The old-school GIF has somehow become the modern day medium for expressing everything from intense emotional responses to live breaking news. Rather than relying on stock GIFs provided by others, you ...

Turn any Live Photo or video on your phone into a short GIF. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac You can make an animated GIF on your iPhone or Mac out of any Live ...

When words are not enough, GIFs are a perfect way to convey big emotions, like outrage, shock, and joy. But have you ever felt limited by the selection available? Perhaps you have a series of photos ...

The noble GIF animated image format is over 30 years old, and despite reports that the youth think they've outlived their ...

Online "visual" reactions have come a long way since the first sideways smiley-face emoticon appeared four decades ago. Animated GIFs -- those files showing a few seconds of choppy motion, like the ...

Peppering a conversion with GIFs can make things more fun and help you express your feelings. GIFs are also great for making online content like blog posts more appealing! But searching for the right ...

While the internet has been transformed over the last 30 years into a kind of engineering fairyland, the popularity of low-tech animated GIFs in the age of social media has held up better than most ...

Animated Web page backgrounds can be eye-catching, and you can create them using GIF files. When you add text and other content to your business Web pages, you don't have to worry about adding ...

GIFs have become one of the best ways to spread sports highlights or comedic moments on the internet. While they have been around for 20 years, they haven’t been a part of mainstream culture nearly as ...

You can follow the below-listed steps in order to make a transparent GIF animation in GIMP: Open the GIMP application and go to the File > New option and select or enter the desired size of the ...

GIFs, what would we do without them? They're on their way to becoming the planet's first true lingua franca. In fact, I already know people who communicate entirely via GIF. I send them a message to ...

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 ...