Live Photos: Motion effects - iOS Tutorial

- [Instructor] In addition to trimming and setting a key photo, there are also some motion effects that can be applied to live photos that can transform them in interesting ways. Let's check it out. The best thing about the motion effects is just how easy they are to apply. You don't even need to go into the editing section of the Photos app. Just open up a live photo into the large view and swipe up to show the additional options. Here you can find the effects that are on the menu. There's a loop, a bounce effect and a long exposure effect. Let's try the loop effect with this image. I took this for a project where I had a smoke bomb inside that glass box with the hat on top and this is looking really cool with the looping effect. Just looks like that smoke is continuously pouring out of that box. Very mysterious. Let's go and look at a different photo to explore the bounce effect. And the bounce effect is kind of gimmicky. It's just a repetition of a forward and reverse motion, a little bit like the boomerang effect on Instagram but sometimes it can be kind of fun especially with pictures of people. Let's take a look at another image where the bounce effect works really well. So once you know what these effects look like, you can kind of plan out the photos to take advantage of that. Let's go and look at a long exposure effect. So here's just a simple shot of cars on the freeway at twilight and we will set this to long exposure. Now, if you've ever done long exposures with a traditional camera, you'll know that something is missing here and what's missing is the presence of red light trails from the tail lights of the cars. We should be seeing those going all the way down the length of the freeway and down around the corner. The reason we're not seeing them here is because the cars were moving much too fast in order to even render in the long exposure effect. So just keep that in mind, you need to have pretty slow motion for it to show up in the long exposure effect or at least motion that happens in one place such as this image here of the stream. The camera was on a tripod when I did this and since this is continuous motion in the same place, it works very well with the long exposure effect. So this is really what you might expect to see if you did a long exposure with a traditional camera. That beautiful blurred silk and water around the very sharp rock and the leaves on top of the rock; really, really a nice effect with this image. Once an effect is applied to a live photo, it is placed in albums that can be found in the media types group of albums. Here, you'll find the long exposure album and the animated album for images with a loop or a bounce effect. The live photos effects are non-destructive and can be changed at any time as long as the photos are on your iOS device or you're editing them in a comparable version of the Photos program on a Mac. If you apply a motion effect to a live photo and share with someone via the airdrop feature, they will be able to see the effect but they will not be able to change it to a different motion effect. Sharing a live photo with a loop or a bounce effect to Facebook will translate it into a short video clip. Unfortunately, you cannot share a loop or a bounce live photo directly to Instagram. Even if one of those effects is applied, the shared result on Instagram will be a still photo. The workaround for that is to save the live photo with a loop or a bounce effect to the Files app and this action will create a video clip and you can see that here. If I go into the Files app, this is one with a loop effect that I saved earlier. And from here, you can tap the Share or Export button up in the upper right and there's an option there to save video and then you can post that to your Instagram. Other apps, such as imgPlay will allow you to import live photos and then export longer video clips or save it as an animated GIF. Live photos can be very effective for certain types of subjects and the motion effects are a nice way to have some fun and transform them in different ways.