As promised, here is a tutorial on how to make your still photos animated with an app called Plotagraph! The feature works best on photos with water (like all of my waterfall pics on Instagram) or clouds!
If you found this tutorial useful, please consider crediting me on an animated post, since this is not a sponsored post (AKA I’m not making money or gaining anything), and I just made it since so many people wanted to know how to do it too! <3
Below is also the written steps and photos, but the video above is better!
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1. Upload a photo that you’ve already edited
2. Use the mask tool to block the person/object you want to remain still
4. Use the anchor dots to outline where you don’t want the movement to go past
5. Use the animate tool to tap, hold, and drag arrows in the direction that you want the animations to move
This was so fun to see how you make these awesome photos. I downloaded the app and have had a blast playing with it. Thanks Alyssa!
Awesome! Thank You! I’ve been wondering how to do this for ages!
Glad you found it helpful, Jena!
That is such a cool trick. Will definitely try this one out. Have you tried it with other ‘moving’ objects?
So helpful thank you for sharing. ????????????
Welcome, enjoy!
This is amazing thanks for sharing! Definitely going to give this a shot with my own photos (I’ll make sure to give you a shout out 😉 )
Thanks Brian!
hello! I just downloaded this amazing app and I cant wait to use it 🙂 thanks for all your tips
Thanks Silvie!
Love your blog, Alyssa! Great photos and adventures
Thank you so much Heidi!
Wow! I love your pictures on Instagram and your blog! To be honest, until now I thought that somebody edits your pictures for you. Apparently, I was mistaken 🙂 Thank you for sharing your tips. You are awesome.
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Haha thank you! And yes, I take and edit all of my own photos! 😀
Hi,
This is an off the topic question but I hardly see it addressed on the many full-time traveler blogs I follow. I think your lifestyle is totaly doable but I have one fear and that is what to do about health insurance. How do you handle health insurance when you’re travelling? Where does your coverage come from and what is covered? Might be a great topic for a new post!
Thanks,
Melissa
Hi Melissa! I have travel insurance through Allianz (I have 2 blog posts with further details) for emergencies, and then I have regular health insurance in the US. Usually general health care is extremely cheap abroad so the travel insurance is enough 🙂
Ooh loopsie, cool. Must go check that out. Thanks, Alyssa!
You’re welcome, Ciara! Glad you found it helpful!
I’ve been wanting to learn how to do this for ages! Thanks girl!
Easy but fun, you’re gonna love it! You’re welcome! 🙂
You are one amazing person on earth for sharing this to us, your followers! Thanks bunch
Yeahhhh!!! Can’t wait to try this out! Thank you!
🙂 You’re welcome!
Yay! Have fun!!!
$6.99
free would have been better ?
Me getting paid by the app to make a tutorial and get thousands of people to sign up would have been the best! But we can’t win everything! lol
Thank you very much for this tutorial. It is very helpful. I really like your animated photos and it’s great that you share it with us. Unfortunately this app is not available for Android. Thanks again for the tutorial 🙂
Aww thank you for taking the time to still watch the tutorial and leave a comment! Very kind of you! I believe there is a somewhat similar app for Android called “Loopsie”!
Awww thank you for still watching the tutorial and commenting! That’s very kind of you! Someone said there is a similar app for Android called “Loopsie”!
This is awesome thanks for sharing ?
Glad you like it! Thanks for watching!
Awesome!!! Thank you for doing this blog!
Thanks for reading/watching! 🙂