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Cinemagraphs more than a photo, but not quite a video.
November 2011
The first time I ever see this type of photography was almost a week ago, I came across two amazing blog,
from Jamie Beck and Coco Rocha. They make this awesome picture that they called “cinemagraph”. October 2011
August 2011
The cinemagraph are simply a .gif file with more artistic feel that the regular .gif you see everywhere. You need
first a good picture that look great as a still photo. When you have your composition right and everything ready, July 2011
ask your models to stay as still as possible for you to take a video in the highest resolution that your camera
had. Remember to use a Tripod to minimize camera shake. I use 1080p at 25 fps this will help you to have a June 2011
better picture quality when you work with the frames.
May 2011
Now you have your video, open Photoshop CS5 go to file>open and search for the video April 2011
March 2011
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In the animation palette select only the frames that you want the movement, one or two second are enough in
most case but you make that decision. When you are happy with the selection go to file>export>Render
Video… Then rename the file and hit Render.
Now go to File>import>video frame to layers… Now the animation palette have the frame and in the layers
palette have all the frame in layers that you can mask and edit. Select the fist frame and in the layer palette
only the fist layer would be visible. This is going to be the still photograph. Select the second frame and in the
layer palette select both the fist layer and the second layer. Mask the second layer to show the part you want to
move.
Make the same with all the frames just remember that the layer that are visible are the ones that are going to
appear in that specific frame.
You can preview the animation at anytime by pressing the space bar.
To make an smooth transition in the animation the fist frame most be the same as the last frame. Is easy to
make this once you finish all the masking and everything. Select all frames copy them and paste them after the
original frames. Now in the animation palette menu select Reverse frame and you are done.
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Select the time for each frame to show, play with the value until you like the result, mine work with 0.16 sec in
each frame . You can add some adjustment layer on the top to change the colors or give other effect. Since its
going to be a .gif file we are limited with 256 colors thats why its a good idea to give a Duo-tone or cross
processing to limit the color and get the most of the gif file. I use the cross processing effect for my image,
once you are done, it’s time to make the gif file.
To save the animation go to File>save for web and device, select gif, make sure the animation loop is set to
forever
That’s it, you are done. If you make one please leave a comment with the link, i will love to see them.
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Update:
Check Christopher Mathew blog, he also make a tutorial on this and point some things that I pass out and
maybe it help your understand thing more clearly. Thanks Christopher
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Kristian says:
April 24, 2011 at 12:06 am
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Rafael says:
April 25, 2011 at 9:44 pm
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you’re welcome, please post the link if you make one, I will love to see it
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burcu says:
September 9, 2011 at 1:31 pm
http://c1109.hizliresim.com/11/9/9/11981.gif
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Really good i love the fact that you also let the shadow of the
hand move and its a really big file for a gif but good job with
the quality the dither its almost unnoticeable.
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burcu says:
September 10, 2011 at 7:55 am
P says:
April 26, 2011 at 1:17 pm
However. when i imported the video, no images appear. Is there anything i should do?
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What option are you using when importing the video to Photoshop? and in what format
is the original video?
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Hi Fernando. Great tutorial. I use Gimp on Linux but your explanation was helpful. Two extra things
I found out: if the layers are not aligned (for example because the video was taken handheld) in
Linux you can use “align_image_stack” (from the panotools library) to align the layers; really good
to do. I presume CS5 has a similar function. Also I found out it is good to make a rather bigger GIF
image (say 1280px), and let the browser scale it down in the page. This conceals a lot of the color
dithering from the GIF and make it really look better. Thanks. Ivo.
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thanks for the tip on getting a less dithering gif, I was searching for ways to conceal it,
thats why I do the cross process but I’m definitely going to try making it bigger. Please
post your cinemagraph I would love to see them.
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Great idea, I like the concept I add you on flickr you have a
nice gallery. keep shooting!!
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Sapphire St says:
April 27, 2011 at 7:32 am
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Angelica says:
April 27, 2011 at 5:16 pm
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Nice I always said that those mask have life on their own, btw you have a really good
eye for macro photography. I need to try that in the future
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Angelica says:
May 2, 2011 at 10:33 am
thank you very much! i’m glad you like my macros tbh im new in
photography, but macro shots are my favourite
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Hi anyone advise me on why shooting Raw is better than jpegs? I see that a lot of Sport shooters
tend to be shooting Jpegs for magazines etc,Thanks
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Thats an never ending fight, stay tune I will write and article in the pro and cons of
using both
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Amazed says:
April 27, 2011 at 8:15 pm
Hello. I love you animation, but my problem is that, when I am in the second frame, and have
selected layer 2 with mask, it doesn’t show me as you do. I says Layer and not Frame, and the
selection is with dots, and not black and white as yours.
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Amazed says:
April 27, 2011 at 9:34 pm
I found the problem, now my only problem is, when I select something, it selects the
inside, so it animates the video around the thing I want to animate. It does the opposite
than it should :S
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make sure your mask is black and paint with white only were you want the
movement
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I think the problem that you have is that you select the frame 2 and the layer 2 that
have the mask is visible. you need to select also the layer one in each frame because
that layer 1 is the photograph. In other word in frame 1 you only need to have visible
the layer 1 (without any masking) but on frame 2 you need to have visible the layer 1
for the still background and the leyer 2 masked for the movement that you want. and
repeat the proces with all the frames making sure you have visible always the layer 1
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triin says:
April 27, 2011 at 8:21 pm
hey, can you please explain the masking part more detailed? i cannot make mask if layers 1 and x
are selected.
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you don’t have to select both layer just the one that you are making the mask, but your
need both layer visible in order to be in the frame.
example:
in frame 1 you only need visible the layer 1
frame 2 layer 1 and 2 are visible (layer 2 with the mask)
frame 3 layer 1 and 3 are visible and so on
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UB Ciminieri says:
May 23, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Hi Fernando. Can you walk me through this masking? When I select layer 1
and 2 at the same time, the Layer Mask option is not available. What am I
doing wrong when masking?
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dont select both layer select only layer 2 but layer 1 have to be
visible
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Tham says:
April 29, 2011 at 5:08 am
Hi,
I’m very interested in this cinemagraph and wanna try my own one. But is it right that only CS5 can
do it because my currently program is CS3
Thanks a lot,
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I remember that CS3 have all of the tools you need to make the cinemagraph
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triin says:
April 29, 2011 at 8:09 am
hey
many thanks for the help!! I got my test cinemagraph to work now I’ll post you a better one as
soon as I make one.
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wao awesome work i really appreciate. thanks for the help i will definitely send you my work. thanks
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Bob says:
April 29, 2011 at 11:25 am
Hey I am really inspired from your tutorial but I have just started using Photoshop. So I would like to
make a noob question. When I import my video (an episode of TV series in AVI format) all I can see
is a white screen. why is that?
Thank you
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Bob says:
April 29, 2011 at 11:37 am
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well i only have use the .mov format thats the native file of my D7000
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mar says:
April 29, 2011 at 6:59 pm
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jen says:
April 29, 2011 at 11:09 pm
Thanks for sharing your tutorial. I cant wait to try my own. However your citations above are wrong
all the cinemagraphs are the creation between photographer Jamie Beck and motion graphics artist
Kevin Burg, the model is Coco Rocha.
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Thanks, the first time i saw it, was on the their blog, do you have the page of keving
burg?
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Martin says:
April 30, 2011 at 9:40 pm
Come on Fernando… PLease fix all photos on this blog. I cant see your images . Photobucket is
broken or something… I cant see anything..
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Macho says:
April 30, 2011 at 11:39 pm
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Hola! aqui esta el mio, tuve que deducir muchas cosas al hacer la edición, pero lo que puedo
recomendar es pensar bien antes de hacer la grabación, ayuda muchiiisimo para ocmenzar.
gracias por el tut.
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http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-
G5xwsaeoF4I/Tb1J0AB1i2I/AAAAAAAAAhM/qXrsliEFuNo/s1600/cinemag4.gif
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[IMG]http://i51.tinypic.com/2dh9o1v.gif[/IMG]
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JAJAJA que cool me gusto mucho, asi estamos muchos en la computadora, el trabajo
de edicion te quedo muy bn y fue buena idea la de ponerla en blanco y negro, no se
nota para nada al perdida de calidad del gif
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rafael2 says:
May 1, 2011 at 10:02 pm
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Aquí tienes uno de los mejores tutorial q e visto acerca de los layers en photoshop, es
de mis amigos Mike y Andy de lighten up and shoot.
http://www.lightenupandshoot.com/photoshop-tutorials/187-masks-explained-
photoshop-101-
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mel says:
May 1, 2011 at 10:23 pm
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Hey thanks for the tutorial, here is my first attempt, its a short video…it ain’t perfect but its
ok..Thanks!
http://vimeo.com/23140155
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Ricky says:
May 2, 2011 at 6:48 pm
Hey Fernando, i went through the tutorial and it seemed easy to try, but i did not understand the
masking part pretty well. and also do we need a separate picture and a video? i would love to use
this technique in a proper manner. Plz help! i use CS5..
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when you import the video to layers you have the frame separate to work in them like a
still picture
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I’ll have to to try that, hey you sai to mask the layers to show movement, I masked to show that still
shot, Is it less work for small parts movements to mask for movement?
Thankz again!
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Its more easy to mask for movement because you want to show only a tiny part of
movement and that make the mask more easy to do than masking the still part.
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Ricky says:
May 2, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Okay well, i kinda worked my way through masking i guess but the movements are visible only
when i open the file in quick time player.. else if i upload it on flickr or elsewhere nothing
moves..why is this happening?
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some site don’t support the gif file. like facebook for example. I use photobucket for the
gif.
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Ricky says:
May 3, 2011 at 10:09 am
im sorry if my questions are noob but im learning..i tried my hand at one, and well the result shows
everything shaking like an earthquake while the video was very still..PLS Help.!
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try to use a tripod, I also make an attempt hand held and was a disaster
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TM says:
May 4, 2011 at 10:30 pm
hi fernando, thanks for providing this tutorial, I think I’m missing this part:
“Select the fist frame and in the layer palette only the fist layer would be visible. This is going to be
the still photograph. Select the second frame and in the layer palette select both the fist layer and
the second layer. Mask the second layer to show the part you want to move.
Make the same with all the frames just remember that the layer that are visible are the ones that
are going to appear in that specific frame.”
I would like to see some video or photo of the part that I mentioned, many thanks !!!
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B says:
May 5, 2011 at 1:36 am
Basically I have done everything up to the point where I’m supposed to mask the parts that I want
to be animated? But I have no idea how to do it. I just downloaded CS5 because I had a much
older version of PS. Please help!
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Here is the video of my friend andy, he made the best layer mask tutorial you ever find.
check it out, maybe will make everything clear
http://www.lightenupandshoot.com/photoshop-tutorials/187-masks-explained-
photoshop-101-
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lisa says:
May 5, 2011 at 2:11 am
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TM says:
May 5, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Thank you Fernando, your incredible commitment to the people who write on your blog, very
difficult today, as favorites and accompany you, I’ll wait for the tutorial cinemagraphs. Where are
you from ??
I’m a Brazilian photographer, follows link with some photos, see you
http://thiagomonteiro.carbonmade.com/
http://thiagomonteiro.com.br/
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Hey! I add you on Facebook thanks for the request. I personally love the photos you
make with motion blur, you have some really good stuff there!
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Mohit says:
May 12, 2011 at 7:46 am
Hi Fernando,
Interesting article.I had posted an article on cinemagraphs on my site and have given a link to your
tutorial on it.I hope you dont mind.
Mohit
http://www.abstract-thoughts.com
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thank you!!
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Benny-Danny says:
May 12, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Hi there!
Thanks a lot for the tutorial! Just one question: I have an Nikon d70s that, of course, cannot shot
movies. Is it possible to do Cinemagraph with this camera by shooting a sequence of still photos?
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Thanks in advance!
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Yes you can do it with a sequence of still photos the only down side to using photos is
that the movement of the hair don’t look smooth for everything else still work fine
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Derick says:
May 13, 2011 at 11:30 pm
Hi, The blog was absolutely fantastic! Plenty of perfect information and also inspiration, both of
which we all will need!b Keep ‘em coming… you all do such a amazing job at such Concepts…
can’t tell you how much I appreciate all of your work!
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接 says:
May 14, 2011 at 7:49 am
What a brilliant blog post.. Thanks for giving out this blog post!
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tilen s says:
May 15, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Thanks for tutorial! I have tried few cinemagraphs here: (I hope you don’t mind posting my link
here)
http://youhavetostartsomewhere.tumblr.com/
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Nice I love the dancing one and the breathing is really cool.
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Germae says:
May 16, 2011 at 7:39 am
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yes!
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Mira says:
July 13, 2011 at 3:49 pm
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Keep ‘em coming… you all do such a great job at such Concepts… can’t tell you how much I, for
one appreciate all you do!
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Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this
topic. If possible, as you gain expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more information?
It is extremely helpful for me.
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Daniel says:
May 17, 2011 at 6:55 am
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Daniel says:
May 18, 2011 at 1:25 am
Thank you!
I put 2 other images on the same link or:
http://www.xyz360.com.br/cinemagraph-nova-tecnica-de-fotografia-daniel-
farjoun-xyz360.html
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kataskeyh says:
May 19, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Very interesting details you have mentioned , regards for putting up.
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John W says:
May 20, 2011 at 12:19 am
Thanks for posting this. I’ve created a group on Flickr where others can join and post their
cinegraph examples:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/cinegraph/
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Thank you for your tutorial. I followed it all the way through and created my gif. When I previewed it
in Photoshop, it looked perfect. But once I pressed the “save” button (after selecting “save for web”
and then specifying “gif”), the gif is not animated! It is a still photo, not an animated gif. Do you have
any idea why this might have happened?
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do you select the forever loop option on the save for web windows?
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Yes! I followed your instructions to the letter, zoomed on your “save” screen
and copied all your settings. I tried posting it on Tumblr to see if it needed
to be online, but that didn’t work, either. I asked Adobe, and if you go to my
question, scroll down to the photo and double click on it, you’ll see it works
there…but that’s the only place I’ve seen it work. Suggestions? (Adobe
query link: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3695899#3695899)
Thank you for helping all of us. You’re starting an army of cinemagraphiles!
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Hero says:
May 23, 2011 at 12:56 pm
I like it!
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max says:
May 23, 2011 at 9:32 pm
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resim says:
May 24, 2011 at 12:42 am
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http://youhavetostartsomewhere.tumblr.com/
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nice
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King says:
May 29, 2011 at 3:59 pm
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what camcorder would you recommend for giving this a shot, as my d700 does not do video?
thanks in advance, lots of great info here.
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Any camcorder works but you get more quality to work with the frame in HD video, but
if you have the battery grip on your D700 I think you have 8.0 fps Continuous shoot,
without the grip you have 5 fps. In most cases that should be enough to make a
cinemagraph. For continuos shoots the process is a littler different, open all the picture
and put them in the same file as layer, then go to the animation menu an select layers
to frame, now you have everything ready to start your cinemagraph
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you make it sound easy, i’m sure that’s not the case…lol…but thank you
very much, guess i need to go look at video cameras here soon and give
this a try.
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Arash says:
May 31, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Hi dear Fernando.
I was wondering how can i put the html file in FB or website, weblog or even on Microsoft word and
Pages for apple! I saved a cinemagraph project for html format and I just can open it in google
chrome. could you plz help me ?
Thanks
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the .gif should work in any html format but pages like FB for example don’t allow the
use of .gif. Save the file as .gif and try uploading it to photobucket.com for example,
and host it from there. For FB for example I use photobucket and post the link on FB
wall, when the person click the image to see it bigger the .gif works
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rachaeldesign says:
June 1, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Thanks for your tutorial, I have made two cinemagraphs in CS3. I have put them up on my blog and
also included a link back to your tutorial
http://rachaeldesign.blogspot.com/2011/06/hint-of-reality_01.html
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Sam says:
June 3, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Hi Fernando
Can I ask what video camera you used for this? The quality looks very good.
Thank you.
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Ichal says:
June 6, 2011 at 2:54 pm
I have a problem:
when I try to import video frame to layers: Import Video Frames To Layers is not available in the 64
bit version of Photoshop. Please use the 32 bit version instead
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Jess says:
June 16, 2011 at 6:21 pm
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Ichal says:
June 27, 2011 at 8:04 am
I found the answer. Just right click the program and change the
properties into 32 bit
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Matteus says:
July 21, 2011 at 7:29 pm
Thank you for this informative post. I’ll come back for sure.
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Przenosniki says:
June 7, 2011 at 3:18 pm
Thanks for article. I Have been google for looking something like this.
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great job!
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Thanks so much for posting this I have been trying to learn this method for a while now!
Question: How do you create one of these and keep the file size down so as not to crash a website
with upload time. I created one and when trying to “save for web” I can’t seem to get the file size
lower that 1mb and I also get a ton of dither and distortion.
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Canon 7D says:
June 13, 2011 at 10:27 am
I saw more than 50 image frames, but the size was lower than 1 mb, about 600kb, with 615
horizontal pixels
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Some people suggest re saving the gif in firework and that cut a lot of
space without affecting the quality. mine was 1.7Mb now is 475k
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Destiny says:
June 19, 2011 at 1:47 pm
I don’t normally comment on blogs.. But nice post! I just bookmarked your site
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Alyssa says:
June 20, 2011 at 2:42 pm
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Dude.. I am not much into reading, but somehow I got to read several articles on your blog. Its
amazing how interesting it is for me to take a look at you very often.
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stardust says:
June 21, 2011 at 10:46 am
Hi, I have a problem just at the begining, what video format it has to be?I have .mov and it doesnt
show in cs 5 as animation but as a picture! what is wrong?
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Thats weird I use .mov and cs5 show it. try importing the video in file> import> video
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Nivea says:
June 22, 2011 at 11:22 pm
It’s a very interesting article, I have been searching for this article for days. thanks for having nice
and useful post
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you’re welcome
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I recently have been trying to make these gifs, but when I go to export them I always get a out of
memory alert. I have 8 gigs
of ram so I don’t think its that, maybe its a setting that I’m not aware of thats on/off. If you could help
with this it would be greatly appreciated.
-thank you
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you have to re size it first because the save for web and device option will always show
you this message
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Evita says:
June 27, 2011 at 1:31 am
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Love this tutorial! Many thanks. Will surely give it a try, very interesting indeed.
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Ichal says:
June 27, 2011 at 8:05 am
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nice one, you can also duplicate all the frames and revert the frame to make the
transition smoother
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Daniel U says:
June 28, 2011 at 8:34 pm
Hai, Nice tutorial. I just wanna ask what the maximum pixel size when you save it. I have tried
above 1000 (1080 maybe, I forgot)and the computer just crash and won’t work.
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the crash maybe is cause by the amount of RAM you have available, try different
setting that work with your computer
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Erica says:
June 29, 2011 at 2:19 am
I would like to thank you for the actual efforts you get in producing this article.
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Darrell says:
June 29, 2011 at 3:23 am
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Andrea says:
June 30, 2011 at 1:33 pm
It’s a fantastic tutorial. My only doubt is about the size of the GIF. I tried to analyze some
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Cinemagraph from Jamie Back and despite she used about 100 frames the size is less then 1mb.
I’m trying to create my first one and for 50 frames I got 4mb!Do you have any suggestion?
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I was thinking the same thing and i just found the size of the canvas, I resize it to 600px
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Andrea says:
July 4, 2011 at 3:50 pm
I also tried with that dimension…it didn’t worked. The final gif is about
3.9mb.
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Eli Juicy Jones re save the gif using fireworks and cut my
cinemagraph of 1.7Mb to 417K
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chester says:
June 30, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Appreciating the time and effort you put into your blog, I’m adding your RSS feeds to my Google
account.
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Jones says:
July 5, 2011 at 11:18 am
I just added this webpage to my google reader, excellent stuff. Can not get enough!
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medianolimit says:
July 7, 2011 at 6:21 pm
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Fessols&Naps says:
July 7, 2011 at 8:23 pm
new tutorial video about cinemagraphs, if you would like to check it:
http://fessolsnaps.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/tutorial-para-crear-cinemagraphs/
This format have great potential.
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Marcin says:
July 7, 2011 at 10:38 pm
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really well done I like the slow opening of his eyes, its actually feel like he was looking
at me
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Marcin says:
July 8, 2011 at 10:15 am
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Emilianosss says:
July 8, 2011 at 12:27 pm
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photoG says:
July 9, 2011 at 6:13 pm
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inmotionpicture says:
July 11, 2011 at 3:39 am
I came across your website while doing a research. I will bookmark it for future refrences.
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Hi, i see some picture long time ago and i was fascinated. Now i am finally find this great tutorial
and can try to make picture. Thank you for your work.
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Tim says:
July 13, 2011 at 5:33 am
Thanks for the tutorial. I was surprised how easy it was to actually make this and I wasn’t aware
that Photoshop could even handle moving picture
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Really well done, as a matter of fact this is the best i have seen closing the eyes, the
animation its really smooth and have good detail, i cant find gif compression problem
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To make animated GIFs you should really be using Fireworks for the export step, the files will be
much smaller.
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Ok I put your GIF above in Fireworks, and just resaved it. It was 1.7MB, now it’s 417k. I
saved a lot less on some of the others (a 730K gif of the viewfinder binoculars went
down to 650) but you definitely save bits.
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Herbert says:
July 14, 2011 at 9:01 pm
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July 16, 2011 at 6:02 am
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Richard says:
July 18, 2011 at 3:38 am
Thanks so much for this tutorial!! i had no idea photoshop could edit videos..
http://www.richardgottardo.com/gif these are my first few tries.. i think im going to really enjoy this
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richard says:
July 18, 2011 at 12:50 pm
thanks
have you found a way to add tween between frames to smooth out the
motion? im trying to figure out a way to do it.. but cant seem to find an easy
fix
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i just play with the time of the frame but I’m looking for another
way
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Medisoft says:
July 21, 2011 at 7:59 pm
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Boris says:
July 21, 2011 at 10:58 pm
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Diane says:
July 22, 2011 at 4:30 am
Hello, Fernando! I’m really interested in this subject, as i study cinematography and I did have
photography classes to. So this.. cinemagraph combines them into a beautiful concept. I love it, but
i’m really a beginner, i tried some other tutorial before i’ve found yours, and this is what i came up
with: http://dienutza.deviantart.com/#/d418vmv well, i know it’s not much, but i’m going to shoot
something these days and i want to follow your tutorial Thank you for posting this, i”m really
grateful
Diana
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neeya says:
July 22, 2011 at 9:40 pm
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i read some people that have use gimp, but i dont know how to used
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Nice, the only thing I see is that the movement of the back leave is a littler distracting
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Kristen says:
July 28, 2011 at 3:56 am
You did an amazing job with the cinemagraph and I would really like to try making one too. I have a
problem with opening the video on CS5 though. When I try opening the file it says it could not
complete my request because it is not the right kind of document. my video is on mov. format.
should I try importing the video into layers instead? And if I do that will I be able to create a
cinemagraph following the same directions on your tutorial?
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Yes you can follow the same process importing the video into layers, but you have to
use another video editing software to cut the video to part you want to use. then import
the video into layer in CS5
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Kristen says:
July 28, 2011 at 9:52 am
Oh apparently CS5 lets me choose the part of the video I want to use
before it’s imported into layers so there’s no need using another video
editing software. Thank you so much!
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Tim says:
July 29, 2011 at 7:17 am
Hi Fernando, I am having problems opening my video in PS….I shot it with a Canon T1i, in .MOV
format, but PS will not open it and saying that it’s not the correct format type…my PS is CS5 12.0 .
any help would be great!
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Try selecting the scene you want to use with a video editor software and then import
that video in to layers in CS5
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xavierpr14 says:
July 29, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Puerto Rico! Im so happy. I was looking for tutorials on this technique and found this wonderful
page. Very nice. keep it up!
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xavierpr14 says:
November 22, 2011 at 2:25 pm
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Manoj says:
August 6, 2011 at 1:58 pm
I am in love with this idea. Thank you for the great explanation. Here is my first try out. Will be glad
to know what you think: http://bit.ly/rhHt4V
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thanks for reading, I replay a littler tip on the other comment that you made
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Joana says:
August 16, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Hello Fernando!
Congrats on this great tutorial! I just have one question: I don’t have a camera that shoots video
(mine is a Canon 400D); is it very different and difficult to do a cinemagraph with photos instead of
video? I would love some tips from you!
Thanks in advance.
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you have to had all of the picture in the same PSD file as layer (layer 0 should be the
first picture and so on) open your animation pallete on the windows menu and copy the
layes to the frame and you are ready to work on your cinemagraph
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nika says:
August 18, 2011 at 9:22 pm
I think this article is excellent. Great advice. I think others will agree.
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angela says:
August 20, 2011 at 12:15 pm
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angela says:
August 24, 2011 at 8:06 pm
emm..i think is 512 :/ but all time i dont have any problems.. only this.
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lollll
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jon says:
August 25, 2011 at 9:09 pm
thanks for the tutorial Fernando! I’m trying to make one of my own but when I try to Import Video
Frames to Layers I get an Error message that tells me it “is not available in the 64 bit version of
Photoshop. Please use the 32 bit version instead.”. I’m using CS5. How do change it to 32 bit
version?? Thanks for the help!
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If you use MAC go to the finder>application locate the CS5 icon, press with two finger
to open the menu and select “Get Info” and check mark the option that said open as a
32 bit version. Now you can use the 32 bit version, to return to the 64 bit just uncheck
that option, in windows i don’t know how to do it sorry
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Thanks for making this tutorial, i’ve been inspired to make a video to help others learn,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJBsXEfQm-Y
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ahalai says:
September 5, 2011 at 10:31 am
Thanks for your tutorial, Fernando! I made a russian translation of your tutorial. If you don’t mind, I
posted it on my blog. http://blog.ahalai.ru/post/9828965462/cinemagraph-tutorial-perevod-
ozhivshie-kartinki
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Thanks for the translation and I like the 3 additional things that you write I will try it out.
Now in the cinemagraph you made, the masking its perfect, and this is a personal
feeling but i would like to see it maybe a litter more slower, to make it more magical.
thats the thing I love most of the cinemagraph the sudden and isolate movement in a
completely still image (that my way of thinking and I’m not saying what is right or wrong,
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ahalai says:
September 5, 2011 at 10:34 am
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqzobbQUso1qhid6eo1_500.gif
And here is another one. I hope you’ll like it!
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hahahaha I do that every night, just relax in the bed with a laptop to help me fall sleep.
the only thing I would suggest its slowing down the motion to mimic the speed we do it
on real life and masking more of the bed because you can see some movement and
the main purpose of the cinemagraph its to freeze everything except the movement you
want to isolate.
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christi says:
September 6, 2011 at 12:15 am
great tutorial! can’t wait to start my project! just need a cloudy day and some wind! do you think it
will work?
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Absolutely, you can do it any day not just in a cloudy one but depend on the situation
and subject a cloudy day would help with the light
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Marlene says:
September 7, 2011 at 12:19 am
Thank you for this tutorial!! I had looked at others that were not nearly as good as yours. You did a
great job of explaining. However, I can not get my gif to work. It works in PS, but when I try to open
it, it won’t move. What am I doing wrong? Also, can I send a gif in an email and have it move?
Thanks again – much appreciated!!
Marlene
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thanks how are you saving it? and yes it should work in the email, I think Facebook
its one of the few site that don’t allow it
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sary says:
September 15, 2011 at 3:33 am
I feel I am going to look for the theme which is utilised inside your weblog. It really is extremely neat
and attractive at the exact same time.
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Hello, when I reach the “Now go to File>import>video” my photoshop tells me that I have to use the
x32 bit version on my mac instead of x64.
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go to the finder search for the application folder> search for the PS app icon, click it
with two finger> menu “get Info”> theres a check mark that said run as 32 bit> now
open de app and you have the 32bit version if you want to return to the 64bit just
uncheck that option
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Angela says:
September 16, 2011 at 3:32 am
I read a lot of your posts and this is my first time posting a reply. I just wanted to say thanks for your
writing.
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Aurelia says:
September 16, 2011 at 2:46 pm
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do you have the animation palette open and with all the layer in frames?
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hessel says:
September 17, 2011 at 3:00 pm
I’m wondering why others’ cinemagraphs work in tumblr but mine doesn’t. i tried uploading mine in
photobucket and it works but in tumblr it doesn’t.
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what size is your cinemagraph, I have an issue with big file that the preview don’t
works, if you click your cinemagraph and open it in a new window the cinemagraph
works?
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Vijay says:
September 24, 2011 at 3:50 pm
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Marti says:
September 24, 2011 at 8:21 pm
Really nice tutorial i started to make one but CS5 (64 bit) cant layer videos I need 32 bit I will
keep trying next time after getting the 32 bit..
But i dont get it why
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Johnay says:
September 25, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Same problem along with Marti! and I use Mac OS X lion to be precise.
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Johnay says:
September 24, 2011 at 9:28 pm
When i go to Import> Video frames to layers it tells me it cannot work in the 64bit Photoshop only
the 32bit and please use that version instead. Help? :/
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if you have a Mac yo can go in finder go to de application folder search for the
PhotoShop icon> click it with two finger to open the menu> select “Get Info”> check the
open as a 32 bit box, now open PS as the 32bit version. if you have Windows you need
to download de 32bit version
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basso says:
September 26, 2011 at 4:45 am
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Patbeck says:
September 27, 2011 at 11:31 pm
http://patbeck.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/the_legend_of_1900_girl_by_patbeck.gif
This is my first cinemagraph, about the girl of the movie “the legend of 1900″
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PoodleDog says:
October 1, 2011 at 11:48 pm
Thank you very much for your inspiring images, and help. I was having memory problems on the
save, but your sizing gave solutions.
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Have fun!
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nice masking the only suggestion I have is to play a littler more with the time of the
frame to slow down the movement of the hair and to let more time still between the loop
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thank you! Her work inspire this tutorial at the beginning I talk about her and provide a
link to her page
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Hallynna says:
October 13, 2011 at 10:08 pm
hI:) I got PS cs5 extended version…but Portable; does it means i can’t do cinemagraph? And if so, i
have a Movie to a GIFWMV “program” (i can make gif from a movie); <- can this solve my problem,
about making cinemagraph? (in case i can't in my PS portable)*
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I don’t know if the portable version can make the cinemagraph, the other program that
you have can help you but remember that a cinemagraph is not only a gif from a video
its the isolate movement between a still image
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Hallynna says:
October 14, 2011 at 11:04 am
(ok; no matter i’m convinced the portable can’t do cinematograph, just clear
me about the file format we must import to PS: AVI?WMV?… -I believe
Export is better as MOV; & what about the import file to PS? Watever i can
do or not with my PS portable, i hope it’s possible with AE<-my last hope:)
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I use the .mov file for the import because that the file that came
out of the camera
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Hallynna says:
October 15, 2011 at 6:27 pm
TY:)
Master says:
October 31, 2011 at 1:39 pm
I’m not satisfied with the colors. The 256 limit with gif’s is killing me.
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i like it I think a littler bit slower on the blood to make more dramatic and for the
color the limit suck but try to give a cross processing or any other color limiting effect in
post
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JG says:
November 1, 2011 at 7:38 pm
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Yann says:
November 7, 2011 at 3:45 pm
Hello
Thank for this tutorial !;)
Check out mine, maybe you’ll like too !
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24482362@N05/6310151946/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24482362@N05/6310121701/
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yeah i like both especially the second one. i love the shallow depth of field and the loop
its amazing. the quality its stunning
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PsPBuRnOuT says:
November 14, 2011 at 1:20 pm
TCN
Peace
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My croatian its not that good but google help Hvala vam za spomenuti na svom blogu (Thank
you for the mention on your blog)
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My polish is a little bit off but Dziękuję za wzmiankę na swoim blogu (Thank you for the mention on
your blog)
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thanks
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Cahayabox says:
May 3, 2011 at 1:17 pm
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you’r welcome
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Manoj says:
August 5, 2011 at 9:19 pm
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The quality of the image is amazing, I really like the first one. i suggest to avoid the pause it have at
the end of the loop its to delete the last frame you have. that way the movement of the finger should
be more smooth and without a pause. try it and let me know if works.
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