Utopian.io GIF Contest

Hi everyone, utopian.io has created an incredible contest with fantastic prizes too. Unmitigated utopian offers rewards up to 50 STEEM, of course everyone is interested in this GIFT contest, not least me. Therefore I also want to participate in this contest. This is how my gift works.

My contribution

This is the result of my work in making a gift to enter the contest from utopian

Gift link & My Giphy Channel

In accordance with the provisions given utopian for contest terms I also include my gift link and link channel as follows

• Gift link: https://giphy.com/gifs/opensource-utopianio-3ohs80rQYJHqvJzMXu
• My Giphy Channel: https://giphy.com/channel/murdanirajuli

How to make my gift

These are stages of the process to making the gift that I do, I can say I made it fully through Giphy, I just reproduce the utopian logo image only through Adobe Phostoshop.

The steps I do are very simple, I also want to share with you how I make them. I will make the easy tutorial as possible to follow as below.

1. The first thing I do is reproduce the utopian logo photo through Adobe Photoshop and swap its position as much as sixteen pieces with 360 degrees position. Then I save them one by one as a new image
   
2. The next stage I went straight to the giphy application, after registering for free, I immediately tried to make a gift there by selecting the Create button located on the top left corner of the page
   
3. After that new window will appear and we can choose to make gift through photo or video. Here I chose the photo because of the utopian logo that I have in the form of photos.
   
4. I then chose all the logos I have reproduced by clicking ctrl + A. Then we will be in the window editing giphy
   
5. Our gift will start moving there, but it can be either too fast or too slow. Therefore we can make gift movement according to our wishes, here I make 0.1 seconds movement every frame
   
6. Proceed to the decor by clicking the Continue to Decorate button on the bottom corner
   
7. Now we are at the stage of the editing process to make gift as we want, the steps that I do is to create a caption, choose the font style and determine the animation as shown below
   
   
   
8. The final step is to provide a filter so that images and captions have a matching color match between them. I chose a rainbow filter, I think it fits, but it all depends on the taste of each
   
9. After all goes well and has the result as we want, then gift can be directly uploaded to our giphy account by clicking Continue to Upload
   

After all the stages that I do above, finally my gift has been on my giphy account and ready to be included in the competition held by utopian. It looks like below

^{Display my giphy account after successfully creating animated gif for utopian contest.}

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That's how the stages I process a picture into a gift animation. This tutorial I created se simple maybe easy to understand by other friends who also want to create animations for utopian contest.
Thanks to everyone who has seen my artwork and who have followed the tutorial from me, hopefully my friends can understand clearly the series that I write. If anything is poorly understood please ask and I will be happy to explain it.

To note, I'm also one of the people who really like the picture gift. Because gift is a photo that can move like animation on video, this is very fun. So far I just enjoy the gift works from others only, and I do not understand how the process of making the gift itself. But because Utopian made a contest for gift then I became eager to learn it. After a few days of learning how to make it, I finally managed to create a gift and be able to create a tutorial that may be useful for others.

Once again, thanks and warm regards from me

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Posted on Utopian.io - Rewarding Open Source Contributors

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