Some people don’t know how to express themselves, and so, therefore, they use various emoticons and images of different characters. I am one of those people who need the help of such emoticons and animations to make people understand what I genuinely mean over the internet. This so happens when you are using short message service (SMS). People usually misunderstand you when you are texting because they can’t see your face and don’t know the real expression and in order to do that, we use various ways one of which is emoticons as I have mentioned above.

An emoticon is a word made up of two words (Emotion and icons). These small icons contain characters with different expressions on them and are being used worldwide. The best part about emoticons is that they are available almost on every multimedia device. If we looked into the past when we didn’t have multimedia cellphones, we used symbols to express how we used to feel from where it evolved to icons. These icons today are still associated with symbols, and whenever we use symbols to reveal,they are automatically converted into emoticons.

Is GIF an excellent way to express yourself?

Hell, yeah! GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) is a lossless format which means it can decrease the size of the file without losing its quality. (As it is pronounced as “jiff” people still make a mistake in pronunciation and use the hard G sound.)

The trend of using GIF started in the year 2015 when most of the videos were converted into GIFs. These can be called silent short films used to express yourself according to the moment. It can be a moment of happiness or sadness, can be used to crack a joke or can be used in a serious discussion but using it in a heated conversation today is considered a non-serious behavior.

GIF a way to convey your message:

GIF files don’t need to be played, all you have to do is open them, and you will see the images being changed thus giving you the expression you need. A GIF can be used to deliver your message, and it can even contain a whole sentence with a single word on each image making it a little flashy but fun.

Converting your favorite video is quite fun especially when it contains the expressions you need, so if you have a video that you want to convert, then you can find yourself a nice tool online. If the video file size is bigger than 5mb than you’ll have to trim it because the shorter the file size, the better the quality of GIF.

Which files can be converted to GIF?

Videos and images with all the formats like JPG, TIFF, PNG, MP4, 3GB, FLV etc, can be used to make a GIF. If you want to convert a video to GIF, it is the only problematic part because you need to trim a video before using it in a GIF. If the video is already short, then you don’t need to find a way to edit and trim because shorter video sizes, when converted to GIF, have better quality.

All the images as I told you can be converted to GIF because it is a file that contains images which run in a continuous loop. A GIF shouldn’t be larger than 1 MB, and you can place as many files as you want but the shorter, the better. A GIF with longer duration is not a GIF anymore, and it depends on how many images you want to add. Typically, a GIF should have four images with fewer intervals which can be used as an expression.

GIF in the advertisement:

People are using GIF for advertising their product all they need is two to four images. If you have noticed the flash sales, big sale words on an image are getting bigger and smaller, or you have seen words getting larger and shorter. These are all GIF files and are supported by all the browsers now. In an advertisement, For example, one image contains information, the second one includes the price, the third one can carry the lessened cost, and the fourth or the last one can contain the same image with larger text which gives it an animation of words getting bigger.

After learning about GIF so much I began looking for Video to Gif converters over the internet and found one that suited me. You can create a GIF with short video if you want a good quality one because as I mentioned earlier the larger a video size, the larger a GIF will be, and it won’t be a GIF anymore.

I hope this article will help you get a better idea of GIFs, and how you can use them efficiently. Have fun making GIFs. For more information, please visit our site .