This is a guide to making smoothly looped GIF, or cinemagraph. The process is a combination of two disciplines: making the loop and making the GIF. It’s important to note up front that in this guide, ...

Still images are sooo 2015. The internet has moved on, and GIFs - everyone's favourite audio-free microclips - have seen a revival worthy of the Big Reunion. With everything from Twitter to Tinder now ...

Turn any Live Photo or video on your phone into a short GIF. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac You can make a GIF on your iPhone or Mac out of any Live Photo or ...

Animated GIFs can be very interested, they are like animated photos or small videos stuck in a photo. They are excellent for short advertisements, and they can be added to websites and links added. In ...

Sending a video file can use up a large amount of bandwidth, especially if you send the file repeatedly via your website or through an extensive customer email list. Converting the video into an ...

The ancient GIF format isn’t going away anytime soon. With the birth of social media and memes, the three-decade-old format for lightweight, looping, sound-free animation has found a new lease on life ...

Animated GIFs, which were hugely popular in the late ’90s, went out of fashion for many years. Now they’re suddenly new again, and the Internet is full of them. Today’s GIFs tend to be animated ...

This tutorial shows how to create animated GIFs using “burst mode” photos taken with a smartphone. Although I used a Lumia 1020 — running Windows Phone 8.1 OS — to take my photos, most smartphones ...

Scrolling through the internet, whether that's on a social media app or your favorite website, isn't complete without encountering at least a couple of GIFs now and then. This image file type has ...