So, lately I've been getting a lot of questions about what tools can YOU use to create suits if you don't have Photoshop or some other program.  I decided to write a tutorials for various techniques using free and online resources so that anyone can try their hand at making a suit for themselves. 

I thought I'd start tonight with how to create an animated suit (such as the one I'm wearing right now) with no frills or fanciness *AND* do it completely online with free software.

TURNING A YOUTUBE VIDEO CLIP INTO A SUIT

FIRST...

1. Go to YouTube and look for a video which contains a bit you'd like to have as your suit.  Music videos, movie trailers, and fan videos of your favorite movies and shows are GREAT resources for this as often they will already be compiled in a really fun and interesting way.
2. Once you find a video you like, and you're watching it on youtube, copy the website address out of the url bar on your browser.

THEN...

1. Go to:  https://gifs.com
2. Paste the address into the box provided and click the "continue" button
3. Use the time bar at the bottom of the screen to get the highlighted section over top of the part you want as your gif.
4. Click "Crop" in the menu on the left hand side of the screen
5. Click and drag the corners to be the full height and width of the screen even if the video is in letter box - don't worry about having the size right just yet - in fact, error on the side of larger rather than going too small.  Just create a rectangle that is taller than it is wide around the part you want to show up in your suit.
6. Once you've gotten it where you want it - click "create gif" at the top right of the screen.
7. Title your gif.
8. Click private (so only you can use it!)
9. Click "next"
10. Click "no thanks"  Again, don't worry about that watermark, we'll remove it shortly.
11. Next to the "download gif" button click the arrow
12. Choose "original" to get the full size and make note of where the gif is saving on your computer.

FINALLY...

1. Go visit https://ezgif.com/
2. Click "Crop" in the top menu
3. Click "Browse" and find where you saved your animated gif on your computer.
4. Click "Upload" (this will take a few minutes depending on how big the file is)
5. Set Width to:  200px  and Height to:  250px  then click "set"
6. Click and drag the 200x250 box around. ANYTHING IN THE BOX will appear in your final suit.
7. Once you got the box around what you like best, click "crop image!" at bottom of the page.
8. Your cropped suit will appear in the box below the button you just clicked.
9. Click "save" button in the box under your newly cropped image.
10. Make note of where the finalized suit saved as that's where you'll need to browse for it later when uploading it to MR.

Please note:  There are other resources for this, giphy also can convert youtube videos into gifs but it won't allow you to crop them so, if you're more comfortable with giphy you might use that to convert the vid to a gif and then go to ezgif after!  This is by no means the ONLY way to do it (OR THE BEST) just *A* way to do it.  I certainly welcome people to share their tools and resources/tips too!

Okay - I think that about covers it.  I'll try to reply with answers to people who get stuck.  Please ask them here so that others can read your questions and hopefully get answers to their own problems too!  Lord knows I may have forgot to clarify something and I'd rather clarify once on here than a dozen times in mobmail!

I hope this helped you guys out some and please, stay tuned for other tutorials/tools/resources for suit making!