So I would like share how I made my first GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) that I recently uploaded to my Tumblr account. The GIF I made was a stroke of good fortune, you see during one particular shoot, we used filters on the flashes to enhance the background colors. In particular, we used a red filter over an independent flash, then a blue filter over another. The flashes were set a part from each other which turnout out to be a good thing. The result of the original photo is provided below:
As you can see it turned the setting an orange hue (if there is such a thing). After cropping and rotating the photo using Aperture, and using a pre-set color enhancer, I got this rendered piece below:
Now of late, I have been using an auto filter app called FX Photo Studio Pro, to change the hues of the photos or add some sort of graphic-like enhancement (I really do like to do this). The FX app has a setting called blue stroke, which basically pulls in the blues and mutes all other base colors. Another is red stroke, which creates a similar effect, but for red. The results are below:
Then I realized, hey, if I put these together into my handy GIF maker app called GIF Animator, it would combine the two and create a sequential flashing of red and blue in the same photo. The resulting GIF is below:
I know, GIFs have been around forever, yet once done to even one photo, the effect is quite impressive given that this is was from a photo with the inherent colors already built in. I added no color to this to make it work, merely extracted and recombined the pieces from the same photos using software.
Cool baby.
-xxx's
DK
