Animated GIFs for Instagram in Photoshop

Overview

“In this lesson I will cover how to efficiently cut out each individual object and it’s shadow so that they can be easily moved around later. I will also discuss how to load all of these individually cut-out files into one single layered file within photoshop so that you are ready to start animating.”

In this video lesson Andre Rucker addresses the topic: Cutting Out Objects, which is part of the Domestika online course: Animated GIFs for Instagram in Photoshop. Learn how to photograph, edit, and animate still life photography to create engaging GIFs for social media.

Partial transcription of the video

“Cutting Out Objects We went over processing images. Now, we'll get into cutting out individual objects in Photoshop. You can open Photoshop and find your files that you had just output. Select all of them and you drag them onto your Photoshop icon. That should load each of these images in its own individual tab. So, what we need to do now is cut out each one of these individual pieces. You can select your background layer here. Drag it down to this + sign and that will duplicate the layer. You have this second layer on top and you can go to Quick Actions and you can click Select Subject. So...”

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Course summary for: Animated GIFs for Instagram in Photoshop

• Level: Beginner
• 94% positive reviews (120)
• 2603 students
• 5 units
• 18 lessons (1h 17m)
• 5 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Animation, Instagram, Photography, Product Photography, Social Media, Social Media Design, Stop Motion