IOS Live Photo is good for two reasons. First, you can often catch hilarious moments in the seconds around the photo that are usually lost in the shot. Secondly, the same moments can be turned into GIFs, which the vast majority of users do not know about.
Any Live Photo already has everything you need to animate it, including a whole host of editing features that most users don’t know about.
Open the Live Photos folder
First you need to open the Live Photos folder (or just select the Live Photo you want to edit in your album).
After you’ve selected the photo you want to edit, swipe up from the middle of the screen. This will bring up the Effects section.
The default effect will be Live, but there are three more options – Loop, Bounce, and Long Exposure. While all of these effects can be fun, you’ll want to use the Loop or Bounce effect to create your GIF.
The reason is simple. Loop plays the animation in a loop, while bounce plays it back and forth. Just choose one of these two options to create your GIF.
After that, you can find the GIF in a new folder called Animated. Do not worry; If you didn’t have this folder on your iPhone beforehand, it will be created automatically after you make these changes.
In addition to choosing how the animation works, you can apply a standard range of editing (saturation, filters, and cropping) to Live Photos while preserving the animated nature of the photo.
Open your Live Photos
folder To get started, you need to open the Live Photos folder (or select the Live Photo you want to edit from your album).
With the image you want to modify selected, swipe up from the center of the screen. This will display the Effects section.
By default, the effect will be set to Live but there are three more options – Repeat, Bounce and Long Exposure . Although all of these effects can be fun, you will need to use the Loop or Bounce effect to create a GIF.
The reason is simple. A Loop plays the movement in a loop, while bounce plays it forward and backward. Just choose one of these two options to create your GIF.
Next, you can find the GIF in a new folder called Animated . do not worry. If you don’t have this folder in iPhone before, it will be created automatically once you make these adjustments.
In addition to choosing how the animation will work, you can apply the standard range of adjustments ( Color Saturation , Filters , and Cropping
How to share
How to get involved
If Live Photos has a downside, it is that their “live” aspect is not visible to anyone outside the iOS ecosystem. However, these photos can be shared.
After editing the photo, open it in the Animated folder, and then email the file to yourself in .gif format. It’s really that simple; if you have a .gif in your email you can send it to anyone and they can view it whether they are an iOS user or not.
Keep in mind that if you try to share a Live Photo via email, it will result in a standard image file (most likely JPEG). However, if you share the photo through the Animation folder, you will get the desired result. – OS neutral GIF.
