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I want to keep my GIFs reasonably small in file size. These two are roughly the same file size. Which do you think looks better in the forum, 400x300 at 12.5 fps or 500x375 at 8,33 fps?

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As the size is at the expense of image quality and framerate - the smaller version looks better to me. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Personally I always prefer a video over a gif as the quality is much better

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The Gifs is a funny format, but the quality of the vision of them is normally regularly shitty. :fire:

I agree about that, but at the moment I’m lacking the enthusiasm for bigger video edits and don’t really get a kick out of making simple one-shot videos. But if I see a particularly funny or sexy moment that offers itself for a gif, I can record and edit that in a couple of minutes, while still taking some care to find the right framing and proportions, and hopefully good start- and endpoints to make it a more or less fluid loop. It’s quick fun without too much commitment.

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My favorite free online watermark remover - in case anyone needs one. Works easily and with very good results.

https://www.watermarkremover.io/

I couldn’t find this woman without clothes.

So I took matters into my own hands and undressed her myself. However, as you can see it left a huge, unsightly watermark across her big, beautiful boobs.

At the time, I didn’t have as many AI apps as I do now, but I figured I could get rid of the watermark, as I had done so before. Unfortunately, at that time I wasn’t able to remove it cleanly, as you can see in this pic.

Currently, I have a lot more AI options than before, but I haven’t had a chance to try them all. I did try out the website you listed, however, with these results.

Much better! Thanks for that option.

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Your efforts were well worth it, Cheers

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TEXT TO GIF

Today I was looking for a tool to quickly and easily add text to a gif. It worked really well with the following one:

https://gifgifs.com/add-text/

Thanks Iain. Much appreciated.
:+1: :+1:

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I know I am biased as I use it all the time but I still consider good old Photoshop to contain some of the best image editing capabilities out there.

Granted it is not free (it runs via what Adobe calls the ‘Creative Cloud’ subscription system) but it’s still considered ‘industry standard’ software by certain companies and when you delve into its depths, it’s not really hard to see why.

It has various AI functions, not all of which run perfectly at the moment but that notwithstanding, isn’t really an issue, if you as the user approach it in such a way that doesn’t allow it to be!

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I only deal with photo editing superficially as I don’t have the patience for more in-depth settings. For me, what I want has to be ‘quick and dirty’ and preferably without having to create an account, take out a subscription or spend hours dealing with the software. But of course, to each his own. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Yes, to be fair, Photoshop is great if you like a challange, not so good if you don’t!

I started learning how to use it, at the end of 2018. The 2019 version had come out by then and I am still learning various new things about it (although now of course it’s the 2025 version).

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Well, if you have a few works you’d like to show us, there’s no reason to be shy. :smile:

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Well OK then, here is an example I have just rediscovered of something I have already posted on the forum so some of you will have already seen it. It was done entirely in Photoshop, before the current AI features were introduced…

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There are quite some apts at this concept that looks like a dental waiting room from time to time, that is for sure. :heart_eyes: :heart_eyes:

I can’t honestly say I had that in mind (although I am not disagreeing with you), when I made that composite. It was just an idea which made me giggle almost uncontrollably at the time so I just HAD to make it!!!

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Did Ostrident hire you to do that, or did you maybe pitch that idea to them? It was certainly make a great ad campaign.

It’s a made up name and was intended as part of the humour of the ‘advert’. I rather hoped that would come across fairly naturally to the reader but maybe it didn’t. The whole thing was intended to make people laugh. :slight_smile:

I mean, how often do YOU see an Ostrich walking down your street wearing HUMAN (yes they really are the actual thing composited into the bird’s mouth) dentures?!!

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I understood the humor easily enough, but I had no way of knowing it wasn’t a real brand. I’m not familiar with all the brands even in the US, let alone Europe and other countries. Stranger ads have happened, and there are some very weird brand names out there.

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