How to make a Cinemagraph with Photoshop and After Effects

An interesting technique where a portion of a still image is animated. Some are very cool, some are creepy! Animated GIFs live!!

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

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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.

For more information, check out this article and see the site where they originated. Some very cool stuff!
http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/tagged/cinemagraph
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/turnstyle/so-long-animated-gifs-hel_b_853450.html

To see the Cinemagraph in this tutorial, visit my flickr stream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kgartner/5664613709/

If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to ask!

Thanks!