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 GIF format remains a popular file format for animating images. However, the technology hasn’t changed since 1987, and its limitations are starting to show. Which is why the image hosting website, ...

Social media platform Twitter has increased the size of animated GIF files that users can upload to 15 MB, opening up the possibility of using higher quality and/or longer GIFs in situations when ...

Gfycat, a home for GIF-making tools and an online community, is rolling out a new way to create GIFs — it will now let you keep the sound on. With “Gfycat Sound,” as the feature is called, GIF makers ...

If, for some reason, the Graphical Image Format, or GIF, were ever immortalized with a Hollywood biopic, the narration in the trailer might go something like this: “It started as an innovator, became ...

Animated GIF files, while fun to watch, can consume a large amount of space on your business website and on forums where you might post them. Animated GIFs are large because they consist of multiple ...

GIFs are positively everywhere, and have been for a while — there’s no stopping them. But the massive photo sharing service Imgur thinks they can be improved upon and brought forward into the modern ...

The popular blogging platform now offers a search tool through which you can spice up your posts with animated GIF files from other users. Here's how to do it. Lance Whitney Contributing Writer Lance ...

Movie To GIF is a simple freeware for Windows that can help you convert video files to animated GIF format. This software allows you to convert video and movie files and add numerous special effects ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Twitter users rejoice! You can now post exceedingly large GIFs to the social media platform, as ...

Image hosting site Imgur has decided the old GIF format for animated images just isn't cutting it anymore. In a site-wide update, Imgur is now converting animated GIF uploads into what it calls GIFV.

Using animated GIF images as a crude WebSocket is an idea we’ve never come across before, but it actually makes a lot of sense. Not in terms of it’s overall usefulness, but just for the fact that the ...