hey guys! this will be a quick tutorial for blending gifs in photoshop
(i use cs5, and i make my gifs using the timeline)
i included pictures and everything, so i hope it’ll be helpful
so let’s say you have your two (or more) gifs ready, nicely cut, sharpened and colored. i’ll use these two of lucifer and chloe
firstly, drag one of your gifs on top of the other, and arrange them a bit (you can obvs drag them around any time if it doesn’t look good)
(i circled the timeline in yellow, always make sure that your gifs are the same length! obvs if one of them is longer, you can drag around the end of the timeline to align them up)
now we’ll need a mask. select the top layer, and click on the Add layer maskicon in the bottom right corner. a white rectangle (our mask) will appear next to the layer
the next step is to select the Brush tool, set the size to as big as you want (generally it looks better if you use a bigger brush, it’s much more seemless), and the color to black
then just paint around the edge of the top gif, you’ll see on the mask where the brush affects the layer. it’s generally better to just click around a couple times, than dragging the brush accross
now you can save it like any other gif, and this is what i ended up with
there are obviously many other ways of blending gifs, and this is far from the best one, but i feel like it’s the easiest if you have two similar gifs
sometimes setting the top layer on linear dodge looks great. if you’re using a dark and a light scene, you can play around with setting them on screen or soft light
i hope this helped, and if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to shoot an ask or message!
