How to Make an Image Move: Moving Picture Effect Made Easy with AI

Have you ever wanted to animate a still picture to make it move, telling a captivating story with movement? Well, now you can!

Here in this moving picture effect tutorial, we'll show you how to make images move and turn your still images into an animated one using different AI tools from FlexClip. And also walk you through the way how you can make multiple images moving with animations and motions and combine them with more other special effects to turn your images into a stunning video.

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Method 1 How to Make A Still Picture Move with AI Video Generator

One of the easiest way to make your still picture move is trying FlexClip's AI video generator tool, which offers two AI video generation models, text-to-video and image-to-video, to effortlessly transform your ideas into videos and make your still pictures move and turn them into dynamic videos based on your textual prompt.

With your prompt, plus FlexClip’s image to animation generation model, you can animate your picture and make it move with simple clicks. It can turn your still pictures into dynamic videos simply by uploading your image, and giving any needed animation prompts, like dance, run, walk, kiss, hug and more, and then just wait for the AI to animate your character according to the prompt to bring your still picture to life.

Now, click on the Get Started Now button below to access FlexClip’s AI Video Generator tool and follow the steps to make your picture move.

Make Your Picture Move

Step 1

When you're in the AI Video Generator, by default, you are in the Text to Video mode. To make your picture move, Image to Video tool is what you need. Upload the image you want to animate.

How to Make Still Pictures Move with AI Video Generator - Upload Image

Step 2

Enter prompts describing the animation you want the subject to do in the image, such as talking, smiling, walking, and more. And then switch between the Standard mode or Professional mode, and then set the video duration. And finally hit Generate. (Remember to specify the subject, subject action, and more details in your prompt for getting better animation.)

How to Make Still Pictures Move with AI Video Generator - Prompt

Step 3

Once finished, you can preview the AI-generated photo animation video and then download it directly or edit it further with powerful tools to elevate your story.

How to Make Still Pictures Move with AI Video Generator - Export

Method 2 How to Make A Still Picture Move with 3D Photo Animation Maker

Another easy way you can try to make your still images move at FlexClip is using its powerful AI 3d photo animation tool. It automatically adds animation to pictures naturally like it was born in this way, making your picture moving within simple clicks!

FlexClip's AI Photo Animation tool offers different animations(camera movements) to choose from, such as zoom, circle, vertical, and horizontal, helping you get any desired moving effect on your photo to make it an animated one, which can certainly add depth and visually enhance your photos. With this AI photo animation tool, you can breathe life into any image of scenery, objects, pets, and portraits. Are you ready? Let's dive in how to make a still picture move with AI using FlexClip's 3D photo animation tool.

Animate Your Picture

Step 1

Open your browser and navigate to FlexClip's AI Photo Animation tool, and upload the picture that you want to animate.

How to Make Still Pictures Move with AI - Upload Image

Step 2

Now, you'll see different animation styles you can add to your image, feel free to experiment them out, and trick with different settings to find your desired effect to make your image move as you want.

How to Make Still Pictures Move with AI - Add Animation

Step 3

Once you've got your desired move picture, click the Export button to save the moving picture as a Video or an animated GIF.

How to Make Still Pictures Move with AI - Export

Backed up the advanced artificial intelligence, FlexClip makes it possible that everyone can easily animate a still picture. Along with 3D animation tool an AI video generation tool, FlexClip also comes with photo to cartoon converter, AI image upscaler and AI old photo restoration tools which help you enhance your images. Moreover, you can combine them with other AI features and editing tools to elevate your story. Easily add titles, text-to-speech voiceovers, subtitles, music, transitions, cool effects, and more to the generated video.

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Part 3 How to Make Multiple Pictures Move for an Animated Photo Video

Besides using the AI photo animation tool to make a single image move, FlexClip can also allows you to make multiple images moving with animations and motions and combine them with more other special effects to turn your images into an animated video.

FlexClip provides flexible ways for you to make moving image effects manually: animate the picture for moving effect using the simple photo animation feature or give motion to your still photo overlays and make them come alive with the pip motion option.

Step 1 Access FlexClip abd Upload Your Still Images

Visit FlexClip Homepage and then you can choose to start with a template or from scratch. Or you can also click one of the buttons above to get started directly.

When yo access FlexClip editor, just go to the Media tab to upload your pictures from a local folder or from your phone. You can also find stunning images in FlexClip's extensive Photo library and use them for free in your project.

Image Board: Make Moving Pictures: Upload Images

Step 2 Make an Image Move with Animation or Motion

Now let's get to the fun part - make your still picture moving. There are 2 ways you can make moving picture effect at FlexClip: add animation to an image to animate the still photo scene, or add motion effects to image overlays to make them move.

Both of them are pretty simple to operate. Just follow us and learn how you can easily make a picture move using the 2 features in FlexClip.

Method 1: Add Animation to an Image to Animate the Still Photo Scene

Let's begin with the photo animation feature to animate the still images and make them moving.

First, you need to add your images to the Timeline as scenes. Simply go to the Media library and click the Add as Scene icon in the lower right corner of the photo thumbnail to add the image to the Timeline.

Image Board: Make Moving Pictures: Add as Scene

Now, you can quickly animate the still image with the Animation feature on the top of the screen. Here you can choose various effects for your photo: zoom in/out, move to left/right, etc., and make them moving in different animations.

Image Board: Make Moving Pictures: Animate an Image with Photo Animation

Method 2: Add Motion Effects to Image Overlays to Make Them Move

Now let’s look at how to make multiple moving pictures in one frame by applying motion animation to those image overlays.

Locate the images that you want to add as overlays, and click the Add as Layer icon in the lower left corner of the photo thumbnail to add the image to the Canvas. Then you can make easy drag-and-drop to adjust your image overlays on their size and location, and also try the crop feature to crop your image into a circle or other shape you like.

Image Board: Make Moving Pictures: Add as Layer

Once done, you can select the overlay on the Canvas and click the Motion button on the top menu to give motion to the photo and make it moving as you wish, such as wipe, fade, popup, bounce, and more. You can choose a different motion animation for the entry and exit of the image overlay.

Image Board: Make Moving Pictures: Add Photo to Photo

Step 3 Preview and Fine-tune Your Moving Pictures

Well, you've got your moving images ready! You can explore more editing tools and stunning effects, like music and text editor, transition and overlay effects, etc. to add the final touch to your moving pictures.

Image Board: Make Moving Pictures: More Edits

Once you're done, you can preview the project to check the final effect and download the moving pictures effect video to your computer directly, or seamlessly share it via a link, or post to social media and beyond.

Image Board: Make Moving Pictures: Download and Share

Bonus: Making Your Moving Picture More Dynamic - Killer Tips

Now, you've mastered the way to animate a photo, here we want to show you how to level up your moving picture to make it more dynamic and appealing.

Tip 1: Add Dynamic Text to The Moving Picture

A moving picture with dynamic text is far more appealing than a still photo. With FlexClip, you can easily add the dynamic text to the moving photo in a few clicks.

Simply go to the sidebar and focus on the text section, scroll down to pick your desired text effect, add it to your picture, then you can enter your content and customize it in the font, color, position, and duration.

Image Board: Add Animated Text to the Moving Picture

Tip 2: Add Animated Effects to the Moving Picture

FlexClip also provides various stunning elements - emoji stickers, speech bubbles, and more shapes - you can add to your moving pictures to make them more dynamic and attractive.

It is pretty easy to and the animated effects to your images. Just go to the sidebar and switch to the Elements option, here you will see a lot of elements, both the dynamic element and other simple elements. You can either choose to pick a ready-made dynamic element or choose a simple element then add animation to them manually.

Image Board: Add Animated Element o the Moving Picture

Tip 3: Go along with a Rhythmic Music Track

You might already know the importance of the music, and you'll not surprise that different background music of a video can convey different feelings to viewers. If you want to make your moving picture more dynamic, rhythmic music must be the best choice.

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Has 4-year of professional photographing experience. Very much into recording every detail of life. She is passionate about all things related to video production, and loves to exploring tips and tricks about it.