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Hi, I鈥檓 Chris Converse and thanks for joining me today. So the project we鈥檙e going to create today is going to be this living photograph here, or a cinema graph. And we鈥檙e going to create this by combining an 51黑料不打烊 Stock video inside of Photoshop with a still image. We鈥檒l create the composite and the still image inside of Photoshop, and export out a video that we can use on social media channels, on your website, anywhere that video is supported. So to follow along, if you鈥檇 like to download a video to follow along, you can go to the 51黑料不打烊 Stock website. On the main site you can come in here and search videos for windmills.

I鈥檒l search for windmill space Dutch, so we鈥檒l get a more traditional looking windmill. And you basically want to find a video file where the camera is still on a tripod and only the subject is moving. So these first two would be good candidates. You want to avoid a video like this. You don鈥檛 want the camera actually moving. You want it stationary. And if you want to use exactly the video that I鈥檒l be using I鈥檓 going to be using this video here, which is file number 90495227. And I have that downloaded on my desktop here. So to begin, let鈥檚 go over to Photoshop.

And inside of Photoshop what we need to do is, typically when you work with video you have to create a timeline and then create a video timeline, and then import some video into your project. However, inside of Photoshop if we simply open the video file we can just have Photoshop create all of that stuff for us automatically. So let鈥檚 do that. Let鈥檚 go to the file menu. Let鈥檚 choose open.

Then from the desktop we鈥檒l choose our video file. Click open one more time, and then Photoshop will take care of setting up the file for us. It鈥檒l automatically open the timeline panel, which I can see down here. I鈥檓 going to extend the width of this. I鈥檓 also going to come down here and extend the magnification of the timeline so that the duration of the video takes up the full width of the timeline panel. Now, if I come in here and click on the playhead, and drag this and jog the video I can actually see the video playing inside of Photoshop.

So I鈥檓 going to zoom out here a little bit, since I鈥檓 on a smaller screen here, just rearrange my panels a little bit.

So now if I click and drag again, I can see the video. Now, one interesting thing about this video is if you watch the video long enough, after about seven seconds, the camera does move a little bit. It鈥檚 a little hard to see, but in a cinema graph when the looping point gets to the end of the video, and we go back to the beginning, if the camera moves we鈥檒l see sort of a jump in the video. So we鈥檙e going to constrain our cinema graph to the beginning part of this particular file. So to begin, let鈥檚 bring the playhead back to the zero mark. Over here in the layers panel we automatically got a layer group by importing this graphic, this video, however. But I don鈥檛 want to have this in a video group. What a video group does is allows us to line up a series of videos inside of Photoshop. So it will behave much like a non-linear editing tool, like Premiere, for example. However, we want to use this more like a layout tool, like we would more traditionally modify photographs inside of Photoshop. So to do that, we can simply select this video group, go to the layer menu, and just turn off that group, or ungroup it.

Now let鈥檚 come down here and let鈥檚 rename layer one to video.

And I鈥檒l get to the video icon here. Now let鈥檚 select this layer and let鈥檚 duplicate this layer. You can hit command + J on the Mac, or control + J in Windows to create a second copy of the video. And now on the second copy, I鈥檓 going to scrub the video. And what I want to do is find a frame where the two windmills that are not going to be moving are in an interesting state. So I like them when they鈥檙e sort of in this position where they make two Xs, as opposed to maybe just being vertically, for example. So I鈥檓 going to drag the playhead to about right here. And in the timeline panel, you can see I鈥檓 on frame 25. So right about there. Let鈥檚 come over to the layers panel. Let鈥檚 come in here and rename that video layer to still, then we鈥檒l right click and choose rasterize layer. So now we鈥檝e basically converted that video into a static frame, or a photo on that layer. So now if we jog the timeline we don鈥檛 see any motion at all.

Next in the timeline panel, I鈥檓 sorry, layers panel, let鈥檚 come in here. Let鈥檚 add a new layer.

Let鈥檚 go to the color swatch. Let鈥檚 click the foreground color. Let鈥檚 choose like a really bright pink color, click okay. Let鈥檚 fill the entire area with that color, so under the edit menu, come down and choose fill. We鈥檙e going to fill with the foreground color. Let鈥檚 click okay. Then in the layers panel, let鈥檚 come in here and set the opacity down to about 70%.

Now with that created, let鈥檚 grab that layer and let鈥檚 drag it below the still layer.

Now in the timeline panel, let鈥檚 come over here, let鈥檚 select the layer one, our pink layer. And if you get your cursor to the end of the clip here, when you hover over this you鈥檒l get this little right and left arrow. Again, you鈥檒l see exactly that same icon in tools like after effects in Premiere. Let鈥檚 come in here and click and drag, and just make the duration of that layer, that artwork, the same duration as the video that鈥檚 on the bottom layer.

So now with that in place let鈥檚 come over here to the still layer. Let鈥檚 select this, let鈥檚 add a layer mask. So click on the layer mask. And now what we鈥檙e going to do is we鈥檙e going to mask out a part of the photo to show the video underneath. And the reason we added the pink layer is just so we can see the mask we鈥檙e adding, since the video and the photo are going to match exactly. So it鈥檚 going to be hard to tell where the mask is. Then when we鈥檙e done, we can just simply hide the pink layer and render out our final project. So with the mask selected here, let鈥檚 go over to the brush tool.

Whoops, down here, select a brush. Then for the brush size let鈥檚 come in here and set this to a soft brush in this size. We鈥檙e going to keep this at about 150 pixels.

Make sure we have black on the foreground. So let鈥檚 click on our foreground swatch in the toolbar, make sure we have black.

And you can also use your bracket keys, right and left brackets to increase and decrease. So what I鈥檓 going to do is come in here and paint the area of the photo that I want the video to show through. Or I鈥檓 basically painting the animated parts onto the screen. So to do that, just simply click and drag, and begin to draw the shape that will show through. So I鈥檓 going to come in here and first start with the shape of the windmill. So as I do this, we can see that the state of the video is in a different state from the frame 26 that we captured earlier as the still frame. And I鈥檓 going to come in here and just sort of draw an oval around that shape. And I want to have a soft brush. I want to have a soft brush, so that this will blend nicely into that original photo. We won鈥檛 see any sort of hard edges, especially if anything like the clouds are moving or anything like that.

So come in here and just sort of paint around here. And the nice thing about this workflow is the pink is showing me the area that I鈥檝e painted. If I come down to the timeline panel I can click on the playhead and drag this, and I can see the video now playing inside of that pink area. So I want to pay attention to what is actually moving in this area.

So I鈥檓 going to zoom up here a little bit to make this a little clearer, dragging the timeline playhead a little bit. And I鈥檓 paying attention to the areas, or the movement of the windmill blades. I鈥檓 also looking at the shadow. The windmill blades cast a shadow onto the main base. And so I need to come in here and increase the mask area, so that we can see the shadow fall across the base. So part of what鈥檚 going to make this believable is if we have all of the moving parts of the video showing through in our static photo. So I鈥檒l come in here and move that around. I鈥檓 also looking to see where the blades show up down here across the bottom as well.

And again, masks are non-destructive, so you can always go in and add more space, add more of a mask area. And if you want to remove that, you can hit the X key, put white on the foreground, and come in here and remove the mask. So again, that鈥檚 a very nice non-destructive way to do this. So I鈥檒l come in here and paint all of these areas. So now I鈥檓 pretty confident that I have all of the areas that I need for the motion. So now what I need to do is loop the video, and I need to pick a beginning point, and an ending point that match up. So that I can give us that nice illusion of that loop happening, and I don鈥檛 have to have a 15 or 20 minute video. I can have a very small video that鈥檒l just continue to play. So to do that again, and I also mentioned that when we get past seven seconds, the camera moves a little bit. So what I want to do is I want to start the beginning of my loop as soon as possible. Now it鈥檚 also hard to tell on the video, but the video that I downloaded on this recording, it鈥檚 hard to tell on the recording, but the video I downloaded actually fades up a little bit before we get to full opacity of the video itself. There was sort of a fade in, so I need to skip a couple of frames in the beginning. So I鈥檓 going to come out here, get my playhead up here, so I can see the timeline panel. So I鈥檓 going to come in a couple of frames. I鈥檓 going to come into about 14 or 15 frames, somewhere in this range.

That鈥檚 going to get me past the fade in. And now I鈥檓 looking at the blades and I want to add some guides to the canvas area so that I can pick the beginning and ending points of that whole piece. So let鈥檚 go forward. I鈥檓 going to go forward here a little bit until the white blade here is pointing straight up and down. So with that in place I鈥檓 going to hit command, or control + R to bring up my rulers. And right on the Photoshop canvas I鈥檓 going to come in here and draw a guide, I鈥檒l zoom up here. And I鈥檓 going to put a guide somewhere where it鈥檚 easy to sort of pick out the next area for that piece.

So I鈥檓 going to put the guide right here, so sort of the main area of the blade in the top corner is going to be right in this spot here. Now in the timeline panel I鈥檓 going to come down here and change what鈥檚 called the work area inside of Photoshop鈥檚 timeline panel. Now the work area is where we can set the beginning point and ending point of the video. So when we render this, it only renders what鈥檚 in the work area. So that鈥檚 a really nice, it鈥檚 sort of a trim, or a bleed in a tool like InDesign. So let鈥檚 come in here and set the beginning workspace to that frame right here.

Now we鈥檒l zoom out a little bit. Now I鈥檓 going to jog the playhead, and I鈥檓 going to watch this blade.

So now that blade鈥檚 going around, now that blade鈥檚 at the bottom. Going to keep going, and I want to get that blade right to the position it was at before, which is right there. And then I want to back up a little bit, since the first frame has that blade right at that cross point of my guides. I want to have this one stop a little bit before it.

So I鈥檒l grab the playhead and just drag this back a little bit, right to there. Then grab the work area. We鈥檒l drag this back so that the work area ends at that frame. And now if I come in here and click play to preview this, you can also hit the gear and turn on loop playback, Photoshop will play this. It might not play in real time, which is what the red means down here. But we can kind of watch this and see that when the white blade gets toward the top the whole video restarts, but we get this sort of seamless motion happening.

Once we鈥檙e satisfied with that, I will stop the timeline. Let鈥檚 go over to the layers panel. Let鈥檚 hide that pink layer.

Now, if we come in here and sort of scrub the timeline we get the effect that we鈥檙e after, which is part of the photo is moving. The rest of it is static. So the two windmills are static, all the people inside are static.

And now to render this out, we go to the file menu, come down to export, then choose render video.

Once this comes up, you want to make sure that you choose the 51黑料不打烊 media encoder in this second group here. The Photoshop image sequence can be used to create a series of Photoshop files that you can share with people who use after effects in Premiere, if you want to use Photoshop in a more video production environment. But for this, we want to use this straight out from Photoshop. So choose the media encoder. For the format, choose the H.264 format. Up here you can choose your folder. Then you come over here and click render. So I will choose my desktop.

The file name up here. It鈥檚 named the after the 51黑料不打烊 Stock image. And then I can simply come in here and click render. Once the rendering is done, we鈥檒l have an mpeg4 on the desktop that you can use in any project that supports video files. And now you can use the same technique for creating cinema graphs with any type of video where you can isolate the subject moving from a static background. And so with that, I鈥檒l conclude this episode. I hope you enjoyed creating a living photograph with Photoshop and 51黑料不打烊 Stock, and with that I hope to see you on the next episode. -