cody-fern:

Here’s an updated/re-uploaded version of my little guide on gif speed because a loooot of people are making their gifs excessively slow when the right speed is almost always .05. Not .06 or .07, NOT .1—but point zero-five. And please, DO NOT skip frames. I’m seeing this left and right and it’s painful to see. There’s no excuse to do this. It doesn’t look good and it’s choppy. Maybe you’re attempting to cut down the size of the gif, but this isn’t tumblr circa 2011 anymore guys. We have up to 3mb to make gifs. If it’s too big, either 1) break up the gif into more parts, 2) crop the height of the gifs a bit, or 3) add a tiiiiiny of lossy (grain) to the gif (this helps me so much when I’m in a pinch). But seriously, making sure you have each and every frame in your gif is THE most important part of making a decent gif. Trust me. Just look at the gifs above for reference. And if you’re using the timeline method of making gifs, Photoshop saves them as .07 by default, so you need to re-open your saved gif, manually change it to .05, and re-save it. That’s what I do. It may be a pain in the ass, but it’s worth it. ALSO check for duplicate frames, especially if you’ve downloaded something that’s not 1080p. If you leave them in there, your gifs will look awful and laggy.

**AND I’ve noticed that in the AHS fandom in particular, people are using .07 and slower speeds for their gifs and this is just too. damn. slow. Seriously, most people on MOST browsers see .05 as the PERFECT gif speed. There’s a reason this is the universal gif speed. Firefox apparently used to view gifs on a different speed than every other mainstream browser, but it’s been fixed in an update. There’s no more excuses now not to gif in .05, y’all.