Tumblr GIF tutorial and tips

[taxcha]

Tumblr has 500KB GIF limitation, here's some tutorial and tips to optimize your animation.

ETA : Tumblr has upgraded their limit to 1MB per January 2012.

Ultimate tumblr GIF Tutorial
Photoshop CS5/CS4 Extended/CS3 Extended
(this tutorial is made with Photoshop CS3 Extended, Windows Vista OS)

Comments

[nesita]

Thanks a lot for this tut bb!

I'm hopeless at making gifs that fit LJ/Tumblr's requirements so this is gonna be very useful =D

[taxcha]

o hai you're here too :D

I'm new at GIFs too, just sharing what I've learned in the past couple of week. Glad if it's useful bb :)

[sidhex3]

per our community rules (on our userinfo page), animated graphics must be placed under a lj-cut.

*mod sid

[taxcha]

deleted, sorry!

[sidhex3]

you didn't need to delete it, just put it under a lj-cut.

[taxcha]

nah, it's ugly anyway ;)

It was meant to be a cover/teaser, so it'll lose it's use if I put it under an lj-cut. The title will do good before the lj-cut, no worries and thank you.

[chrisrichfan]

Exactly what I need.
Memming+bookmarking!

[pikespeak22]

I've only made a couple of basic GIFs before without really knowing what I was doing so, this is very helpful. I'm glad I followed the link you sent me on twitter and ended up finding this post/comm. ;)

[taxcha]

it's very ~educational ;)

[lpbrowncoat]

Thank you. Saving to mems.