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Earlier this week I used to be commissioned to supply some images for certainly one of my key purchasers, Downtown Grand Rapids Inc. That they had developed an internet city-wide scavenger hunt and wanted images to advertise.

Throughout our hour-long photoshoot, we realized that one of many scavenger hunt duties was to conduct a bunch exercise on an out of doors stage. Between a kick-punch routine and a few superb 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 properly. 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 might do it with my digicam on a tripod. This might be sure that the body would not change and that all the pieces is aligned from begin to end.

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

The answer

In Lightroom Traditional, 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 stage after which went up Edit > Auto-Align Layers. This gave me some choices for projection. For my use case, the auto setting was completely effective. I may even have checked to see if vignetting was eliminated or distortion corrected, however I wasn’t involved about that.

After a couple of minute all layers have 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 measurement after which exported the file as a GIF with the loop set to “Endlessly”. And the animated GIF was full!