Swipe upwards on the photo (not the bottom of your display) and you'll reveal an interface underneath the photo. Pocket-lint How do you create Loop, Bounce and Long Exposure effects?Īfter taking your Live Photo, head to your Photos gallery and choose the photo you want to add the effect to. Note: Live Photos don't work in any of the other modes so if you are taking a picture in Square mode, you won't have the option of Live Photos. Once that's activated, all you have to do is take a photo by pressing the shutter button, or by clicking one of the volume buttons on your phone. When it's not activated, it's got a diagonal line through it, but that disappears when you switch it on. This looks like a set of diffused rings in the camera toolbar at the top of your display when you're in the Photo mode. In your iPhone camera app, make sure the Live Photo capture option is enabled. Live Photos still operates this way, but in 2017 Apple added a few new video/photo effects and transitions to make more use of the technology. Once done, it selects the one image from that collection of frames that it thinks is the best. It does this by capturing a few frames of video before and after you press the shutter button.
Live Photos was originally designed as a way to ensure that you don't miss the perfect shot when you snap a photo on your iPhone.
Here's how to use the Loop, Bounce and Long Exposure Live Photo effects and how to share them. They're called: Loop, Bounce and Long Exposure.
(Pocket-lint) - Apple introduced Live Photos way back in 2015, but the feature has come along way since it first arrived. Rather than just have the one standard effect, there are now a few different effects you can make use of in Apple's Photos app.