- What's up everybody?
Peter McKinnon here and today we're talking about
how you can take photos that you've already taken
and animate them within Photoshop,
bringing them to life, making them almost 3D-like.
It's super awesome, it's a little bit trippy,
and it's actually really easy to do.
So, pwah, let's go!
(rock music)
Welcome back, everybody, Monday morning,
to another tutorial.
I'm excited about this one, this one is super cool.
Now, I'll be the first to say
this isn't something I invented,
I didn't create this method, this has been done before,
it's been done by so many people,
it's been taught by so many people.
It's a very popular effect to apply to your photographs.
It's called the 2.5D Parallex effect.
Now, before you think, "ah, this sounds confusing,
"I don't know if I'm gonna like it,"
or if you think, "ah, I already know how to do that",
here's the thing: there's so many ways
to do the same thing within this industry.
There's hard ways to do it, there's fast ways to do it,
there's easy ways to do it, but there's so many roads
to the same finish line, and that's what's amazing.
So today we're gonna focus on the easier method.
Now, the convoluted method was,
would be using After Effects,
and it gets a little complicated,
but I think easing you guys into this
and starting you off a little bit smaller,
more of like an understanding of what it is that we're doing
and how the animation works, and how key frames work,
and stuff like that, is gonna help you
when we get to the more complicated version,
which is using After Effects, in my opinion.
Okay, so, what is this, how, what are we doing right here?
So check out this image:
here's a picture of me standing in front of Lake Louise,
just checking it out.
Now, when you're including images in video
people really only do a few things:
they either zoom that image out slowly,
maybe zoom it in slowly, maybe pan left to right,
that Ken Burns jazz effect, you know, you've seen it.
But you don't really see anything else.
So, how do we edit videos and include photos
in those videos but make it more exciting?
So you can do something like this.
Here's that same photo but now the foreground
is moving at a different pace
and transforming at a different size
than the background, which is also transforming
and moving at its own pace and size.
So you see that weird, trippy, it's not 3D,
but it's like almost 3D, that 2.5D.
Here's another example.
This was a couple hours later, a storm broke out.
You got those mountains moving,
you got the water expanding at a different rate,
which almost makes it look like it's moving.
It's just a really cool, clever, unique way
to display your photographs within a video.
Now you can post this on Facebook too,
you can post these on Instagram.
They don't have to be included
within another video like this.
But this is a great way to display
and showcase your images within a video
that's not just that classic pan, zoom, nah, whatever.
Super easy to do, not as hard as you think,
and the best part is it uses images
that you've already taken.
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All right, now bef ...
why did I, why am I always doing this?
It's like I'm (whimpers).
Before we jump into Photoshop,
it's important that you pick
the right image to do this with.
An image with a very clear foreground and background
is going to be easiest.
I used this Lake Louise picture because
my body's the focal point and the background
is all bokeh, or "bo-kay", I guess,
I don't even know, how do you guys say that, by the way?
I've always said "boca", then I hear "bo-kay"
and I'm like, hmmm?
But the background is that nice blurred effect,
it's all blown out, the foreground's very very clear,
so it's gonna make it easy to cut out.
If you've got a photo like this
where it's a little more busy
and there's different things to cut out,
and focus is kind of all over the place,
it's gonna be a little more of a challenge.
There's not a very distinctive background to foreground.
So it's important that you get an image
that's gonna make it a little easier on you.
So grab that image, open up Photoshop,
and let's animate some photos.
Alright, once you have selected a photo
that you are happy with to animate,
bring that into Photoshop and then head over here
to the left side, select the pen tool,
and then just choose an area on the photo to start,
zoom in, you can hit command plus on your keyboard
to zoom in there, and I am gonna start
right over here on top of my head with my hat.
And literally at this point you're just making your way
around the whole shape, whatever it is
that you're cutting out in the foreground,
just take your time, be slow with it,
don't worry, it takes a little while.
But the neater that you do this
the better the outcome's gonna be.
You don't wanna go into the background at all,
you wanna try and stay as close and perfect,
true to that edge as you can.
If you need to move down the screen
while you're making these anchor points
you can hold the space bar and that opens a little hand,
and you can just drag anywhere you want on the image
to get some more room, and then continue making your points.
If you wanna curve one of those points
just select a bigger distance in between.
Click once, the second one you drag like this,
and then you finish off that tail end
by holding option and adjust it back to its track,
so you're back on track essentially making those points.
Again, space bar to move this down,
bigger points here because the arm is a little larger,
there's not as many curves.
Slowly making our way down here.
And let's go ahead and speed this up
so you guys don't have to watch
for the next 10 minutes me making anchor points.
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Okay, when you get close to that first point
you started with, click on it,
and then what you're gonna do is right click
after you've joined that.
You're gonna chose make selection.
Change the feather radius to like one pixel
is what I like to have, I think it's a good safe spot
is around one, and then hit okay.
Now what you wanna do is you want to copy this,
so command C on your keyboard,
then come down here to the new layers panel
and you're gonna select a new layer,
and you're just gonna paste that on with command V.
Alright, so, make sure you're on the background layer,
command click on the top layer you made
to load the selection, still on the background layer,
then hit shift delete, that opens up the content-aware fill.
Select content-aware, hit okay, and what that's gonna do
is it's gonna fill in the background on that bottom layer
so if you hide the top,
here you go, look, we're gone, boop!
Now, you could pretty much, you could be done at this point.
It's a little bit sloppy, you don't have to go in,
but what I like to do is actually his S on the keyboard,
which gives you your clone stamp,
and then I just like to go through,
you use alt as the target and you pick a spot
like right there, alt, click, and then
it's gonna clone stamp the area.
Now I do this pretty fast, just a quick and dirty job.
You don't have to do this but I feel like
it just tightens it up a little bit,
it makes it a little bit better for that final edit.
It's one less thing to maybe show up
as an imperfection when I'm putting these in my videos
or uploading them to social media, anything like that.
So I just clone stamp around,
try to get rid of that hard edge outline like right here.
Again, you hold down alt, it brings up a little target,
you click the area you want to clone
and then you click normally and it stamps that area in.
There's the target, click, target, click, target, click.
So on and so forth.
Alright, once you are finished and happy
head over to new, select new document
and we're gonna make that the same size
as our files in premiers, we're gonna go ahead
and make that width 1920 by 1080.
And then change the resolution to 72
because we're not printing this, so there you go, boom.
Now, grab that other document you opened,
pull it into the window so that you can see the two layers,
select them both and drag them into the new document
you just made, the 1920x1080.
So if we hit command T on our keyboard
we can see the full size of that.
You can hold shift and drag that down so it fits,
scale to size, I just like to make it
right about there, perfect.
Hit enter once you're happy, a little bit more, enter.
So go ahead and right click on these layers,
layer three, create, convert to smart object,
and you're gonna do that for the background as well,
convert to smart object.
Lets you scale the image without losing any quality.
You're gonna go up to window and choose timeline
and, wait for it, boom.
Create video timeline and (gasps)
we now have a video editor within Photoshop.
So to speak (chuckles).
Go ahead and drop down layer three,
make sure that play head's at the beginning,
and then what you wanna do is click the transform stopwatch
which makes a key frame, all right?
Grub that to the very end, command T,
and then just change the foreground subject
to whatever size you want.
So let's scale it down to here, let's move back to center.
Now that makes a key frame, so when we drag this back
and hit play, you can see it animating
from the size it was to the size we just made it.
Now we do the same thing with the background.
We drop down that layer, hit transform stopwatch
which gives us a key frame, and then what we're gonna do
is we're gonna make that command T one more time,
so we're gonna drag this to the end,
hit command T to bring up that size.
We're gonna scale up the background.
So the background's moving up
and the foreground's moving down,
so it's gonna give us this trippy weird
Parallax kind of dolly zoom effect.
Now if we scroll all the way
back to the beginning and hit play, that looks crazy.
Might be going a little bit too fast.
No worries, you can easily make that adjustment
by keeping that play head at the end.
Command T again, and what we'll do
is we'll just scale that up
so that the zoom isn't happening as fast.
So it's just less zoom over the same amount of time,
so then, now when we play that you can see
it looks a lot slower, looks a lot better.
Now we could probably do the same thing
with the top layer, just make it a little more subtle.
So like I said, you click on that key frame.
You can delete it if you want, command T,
and we'll just start over by just scaling that down.
That's enough, that's probably good right there,
which makes your key frame.
Now when we hit play, very very subtle
but looks a lot better, it looks a little more trippy,
a little less amateur when it's subtle,
slight, intentional movements.
Alright, so when you're happy with that
hit file, go down to export and choose render video.
You can go over here, there's a YouTube preset,
but it has it at 29.97.
My timelines are usually 23.97,
so I'm gonna change that right here, the frame rate.
I'm gonna name this too:
LakeLouise1.
Save to the desktop, hit render,
and you just wait it out, good to go.
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So that's it for me, guys, I hope you liked this video.
The best part about it for me is that
now you can go back through your entire catalogue
or your library, and you're gonna start
looking at your photos in a new way that you haven't before.
'Cause now you're gonna look at them
trying to find those things that are gonna stand out
as animations for this 2.5D effect,
which is super cool 'cause you get to go through
your stuff again and be like, (gasps) "that would be great!"
Try it out, post it on Facebook, Instagram,
throw it in your videos, whatever.
I hope you guys get some use out of it.
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and, and, see you guys tomorrow.
You guys know I have a little monitor right here, right?
Like I watch, I watch to make sure I'm in focus
and stuff like that, but in the background,
where is it, this side, this side?
Right there, that's my Chemex that I make my coffee in,
and it's empty, and throughout this tutorial
I just kept looking back and forth at the Chemex,
thinking, that needs to be full.
And to think I've only had one cup today, woo!
What's it gonna be like when I have two?
I almost feel bad for everybody I know.
Almost is the key word there (chuckles).