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I am absolutely in love with this new iphone app called Flixel. It allows you to fairly quickly make animated gifs called Cinemagraphs. It’s a hair buggy still but not bad and it will work best on an iPhone 4 or 4s (I don’t think it will work on anything older than that at this point because it’s a bit memory intensive.)
Here are just a couple that I created today:
Starbucks “red eye” with cream
And “Tea Light” (get it? I have a cheesy sense of humor) 🙂
I was working on an e-newsletter for the Southland Association featuring Earth Day & Great American Cleanup events. I wanted a great graphic at the top that caught your attention and summed up what the e-newsletter was going to be about.
I started with this idea on my dry erase board (the photo isn’t the best, sorry):
And made it into this:
Yes, this is in fact an animated gif. Normally animated gif files are tacky but this one is distinctive and allows for there to be movement in an e-newsletter. The file size is small and it presents well on mobile devices such as an iphone.
To see how the graphic looks in the finished e-newsletter, click on the link below: