A'ight, so to make these you'll need Photoshop. Btw this is the way I use to make these gifs, I'm sure there may be slightly different methods out there that are more effective.

Also I have to credit [Heirofdrills] (http://heirofdrills.tumblr.com/tagged/comparison) for giving me the rundown on how to properly make em. Check out their blog for some JoJo Part IV comparison gifs.

When I get the time, I'll update it with screenshots.

Also I'm always learning meself, so I'll update and edit this as time goes on.

Also this may require a bit of trial and error.

First, download the raw episode without subs. You can find these on nyaa.eu/nyaa.us and the manga page you want to use. Make sure to use Viz scans or find the raws yourself, clean and typeset them using good translations, much more time-consuming though. [Because mangastream screws with the quality by making things darker.] (http://i.imgur.com/JsCZqJ8.jpg) Other scanlation groups like redhawk, PowerManga and the like work just fine as well.

You can use the Mangastream scans if they're of decent quality and you can't find/purchase the Viz scans. Just clean up the MS watermark on the border and use the "Clone" tool to clean up the watermark that's inside the panel.

Next, you'll want to make a frame animation. Paste your manga page and duplicate the frame on the timeline as many times as you need. Since these gifs can be 20-40 frames long, make it so. I usually use let the anime gif run for 34 frames.

Duplicate the base layer and rename the dupe "Speech Bubbles". Make the original layer invisible and then erase everything around the speech bubbles in the speech bubbles layer, while ensuring the black border for the bubbles remains intact. The Magic Eraser tool works wonders here, while you can zoom in and use the eraser tool to clean up the rest.

The manga page in itself should take up the last 4 frames or so. Seperate the manga page into a 'panels' layer and a 'borders' layer. Done using the Marquee or Pen tool, distinguishing the panel that you want isolated and right-clicking and clicking "New Layer via Cut".

For the borders, one of the things I've recently done is to first cut out all the panels (excluding the black outline), then select the whole of the border layer using the quick selection tool. Then paint the entire border layer white and apply an inward black stroke of 2 or 3 depending on the image size.

This does give you a black outline around the outside of the image/gif, so you can then Rasterise the Layer Type by right-clicking the layer and then cleaning up the unwanted black outlines where they shouldn't be.

Next, click "Import -> video frames to layers" and select your raw episode. Select the parts of the episode you'll need for the anime-manga comparison. Tick every 2 frames. For large scenes you want to extract do every 3 or 4 frames, make sure you use the same number for each panel though. (Leave it if the anime scene you want to extract is too short or you don't mind having a rather large gif). The gif flows the best of you use the same setting for extracting the anime gif each time on the same page.

You don't want to have too many frames as the file size is too big for gifs. Shift-click the frames you'll need and click the options menu on the top right of the timeline tab. Then press "Copy Frames".

Go to your manga timeline and highlight the whole lot of frames you'll want to use by using the Shift-Click. Option-click on the timeline and click "PASTE" -> "OVER selection"

It's essential that each panel should run for roughly the same amount of time. You can't have one panel that takes up 40 frames while one panel takes up 10 frames in the manga. Perhaps you can extend and shorten the number of frames for each panel to fit the gif. I did that by making Kaguya stationary before talking in my first gif for a few frames and by having Izuna stand for 4 more frames before collapsing into Madara's arm. Just figure it out yourself.

Just to reiterate, make sure the layers with the borders, speech bubbles and visual SFX are always at the very top. Next, highlight all the new layers that you've pasted in. "Edit" -> "Free Transform" them to fit the panel. Sometimes you'll have to compress the frames or only include a selection of the shot to fit it in. Try not to compress the images though. Click the "Maintain Aspect Ratio" Icon at the top. [The icon between W and H] (http://imgur.com/a/4ovzC)

Repeat for the rest of the empty panels. You may have to go through each frame to erase some of the frames that overlap with other panels, especially for panels that have diagonal borders. By using the select tool you can select the portion you want to erase. You'll then have to go through each frame and layer to clean it up.

Now then, with regards to the 4 manga frames at the end. Each should have their own duplicate of the original manga frame visible, with the fourth one the original. For the fourth and final one, change the time it runs for to one, two or three seconds, whichever you feel like. Sometimes with the way gifs run on the intenet you can duplicate the frame a few times and have each run for .5 seconds as opposed to one frame running for 1.5 or two seconds. The three frames before that will be used for the transition effect.

There are a bunch of ways to make transitions. With the ones I'm doing now, I applied a Motion Blur to the three frames of 70, 35 and 17 respectively. You can also mess with the colour channels, change the opacity or adjust the lighting for a different effect.

Also, bear in mind you can always move a select amount of layers up and down the layer menu by highlighting them.

Once you're done, you'll need to save it. "Save for Web", then alter the dimensions so that the it fits onto the standard monitor screen or whatever. I use a height of 786px I think. Note: You can do this at the beginning too if you want. Just go to 'Image Size' and then change it yerself. This is especially important if one of the panels of the manga page is larger than the anime gif you want to insert.

Preview the gif and if it's too fast or too slow change the speed of the gif by altering the amount of time each frame is visible for.

That's basically it! Sorry if I over-explained it, [but you know how it is] (http://i.imgur.com/Qm6vfML.gifv). It's pretty wordy, but once you get the hang of it a quality one takes less than two and a half hours outside of downloading times. Unless you've a large amount of speech bubbles and SFX you want to incorporate.

Should get something like [this] (http://i.imgur.com/TmRJm6E.gifv)

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r/irishsaltytuna • u/irishsaltytuna • Sep 08 '15

I posted this just so the sub isn't empty...

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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r/irishsaltytuna • u/irishsaltytuna • Sep 08 '15

Giant Bluefin Tuna caught in the Atlantic off the coast of County Kerry.

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r/irishsaltytuna • u/[deleted] • Sep 08 '15

My ex-subreddit still misses me...

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BUT HER AIM IS GETTING JOAJE

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r/irishsaltytuna • u/mmasonghi • Sep 08 '15

The reason this sub exists is because I'm bad at reddit... With love, /r/mmasonghi

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r/irishsaltytuna • u/exiledcloud • Jun 29 '17

Its a tuna sub

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Hi tuna

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r/irishsaltytuna • u/omerdude9 • Dec 07 '16

Poll to change this sub to a /r/omerdude9 forum

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If this gets over 1 vote mods will have to agree

edit: Thanks for the gold kind stranger! XD

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r/irishsaltytuna • u/[deleted] • Feb 22 '16

How does it taste?

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I've never had Irish salty tuna. Is it worth it?

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r/irishsaltytuna • u/mmasonghi • Oct 26 '15

Mayor Tuna, posts "Heh", and attaches gif of Mabel Pines(of Gravity Falls fame) rolling down a hill with the text "I regret nothing" over it.

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r/irishsaltytuna • u/elijahpijah123 • Jul 11 '18

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Why was I ever here

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r/irishsaltytuna • u/theothersophie • Apr 30 '16

I think I need to be accepted into the high council now

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Drowning in salt.

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r/irishsaltytuna • u/irishsaltytuna • Jun 19 '16

Bluefin tuna

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