Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and connected services. GIFs are one of the most fun aspects of using the ...

We use them at Buffer in our customer service tweets, our emails, our Slack channel. We include GIFs in marketing emails and team announcements. Anywhere there’s a message; there’s the chance for a ...

The GIF has had an impressively long run amidst the usual short-term churn of the tech industry. One of the earliest ways of displaying animations on the web—long before there was enough bandwidth to ...

Creating an animation isn’t as complicated as it sounds, and the technique comes in handy when you’re making web ads, where space is at a premium. In this column, you’ll learn to use Photoshop to make ...

Animated GIFs can be very interested, they are like animated photos or small videos stuck in a photo. They are excellent for short advertisements, and they can be added to websites and links added. In ...

Animated GIFs, which were hugely popular in the late ’90s, went out of fashion for many years. Now they’re suddenly new again, and the Internet is full of them. Today’s GIFs tend to be animated ...

Did you know you can create GIFs on an Android phone? You can turn your favorite shows and movies into moving reaction images or create some fun GIFs from videos of your friends, family, or pets! You ...

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 ...

A GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format is a digital image format used to animate short clips that run on a loop. The GIF owes its popularity primarily to Tumblr, where users dedicate entire blogs to ...

This tutorial shows how to create animated GIFs using “burst mode” photos taken with a smartphone. Although I used a Lumia 1020 — running Windows Phone 8.1 OS — to take my photos, most smartphones ...

Animated GIFs are a powerful way to communicate architectural concepts and design processes. This simple and effective tool allows you to tell a story through a sequence of illustrative images. 1) ...