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A

still photo is a moment frozen in time – evoking memories

of a person, pet or place. A Live Photo from your iPhone

captures a three-second video snapshot of your subject,

creating a more accurate memory. As Live Photos are a series

of still frames you can do more with them using the Photos app.

For example, if your subject has their eyes closed you can scrub

to a frame where they have their eyes open. You can also create

animated clips to share with family and friends. These looping

or bouncing clips work well with repetitive sequences such as

a child playing on a swing. You can even use Live Photos to

simulate long exposures, a technique DSLR photographers use

to turn seas into ephemeral washes of paint-like foam.

Learn how to capture the perfect moment, produce

animations and create long exposure effects

By editing your Live Photos on your Mac, you can apply a

striking blurry effect to moving objects, such as waves

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Apple, Inc

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Edit your Live Photos

Create looping animations and exposure effects

Animate on iOS

You can also add animations or long

exposure effects to the Live Photos

on your iPhone. Go to Albums in the

iOS version of Photos. Go to the Live

Photos album and click on a thumbnail.

Swipe up. Tap Loop or Bounce to

create an animation that will play on

your phone, or Long Exposure. Tap the

Share icon to send it to friends.

Knowledge base

Key Photo

A Live Photo is a collection of

consecutive frames. A key frame is

automatically chosen to represent the

contents of a Live Photo. Choose a

better Key Photo in the Edit panel.

Export options

Here we’ve exported a Live Photo’s

manually selected Key Photo as a still .jpg

photo to send to friends. We’ve also used

Photo’s Share menu to create a looping

animated .gif file to share via social media.

Animation and effects

Using this dropdown you can

make the three-second Live Photo

loop continuously or bounce back

and forth forever. Long Exposure

combines multiple frames to

create a soft motion blur from

moving objects such as waves.

Change the

colours and tones

Although a Live Photo is

a mini movie you can edit

every frame’s colour and

tones. Adjust the colours

and tones when working

with one frame and it will

be applied to them all.