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Create a time-lapse style effect with some simple video effects in Photoshop.
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Topic: Clouds Video
Create a time-lapse style effect with some simple video effects in Photoshop.
When to use
Photoshop is great for combining still images with video footage. Learn how to import video images, and export to new formats.
Instructions
Import images and video in Photoshop
- Drag in the files.
Edit the still image
- Use Magic Wand tool with Tolerance set 15.
- Holding down the shift key click on the sky and clouds to remove them from the image.
- Go to Menu/Layer/New/Layer via Copy.
Edit the sky video
- Drag in the video file from other tab.
- In layer menu drag right click and select ‘Create a Clipping’ mask.
Animate the sky changing
- Menu/Window/Timeline.
- Press the ‘Create Video Timeline’ button, select ‘Create Video Timeline’.
- Click on the dropdown at the top right corner of the animation panel and select ‘Document Settings’.
- Change the duration to same as the video file
Fade-in animation
- In Timeline expand the video layer, click on the ‘Opacity’ stopwatch icon.
- Go to 0 Seconds. Set opacity to 0%
- Go to 3 Seconds. Set opacity to 100%
Add still image adjustment animation
- Still image add an exposure adjustment layer.
- Decrease the exposure and increase the gamma slightly.
- In timeline expand the adjustment layer, click on the ‘Opacity’ stopwatch icon.
- Go to 0 Seconds. Set opacity to 0%
- Go to 3 Seconds. Set opacity to 100%
Export as video
- Press the arrow at the bottom of the timeline or Menu/File/Export/Render Video.
- Set name and render location.
- In dialogue box set to H.264.
- Change size if desired.
- Press Render.
- 00:04 Hey, everyone.
- 00:05 When people hear the word Photoshop, most immediately associate it
- 00:08 with image editing and 98% of the time they'd be correct.
- 00:12 However, there are a few features that Adobe included in Photoshop to
- 00:15 appeal to a much wider range of customers, such as video editing.
- 00:19 In this video, we're gonna take a look at how we can create a time-lapse style
- 00:22 effect using a still image and stock video.
- 00:26 I have to note before I go on,
- 00:27 not all versions of Photo Shop will have the video editing capabilities.
- 00:31 If you're running the extended version of Photoshop,
- 00:33 you'll be able to follow along with no issue.
- 00:36 The standard version however, doesn't have the same functionality.
- 00:39 Importing video footage into Photoshop works just like it does for images.
- 00:42 You can either open them through the File menu or
- 00:45 simply drag them right into Photoshop.
- 00:47 Let's focus on the image before we touch the video.
- 00:50 In this image, we're going to be replacing the current sky with the clouds footage,
- 00:54 so we need to isolate the sky from the rest of the image.
- 00:57 This can be done in a variety of ways, but because the sky is fairly uniform,
- 01:01 I'm gonna grab my magic wand tool and with tolerance set to 15.
- 01:05 Start clicking in the areas that you want selected.
- 01:07 Once you make your first selection,
- 01:09 make sure to hold down your Shift key to include the other areas that you click.
- 01:12 Make sure that you include all traces of sky which may be hiding in
- 01:15 between fences and such.
- 01:17 Any little bit that may be left behind will throw off the whole effect.
- 01:20 Good. Now that the selection is complete,
- 01:22 we need to separate it from the rest of the image.
- 01:24 This can be done by copying the selection onto a new layer.
- 01:27 Head up to the Layer menu, down to New and then over to Layer via Copy.
- 01:31 Or you can use the shortcut key, Cmd or Ctrl+J.
- 01:35 Perfect. It's time to bring in our video.
- 01:37 Hopping over to the tab that contains our video file, we can simply drag the layer
- 01:41 containing our video right over to our document which contains our image.
- 01:45 Once it's there, place the video so that it covers the whole entire sky.
- 01:49 Once it's in place, in your Layers Panel, right-click on the Video Layer and
- 01:52 create a Clipping Mask.
- 01:54 This will place the video of the clouds inside the sky which we
- 01:57 extracted a few moments ago.
- 01:59 Good. So now, how do we play this thing?
- 02:01 We need to bring up our Animation panel.
- 02:03 This can be done by heading up to Window and then down to Animation.
- 02:07 When the Animation panel appears,
- 02:08 let's go over a few things which can help in your editing.
- 02:11 First, the most obvious is the Play button, which can
- 02:14 also be triggered by tapping your space bar, this will playback your video.
- 02:17 Now you might have just noticed that our clouds have disappeared,
- 02:21 this is because the video file is five seconds long but
- 02:24 the duration of the document is at the ten seconds.
- 02:26 To correct this, click on the drop-down menu at the top-right corner of your
- 02:30 Animation panel, choose Document Settings and change the Duration accordingly.
- 02:34 I'm gonna drop it down to five seconds.
- 02:36 The next thing that we're going to look at is how we
- 02:38 can fade our video layer in or out.
- 02:41 Beside the video layer in our Animation panel,
- 02:43 click on the arrow to expand it's contents.
- 02:45 We want to adjust the Opacity.
- 02:48 Clicking on the clock icon will add our first key frame to
- 02:51 help us adjust our Opacity.
- 02:53 When the key frame is added, set the Opacity of the video layer to how you
- 02:57 want it to appear when the video starts.
- 02:59 In this case, I'm gonna start the video with the sky in its clear state.
- 03:02 So I'm gonna set the opacity at zero percent.
- 03:05 Now, move your playhead to the point where you want the clouds to be 100% visible.
- 03:10 I'm gonna set it around three seconds.
- 03:12 Now beside the clock there is an upwards arrow, might be a little bit difficult to
- 03:15 see, this will add an additional key frame where your play head is.
- 03:19 When the new key frame is added, set the Opacity back up to 100%.
- 03:22 Playing back our video, we can now see the clouds gradually fade into view.
- 03:27 It may be a little bit choppy the first time we play it as Photoshop is
- 03:30 rendering the video.
- 03:32 This also works with adjustment layers.
- 03:34 Obviously, if the sky is getting dark and
- 03:36 gloomy, we need to adjust our image as well.
- 03:38 In your Layers panel, select your Background image and
- 03:41 then add an adjustment layer.
- 03:42 To make things simple, let's add an Exposure adjustment.
- 03:45 To darken your image a bit, decrease your Exposure and
- 03:48 then slightly increase your Gamma.
- 03:50 That should leave you with a slightly darker background image.
- 03:53 Now, just like we did for the video player, we need to key the opacity.
- 03:57 Expand that layer's contents in the Animation panel.
- 04:00 Add a key frame at the beginning of the video, and
- 04:02 then change the starting Opacity to zero percent.
- 04:05 Now, add the second key frame at the three second mark and
- 04:08 change the Opacity back up to 100%.
- 04:12 Our video is complete.
- 04:14 To save it, instead of going to File and
- 04:16 then Save, we wanna go down a little bit more to Export and then Render Video.
- 04:20 Enter a File name, choose where you wanna save it and
- 04:23 then choose your compression method.
- 04:25 QuickTime movie with an H.264 code.
- 04:27 That usually works quite well.
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