When a mere photo just isn’t enough, a video seems like too much, and nothing seems quite right, it’s time to contemplate creating a cinemagraph. This medium combines still photos and video in a ...

If you’ve seen any of the Harry Potter movies, then you’ve seen a cinemagraph. Remember the newspaper photographs that whimsically came to life right off the page? Luckily, you don’t have to be a full ...

Toronto-based startup Flixel has built some pretty neat apps for OS X and iOS. Today, the company is announcing a $2.2 million seed round led by Extreme Venture Partners with Cranson Capital ...

Cinemagraph Pro from Flixel adds motion to a still image. In essence you shoot a sequence of video, and then indicate the area of the image that you want to see in motion – perhaps just the hands of ...

The photograph is a powerful form to capture a moment in time. But with new digital technologies, can we do more within a photo? For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’re going to blend still and ...

Cinemagraphs are a relatively new and arty form of animated media where only a portion of the image is actually animated. Know Your Meme traces the origin back to a February 2011 post on the From Me ...

Last year, we told you how cinemagraphs — GIFs in which only a small part of a still photo is animated, creating an eerie effect — would become the hot new creative vehicle for advertisers. In March, ...

Cinemagraphs are a really compelling take on the traditional animated GIF, only showing motion in a portion of the frame to focus on a specific movement. This results in a very compelling looped ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Just yesterday, Microsoft detailed some changes coming to Cinemagraph's backend through OneDrive ...