Making Animated GIFs is useful for a variety of digital marketing reasons. It’s also just some good ol’ fashioned fun! Photoshop makes it easy. In the video below, I’ll show you how to make GIFs from three different starting points — from standard Photoshop layers, a video imported as frames
Earlier this week, I was tasked with producing some photos for one of my mainstay clients, Downtown Grand Rapids Inc. They had developed an online scavenger hunt around the city, and they needed photos to help promote it. Throughout our hour-long photoshoot, we realized that one of the scavenger hunt
J.M. Smucker Company, the maker of JIF peanut butter, has taken on the great GIF debate. While JIF peanut butter is obviously pronounced with a soft G sound, people often debate on whether the GIF file format should be pronounced with a soft or hard G sound. Well now, the
In this video, Sean Duggan walks us through how to use burst mode on your phone in creative ways. For more LinkedIn Learning videos about photography, click here. Hey there, I’m Sean and this week we’re gonna take a look at a feature on your mobile phone camera that you
With Apple’s Live Photos built into iPhones 6S and above, millions of people have been sharing animated images to each other across the Messages app. There is one thing to know though, not very many apps recognize Apple’s Live Photos format, making it a bit harder to share to other
I recently had the chance to try out the Google Clips camera. To be honest, I hadn’t heard anything about it. However, I am not all that techie and don’t stay up on all of the latest gadgets. I quickly jumped online to do some research and read some reviews
Cinemagraphs are a loop of video saved as a GIF (Graphics Interchange Format.) Properly made, movement in a cinemagraph is seamless. The viewer is unable to tell where the action begins or where it ends. That is the trick to make a successful cinemagraph. Adobe Stock The first component of a successful cinemagraph is
Have you heard about Plotagraph Pro? It’s amazing software that allows you to create very cool animated images from a single photo. I had a chance to put it through its paces and really like what I found. It’s also a lot easier animate using a device with a touchscreen
