hello and thankyou for the kudos in the zoomburst challenge, I thoroughly enjoyed that one.
I have picked GIF making as technique number 60
This means you will put two or more images in a sequence and animate them so that you get a short clip. This can be used for timelapse shots to show movement or change , if you are clever at masking you could try a cinemagraph, or simply share a series of images like a collage, .. Half the fun is to determine the sequence and speed of the animation to best show off your photos, its great for people shots as humour can be used.
In the past I have used an online website called gifpal which lets you upload your images to work on the site and then save to your computer and this is a very simple method for all to try. but it does add a watermark gifpal
if anyone has used others online, please let us know below
if you have photoshop you can try this very straightforward tutorial photoshop instructions
Cinemagraphs are where only part of the image moves and the rest is static, they are really cool!! but agin these instructions are for photoshop 7 steps to making a cinemagraph
there are also apparently phone apps that can do it too but i have not tried these phone apps
IMPORTANT NOTE if using photoshop... this site can only allow gifs with a small file size to run, so it is important to make your images small to begin with, i have not had trouble with GIFs as little as 500 pixels on the longest side.
so without further ado, the challenge starts now and will run until wed 24th August to give you plenty of time to experiment with it,
This is a fun technique! I think I might take the time to play with it again. I did one months and months ago documenting the opening of an evening primrose in my backyard (those things open so quickly!):
@365projectltaylor i just used the download button in the save part and it came up with a popup of where to save to on my compuiter, no problem. try again maybe?
@kali66 Please help. I have been trying to upload my gif for about 2 hours and I can't figure it out. I have used photoshop to create it and it works fine in photoshop. When I upload to project365 it's just one picture without the moving image. I have made all the photos really small so it's not bigger than 5MB. I tried to upload it onto youtube but it says that it isn't a video only images, so now I am totally out of ideas of how to do it. I hope you can help:(
Everybody else seems to be able to it, so what am I missing?
@kali66 when I was saving it I had to save it as a Gif "to the web" and then I had to choose between save images only or images and html. I chose the wrong one so I changed it to images only and it worked.
Actually making the gif was ok, but saving it was a bit complicated because I don't really understand the different terminologies.
@ltodd@kali66 I have tried in vain to post this. I managed to get it to play in PS5 and saved for web use as .gif. I could open it in Safari and firefox, but not post it on 365.
@kali66 Thank you, Kali. Lyn Todd has helped me, and I now have more to help me get it posted. Lyn got it working. Learning more from my mistakes than my successes at the moment. will get back to you if more trouble ensues.
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image out in the end!
@365projectltaylor I also found http://gifcreator.me/ and http://gifmaker.cc worked easily
Everybody else seems to be able to it, so what am I missing?
If at first you don't succeed..
Gif number 2!
Actually making the gif was ok, but saving it was a bit complicated because I don't really understand the different terminologies.
@kali66 This was a fun technique to try!
@ltodd @kali66 I have tried in vain to post this. I managed to get it to play in PS5 and saved for web use as .gif. I could open it in Safari and firefox, but not post it on 365.
This is a direct copy of the corrections put in place by @ltodd
Thank you, again, Lyn.
Determined to get this GIF technique sorted. Again, I have drawn on old files.