Astairical
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Hi there everybody. I use Photoshop CS6 to make animated gifs from movies. I do this by opening the movie in VLC and taking screenshots, which I save to a folder. I open them in Photoshop by creating a document the same size as the screenshot, and then dragging the screenshots into the canvas. Usually, this method works fine, but today I've been having a problem with trying to gif How to Steal a Million.
When I drag the screenshot into the canvas, it is stretched out like this. I have to painstakingly drag the edges of the rectangle with a cross over it to the edges of the canvas to correct it, so that it looks like this:
Normally, the sizes of the images I work with are 720px by 540px. This is 853px by 480px. Does it have any bearing on the problem? I can't be dragging the edges for every single frame. I've had this problem with another movie, too, and both How to Steal a Million and that other movie were filmed in the Widescreen format that was popular during the time.
About the title: when I'm not making gifs, rather, I'm editing screenshots from the movie (adding a psd coloring, sharpening, cropping, etc.), I simply drag the screenshot from the folder into Photoshop. No new canvas stuff. I always have to turn off pixel aspect ratio correction. Could it possibly have anything to do with this? And, if at all possible, could that feature be turned off, so that I can be saved an extra step every time I edit a screenshot?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!
When I drag the screenshot into the canvas, it is stretched out like this. I have to painstakingly drag the edges of the rectangle with a cross over it to the edges of the canvas to correct it, so that it looks like this:
Normally, the sizes of the images I work with are 720px by 540px. This is 853px by 480px. Does it have any bearing on the problem? I can't be dragging the edges for every single frame. I've had this problem with another movie, too, and both How to Steal a Million and that other movie were filmed in the Widescreen format that was popular during the time.
About the title: when I'm not making gifs, rather, I'm editing screenshots from the movie (adding a psd coloring, sharpening, cropping, etc.), I simply drag the screenshot from the folder into Photoshop. No new canvas stuff. I always have to turn off pixel aspect ratio correction. Could it possibly have anything to do with this? And, if at all possible, could that feature be turned off, so that I can be saved an extra step every time I edit a screenshot?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!
