Reduce the number of colors in the image. GIFs only display 256 colors, but if your image only has a few, then reduce the ...

Many pieces of software can create GIFs, so when should you use Photoshop?

Early in the days of the web, when the internet was turning into a mass medium with possibilities for mixing images and sound, a file format known as the GIF was used to create miniature ...

If you were among the group of people who said a GIF, the popular animated images file, is pronounced like the word "Jif," then give yourself a pat on the back -- you were right.

WebMs just got the blessing of one of the Internet's foremost trendsetters. Could they kill GIFs once and for all?

The NGSSoftware team has found a way to embed a Java applet within a GIF; the hybridized file is referred to as a GIFAR. Just to make it clear, this is a file extension of convenience and not the ...

Imgur provided us with a few examples — the standard GIF file displays much smaller, while the GIF-to-MP4 converted version is significantly larger, while the file itself is smaller.

How to Make a GIF Smaller in GIMP. Use the free editor GIMP to adjust the size of a GIF file. Because the GIF extension supports animation, many programs are not capable of re-sizing an image ...

Today, however, brings more evidence that Zach was right, and that we may well have reached peak GIF: The glorious GIF is, as of this week, less popular an image file format than the humbler PNG.

Giphy, the creators of the GIF search engine, have created a work-around that promises to bring the animated file format to the social network but fails to deliver.  ...