

I personally recommend castor over at for these (and for heaps of other incredible & simple psds you can use for edits if you’re a writeblr!). that should suit your needs!īonus: particularly if you’re making a multi-image edit, you might want to use recolouring psds to create uniformity between them. There are a number of different styles - snow, stars, sparkle, smoke, tv static, etc. In terms of gif overlays, you can find them through a simple google search, but I personally recommend two excellent gif overlay packs, found hereand here. It doesn’t matter what size your image is or, if you have multiple images, if they’re different sizes - this will be fixed later. Pinterest is the classic choice, but there are plenty of alternatives! As high quality as you can find is best. This is the easiest step, so get excited! Finding an image should be simple enough and definitely depends on whatever you’re actually trying to make an edit for.

Tutorial below ↴ basic photoshop commands: I’m far from an experienced Photoshop user and there are plenty of ways to putting gif overlays on still images, this is just my personal method! When writing this tutorial, I mostly had the writeblr community in mind, but it should work for fan edits and so on. ** please remember that you don’t need to pay for a program like Photoshop to create edits and there are many alternatives! If you have any questions about this tutorial let me know, I will do my best to answer.
PHOTOSHOP GIF OVERLAY HOW TO
since then my editing skills have definitely improved so I hope you find this useful! this is a fairly beginner’s explanation of how to use Photoshop to put gif overlays on your edits. This is a remake of the tutorial I posted around this time last year at an anon request. How to add GIF overlays to your edits (Photoshop)
