How to Create a Cinemagraph in Photoshop

today I'm going to show you how to create a cinema graph in camera and in Photoshop hey guys and welcome to phlearn my name is Aaron NACE and you can find me on phlearn comm where we make learning photoshop & photography fun and I'm really excited about this episode we put a ton of work into teaching you guys how to create a cinema graph and when teaching you how to create a Sinha graph we realize there are two very important steps one is teaching you what to do in camera this is during the actual shoot to make sure you get the appropriate footage for your cinema graph and two we're going to show you how to do everything you need in a Photoshop including creating a loop that you're going to be able to upload online and it's going to look like one continuous movement so to start off what is a cinema graph well basically it's a short clip of video that needs to loop infinitely in other words the end needs to be the same as the beginning so it's going to go all the way back around and then start again these clips can then be saved out as jiff files and then load it up on the internet so what you wind up seeing is one continuous loop of motion and we're going to show you how to do everything in this episode okay so how do you actually go about creating a cinemagraph well the first thing you need to know is that it's a short clip of video so you're going to need something that can record video now in this example we're using a digital SLR we're using a Canon 5d Mark 3 but you can use any digital SLR that records video for that matter you could use an iPhone as long as you can record video you can create a cinema graph the next thing you're going to need is a tripod it's going to keep your camera perfectly still while you capture video that's important because the end frame has to be the same as the first frame and if there's any camera movement you won't be able to complete the effect the next thing you're going to need is a subject or whatever you're actually taking a video of now again a cinema graph creates one continuous movement so you have to take video of something that is going to move over and over and over continuously in this example we're using a record on a record player it's got a very predictable motion and it's got an endpoint that's exactly the same as the start point so for instance a video of your dog running around the kitchen is not going to work you need to make sure that the motion is going to end in the same place that it begins and when it comes to capturing this movement you're going to want to give yourself a little bit of a buffer that way you have some footage before and after your key movement and it's going to allow you to create this cinemagraph much easier and a last tip just for extra bonus points be sure you're wearing a flourish art so we set up a demo of a record player spinning around so you guys could get an idea of the camera settings we use to capture this cinema graph in this case we're using full 1080p so we're at 1920 by 1080 at 30 frames per second we have a 1 over 60 shutter speed an aperture of 8.0 and we're shooting at ISO 800 those settings are probably going to be a little bit different for your cinema graph but these settings will give you a good starting place for creating your video so those are the essentials that you'll need to capture your first cinema graph this is a chance for you guys to have fun so get creative with it come up with a really cool idea this could be an opportunity for you to stretch your creative mind and produce something that you've never done before so now you know everything you need in order to capture great footage for the cinema graph next we're going to jump into Photoshop and show you how to bring everything together so we're here in Photoshop the first thing I need to do is open up my video and you're going to be doing this exactly the same as you would open up a still image I'm just going to hit ctrl or command o to open and we're going to go directly to our footage now in our test example we used a record spinning but for this episode we're going to be using this fruit we're going to be using something that's a little bit more interesting so this is from Fotolia comm it's a stock image and this is a dot mp4 same as what would come out of a digital SLR so let's go and hit open here it's going to open our footage I'm going to hit f2 full screen this out okay and now it should pop up with your video timeline here you can scrub through your footage and you can see the video play right here in your window if you don't see the timeline just go up to window and then down to timeline make sure that's got the big check there and then you'll be able to work on your video footage here in Photoshop so once again guys a cinema graph is a small clip of video that's going to repeat itself infinitely in one loop and in order to make that actually happen in Photoshop all you have to do is make sure that the end frame is the same as the beginning frame that way it's going to create a continuous loop that's going to look like it's completely seamless so once again just remember that a cinema graph is a short clip of video that repeats infinitely so the first frame has to be the same as the last frame so now I'm going to show you guys how to actually pick that first frame the most important thing to remember here is you cannot use the first frame of your video as the first frame of your cinema graph this will make a lot more sense in just a little bit but you want to make sure that the first frame of your video is actually a little bit into your cinema graph so we're going to start right about there so this is going to be the very first frame of our actual cinema graph so now that I've scrubbed to a location that I like we've got these waves they're looking relatively calm I think I could come back to this place when waves come in and calm again I'm going to click right here on our footage and we're just going to drag right to this red line it's going to automatically snap there you go and when I let go it's going to go ahead and trim it so I'm letting go and it went ahead and trimmed our footage so technically we have some footage before the beginning point here we're going to come back to that in just a second the next thing to do is choose how long you want your cinemagraph to last now my advice is make this as short as possible because you're going to be uploading this to the Internet and a short cinemagraph is going to equal a small file size which is going to allow a faster download time so you can actually look at the thing when you're on the Internet so we're going to choose a really short clip that I can still use to loop our motion okay so we're going to go all the way to the end of the timeline click here and I'm just going to drag this in right until about here we're getting a little bit of preview to see what we're actually doing there we go so this is our footage here if I hit the play button there we can see that's what it looks like now I'm going to go ahead I want this to play many times so I'm going to make sure to click on this little gear here and say loop playback there we go so now when I hit play it's going to go ahead and play it over and over again okay now we can see here this is the main problem you're going to run into when it ends it doesn't have the same frame as when it starts so you can see there's actually a little bit of a lag in the motion you can see that jump so our main goal here is to make sure we don't see that jump we want to make sure that it's completely seamless so here's where it gets a little bit tricky so make sure to stay with me what I want to do is duplicate the video that I have here now keep in mind on the original footage I have some space before my trim and after my trim that's very important so let's go ahead and duplicate this whole video group I'm just going to click here and drag down to the new layer icon so now we have another one of these so I've got video group one copy and video group one and here in my timeline I'm able to see both layers so right now they look exactly the same but we're going to go ahead and trim and move them around to give that seamless effect so remember when we started we said we needed the beginning frame to be the exact same as the end frame well now that we have two video layers we can move these around to make that happen so we're going to click on this bottom video layer and I'm just going to click and drag this all the way to the right until it snaps so that the N of this footage marks the beginning of this footage okay that's very important so the next thing we need to do is blend these two video layers together now remember in the beginning I said you have to cut a little bit off of the beginning of the clip here's why we're going to go down to our video clip and now I'm going to bring back the information that we had at the beginning so I'm going to click right here and drag to the left so click here and drag all the way to the left and it's going to bring back all that original footage that we had in the beginning there we go so you're like okay well basically you just undid what you started off doing but keep in mind what I have now is this beginning of my footage here is now the exact same place as this point in my footage here so I'm going to go ahead and clip this because I don't need the end this is why it's important to get some footage before and after you loop so let's just go ahead and bring this in from the right to the left there we go so now it's basically starting in between this frame and ending at the same place now I know this is kind of complex it's a lot to get your head around but basically what we did is we duplicated our footage then I move the bottom footage over so I've got the same start point and end point they're just on different layers then we extended the beginning of the bottom footage this is going to give us some overlap which is going to allow us to create the infinite loop next we clipped off the end in the bottom footage so both videos are ending in the exact same place all right so now what happens if we hit play well I'm going to hit play and we see the same thing it still jumps at the end of the footage basically not looking right you're like oh I thought the whole point was to get rid of that and it is what we have to do now is make sure the top frame is completely invisible by the time it gets to the end what that's going to do is it's going to allow the bottom footage to take over cool so I know this is kind of complex guys but my main goal is to have the footage on the top fade out by the time it ends so it's going to show the footage underneath it and the footage underneath it ends exactly at the same place where the footage on the top begins creating our infinite loop so now what I need to do is make sure the top footage fades out by the time it gets to the end of the clip it's really not that difficult to do so here in Photoshop I'm going to go to my video copy 1 we're going to go ahead and open this down and you're going to see position opacity and style all right so I wanted to fade out right so that's opacity I want it to be visible in the beginning and not visible in the end so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my slider right to the beginning of our bottom clip this is where I want to start the fade I'm going to click right here where it says opacity I'm going to click on this little stopwatch right there and you're going to see now we have a yellow little keyframe here and a yellow keyframe right there a keyframe is basically a marker in time that captures all the settings in time so right now I have an opacity keyframe right here for this video group and my opacity is at a hundred percent so my goal now is to make sure the top footage has an opacity of zero at the very end meaning it's going to totally fade out so what what I'm going to do is go ahead and move my timeline we'll just move it right about there doesn't really matter where you put it for now I'm going to click right here on my keyframe so we're going to add another keyframe on our video so right now we have an opacity of a hundred percent I'm going to move over here and now I'm going to bring my opacity down to zero percent so we can see it's going to basically start here at 100 if I click one more it's going to go down to 75 go one more we're at 50 go one more it's at 25 go one more and we're at zero because I just said at this keyframe I want this footage to have an opacity of zero and anything past that it's going to be zero as well so now what we have to do is click on this keyframe and drag it all the way to the end so what I know now is that this top footage is completely visible up until here and from here to the and it's fading out from a hundred percent visibility to 0% visibility so now that footage on the top is going to be 0% visible when we get to the end which is going to display the footage that's underneath it because it's not visible right so it's going to immediately show what's visible underneath now remember earlier we position that bottom footage perfectly to where the frame right when it ends is actually going to be the exact same frame as the beginning of the other footage now I know this is super complex but we've done most all of the work already so now when I hit play it should be a perfect seamless transition all right so let's go ahead and hit play and see what we actually did so now I'm hitting play and we can see our footage just creates an infinite loop because what's happening is this footage is becoming invisible by the time it gets to the end which is revealing this footage here in the frame right here at the very end is the exact same frame as this footage right here at the beginning so it's just fading into itself over and over and over it's fading into itself and that is the core of our cinemagraph cool so we've created our animation and our cinema graph looks great but there's one more thing I want to do with this cinema graph and that's restrict the movement to just one part of this video for instance if i zoom in you can see her hat here if I hit play her hat just kind of fades from one hat into another one and the reason there is because this is not looped the ocean is the part of the footage that is looped the ocean it's not really moving right it's it's well it's moving but it's moving in basically the exact same place so I want to go ahead and restrict the movement to just the ocean I don't want our subject moving I don't want her hat moving I don't want anything else just the ocean so how do we restrict this movement to just one part of the video what I'm going to do is I'm going to create a copy and make it a still image and put this on top of the video then I'm going to use a layer mask so we can see through part of the still image revealing the video underneath so to create a stamp visible layer I'm going to hit shift option command E which basically makes a visual copy of everything you see now let's go ahead and click and drag this over and this is a regular layer you can see here in our land layer dialog we have our video group 1 copy our video group 1 and then layer 2 this is a regular layer it's a still photo and it's on top of everything meaning if I hit play now nothing happens right there's no movement it's because I created a still photo that's a copy of everything I saw before so let's go ahead and trim this down because right now it's way too long so we're going to go all the way to our end and trim this down to it's exactly the same endpoint as our video footage so what we have now is a still photo at the top and then we have our looping footage right below it so I need to create a layer mask on the still photo on the top to allow me to see through just where the waves are alright so let's go ahead and do it I've got my layer two I'm going to go ahead and click on my layer mask and basically what I want to do is paint black on my layer mask anywhere I want to be visible because it's going to hide this layer so I'm going to just start painting black right over here now if you want a better way to kind of see what you're doing just hit the slash key it's above your return key your computer and it's going to allow you to get a visual display of what your layer match mask actually looks like okay so this is the same type of layer mask that I would be using on any type of photo and if you want any help using layer masks just do a quick search on phlearn comm for how to use a layer mask or will link to one in this episode so basically I'm just making sure that this layer that I'm on is invisible wherever I'm painting so we just created a layer mask on the still image on the very top of our video footage now this layer mask is going to allow us to see through the still image onto the video underneath so let's go ahead and hit play and see if everything worked let's cross our fingers we're gonna hit play and all right it looks perfect so here we've layer masked out the left side of the frame and you can see the only area moving is the area we can see through the layer too so this is in effect our cinemagraph effect we're going to go ahead and mask out the bright side and then we're going to be done with our cinema graph alright so let's go ahead and zoom in here I'm going to click on the exact same layer mask we're going to hit the slash key above our enter keys so we can actually see what our layer mask looks like and then I'm going to paint with the black brush right over here all the way up into our subject now I'm just gonna do this relatively quickly here when you're creating your cinemagraph you're going to want to make sure you do a really good job masking it and go all the way up to your subject I'm just going to go get pretty close here there we go now let's hit this / key zoom out and see your effect on the image as a whole alright so all we have to do is hit play and there we go we've got ocean to both the left and the right and no other movement in the image alright so by now we've showed you a ton all the way from how to capture the footage in the camera how to bring that footage into Photoshop and how to actually create cinemagraph effect now what we need to do is export this footage out as a gif which is going to allow us to view it on the web so we've gone over a ton all the way from showing you guys how to actually capture the footage you need to creating the cinema graph to how to make it work in Photoshop now what we need to do is export this out in a format that's going to read well on a web browser which is going to be a gif so to do that we're going to go up to file and I'm going to go down here to save for web so here in the save for web dialog there are a few things that you're going to want to do first thing is make sure you were set to a gif or Jif however you want to say it it's going to be at the very top a JPEG and a PNG these do not support any movement only a gif will support movement so I'm going to go ahead and click on there it's going to load up and it's going to return me a gift that's going to actually play so now it's time to tweak some of the settings within this dialog box our main goal here just to create the smallest possible file size while still getting a good-looking image now by default the Photoshop didn't apply any dither which is getting us a 2.79 two megabyte file but the image doesn't really look that good I don't want that so I'm going to have to change this from no differe dither down to diffusion which is going to give us a much better looking image but it's going to be a bit larger it's 6.3 Meg's now the next thing we can do to lower our file size is make this a little bit smaller because right now it's 1920 by 1080 maybe I don't need it to be that big so let's try with let's just go 1000 pixels and I'm going to hit enter there and it's going to resize our image and it's going to give us a smaller file size so now our image is a little bit smaller it's 1000 by 563 and you can see our file size is down to just under 2 megabytes now the last thing we want to look at here is our looping options by default this is going to be set to once now we don't want that remember because the whole idea of a cinema graph is to have it loop infinitely so click here where it says once and go right down to forever and this will make sure that it does loop infinitely and the very last thing I would recommend doing is clicking on this preview button right here in this dialog it's going to go ahead and open the optimized image in a browser right what it says it says that right there so let's hit that preview button it's going to go ahead and open Chrome and it's going to show us our cinema graph how would actually would look in the browser and you can see everything looks great we're at 1,000 pixels wide by 563 high we can see our file size and all of our options here we can see our cinema graph really is looping infinitely so everything is perfect let's go back into Photoshop and hit this Save button so we can go ahead and get this uploaded to the Internet okay we're going to call this cinemagraph final gif all right let's go ahead and save and it's going to stick it on my desktop so now our cinema graph is saved out as a gif on our desktop so the final thing to do is click and drag this into our browser just to make sure everything worked perfectly so here we have our cinema graph final gif I'm just going to click and drag that right into Google Chrome there we go and we can see here's our cinema graph fully completed and it's playing infinitely absolutely perfect and that's how we create a cinema graph in camera through Photoshop exporting it out as a gift and then loading it onto the internet so when you're trying this at home just remember these key steps when shooting a cinema graph all you have to do is capture a video you can do this for the high end digital video camera you can do it with a digital SLR or you could even do it with an iPhone be sure you're shooting on a tripod this is going to allow your camera to stay in the same place making your loop possible look for continuous movement in your subject you want your endpoint to come around and be in the exact same place as your begetting point be sure to capture a little bit extra footage both at the beginning and the end remember how we trimmed the beginning of our cinemagraph video and then brought it back at the end that footage in the beginning is very important to capture after you've captured your video it's time to bring it into Photoshop you can open it just as you would a still image we're just going to file down to open and choosing our video to bring into Photoshop make sure your timeline is visible for editing if you don't see it just go to window and then down to Timeline next we have to find the first frame of our cinema graph be sure to cut off a little bit of the footage in the beginning we're going to need that to create the loop after we've trimmed our footage you want to duplicate it into a new video group then you're going to want to move over the bottom group of the video footage you want to make sure that the top footage ends exactly where the bottom footage begins then we extend out the beginning of the bottom footage and clip the end this is giving us our infinite loop next we need to make sure that the top footage becomes invisible towards the end of our timeline to do this we're adding keyframes with opacity make it a hundred percent visible at the start of the bottom footage and 0% visible at the end of the bottom footage that's going to blend the video footage perfectly from one source to another one next we need to restrict the movement of a cinema graph to just one area of the video we create a stamp visible layer on the top which is basically just still image then we create a layer mask allowing us to see through the still image just in the area we want the visible footage when that's done it's time to export out our footage go to file and then save for web be sure to change your file type to a gif or gif then adjust your settings so you can get the smallest possible file size while still making a good-looking video be sure to hit that preview button in the save for web dialogue it's gonna let you know exactly what you're going to see on your internet browser and the last thing to do is pat yourself on the back because if you made it through this much of the video you don't have a pretty good understanding of how to create a cinema graph thanks so much for watching flooring guys I really appreciate you hanging out with me and learning some Photoshop together if you like what we're doing here to learn and you'd love to learn more Photoshop and photography for free I might add just click up screen button right now that says subscribe we're gonna send you free photoshop & photography episodes every single week and if you have an idea for a new episode or a question or comment about today's episode please leave it in a comment right down below we'd love to hear from you thanks again guys and i'll phlearn you later bye everyone alright the second thing you'll need to know the second thing you're going to need is a tripod the second thing you're going to need is a tripod okay the second thing you're going to need is a tripod from here it's up to you go ahead and capture from here it's up to you now it's your turn and now it's your turn and now it's your turn go ahead and capture and now it's your turn bla bla bla bla bla bla bla alright so now it's your turn alright so now it's your turn so the cool so now it's your time so I'm just gonna choose basically as short as I can get while looking like we're cool alright so now the top alright so now the top and there's a siren going off welcome to Chicago alright and you are awesome and you are awesome cool and you guys and you are awesome I'm the cinemagraph King I really um no I'm the cinemagraph King

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Keywords: Phlearn, Photography, Aaron Nace, Photoshop, Adobe, Tutorial, Help, Tips, How-to, Education, How to Create a Cinemagraph in Photoshop, Cinemagraphs, How to do a Cinemagraph, Video, Editing Video in Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop (Software), Retouching, Compositing, Layer Masks

Id: 2DU0Sim_BJ4

Length: 24min 25sec (1465 seconds)

Published: Tue May 05 2015