Crop extra space around the image to reduce its dimensions. When you prepare the GIF, reduce its output dimensions. Reduce the number of colors in the image. For animated GIFs, reduce the number of ...

The GIF format remains a popular file format for animating images. However, the technology hasn’t changed since 1987, and its limitations are starting to show. Which is why the image hosting website, ...

Animated GIFs and the Internet go together like peanut butter and jelly. Whether your Internet browsing habits take you to Reddit, Tumblr, or elsewhere, you likely run into multiple GIFs per day, each ...

GIF is suitable for simple animation, but the LZW compression format is a bit older, and the number of colors in the color palette is limited to 256 colors. For animation formats other than ...

A 50-MB MP4 is compacted into a 3.4-MB GIFV as Imgur unveils Project GIFV and heralds the evolution of the GIF. Project GIFV is an internal undertaking at Imgur, and one the image-hosting site hopes ...

You may not pay much attention to the format of images you share, but if you want to do more than ’Gram then you’ll need to know them all. There are advantages and disadvantages to each format, and ...

Image hosting site Imgur has decided the old GIF format for animated images just isn't cutting it anymore. In a site-wide update, Imgur is now converting animated GIF uploads into what it calls GIFV.

From its humble beginnings on black and white computers to its now ubiquitous usage in memes and how Facebook is celebrating the GIF's birthday THE GIF turned 30 today, so, let’s wish the Graphical ...

With a wealth of faster, more efficient formats available, we investigate why the GIF reigns as a medium of expression, even without being a modern-day technical marvel. Wrong–sort of. The ubiquity of ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. The Graphics Interchange Format was initially developed by ...