Off Book explores the web's most iconic image format: the animated gif. GIFs are one of the oldest image formats used on the web. Throughout their history, they have served a huge variety of ...

But animated GIFs don’t have to come from the internet: You can make your own GIFs from the photos and videos on your phone. And you may not even need extra software to do so. Here’s a guide.

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You can also create an animated GIF by pasting a video URL into the Imgur “Video to GIF” maker. And you can find a large number of GIFs to post into Facebook from Giphy.com.

But animated GIFs aren't dying. They're metastasizing: People festoon their Tumblrs with them, pass them around in email, and use them as Twitter avatars or signatures on discussion boards.

While animated GIFs have trampled over still images, Flash animations, and even in some cases video clips as a way to inject multimedia pizazz into text-based content, animated illustrations ...

Don’t worry, making animated GIFs is easy. You won’t need a Photoshop license or esoteric image editing experience to learn how, either. Simple packages like GifCam and Giffing Tool let you ...

Just yesterday, Twitter started supporting animated GIFs. But there’s a catch! What Twitter ends up showing you isn’t actually a GIF at all. EVERYBODY PAAANIIIIIIC. Note: don’t actually panic.

Create animated GIFs to share on sites like Reddit and Imgur with UnFREEz. is a quick and easy solution. It takes only a few seconds with this simple, portable freeware.