Would any of you technically gifted members be prepared to share the stages required to achieve this. So far I have seven images of both obv and rev. The camera and the coin were on a turntable rotated under the light to keep the distance and focus the same for each image. I have Photoscape-X as downloaded software which can produce animated GIF files but am unsure as to the procedure. Any help and guidance would be gratefully received, if not openly here them by PM. Thanks in advance
I have it @expat. I'll let you know when I figure it out. It seems like making a cartoon on a... say post it pad. It's combining several photo's at increment times making it seem to move around. Here's a Help page for doing this. I hope that this will work out. PhotoScape Help
Not really but thanks. It is more to show the luster as the light moves around the coin. I think you have to load multiple images on top of each other, for the obv and then the reverse
@expat , Yes. I've seen someone here do just that. Hopefully someone will come forward as I would live to learn this as well.
Expat i have heard that people use a auto watch winder... they keep auto watches running when not worn. They make a motions that makes a coin layed on them like a elips loop of images.
you have to take a video with your camera using your hand to move it. It shouldn't go out of focus while doing it, and its not meant for the quality anyway. EDIT: or, you can move the light source while filming. Take your pick.
This is what I am trying to achieve, posted by @RonSanderson on a different thread https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/01c-1909-02-full-01-gif.1425277/
That was done by moving the light source around the coin, likely with some kind of camera setup to keep it steady.
If you read my opening post you will see that the images are already done, I need to know the steps required in the image editing program to achieve the end result. Somehow you have to have all the images merged into one and a timer of some sort to rapidly show each image with it's different light position, fraction of a second per image.
Well then... Sorry, I must have misread it. Anyways, what you should do is take a video, and not pictures. A video removes almost all the editing. But, if you are set on using pictures, her is what you need to do: Each picture will have to be cropped (or not) depending on what you want. Then, you will have to go to an app that essentially makes stop motion videos, and put all the photos in order. Or, your app may already be capable of this, in which case you will need to put the photos in and set the allotted amount of time they appear in the video. I would recommend 0.15 seconds per image. Then download the finished video. EXTRA: If you want to make it a smoother video, then copy the video and reverse it. Then just add it to the end of the first video that isn't in reverse. Then you will have a nice smooth animation. I do not know what you are able to do with PhotoScape though, so if you are unable to do a step, then it is just the software you use. I edit most videos on my phone - apps you probably won't be able to get on your pc. So all I can really say is, Good Luck.
It is too late today, but I will try to respond in a day or two. This is one quote from the thread Animation and Coin Photography: There is more discussion later in the thread about how to order the images and how to decide on the time each one should show. I am not familiar with the exact tool you are using but the general principals are worked out over a few pages in that thread.
