Right first things first, I am NOT gonna cover those still
video hybrid cinemagraphs where you've got a still photo that's kind of
integrated or merged with an actual moving video components
I'm not gonna say I'm not a fan of those but I'm not gonna say I am a fan of those either
It's just each to their own and obviously if you're into it that's totally cool, but about a year ago
I went to the movies and I saw this digital massive digital poster for an upcoming blockbuster
I can't remember what the movie was
but I remember being taken aback by what I was seeing and I had to
Take a double look. I had to look again. It was a Ken Burns esque
Cinemagraph. I'm not quite sure if that's what the original cinemagraphs were
But when I did some very light research
They mostly involve a still with a video component within it and I didn't really see much or anything
actually that mention Ken Burns
But from what I saw on that digital poster, that's definitely what I was seeing. got a bit of an unsettled
I was intrigued to say the least
So yesterday I took an OK photo and I decided that this was the photo that I was gonna
Try this effect with. Right, I've already done this as you can see and I'll take you through my steps
I have a base background layer, which is my photo
And as you can see, I duplicated this two more times to make layers above. ignore this top layer. It's a tiny crop crop
Okay, let's take a look at what's happening with each of these photo layers at the base here
I have the photo and we've keyframe animated this to have a zoom in effect
So I started here at a scale of 28 and we end here at a scaled in value of
29.2 now depending on your photo size these scaling values may differ for you
I
Do however recommend that you consider keeping this subtle and not too harsh of a scale
you want the viewer to notice something's up, but you want them to
second-guess and to keep looking
Now the second layer's where we apply the masking. for this example
I masked the subject and the leaves that were more or less in focus and let's enable that so you can see it. it
Seems overwhelming but all I did was mask the subject and the leaves in focus
Let me disable the background for a second so you can see what is masked. see, subject and Leaves.
Bring that back
And for this one I set the feather to 41% and if we zoom in here
Note that I made some effort to have the inner aspect of the feather touch the objects that were being masked
Needless to say this took a while and
For this layer's animation. I essentially did the opposite as with the first layer
I created a zoom out effect for this particular one and I set my start scale to 29.5 and my end scale was
28.5 so a similar amount of zoom in the opposite direction
The location of the keyframes match as you can see as I click on each of these two layers
But their scale values, though similar, are not identical and they're reversed
Of course each photo will do best with its own specifications
And I'm sure you can figure yours out with some playing around now for some photos. I'm sure these two layers are enough
I wasn't loving it as I felt it looked a little forced So I added a third layer
This one had no animation, but the scale was set to the scale value of the second layer's start point in our case
29.5 and I edited the mask to only include the subject now
I know this is overwhelming but it's the exact same mask as the layer below
But I highlighted all the points that were irrelevant for the subject mask and I moved them over kinda like this
So what I recommend you do is once you've finished your second layer step, let me show you with a side example
Which I'll delete after. so once you're done with the second layer
Duplicate that layer and untoggle all your animations set the scale to the value you want. in my case,
it was 29.5 to match my first scale value of the second layer and
We have our mask that we can now edit as needed
Once that is done
We have our subject remaining static in frame
The InFocus elements zooming out and the background zooming in. if you want to have this looping back and forth
You can duplicate your layers
You'll notice that photos can't be time manipulates it so nest each of them. right-click nest
speed / duration and reverse
Repeat for each and I repeated this as you can see here for a loop
 
I Think there's a lot that can be played around with with this type of
Editing and as I mentioned before I think it is ... we can refer to it as a Ken Burns
Inspired cinemagraph or something of that sort. if you end up playing with this with your own photos
Let me know in the comments below or share the photos with me
It would be cool to check them out
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