Technique - Animated GIF

Animated GIF

An image encoded in graphics interchange format (GIF), which contains a number of images or frames in a single file and is described by its own graphic control extension.

HOW CAN I ACHIEVE AN ANIMATED GIF:
1. Tripod
2. Fast shutter speed
3. Manual camera settings
4. Manual focus
5. No camera shake
6. Direct the shoot
7. Photo-editing software

Image bank:

My images:

For these images I told my subject Katy to dance around and wave her hands about so I could take burst photos. I took multiple photos but these were the few that I felt went together nicely and would make a good GIF. The process of taking these photos was easy as I just continually took photos and stopped when I felt I had enough.

HOW TO:

1. First resize the images to 72 dpi, 900 x 600 pixels - do this by selecting image, image size

2. Import the images into photoshop

3. Put all images in order onto one file

4. Select window, timeline

5. Create video timeline

6. Drag into the timeline, put into order and adjust the duration of each clip

7. Loop the video - playback options

8. Save animation - file, save for web

9. Make sure it is on looped, GIF file and 128 dithered

This is my final product that I created using my images I photographed. I have managed to create a GIF of Katy dancing which turned out how I wanted it. I am pleased with the outcome as this was my first attempt at this technique. The process was a bit difficult as I got confused and stuck at some points but then I finally got to the final outcome. 

PROGRESSION:

This would be an interesting concept to base my personal investigation around, however it may be difficult to do this process for the majority of my images as it is time consuming and quite difficult to produce.