Graphics Interchange Format, popularly known as GIF is a digital file format. A GIF means multiple images encoded in a single file and displayed in a succession to create an animation. It can also be ...

One of the most popular pastimes on the web today is creating GIFs and sharing them with the world. We love them because, for the most part, GIFs are entertaining. We’re sure many folks would love to ...

Crop extra space around the image to reduce its dimensions. When you prepare the GIF, reduce its output dimensions. Reduce the number of colors in the image. For animated GIFs, reduce the number of ...

The old-school GIF has somehow become the modern day medium for expressing everything from intense emotional responses to live breaking news. Rather than relying on stock GIFs provided by others, you ...

Animated Web page backgrounds can be eye-catching, and you can create them using GIF files. When you add text and other content to your business Web pages, you don't have to worry about adding ...

We use them at Buffer in our customer service tweets, our emails, our Slack channel. We include GIFs in marketing emails and team announcements. Anywhere there’s a message; there’s the chance for a ...

Editor’s Note: This story originally published in March 2018. We’re republishing the piece following news that Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead creators of the GIF, died earlier this month after ...

The GIF has had an impressively long run amidst the usual short-term churn of the tech industry. One of the earliest ways of displaying animations on the web—long before there was enough bandwidth to ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation program offers you a variety of tools to create exciting presentations and slide shows. You may choose from a collection of features that allow you to add and edit ...

I love animated GIFs. As far as I’m concerned, they’re the greatest gift God ever bestowed upon the Internet. While most Mac users probably think making them requires Photoshop and some superior ...

About 40 percent of my first full-time job was dedicated to making GIFs—a skill I had professed to have during the interview process, and that turned out to be much ...