How to Create a Time-Lapse Video from Photographs in Photoshop
December 6th, 2012 Leave a comment
Time-lapse photography videos are all the rage these days… Here is one of our recent favorites from Norwegian landscape photographer Terje Sorgjerd – incredibly beautiful and perfect for the season (watch full-screen):
Prior to the extensive video editing tools added in CS6, Photoshop wasn’t normally known for its video capabilities – but in fact it’s always been quite easy to take a series of still photographs (edited as desired) and then quickly create your own timelapse video using Photoshop Extended… This will work in the Photoshop CS3, CS4, CS5, or CS6 releases – and Extended is not required if you have CS6, as the standard version can do video as well.
Photoshop guru Russell Brown gives the details below on how to make and export your own creation:
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can’t see the 2nd video (Russell Brown) :/
Hmm, that’s strange – it should work fine in all browsers, even in those that don’t have Flash installed like on the iPad tablet…
For the second (tutorial) video, try the direct link instead here.
How is the time-lapse of the first video done? I kinda read somewhere that some time-lapse panning are done with sliders or on Photoshop Extended from a series of still pictures.
Can you show me or point me to the right direction where I can learn both? I am keen to learn.
sorry… I meant I am keen to learn how to create panning time-lapse. I have no idea where to start. :(
Thanks!
Sure Thomas… Here are a couple of interesting stories covering your multitude of options:
How can I make a time lapse photo series that pans across the images?
Build cheap panning camera mounts for time lapse photography
Plus a nice video for more on using Photoshop:
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Thanks for the reply and the links. I have done some research about panning time-lapse photography. Learned about those sliders devices (they don’t come cheap) might need to save up for these gadgets.
As for the video, thanks. I have watched the video but unfortunately it has nothing to do with creating a panning time-lapse video from the still images, the video talks about correction of white-balance and sharpening of the still images. Appreciate your help and thoughts. Will keep looking for the Photoshop CS5 tutorials (if there are any out there).
CHEERS!
Really cool videos, thanks for posting them