GIFs are the lifeblood of the internet, the reason most of us get up in the morning. But they haven’t really gotten better in the past 25 years—until now. Imgur claims to have “reimagined the GIF” by ...

We have become a nation of GIFs. Okay, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration. But the image format has long since migrated from Tumblrcentric sideshow into the mass media. Yes, it’s BuzzFeed, but it’s ...

Imgur's new GIFV format means animated images load faster, look better and play when shared on social networks. Will the 1987-era GIF format finally fade from use? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

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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, ...

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 ...

An installation in the New York Museum of the Moving Image presents contemporary art GIFs in their original format, on the computers used to build them. Reading time 4 minutes There’s something about ...

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 ...

Off Book explores the web's most iconic image format: the animated gif. GIFs are one of the oldest image formats used on the web. Throughout their history, they have served a huge variety of purposes, ...

GIF, a filetype that celebrated its 25th anniversary this past June (don’t you feel old now?), won’t die. And the animated GIF, in particular, has seen a notable resurgence recently, as a newer, ...

From the oogachaka baby to Nyan Cat, the graphics interchange format, better known as the GIF, has come a long way since the days of floppy discs. The modern-day GIF was introduced to the world 25 ...