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Earlier this week I used to be commissioned to supply some images for one in every of my key purchasers, Downtown Grand Rapids Inc. They’d developed a web-based city-wide scavenger hunt and wanted images to market it.

Throughout our hour-long photoshoot, we realized that one of many scavenger hunt duties was to conduct a gaggle exercise on an out of doors stage. Between a kick-punch routine and a few wonderful leaping jacks, I snapped in a high-burst mode to get the images I wanted.

However past that, I knew I needed to make an animated GIF as nicely. In spite of everything, such images are all the time higher animated, proper?

The issue

Usually when creating an animated GIF or time lapse I’d do it with my digital camera on a tripod. This could be certain that the body does not change and that every thing is aligned from begin to end.

However when taking pictures handheld, I could not depend on a tripod.

The answer

In Lightroom Basic, I made my edits and copied them into every body I needed to show into the GIF. I then proper clicked and went to Edit In > Open as Layers in Photoshop.

This consolidated the totally different frames right into a single Photoshop doc as separate layers. I chosen every degree after which went up Edit > Auto-Align Layers. This gave me some choices for projection. For my use case, the auto setting was completely high-quality. I may even have checked to see if vignetting was eliminated or distortion corrected, however I wasn’t involved about that.

After a few minute all layers had been lined up. I cropped the doc to suit all of them with no areas after which introduced them into my timeline and gave them 0.2 seconds every. I resized the doc to a extra manageable dimension after which exported the file as a GIF with the loop set to “Perpetually”. And the animated GIF was full!