Class Project 20 – Cinemagraph in Photoshop
Overview
Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
instructorI discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.
Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.
Hi there, it is class project time. I'm going to set you the project of creating this into a Cinemagraph. Slo-mo coffee. Come on, slow-mo coffee. You have to trim a lot of it off the beginning. And up to you where you want it to stop.
The file is in your 13 Videos folder, under Class Project, called Cinemagraph A. Use the techniques in the last video. Probably lots of pausing and checking. Otherwise, in your Class Projects file I tried to list it out step by step. Even still, it's a tough one to remember. When you're finished, just like the last parallax one, I'd love you to export a video. Either upload it to YouTube or Vimeo, and send us the link or upload it to something like Dropbox or Google Drive. Something like that, and share the link. Love to see what you make.
Now I've given you a file, you can definitely create your own. Shooting your own one is so much easier, because you can know what to hold still, what to move. You can get the composition perfect. If you are looking for images that are free, or videos that are free, this one here is a good place to go. So Pexels by itself is a good place. Like Unsplash, you can get quality royalty free images. Commercial use free images, but they've got a video section as well. That's where I got your coffee one, and I got the beans being poured into the bowl. Have a look in here, like that windmill one would be a good one, if it wasn't all moving. Go forth, make a Cinemagraph, send it to me. I'll see you in the next video.