- Is anybody else's hair getting this bad, so long.
What's up guys, it's Andy Feliciotti.
Have you ever heard of a time slice photo?
I actually hadn't heard of one until my buddy Adam posted
these awesome photos.
It's basically like taking different slices of time
hence the time slicing.
I like the effect so, let's learn how to make one.
And what better way to learn than giving him a call.
Okay, so Adam, how do you take time slice photos?
- So, basically I choose a building or something
that has light specifically that it's gonna like become
very obvious when it becomes dark outside.
I take as many shots as I can to sort of get that transition
from day to night or at night to day depending
on when I'm shooting.
- So, how long do you actually shoot for?
- For the ones that I've posted on Instagram recently,
it was about, think an hour and a half.
And I took a shot basically every five minutes.
- Right it's on sunset screen you just draw like an hour
30 or 40 minutes before?
- Yeah, I usually get there maybe 20 to 30 minutes
before sunset, whatever it says on like my iPhone
sunset will be and then I go until past blue hour
to like where you know you're starting to see stars
and the streetlights are very clear.
- More night weighted is better?
- Yeah, I think so just to get that dramatic kind of effect.
- And do you use like a remote for your photos to take
like constant every five minutes?
Or do you just--
- No, I'm pretty, not technologically savvy,
so I just set a five minute timer on my phone,
and then I stand up to take picture.
- Okay, well, it seems easy enough.
So you probably need about like 10 to 20 photos.
- Yeah, I would say the bare minimum you need like five,
you know, covering that whole space,
but I think you usually end up with about 15 to 20.
- So, once you actually get all the photos, do you edit them
in Lightroom and then put them in Photoshop?
Or do you just put them all in Photoshop?
- No, I take them in the Lightroom,
I usually crop them for Instagram.
And you know I'm doing all this with sync and I do like
the basic like tweaks to the horizon and everything.
Once that's done and it's been sharpened,
I try and open it as layers in Photoshop.
And that's where I start doing actual slicing.
- And then how do you actually slice them in self?
- If I'm just doing the like straight rectangular bars,
I just take the rectangular selection tool,
and I draw a box, layer mask it,
and then I draw another box layer mask it.
The easiest way to figure it out is to use the rulers
to figure out exactly how wide your photo is
and then divide that by the number of photos that you have.
And that'll tell you the size of the box that you need
to draw and I make a layer mask.
I usually apply it to the next slide, move it one sort of
deviation to the right, and then do it to the next image
and type on through all the images.
- And that's all you do basically after that?
- I do add drop shadows to each of the layers.
I've seen other people, you know, blended with gradients.
Recently, I've been playing around with different shapes
like doing, you know, sort of square, toe centric squares
moving out from the center and kind of really get creative
with it at that point.
- All right cool, I think that's everything we need to know.
Cool, thanks Adam.
So now that we have all the tips that we need
from Adam, let's work on our own time size photo.
Now, it is currently raining and sad and overcast in DC.
So, I'm actually gonna use photos
that I have previously in my library.
Obviously, if you've done time lapses before, you probably
have a few photos laying around that is perfect for this.
So, let's head into Lightroom and Photoshop
and start working on our photo.
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And you can see now I have Lightroom open here
and I have 17 images of the capital we're gonna use.
And that's between the 15 to 20 that Adam recommended.
And you can see it's over time here.
Just go through them real quick.
So now I'm gonna edit all the photos
in Lightroom real quick.
And of course, when you edit one of your photos,
you can just highlight the rest and right click
and do development settings and paste settings.
That way it'll save you time when you're trying to make them
all look the same with the same edit.
This is looking pretty good.
So, let's go through and just double check everything.
So I like the way that this turned out.
So now let's open it in Photoshop.
And you can do that by just selecting all your photos
right clicking, and clicking Edit In
and then Open as Layers in Photoshop.
So now that we have all of our layers in Photoshop,
we actually have to calculate how wide each slice will be.
And this can easily be done by using the calculator.
But first, you're gonna have to get the width of your image.
And that can be done by going to Image, Image Size.
And you can see here the width of our image is about 4000.
So we're gonna copy that number,
and we're gonna head over to a calculator.
And so we'll paste in our width here, and then we'll divide
it by the number of photos we have, and that's 17.
So you can see here that the widths have to be around 226.
So, just go ahead and make your selection
and you can see in Photoshop, it pops up with the width,
so we can just see the amount of width we need to get here
and we'll get 226.
And if it's too hard to actually get it exact
with your mouse, you can also right click
and hit Transform Selection, and you can type it up here
in the width section.
And that will give you an exact width also.
So now here we have our slice.
So now we have to go through and make a mask for each layer
and that can be done by just clicking the mask button here.
So now we've made our first mask.
So it looks like our first slice is coming through.
And now let's go through to the second one,
you can quickly do this by just dragging the masks around.
So I'm holding option on Mac, and I'm dragging it
to the next one.
You can see here, it's still on the left.
But if we unlock the layer mask layer,
by clicking the little chain icon here,
we can actually drag over the mask.
So you can see here we're moving this slice around.
So all I have to do is drag the slice over 226 pixels again.
And then we'll just copy it again.
And we'll repeat that process for all the layers.
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So, I think this is starting to look pretty good.
Now we're gonna actually add the shadow
that Adam recommended to about a 50% opacity.
And we can do this by going to the first layer,
just double click the little image,
and then we'll have the Layer Style effects.
And we do a drop shadow, and you can see here
it gave us a shadow, and then you can just pick
the settings that you want.
So I'm gonna do distance zero, size we'll do about 50.
And we'll do about a 50% opacity.
So you can see here, the little rim.
Actually, let's lower this size here.
I think that looks pretty good.
So hit OK.
And then we can copy this effect to all the layers
by right clicking on the Layer and hitting Copy Layer Style,
and then selecting the rest of our layers,
and right clicking and doing Paste Layer Style.
And then you can see we have a perfectly timed sliced image.
And after hitting save, it'll actually save it back
into your Lightroom library.
And here you can add more coloring or effects or anything
you would in Lightroom of course, and then you could export
your photo like you normally would in Lightroom.
Now what's fun about this effect
is there's so many different styles you can do,
different slices, different directions, different shapes,
as you can see how Adam did it
with the shadow on each slice.
So if you wanna make one that is actually smooth
in between the transitions, so it looks like one image.
I'll show you that right now.
So I'm gonna go through and remove the effects
that we just added.
You can see here we have the slices in a little sliver,
we're actually gonna have to go through and add
in the area to the left of each slice.
So if you select the mask by clicking it
and then select area to the left and hitting delete.
And you can see it's adding more white area here,
you got to make sure that you have black and white
as your primary is like this 'cause if you do black here,
when you hit delete, it will add black.
So just make sure that you have white
as your secondary color in Photoshop.
So now let's go through and do that for each layer.
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And you can see that we're doing it correct
just by looking at this little area down here.
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So you can see the image looks the same right now.
And that's a good thing.
But what we're gonna do is actually go to the first one,
double click the mask, and that'll give us
the properties for the mask.
And you can see here under Feather,
it'll actually add a blur.
And you can see that actually blurring the area over here.
Definitely play around this because it's gonna depend
on what kind of photo you have.
I noticed for my photo about 100 pixels is good,
and then we'll copy and then we'll do that for each layer.
And you can see here now it's smoothing out and looking
more granular rather than having those steep
effects as before.
And boom, now you have a granular effect now it looks all
like it was taking at the same time.
So in addition to this effect, you can also do different
things like different shapes,
Adam did a really cool one with squares.
So let's try one with actually doing a circle for our image.
So since the middle point of our image is the capital
we'll actually select that as the middle.
So I'm gonna do a circle, select tool here,
and then select the middle.
And you can see here it does this, but if you hold option,
and it'll actually center from the middle,
and then we'll hold Shift, and then we'll just do this.
This will actually make it all the same proportions.
So once you select the first part of your image,
create a mask like before, and we actually hold Option
and select our old mask here.
So now that we have the selection picked,
we can just right click and do Transform Selection
and increase the size again.
And then we'll do the same thing, create a new mask.
And then we'll do the same thing over and over.
And there we have a more radial effect for your transition.
Now I know this is a lot of repetitive tasks.
So whenever there's also some apps that you can use
to do this automatically.
So let me show you another one that I found.
It's actually called Time Slice Studio
now, this is not free.
But this actually will make the process completely
automated for you.
This app will actually let you pick
a range of options, including circular ones,
like we just did, you can turn off the shadow,
you can do linear, radial, all types of effects.
This definitely is a way easier way to do this
if you don't want to sit in Photoshop all day,
and you can do slants and things like that.
And that app makes it really easy to export your image.
Just automatically if you don't wanna deal
with doing everything manually.
This app is probably a better option if you have like 50
to 100 images because it would take a really long time
to do it in Photoshop.
So as you can see, there's tons that you can do
with this technique, especially during these times
of staying creative at home.
Definitely a fun thing to do, especially if you have a lot
of old images you want to go through.
Special thanks to Adam brocket for giving us his tips.
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