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, ...

David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over the last decade, he's reviewed phones for TechRadar as well as covered tech, gaming, and culture for Engadget, Popular Mechanics ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Animated GIFs have been around for almost two decades, allowing users to create and share simple animations online. The file format has persevered despite its shortcomings (e.g., no sound), and in ...

Vimeo offers a lot of cool features that do the work for you, and they recently added GIF creation capability. For a video editor, using their GIF process is a fun way to create an extra asset that ...