoshop. The little window is your first frame of the gif. Now simply click the symbol left of the trash can which will duplicate your layer.

And here comes the time consuming and rather dull part of the whole gif magic: Once dublicated your first frame, click the eye next to the top screen cap right under your adjustment layers to make it invisible. (for CS3 users here it would go the other way round, bottom layer and instead of invisible make the next layer visible.) If you watch your caps on the big screen you'll see it moves. Now do that again and again until you reach the last cap. Duplicate the frame in the animation window, make the layer invisible, duplicate, invisible. If you get distracted, you can always click the second to last animation frame to see whether or not you've already made the next one invisible. Happy clicking!

Once you've reached the last cap, it's the white layers turn (if you do not want fade and skipped those 2 steps, this is the time for you to do it again). Duplicate the animation layer again, now make the white layer visible by clicking the eye. Reduce the opacity to 30%.

Again: duplicate animation layer, now set the white layer to 60% opacity

Once more: duplicate animation frame, white layer opacity now 100%. Now go down to your animation window and click the arrow on the bottom of the white animation layer next to where it says "0 sec" and select "0,5 sec" instead. This will make the white frame last half a second while the rest just moves smoothly into the other. Again this is my preferred setting to separate the ending from the rerun of the gif but you might find another option better so just play with it.

Almost there! Now you can check what your gif looks like if you'd save it right now. Just click the play icon under the animation layers and it runs through. Gifing rather fast scenes, you might slow the layers speed down a notch. Just select the first and the last (including the 2 fading white ones) with ctrl and select and just change the time. With every 2nd frame I wouldn't suggest to go any higher than 0,2, at a certain speed you can just tell there's a frame missing and it won't be all that smooth anymore. If you're satisfied with what you see, then you're done.

I suggest to check carefully. When you make longer gifs than 30 frames, it can happen that you click the duplicate layer sloppily and it didn't actually duplicate, but it did make a layer invisible which means, there's now a layer in between missing and you can spot it fairly easy when you run the gif through. You can always check on the right side where the eye skips two and not just one layer down and simply duplicate the animation before it skips, and then just make that layer on the right invisible.

Sometimes I gif scenes where the light changes and I colored according to the dark and then have just white faces when the lightning changes within the gif. You can easily change that by playing with the adjustment layers even if you have all the animations frames already down there. It'll change the adjustment on every single one of them.

Okay you're done, now all that's left is saving. File - Save for Web & Devices

And all you need to do is hit "save" and save it wherever you want it to be.

I did highlight some things that might be interesting for those wanting to try animated icons which is on the left bottom side, you can see the size of your gif. For LJ the max is 40KB, but Photoshop is not entirely exact, so try to be at 39KB or less. If you're just a little above the 40KB (I'd say no more than 45-47KB) you might try make it "lossy" (2nd blue field) until the KB size is under 40KB. The preview shows you how what the current frame of the lossy version would look like. It gets a bit pixly and the more you increase the loss, the more grainy it looks, so if you've got far more than 40KB you might try reducing your animation frame count instead of making it a horrible quality ;)

Well that's it. I hope doing it without Image Ready doesn't look too complicated anymore and those never having made any gifs can now make their own shiny ones :)
If there are any confusions or questions, feel free to drop me a comment and just ask and I'll try my best to help you out.

20 Jennifer Jareau Icons

2010-11-27T23:43:24Z

[20] Jennifer Jareau icons made for a challenge at crimeland. You all should joint tbh ;) and don't forget to tell them who sent you

Themes

001: Fierce	002: Family	003: Smile	004: Quote	005: Pairing

006: Crossover	007: Two	008: Close	009: Angst	010: Distance

Category: One Character

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