Create a Cinemagraph (or Cinegraph) Using Photoshop CS6
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Create a Cinemagraph (or Cinegraph) Using Photoshop CS6

on Jun 20th 2012 with 36 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS6
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 11 Minutes

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Cinemagraphs or Cinegraphs are photos that also include movement. They are hybrid images that are eye-catching and unique. Thanks to the new Timeline features in Photoshop CS6, it is really easy to create your own cinemagraphs. In this tutorial, we will show you how. Let’s get started!

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  • drfacedoctor

    Reminds me of those gifs that capture little animated movie screenshots. Always wondered how they managed to do that.

  • Trevor

    Very good again Martin great Tut., what a massive difference between CS4 and CS6 including the price!

  • dang

    Nice and very complete tutorial! THX

  • http://www.amazing-web-design.co.uk/ Joe Elliott

    Hi Martin,

    Great! One thing I need to get better at is animation, will be practising more of this.

    Thanks
    Joe

  • http://quinicz.wordpress.com/ quinicz

    I feel that if they’re read & pondered daily – their ideals will soon become evident in our lives – and we’ll internalize them.

  • Alan Nathanson

    Its an interesting technique but the sample photo is kind of creepy.

  • Claira

    I’d love to be able to do this. I found all the files that I would need to do the project, but when I upload the video, it doesn’t show up. It goes into it’s own layer, but the video in the timeline isn’t there. Could anyone help? Thank you.

  • http://thoppp.com Darren

    OK !! this is tutorial that I think I can have a go at !!!

  • Holman

    Thank you so much!!

    I have seen tutorials of cinemagrahs in previous versions of Photoshop, but this is the easiest!!!

  • Goolien

    At first that pic moved and it scared that the shit outta me ;O LOL
    awesome tut :)

  • http://www.lifwu.com lifwu

    thanks very good !

  • The Insaint

    Hmmm …
    Animated GIFs are responsable for eye cancer since around 1990 …
    Now they tag a buzzword around it an call that new/hip/cool/wahtever … ?

    Never thought that “history repeat itself” is also true for the internet … damn, some hard times will then come over us.

    • psyworx

      am i wrong, ore created he a animation with a still standing background? and converted to a gif???
      i am sure you know how to do it, but me not…

      thx for the Tut!

      =)

  • http://www.krop.com/ashleycarter Residentashley

    Very cool, but scared the crap out of me. Does this remind anyone else of the lady from the Ring that comes out of the TV??

  • http://dribbble.com/Lickmystyle Matu

    Im sorry to say that the above example is a poor excuse for a cinemagraph as there is pixel movement outside of the moving area. This could be fixed on export by having the dither to diffusion and the dither amount to 99 or 98%.

    Here is an example of some that I have had the pleasure of working on

    http://aspectphotography.net/ballyvolane/

    • gem redford

      Really great site Matu!

  • vincent-b

    A cinemagraph must respect one rule : it must be a realistic scene. Your example is just an animated GIF file. This scene can’t happen, the bike in the background can’t be frozen like this, neither the walking guy.

    Check cinemagraph.com to get the concept.

  • http://www.stevenmccurrach.com fnkymnky

    I don’t understand the interest in this.
    The load time and performance of the example shown was horrendous and picture quality leaves a little less to be desired. Animated GIFs getting fresh hype? Why? We have cool stuff like jQuery and CSS3 nowadays. Lets not continue this ‘eye cancer’, to quote The Insaint.

    • vincent-b

      cinemagraphs can be beautiful, if the scene is well chosen, if the execution is good. there’s none of this in this tutorial, it’s not a cinemagraph, it’(s just a big animated gis with no point at all.

  • dj

    6 megabytes is “fairly ok”?!?! And it doesn’t even look good because of the dithering. Just because you can do it, doesn’t mean you should.

  • Krishna

    thanks very good !

  • Ira

    For some reason I don’t have the option to “Create Video Timeline”… :(

  • Alex

    Of all photos, why choose a FLAT FACEd retarded looking asian for this kind of ‘cinemagraph’? Just sayin.

  • Marshall

    Nice Tutorial..

    The top image creeps me out a little – was expecting a poltergeist head spin

  • doy

    Not sure where the tutorial is?

    • http://psd.tutsplus.com/ Grant Friedman

      Do you see the video?

  • Pratik SB
  • Kylie

    How do i set the playback looping?

  • monty

    Someone know how to put gif or sth like this od Facebook site? I saw few things of that, but have no idea how is it possible! ;)

    • http://psd.tutsplus.com/ Grant Friedman

      I don’t think Facebook allows GIF files.

  • Nathanfx

    Please fix your masking, This is just lazy.

  • Esteban

    Man, this tutorial is fantastic! I’m from Argentine, and it has clear lenguage and its perfectly explained!

    Is there any way to make a cinemagraph from photos, without using video?

  • Param

    i didn’t see (create video timeline) option in my PS-CS6???

    PLZ Help??

    • http://www.facebook.com/BrianSoden Brian Soden

      Did you figure this out? I am having the same problem!

      • friend

        I had the problem until today i fixed it im guessing you guys downloaded it

  • jeff martin

    I have used PS for many years but Googled ‘how to make a Cinemagraph’ and found this YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRpqtrN_O_M This site can make one so quickly and it is really easy. Just my 2 cents!