Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg’s animated photos turn the medium of choice for 4chan trolls into something approaching high art. You know how people sometimes say that jazz is the only truly American art ...

Tumblr is a popular blog site that allows users to post text, videos, audio files and pictures. Like all computer files, photo files come in a few different types. One type of photo file is the GIF, ...

You can use the open source video player VLC to make animated desktops from animated GIFs that are converted to a video format. You can use such a desktop to play a video that highlights milestones in ...

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 purposes, ...

In this post, we will show you how to convert animated WebP to GIF. Animated WebP is less popular than animated GIF and if you have some animated WebP that you want to share as a GIF image, then this ...

Bloggers and meme-fanatics alike will admit that very few things can convey emotion like an animated GIF, and with almost 23 million GIFs posted to Tumblr everyday, it’s needless to say that the ...

The year 2012 was a momentous one for the animated GIF. The popularity of Dump.fm was just beginning to fade, but the platform, which facilitates real-time chat with images, had sparked GIF-making ...

This portable program is a good pick if you find creating animated GIFs too fiddly and time-intensive. GIF animations are back in vogue, thanks to memes. Even without their use as humor postcards, it ...

Welcome to part three of this brief journey through the rich history of one of the newest and most popular art forms, the animated GIF. The previous installments are “The Early Years: 1997–2008” and ...

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 ...