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Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Day 2
In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wish-list if you feel comfortable doing so. Maybe someone will grant a wish.
Oh, man. I always feel selfish when I do this, but you know, you guys are AMAZING and I have received some of the greatest gifts from this, so I'm going to do it despite my constant misgivings.
1. I'd love a few more Supernatural buddies. I know there aren't that many on DW, so if you're on tumblr and you can stand what is likely to my posting about Supernatural all the freaking time, follow me there? I'm![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
kisahawklin (as I am everywhere that's not here). Feel free to friend me here, too, if you're stopping by from the Fandom Snowflake post! I post more broadly than Supernatural here, though.
2. I would love someone to cheerlead and/or beta my fic (again, mostly Supernatural). Betas really only for finished works, and I am looking for someone with a firm hand and strong opinions (but a willingness to allow variations for style). I haven't had a consistent beta in a while and I miss it - good betas are like writing school. For a cheerleader, I'd just love someone with whom I can share WIPs (including trading WIPs - I'm good at mutual cheerleading, just ask![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
wintercreek) and get a daily "yay!" about. It's so helpful to keep me going.
3. Tutorials on gif-making. I have a feeling, now that I'm on tumblr, that I'm going to have to figure this one out.
If you want to play along!
Oh, man. I always feel selfish when I do this, but you know, you guys are AMAZING and I have received some of the greatest gifts from this, so I'm going to do it despite my constant misgivings.
1. I'd love a few more Supernatural buddies. I know there aren't that many on DW, so if you're on tumblr and you can stand what is likely to my posting about Supernatural all the freaking time, follow me there? I'm
2. I would love someone to cheerlead and/or beta my fic (again, mostly Supernatural). Betas really only for finished works, and I am looking for someone with a firm hand and strong opinions (but a willingness to allow variations for style). I haven't had a consistent beta in a while and I miss it - good betas are like writing school. For a cheerleader, I'd just love someone with whom I can share WIPs (including trading WIPs - I'm good at mutual cheerleading, just ask
wintercreek) and get a daily "yay!" about. It's so helpful to keep me going.3. Tutorials on gif-making. I have a feeling, now that I'm on tumblr, that I'm going to have to figure this one out.
If you want to play along!
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Do you need reciprocal cheerleading? Because I can so do that. Though I'm fairly certain I am not so prolific as you.
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Thank you for the kind words! There may be a couple of pieces this year that I will ask for cheerleading on, but they're months away: I promise!
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Also, the gif making, brilliant thing to ask for!
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1) Take screencaps.
i) You'll want a DVD or a file for this. Open it up in VLC, find your gif subject.
ii) Go to View -> Advanced Controls. A toolbar should pop up underneath the video and the last option is Frame by frame.
iii) Put your video in fullscreen view [*a], take a screencap (Print Screen/prt sc key on your keyboard). Print-screening saves the image to your Clipboard, so you need to retrieve it. Open up Microsoft Powerpoint, create a load of blank slides [*b], ready to paste images into them. Once you've pasted you can right-click on the image and Save as Picture. Create a new folder just for the gif so you don't lose anything and save the images with sequential numbers for filenames.
iv) In VLC, Click Frame by frame, then take a screencap, Frame by frame, screencap. Repeat until you have your full gif movement.[*c]
In Photoshop:
2) File -> Scripts -> Load Files into Stack -> select screencaps (this is where it helps to have them all in one folder) -> Ok -> Ok. Wait for the script to do its thing. Once all the files are loaded, move onto Step 3)
3) Window -> tick Animation. If a timeline appears, go to the bottom right hand corner of the Animation window and select 'Convert to frame animation'.
4) Right hand side of Animation window, just under the x to close there's a drop down menu -> Make Frames from Layers
5) Right hand side of Animation window, drop down menu -> Reverse Frames (I don't know why, usually they import backwards, run the gif to check.)
6) To resize to either width 250px or 500px: Image -> Image Size -> Ok (it'll apply to all frames automatically)
7) For colour correction, Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Curves (or Brightness/Contrast, or Levels, or Colour Balance. Play around with these, see what works.)
8) Make sure looping Forever is selected. Sort the time delays for each frame.[*d] I usually start with 0.08 seconds and then adjust incrementally faster or slower depending on what looks good.
9) Add any text you want[*e]
10) File -> Save for Web and Devices[*f] -> Save
a You could not go fullscreen, but I find that having a larger image initially improves overall quality. If you don't want the added hassle of fullscreening and pasting into Powerpoint, in VLC you can use Video -> Take Snapshot, which will automatically save the file to your Pictures folder with dimensions 720x404 pixels.
b I do this because it means I can scroll through the frames as I'm collecting them and see how it's shaping up. It allows me to check before I save the images that I'm not duplicating or missing out a frame, because with all the repetition of capping and moving forward a frame it's easy to forget where you are. If you miss out a frame and you don't realise until everything's in Photoshop, you'll have a jump in your gif and it's really hard to find the right timestamp again.
c You can have about 30 frames (with the image sized at 250 pixel width) or 15 frames at 500 pixel width before the filesize becomes unwieldy. There's no 1MB limit on Tumblr anymore, but anything approaching/above 2MB you're risking the gif freezing and staying stuck on upload, even if it worked in your browser beforehand.
d To apply the same delay for all the frames in a range, click on the first frame, hold shift, click on the last frame, and all those between will be selected. Then type in the time just once.
e For black/white/yellow border around text to help it stand out, double click on the text layer until you get Layer Options, then tick Stroke, click on Stroke to set colour/width etc.
f If you have a lot of frames and your filesize looks quite large, in the Save for Web and Devices menu there's a Colors option which allows you to decrease the number of colours used in the gif and reduce the filesize.
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Thank you, by the way. And thanks
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
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http://gifmaker.me/
It's excellent! Just grab your screen caps and use them here
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Also, I have been trying to poke my head back up in fannish spaces after being pretty much a lurker/not here for a long time. I know myself enough to know that at this point, I don't have the time/energy reserves to cheerlead (might later if trends continue!), but I DO have time/energy I think to beta read on an occasional basis, and I love and enjoy it. Of course, I don't know SPN, so it would be more of a "read this as original fic mixed with my knowledge through osmosis of years of following people who do SPN." :D Anyway, shoot me an email any time if you might want to try and see how it would work. cathalinss@gmail.com (I also completely understand if you don't, given all the caveats haha! And it is possible I might disengage again due to my rl demands; if you write and don't hear, it's not personal, just means I'm not around due to rl :( )
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Thank you so much for your offer to beta - I will definitely send you an email should I finish another one of these stories, caveats be damned!
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I love Supernatural and I'm relatively new to it, started watching last January. I love to beta, I love to cheerlead, and I don't have a tumblr and would kind of like to learn how it works because I feel a little blind deaf and dumb not knowing how to use it....so maybe I can follow along on your voyage of exploration? If you're not flooded with new friends drop me a line :) canon.is.relative [at] gmail [dot] com
~Rosie
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Aw, thank you! I will definitely give you a call when I write any other fandoms, and definitely if I take on any of the Supernatural women again - there are SO MANY good ones. I'm really interested in trying a Sam/Jody piece; I like their dynamic.
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friendfollow you on Tumblr. ^_^ (This LJ-er can't get the lingo of Tumblr down. lol)no subject
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Also also, Hi. I'm Essie. I found you through lots of links thanks to GYWO. But still, SPN? I AM IN.
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... I was going to say "I will friend you everywhere" but in all caps, but it looked kinda creepy. D:
Anyway, HI HI HI! It is always good to meet Supernatural fen!