What you should be seeing is a black and white of the differences between the two frames.ġ0. Now make a new threshold adjustment layer ( Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Threshold) above the two visible layers and set the threshold level to 5 (I find this number works best for most things, but you can adjust it as you see fit). Now make the blend mode for the top visible layer (the layer for this frame) to ∭ifferenceĩ. So you should have the bottom two layers visible for frame two. Select your second frame (we dont do anything with the first) and then show the layer for the first frame. To this first choose Select -> All Layers and then Layer -> Arrange -> Reverse.Ĩ. We want our layers so the first frame is the bottom layer. First select all your frames and then right click and select ∝o not dispose.ħ. But I have some extra steps that can help shed those bytes and make you gifs a far more respectable size (because we all know people who post gifs larger than 5MB are awful people)Ħ. Now technically you have an animation that can be resized (I recommend 500px wide for most things) and saved. Youll notice the animation is actually backwards, so from the same menu select Reverse Frames.
From the Timeline windows menu button select Make Frames from Layers.ĥ. Open the timeline window and click the ∬reate Frame Animation button.Ĥ. Now you have all your frames as separate layers in one document.ģ. Select Browse and choose your screenshots and click OK.
Open Photoshop and select File -> Scripts -> Load Files into Stack. This will save frame by frame screenshots to your specified location.Ģ. Open your file in MPV and file the spot you want to start extracting frames from and simply press Alt+S. The command you want is screenshot-directory=. However it is command line based so youll need to edit the config file to say where screenshots are saved. MPV is a pretty nifty videoplayer that supports most formats and can even play streams so is ideal for extracting frames from most sources you chuck at it. Tools used: MPV player (available for all platforms) and Photoshop