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How to make a Cinemagraph with Photoshop and After Effects

By May 3, 2011July 20th, 201131 Comments

When Kert Gartner posted a Cinemagraph I was intrigued, however when he stated that it took a lot longer than he imagined, I then hoped that he would do a tutorial of the process because I also thought that it would be a simple thing! And he did! If you are unfamiliar, the term Cinemagraph is a new one describing a cross between a still image and a few frames of a video using the old school animated GIF format. Check out some Cinemagraphs here.

There are some other tutorials on creating Cinemagraphs, one by Travis from the Blog The Way I See it -here, and another by Fernando Jbaez that can be found here.

Kert mentions: “It’s not quite a video | A Cinemagraph | It’s not quite a Photograph In this tutorial we take a look at how to make a Cinemagraph with Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. Cinemagraphs, a term coined by Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg are not quite photographs, and not quite video. They straddle a line somewhere in between. “

How to make a Cinemagraph with Photoshop and After Effects from Kert Gartner on Vimeo.

From Kert: In this tutorial we take a look at how to make a Cinemagraph with Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. Cinemagraphs, a term coined by Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg, are not quite photographs, and not quite video. They straddle a line somewhere in between. For more information, check out this article, and see the site where they originated. Some very cool stuff!

lesterbanks

3D, VFX, design, and typography. Twenty year veteran instructor in all things computer graphics.

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