Time Reversal Flip Book made with InDesign by sm26
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Have you ever wished you had a rewind button for your life? These instructions will help you create a rewind flip book so you can reverse the irreversible.
 
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Step 1: Plan it out and take photos

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Decide what you want to portray the rewinding of. For me it was a time when I cut my own bangs. Decide how you are going to act it out or represent it. Take plenty of photos because you will need about 30-40 usable ones for printing. If it is about yourself, you may want to consider having a friend take the photos for you. When my friend took the photos for me, I first tried acting it out at a normal speed while she shot it in "Sports mode." But, there were long pauses in-between groups of photos, so we ended up shooting it photo by photo while I acted it out in slow motion.
shishnit says: May 1, 2012. 1:09 AM
Yes please, video!
alglo1 says: Apr 22, 2012. 7:54 AM
should have made a video to show it working!
boodah says: Apr 23, 2012. 6:45 AM
Also agree. Video.
tinyweasel says: Apr 22, 2012. 3:57 PM
Agreed. Put a video!
simplebeep says: Apr 22, 2012. 3:52 PM
Hey, nice topic!



It's cool that you use InDesign for this process. I'm a downright InDesign junkie, and I'd never think to do something like this using other software. However, it does have a steep learning curve and a substantial price tag, so maybe it'd be worth mentioning some of the other ways to print out multiple pictures on one page---like Photoshop or the Gimp. Even some of the more consumer-level photo applications have multiple-photo printing functions (though it is more difficult to smash frames right up against each other).
bobwantzanapple says: Apr 22, 2012. 12:58 PM
GIF?
BtheBike says: Apr 22, 2012. 10:51 AM
FLip the script on Video Mang !
AntzyP says: Apr 22, 2012. 9:58 AM
Instead of a video, how about a GIF???
something like in this instructable: http://www.instructables.com/id/Flamethrowing-Jack-O-Lantern/
dagob says: Apr 22, 2012. 8:59 AM
A very nice idea, do you plan to add a video?
zfhanbenjamin says: Apr 22, 2012. 8:21 AM
i created one of these flip books a few months ago from a video recording of my cat (i took screenshots of the video), and i agree with the other people, a video would be awesome!
mckeephoto says: Apr 22, 2012. 7:49 AM
Way cool instructable. Definitely could use a vid for that final sparkle.
randofo says: Apr 18, 2012. 7:07 PM
Cool project! Video...?
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