Video & Photo Tech

If you are a  regular Instagrammer , you must have seen those cool and captivating imageries on your timeline that shows beautiful images in a loop. Mostly these are of clouds floating by or of water cascading down gently over a cliff. Look closer, and you’ll know soon that these are by no means a GIF. Neither are they one of the regular videos. So, what are they? That imagery, my dear friend, is a cinemagraph. Cinemagraphs brings the best of both the worlds of  video and photos . They breathe life into the pictures, and make them more captivating. Unlike before, creating and making cinemagraphs is not rocket science today. If you have a decent Android phone and equally great photographs, you can make them in just the matter of a few minutes. In this post, we will see how to make stunning cinemagraphs on Android. But before we get down to it, let’s see how they are different from GIFs. More importantly, why making them makes more sense than using plain grainy GIFs. WHAT AR