If making a GIF from images, it’s really easy to customize the order of the photos because you can simply rearrange them via drag-and-drop. You can also resize all of the images at once and set a custom animation speed. It’s also easy to produce a GIF from a video because you just have to choose at what point in the video to start the GIF and then decide how many seconds of it should be used. A captioning tool is included to add text on top of your GIF, but you can’t preview it before making the GIF or change where on the GIF the text is displayed. Once created, you can save the GIF to your computer and copy its URL to find it online. You have the option for making your GIF public, unlisted, or private. You can even link directly to the GIF file. You can crop the images, resize the whole GIF, optimize the frames, reverse the photos, flip or rotate the GIF to a particular angle, alter the speed, split the GIF back into its original images, and add text. There’s also a grayscale, sepia, and monochrome effect you can apply to the entire GIF. ezgif.com has a free video to GIF converter if you’d rather not use images. The animation delay, photo order, width, height, and quality can be altered for a GIF made with images. There’s also a text tool, crop option, and the ability to rotate the GIF, reverse it, and change the play count and background color. When finished, you can download your GIF, share it over a few social media sites, or set it as private so it’s not posted online. A watermark is displayed on all GIFs made at Imgflip. Also, several of the custom settings for creating a GIF from a video are usable only if you pay for ImgFlip Pro. Unfortunately, though, if loading images from your computer, you can’t upload them in bulk, but instead must choose single files at a time. There are also few editing tools, so you can’t add text to the GIF or rotate or organize the images. A GIF can be sized up to as large as 450 pixels wide and the animation speed can be adjusted from a fast speed to one as slow as 10 seconds. Before creating the GIF, you can optionally choose to include it in Picasion’s online gallery. Once the GIF has been made, you can download it, copy a direct link to where it’s hosted online, share it over a social media site, or email it to a friend. This website has a separate tool you can use after making your GIF that lets you add glitter. Before you’re finished, you can optionally reverse the frames to run the GIF backward, change the quality of the images, overlay a filter, and adjust the animation speed. Photos from a webcam or your computer can be uploaded to GIFPAL. GIFPAL lets you download your GIF and share it over Tumblr and Twitter. Begin by choosing File > Open as Layers and selecting all the pictures you want to use for the GIF. You can edit your images at this point or continue on to create the GIF as the photos currently are. Next, go to Filters > Animation > Playback and play the animation to see how the GIF looks. If needed, you can change the entire canvas size or scale the image from the Image menu. When ready to create the GIF in GIMP, just go to File > Export As, and choose GIF image as the file type. Before the images are exported, you can choose to disable the continual loop and also change the delay time between frames. Just paste the link to the video you want to convert to a GIF and then choose a start and end point, and optionally add some text. GIFs made at Imgur can be up to 15 seconds long. When you create the GIF, you’ll be taken to its dedicated page where you can download it to your computer, share it with others, or delete it from Imgur. You can also edit the GIF again using Imgur. Some of the supported tools include the standard ones like rotate, crop, and resize, but you can also add text and effects, brighten the GIF, overlay stickers, and lots more. After you load in the images you want to use, you can adjust their order and frame delay. You can also resize the entire GIF and position the images exactly how you want them to appear, both using drag and drop. You can’t, however, adjust the images to a specific pixel size like most of the other GIF makers in this list. Select the record button to save the images as an animated GIF file. In addition to altering the speed of the animation and the GIF’s canvas size, you can specify how many times to loop the GIF before it stops (you can choose infinite loop, too) and even overlay a video’s audio into the GIF. Arranging the files in the order you want is super easy, and you can slide the image duration button back and forth to make the frames shorter or longer, from 0.1 seconds to 3.7 seconds. The final step before creating the GIF is decorating it. There are options for a caption, stickers, filters, and freehand drawing. When you’re finished, you have to upload the GIF to Giphy, either with public visibility or as a private GIF. From there, you can share the link, download it to your computer, or embed it on your website. Apart from the standard settings like altering the GIFs size and frame interval time, Toolson.net’s Gif Maker can also add an effect to the whole GIF, such as animated hearts, a border, or make it black and white. You can also disable image cycling, which means once the last picture has displayed in the GIF, it will stop animating until you open it again. When finished, you can save it to your computer as well as share it over email and social media sites.
