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Quickly make an animated GIF of anything. GifCam is a free, portable app for Windows that provides you with a simple frame. Resize and position it, then hit record - everything that happens within that frame will be recorded. It's the easiest way to create your own GIF of just about anything — from desktop demonstrations to clips from any video, online or off. If you love creating GIFs, but wish the process was quicker, you need to check this app out.
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The GIF image format is one of the staples of the Internet, allowing for animations to be shared with other people who aren’t standing in the same room as you. It’s one of the oldest image formats to have become mainstream, but it’s still used regularly even today and creative people are pioneering new uses for GIFs, such as the cinemagraph. A cinemagraph is a GIF that is mostly a still image with one small section being animated.
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Google has updated Google+ with the ability to add animated profile picture. This comes hand in hand with some major updates for the Android and iOS mobile apps. Profile pictures can now take the form of animated .GIFs, and the mobile apps now feature photo editing, a better feed, improved interaction with Communities, and more.
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GIFs are commonplace across the Web, but it's sometimes hard to find the right one for the right situation. Thankfully a new dedicated search engine just for GIFs has arrived. Its name is Giphy and it's being touted as the place to "Search the best GIFs in the world." But does it live up to the hype? Let's "Search in a Giphy" to find out.
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Reaction GIFs are a crucial part of Internet communication that help provide emotion where mere text cannot. Many people may say that they are over-used and tacky. However, where punctuation can make the difference between "Yes." and "Yes!", reaction GIFs help with the areas in-between. Without them, conversation online would be quite dull, and besides that, it offers more choices in dialogue as opposed to the tiny selection that typical English has.
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You've no doubt heard of people live-blogging an important event, but making GIFs in real-time with an event is certainly something new. The folks at Tumblr believe that GIFs are exactly how users want to keep up with the happenings in the Presidential debates, so they have announced that they will begin live-GIFing them as they happen.
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For some reason, animated GIFs have become all the rage. At first, I couldn’t understand what was so appealing about these silent video wannabes. Later on, I gave in a little and admitted that while they’re not very useful, animated GIFs are sure fun to make with a webcam. Only lately, after receiving some really nice animated GIFs of my cats made by a friend, did I realize that animated GIFs don’t have to be silly. They can actually be extremely cool.
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I have a confession to make. I’ve never made an animated GIF in my life until today. Not only did I never make one, I also never found them very appealing, unless the subject matter was amusing (i.e. not a person making faces) and the GIF itself really well made. So imagine my surprise when I stumbled onto PsykoGif, and discovered that making animated GIFs is not only fun, it’s actually a challenge!
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I’m convinced that the animated GIF reveals something about humanity. Present your average person with a repetitive moving picture and they’ll become absolutely entranced. I’ve lost many hours of my life to dancing bears and dogs doing barrel rolls. Despite this, there’s no GIF-equivalent of YouTube. Browsing Google for sites offering animated GIFs will introduce you to website train-wrecks.
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A screencast is one way to artfully describe a tutorial. Using an animated GIF could be a simpler option if you don’t want to climb the learning curve of a screencast tool. Let’s check out how we can use Photoshop (I am using version CS5) to create a quick GIF animation. I am no graphics guru, but the simple steps are easy to follow and can help to enhance our work as bloggers.
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With GifBoom you can easily create your own custom GIF images right on your iPhone. Did your friend do something stupid that you would like to see in motion? Did your dog do something cute that you want immortalized in GIF form? Perhaps you saw something funny that you think would be great shared on the Internet? Fear not, GifBoom has you covered.
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There are often times when you wish you could turn a video into a GIF file. Maybe you want to pass a short clip around the office without getting anyone fired for looking at YouTube. Perhaps you want to create an awesome icon for an avatar. Or maybe you want to create the perfect GIF for your Tumblr. There are lots of reasons to want to try it, but most people just don't realise how easy it is.
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If a picture paints a thousand words, then a picture animation would paint millions of words. One of the first things that people did in the early days of the Internet was to try to put moving images on the web, and long before the era of Flash, the only way to put animations on the web was to use GIF images.
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The animated .GIF is a strange form of expression. It is only twenty or thirty frames, completely devoid of sound, repeating in an endless loop. Yet there is something intoxicating about an animated .GIF, like staring into the eyes of a hypnotist. Creating your own animated .GIF from a movie can be a lot of [...]
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Animated GIF images are a great way to attract attention to certain parts of your site, create simple but effective banner ads, or simply have fun. Memorializing your favorite scenes from movies in GIF format is a riot. However, there are not very many good GIF editing programs available for free. Those which are available [...]
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