![]() ![]() ![]() Save your image as a Photoshop file (PSD) and import it into After Effects as a Composition, with Editable Layer Styles. Separate the smoke and boat from the background and clone out each piece, leaving a clean slate to animate them. I chose Volcano eruption, Anak Krakatau, Indonesia by contributor Byelikova Oksana to demonstrate.įirst, take your image into Photoshop and split it into three different pieces. I originally learned how to do this from Andrew Kramer at Video Copilot, in his Animating a Still tutorial. We can also animate an image without using the Displacement Map effect. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 for your new cloud layer. Import this into After Effects on top of your original image. Take your image into Photoshop and cut out all of the trees and mountains, leaving only the clouds, and save it as a separate PNG file. We’ll work with Green tropical mountain cover with clouds by contributor watin. This one is a bit more complex, but also gives you more control. Follow Steps 2 and 3 from the previous image to get the desired effect. ![]() I chose Cloud formations seen from the plane by contributor Rechitan Sorin as an example. If you have the sun on your horizon and want to add a little “flare” go to Effect > Generate > Lens Flare.Īnimate your Flare Center to follow the horizontal movement of your frame.Ĭlouds are the easiest to animate with this effect. Now scrub to later in your timeline and create another key frame, increasing your Max Horizontal Displacement to a point where it looks good without appearing too distorted. Set your timeline to the beginning and add a key frame for the Max Horizontal Displacement at 0. For this image, change the Displacement to Luminance. Set both your vertical and horizontal Max Displacement to 0. Go to Effect > Distort > Displacement Map and apply the effect to your image. (We’ll see a few ways around this later on.) For the first image, I chose wheat field on a foggy spring morning by contributor photonewman. Fog and clouds help too, as this doesn’t work best with leaves or other small details. Try a landscape with contrast between the sky and the ground. In order to nail this technique, it’s helpful to have the right type of image. With this tutorial, you’ll learn how to animate certain types of still photos, plus a few different ways to pull it off. Whether or not you’re a Photoshop master, there are things you can do to bring your still images to life you may not be aware of - because these techniques are performed in After Effects. ![]()
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