What are the names of your layers? The action should work in any Photoshop version, in theory. Have you read the tutorial? If your layers aren’t named ‘Layer 1’, ‘Layer 2’ and so on, I think that’s when you’ll get an error like that. :)

Oh yeah, I totally get what you mean. If you look closely, that same thing is clearly visible on the 7th gif from that Kate Beckett photoset. Here are some tips and tricks you can try out:

• Try to stick to giffing scenes where there isn’t a lot of movement.
• Choose the color for the background based on the colors already prominent in the background of the scene pre-editing.
• Insert that background color as a new solid color layer and use the white mask layer attached to said layer to erase and color as needed.
• Never use a hard brush because if you manage to make it look perfect on one frame, it won’t on the others (this would work fine with screencaps though of course :D).
• Always use a soft brush and sometimes make it even bigger than the area you’re trying to erase. Then, when you use said brush, it will have an effect where the colors are kind of faded but increasing in color the further away you get from the point of erasing. This can be good to do with gifs because there will still be color but it won’t end up all obvious around the edges of the people.
• You should keep trying to perfect the background by playing the gif and then fixing whatever needs fixing.
• If you’re really patient, then you can get a brush with a lower opacity and paint the area closest to the faces so that there’s still color but its less harsh (can come in handy if you feel you’ve erased too much and just need a bit more coloring around the faces so that it blends more smoothly).
• If all else fails, you could try to choose the color based on the color of the character’s hair. This can work beautifully with longer hair because then you can let part of the background color layer cover the character’s hair. That way, it blends more smoothly and it looks good when the gif is actually playing. If you look closely at the gifs from my photoset, you may be able to notice that I did exactly this in gifs 1 and 3. Note that there’s a lot of movement in the first one, so choosing such an orangish color that could kind of fit with Beckett’s hair color was able to mask all the movement while still looking pretty neat. :)
• You can also change the opacity and the blend mode of the color layer to see what looks best.

Hm I think that’s basically it. I hope these tips can help you get the effect you’re hoping for :)

If you need me to better explain anything I said, don’t be afraid to ask (although you may have to wait awhile for an answer since I’m heading off to bed at the moment) :D

Hey! In the second half of my tutorial on the sharpening action, it’s explained how to load the action into Photoshop so that you can start using it. Have you read it and tried following those steps? If so, then it should work :)

Wow thank youuu!

Well, actually, you can do whichever you think looks best. If you make it black and white and then add a PSD, it may end up looking weird (depending on the PSD of course). It may end up more blueish, but if that’s what you want, then that works. You can make it black and white after adding the PSD by placing a gradient adjustment layer over all the other adjustment layers. If it seems too dark, you can add some brightening layers below or mess around with the PSD until you think it looks best. Just experiment a little and see what you like the most for the gif you’re working on :)

I screencapped it so that you could see where to press. It’s that little icon with the triangle pointing down and a couple lines next to it. The arrow points to it:

Is that what you meant? There’s a similar icon on the top right corner of the animation window as well. :)

Hi! I’m glad you like them. Have you seen the one on using and adjusting PSDs? I wrote it awhile ago, but I think it covers everything you’ll need to know. Please do let me know if that doesn’t turn out to be true and you want to know something else about how to use my PSDs :)

I’m really sorry for the late reply. I hope you’ll see this post nonetheless.

I don’t think there’s a way to apply an action to all frames without doing it manually. Either that or you set up the action to do that. That could take time and be frustrating but then you can just play it every time without pain.

Oh, I just remembered something that may also work. Maybe if you converted your gif to a timeline instead of a frame animation. You could apply the glow effect then and then convert it back to a frame animation. That might work, but I’m not sure. Try it out.

If that doesn’t work, maybe you could figure out the adjustments the glow effect does to the gif and just turn those into adjustment layers that you can place above all the layers, therefore applying them to all frames. If you don’t know how to do that, let me know which glow effect action you’re thinking of using and I’ll try and do that for you.

Aww thanks! I’m not sure I’m the tumblr guru though but I really appreciate the sentiment. 

So, you’ve made this piece of art in Photoshop or…? What’s the size of the photo? Since you have never uploaded anything on Tumblr before, you’re probably not aware that the ideal width of a photo uploaded here is 500px. If it’s bigger than that, it will still only appear as if it’s 500px on your dash. As a result, the image won’t look as crisp and sharp as it does for you before you uploaded it. 

Are you talking about it looking bad when you view it on your page? If that is what you mean, then yes, it probably does have something to do with your theme and the html code. Maybe you have one of those themes applied that displays pictures in a much bigger pixel dimension than the size you uploaded it in. As a result, the picture ends up stretched out and pixelated and just horrible. If this is the case, you can either change your theme into one of the themes where every entry is around 500px in width or you can edit the html code of your theme. I can let you know what you’ll need to fix if you let me know which theme you’re using on your blog. :)

What are your layers called then? I imagine since they aren’t named “Layer 1, Layer 2” and so on, you probably use KMPlayer or VLC right? I don’t know if it works in VLC but can’t you decide what name you want the screencaps to have when you’re capping in KMPlayer? If so, maybe you could get it to name them “Layer 1” and onwards. Have you tried that? If that doesn’t work, I suggest you try making gifs the way I make them. I’ve explained it in my tutorial here. I hope this helps, anon :D

I assume you’re talking about the Psych screencaps I found? If so, well I got them from here. Not all the links work though. Some of them turn up page errors. Just keep scrolling down and you’ll find some working ones. I don’t know how many episodes have been capped though. Feel free to explore though :)