How to Create a Cinemagraph Using Photoshop in Under a Minute

We are taking a quick pause from Photokina to bring you a very quick tutorial by Photoshop expert Howard Pinsky where he demonstrates how to create a really simply Cinemagraph in this under a minute using Photoshop.

Cinemagraphs are a combination of stills and videos – think about them as moving images – most of the image is frozen like a still image however a specific part has motion. Cinemagraphs are usually saved as GIF files and displayed online as unique artistic looking media. In recent years this field evolved and you can find more and more Cinemagraph artists (you can check out some interesting ones on Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg website).

 An example of a Cinemagraphs by Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg

coco-desk-429You can check out more of Pinsky’s videos here on LensVid as well as many more Photoshop related tutorials on  LensVid’s Photoshop section.

Iddo Genuth
Iddo Genuth is the founder and chief editor of LensVid.com. He has been a technology reporter working for international publications since the late 1990's and covering photography since 2009. Iddo is also a co-founder of a production company specializing in commercial food and product visual content.

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