But first, let me tell you a little bit about Cinemagraphs and Stop-Motions, so that you know what you’ll learn if you decide to sign up.

This is a cinemagraph:

It begins its life as a video and is turned into a photo with one (or more) area(s) of motion.

You can create this effect in Photoshop and export it as a GIF. This one took 20 minutes from beginning to end.

You can upload a GIF to anywhere where you can post a photo.

This is a Stop-Motion

Created an endless loop GIF.

A Stop-Motion begins its life as a series of images (usually between 30 and 150).

The images are then stitched together to create a video that can be exported as a GIF as an endless loop. This one took me 45 minutes from beginning to end.

Or as a short video file - showing a short presentation from beginning to end (scroll down to see an example)👇🏽

This is a stop-motion video:

I found it on YouTube - Puteri Soroya created it.

It’s designed to be watched from beginning to end. The artist created it to put a message across.

You can use stop-motions for all kinds of things. Here are a few ideas:

Here are ten great examples of how you can use stop-motions:

📸 Your followers love to learn more about you and your "behind the scenes" processes. A stop-motion doesn't have to be a quick sequence of movements, it can also be a photo session from start to finish, with the results at the end.

It could be:

Portrait session:

you move with the model and take a photo (or a few) each time you change the set.

Editing process from start to finish

Where you capture every little change (this can be either the photos or the photos + settings window).

Setting up a flat lay

assembling food or adding flowers in a vase.

🌻 They are a great reason to get out of a creative rut. Each one needs to be planned, created and then stitched together - each process is so fun and one I always look forward to.

🤩 They look amazing in your Instagram feed or as Instagram stories. You can also repost them over and over again because people don't remember what someone posted once as a story.

🦔 You can tell stories with them (like in the hedgehog stop motion above).

🌲 You can create them instead of sending Christmas cards and send it via an email.

🎨 It's a great way to develop your creativity.

❤️ They'll be your own favourite (I look at mine way more than any other photos I take). Plus, there aren't many artists making them, so they're still pretty unique.

💰 It can be used for advertising. I know they are very popular as Facebook ads, for example. If you have fun making it, you could even build a little side business 🤔

📚 You can use it to explain something. For example:

Cooking

• If you love to cook and want to teach people your cooking methods, you could take photos of the process instead of making a video of you talking.

• Or you could use paper cutouts of the ingredients.

If you're going on vacation.

• What are you packing.

• How are you getting there?

📣 You can create it to get a message across:

• Global warming

• The importance of family

• Healthy living.