Photo Gif and the History of GIF's

In this lesson, we learnt how to turn film footage into a GIF.
Firstly we chose a random clip and imported it into Adobe Photoshop by going to:

File - Import - Video Frames to Layers 

We then made adjustments, such as ticking the

Limit to every ... frames

and inserted how many frames we wanted. and also pressed:

Selected Range Only

which allowed us to choose how much of the clip we wanted to import.

Then Photoshop automatically sorts them into layers and adds them into a timeline. We didn't want to edit the footage, so went straight to 'save for web' and saved it as a GIF using the same process we did for the test GIF.

History of GIF's

A GIF is a photograph that has the ability to move. It is a n image that has been coded using the graphics interchange format, which has multiple frames encoded into a single image file, and can be played by a web browser.

The advantages to using the GIF format is that you can get a moving image into a small file, it can play automatically, and constantly, you have the ability to make moving images, and you can play them on sites which don't allow video formats, yet GIF and image formats.

Here is an image from a GIF artist called Julian Glander. This image most likely consists of only a couple of frames, and is fairly motionless in comparison to many other GIF's you can find on the web. What I admire about this GIF, is that it is being used as a form of art, and just by having the glowing motion, it enhances the images visual interest, and exaggerates the fact these are ghost-like beings. The GIF also flows extremely well (maybe due to the pace or amount of frames). I admire the simplicity of the GIF, as some can be to busy or fast paced, but this is easy and comfortable to look at.

Although GIF's is create for re-creating or creating humorous moments, I think it can also be a form of art and expression, depending on what the person has done with it.