How to make or create animated GIFs online

Posted on February 4, 2008 at 6:17 am

Every once in a while you might run into the need for creating animated GIFs online for your website, blog, or just to send to a friend who managed to get caught doing something very stupid that makes for a great digital flip book! With all the tools online today, you can easily create slideshows from pictures, but it usually requires setting up an account and taking out time to create a good slideshow.

If you’re not up for all of that work, you can check out a few websites that let you take a couple of pictures and turn them into animated GIFs for free! It’s super fast, requires very little work and gets the job done!

GIFUP is a free personal GIF animation and avatar generator. All you have to do is upload pictures from your computer or get them from your Flickr account and let GIFUP handle the rest.

Here’s my animated GIF of some random pictures of my wife and myself:

Kind of crazy and random looking, but that’s obviously because I chose pictures that were not of the same size and have nothing to do with each other! It only took me about 2 mins to create this, so that’s pretty sweet!

What I like about GIFUP is that you can also use some basic editing tools on the uploaded pictures. Feel free to rotate, crop, add various effects and text, change frames order, animation speed or the final size of your final GIF animation.

At the end, it gives you the code that you can use to embed the GIF into your website or a URL link that you can send to others via email. You can also save the GIF animation to your computer for free.

Ok so you’re like that’s great, but I have all of my pictures in Picasa, so that kind of sucks that it only pulls from Flickr! Well those Picasa people who want to create animated GIFs are in luck!

Another service called Picasion allows you to grab images from your Picasa Web Albums account! It does not have the editing features of GIFUP, but that’s ok for me since I have everything stored in Picasa. I’ve already edited the photos on my desktop Picasa app before uploading them anyway!

To grab pics from Picasa, simply enter in your username and type in a tag for the pictures you would want to grab! No need to supply your Picasa albums password. Of course, this means it can only access your public photos, but that’s cool with me. It’s also amazingly fast! I typed in my name and a tag and got a whole slew of pics in 2 seconds!

Click on the ones you want to include, choose the size and speed and your animated GIF will be created in a few seconds!

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Very cool! So next time you have a set of funny photos of friends or family that you think you could make into a simple yet funny GIF animation, make sure to check out these excellent tools! Enjoy! Source: Go2Web20

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4 Responses to “How to make or create animated GIFs online”

Madhur Kapoor said on : February 4th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

Earlier i used Gifanimator but this is cool.

fr33mumia said on : February 7th, 2008 at 10:18 am

Just leave your pictures there & you’re done. Nice one d-_-b

Gautam said on : June 21st, 2008 at 1:24 pm

Hi buddy… the sample file of U and ur wife… well.. one thing… U both are kewl… made for each other I might say….keep it up and best of lucks for future….

Is there any software that can capture mouse movements and create a gif …. like for eg. if I wanna show someone easy steps to copy a file and paste it elsewhere….U get my point ?

If U can tell me…
most appreciated
Cheers

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