Animated emoticons can add flair to a website, email or other type of electronic medium. While they may look like video files, they're typically a series of GIF images placed together -- much like a ...

You're messaging your friend, and they just told you the juiciest gossip you've ever heard. It's so utterly surprising that words simply won't cut it. So what do you do instead? You send a GIF of ...

Animated GIFs have come back from the grave and this time, fans are rolling out the red carpet for them. My title is Senior Features Writer, which is a license to write about absolutely anything if I ...

NASA released a series of incredible GIFs today showing how some of 2017's natural disasters looked from space. In one of the images, smoke from this The Slums Of Liberia Spring To Life In These ...

Animated GIFs have become so huge. They're everywhere. But why? On the surface, they're pretty silly—a few frames of video, endlessly looping in time. There are GIFs of Star Trek's Picard facepalming, ...

There are some striking similarities between the career of Robert Downey Jr. and the GIF. After the invention of the GIF file format in the late ‘80s, pixilated animated GIFs—those "under construction ...

You can make animated GIFs in Photoshop Elements by drawing each frame of the animation on its own layer, then assembling the frames with the Save for Web command. Using Elements as your GIF movie ...

The year 2012 was a momentous one for the animated GIF. The popularity of Dump.fm was just beginning to fade, but the platform, which facilitates real-time chat with images, had sparked GIF-making ...

The period from 2006 to 2010 was marked by the rise of self-started social networks. Artists were sharing GIFs on Myspace before many migrated to their own collaboratively run blogs. These sites ...