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Creating animated GIFs for memes and banner ads

Creating animated GIFs for memes and banner ads

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Creating animated GIFs for memes and banner ads

- Hello everyone, this is Sue Jenkins with productivity tips for web designers. Today I'll show you how to quickly create custom animated GIFs for your memes and banner ads. Animated GIFs are simple frames based animation files that will play automatically when viewed in a browser window. The concept behind how they work is simple. By displaying a series of images on different layers, within the same file, the animated GIF gives the illusion of movement by showing each image within the series for a set number of seconds. Essentially, it's the equivalent of a time delayed digital flipbook. There's quite a bit of controversy about how to pronounce this file format. Most people call the non-animated version a GIF with a soft G like giraffe, while the animated version is better known as GIF, with a hard G like gift. So since we're talking about the animated version here, we'll call it a GIF with a hard G. Animated GIFs use a timeline to show each frame in the animation. The timeline can…

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