What Is GIFs ?
Graphics Interchange Format is a technique in which images are compressed to lessen their size without compromising the quality of the images.
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How To Create Your Own GIFs :
There are numerous ways to create GIFs. If you are willing to know, how to make a gif image, how to make a gif from a video, how to make an animated gif how to make a gif from a youtube video etc, there are some of useful and popular ways are explained below:
1- Make a Gif :
This one is my first suggestion for making GIFs online because it’s very much user friendly interface. By using this you can make your own GIF in just a 2-3 steps. Using Make a Gif you can select images like around 10 images to create your Gif. You can make gif from youtube. It allows you to create Gif directly from a YouTube, your webcam and from any videos. But there is a small limitation also you can upload max 2 MB images in size.
2- IMGFlip :
This is second option for you to create you favoriteGif. If you have a question “how to make agif from a video” then ImgFlip also allows you to directly createGifs from the existing videos.
3- Gif Maker :
GIFMaker allows you to create animated gif images online freely and easily, without any registration.
In addition, you can play a gif backward and save it as a new one, resize an existing gif or split a gif into separate pictures.
4- Gickr :
Gif maker as it can create Gifs of images ranging from kb to mb. Size of the images is not the issue for Gickr.
If you are using Flickr the Gickr will be the best option as you. This online portal allows you to directly grab images from Flickr or upload from your computer.
And other options are similar as others.
5- Picasion :
You can also use your webcam for making gif. Picasion and Gickr mostly have the same features.
10 Free GIF Maker Apps for iPhone and Android
Animated GIF images have become wildly popular these days but if you’re not too keen on making GIF images manually, you can download one of the many useful free apps.
2. Cinemagram
3. Gifture
4. Loopcam
5. MyFaceWhen
6. Giffer!
7. Gifantor
8. Gif Camera
9. Vine
10. Web Apps
How to Convert Animated GIF into HTML5 Videos :
The main disadvantage with animated gifs is having large sizes. If you compare the size of an animated gif to a video of it, you will notice that the animated gif is always larger than the video. So, if you have created your GIF then simply you can change it HTML5 videos.
HTML5 is allowing for native video playing inside your browser, without plugins. You are now comparing videos to gifs. The file size is much smaller, as the video can use codecs/compression with key frames (assuming it uses key frames here) and only show changes while the gif is a series of images and has to store each frame individually. This is why long gifs are either choppy (low frame rate) or very large (so many individual images).
Basically HTML5 images are actually videos, while gifs are a bunch of images in sequence.
Gfycat has been designed to convert any animated gif into a HTML5 video. You can use the service in two ways:
Kaloyan Banev says
This will be huge and heavy file. Much better option is to create HTML5 video that will be easy to embed in a website.
parthiban says
Hey Sudhir Shukla,
Thank you for this nice tools for creating gif. Some days before I used Photoshop for creating gif images. but now i can create gif images without installing Photoshop on online itself .
sudhir shukla says
Thanks Kaloyan Banev,, for this remarkable suggestion, i have added "How to Convert Animated GIF into HTML5 Videos" as the last subheading in my post..,pl keep reading my blog and give your valuable suggestions…once again thanks Kaloyan…
sudhir shukla says
Happy to see that it helped you….Parthiban