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Create a cool animated photo montage in After Effects

This 14 step online tutorial from Layers Magazine teaches you how to create a really cool animated photo montage. It’s structured in a way that easily enables you to switch out the photos in the animation for new ones as well. Your final result will be a short animated Quicktime movie. Check it out! How … Continue reading “Create a cool animated photo montage in After Effects”

This 14 step online tutorial from Layers Magazine teaches you how to create a really cool animated photo montage. It’s structured in a way that easily enables you to switch out the photos in the animation for new ones as well. Your final result will be a short animated Quicktime movie. Check it out!

How to create an Animated Photo Montage

1 IMPORT SLIDESHOW ASSETS
In After Effects, double-click in the Project panel to bring up the Import File dialog, then locate and import the images you wish to use. For our project, I’m importing three folders of photos of yours truly training in the Italian Alps before a big race in Spain and one paper-texture image I downloaded from iStockphoto to use as a background. Note: Though not imperative, ensuring your snapshot images are all the same pixel size will make this project a breeze to complete at the end.

Continue on to the Layers Magazine tutorial

5-min Time-Lapse Video: A Journey Around the World

Time is Nothing // Around The World Time Lapse from Kien Lam on Vimeo. Photographer Kien Lam created this time-lapse video of his journey around the world. 343 days, 17 countries, 19 airplanes, 58 buses, 18 boats, and 6237 photographs later he had what he needed to create this video, which is less than five … Continue reading “5-min Time-Lapse Video: A Journey Around the World”

Time is Nothing // Around The World Time Lapse from Kien Lam on Vimeo.

Photographer Kien Lam created this time-lapse video of his journey around the world. 343 days, 17 countries, 19 airplanes, 58 buses, 18 boats, and 6237 photographs later he had what he needed to create this video, which is less than five minutes long. Every 2 seconds of video consists of approximately 40 – 60 photos.

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Need a photo for a project? Try stock.xchng – the leading free stock photography site

stock.xchng Whether you just want to browse their huge image gallery or want to share your own photos with others, this is the site for you! Browse through the categories of our huge gallery containing over 350.000 quality stock photos by more than 30.000 photographers! Need a wallpaper for your desktop or illustration for your … Continue reading “Need a photo for a project? Try stock.xchng – the leading free stock photography site”

stock.xchng

Whether you just want to browse their huge image gallery or want to share your own photos with others, this is the site for you!

Browse through the categories of our huge gallery containing over 350.000 quality stock photos by more than 30.000 photographers! Need a wallpaper for your desktop or illustration for your blog? Need a pic for your commercial website design? Looking for inspiration? Have a look around.

Share your photos with fellow designers! SXC is a friendly community of photography addicts who generously offer their works to those who need them free of charge. If you have some nice photos that you’d like to share with others, join! Not only it feels great to share, you will also get huge exposure for your work!

Chat with other members in their forum! Looking for something? Need an opinion? Have a question? Post a topic, and someone will definitely help you out.

Hacked Ikea kitchen timers shoot time lapses

The Ikea timer is called the OrdningUse it to make a cheap ($5.99) and easy Ikea Time Lapse Panning Unit for your next photo shoot. Here’s an example:Pan Left Portland and another one:Pan Left Lido Key Here’s a great video that shows you how to make your own (jump to 2 min 10 sec):How to … Continue reading “Hacked Ikea kitchen timers shoot time lapses”

The Ikea timer is called the Ordning
Use it to make a cheap ($5.99) and easy Ikea Time Lapse Panning Unit for your next photo shoot.

Here’s an example:
Pan Left Portland

and another one:
Pan Left Lido Key

Here’s a great video that shows you how to make your own (jump to 2 min 10 sec):
How to Make a Cheap and Easy Ikea Time Lapse Panning Unit

For more details go here.

As seen on the Ikea Hackers blog and the Getaway Moments blog.

#phonar: A Free and Open Undergrad Photography Course

#phonar, short for “Photography and Narrative”, is a free and open undergraduate photography course run by Jonathan Worth at Coventry University in the UK. Worth spent nearly 15 years as a successful commercial portrait photographer in New York before taking this part-time teaching position, and invites some pretty prominent photographers to guest lecture in the … Continue reading “#phonar: A Free and Open Undergrad Photography Course”

#phonar, short for “Photography and Narrative”, is a free and open undergraduate photography course run by Jonathan Worth at Coventry University in the UK. Worth spent nearly 15 years as a successful commercial portrait photographer in New York before taking this part-time teaching position, and invites some pretty prominent photographers to guest lecture in the class. Participants have access to recorded lectures, assignments, and special discussions.

You can check out the material from last year’s class on the course website, or participate in this year’s class starting in October by signing up here. There’s also a second course in the Winter called #picbod. Yay for free online education!