Animated GIFs are more and more popular at the moment on social networks in particular, their success lies in the fact that it is a short format, but also very light in terms of weight. Today, let's see how to easily create one from your smartphone.
Let's start with a little historical reminder. The Graphics Interchange Format (literally "Image interchange format"), better known by the acronym GIF, is a digital image format commonly used on the web because of its light weight.
It was developed in 1987 and is currently experiencing a revival thanks to Tumblr or 9gag, there are a lot of GIFs on these two sites. In 2012 he was even elected "Word of the year" for the American edition of the Oxford University Press dictionary.
And we have already explained to you how to make a GIF from a YouTube video, this time we will show you how to make it from your Android smartphone. For that we are going to talk in particular about an application, GIF Me! Camera is one of the most popular and in addition it is free and made by the of the country.
How to create a GIF on Android smartphone.
You will see it is quite simple. First of all, you have to download the application on your smartphone.
Once you have installed the application it is very easy to use. You have 3 possibilities : either record an original video, or take images from your gallery, or take a video from your gallery.
Most of the time the first choice is the best. Before starting your video which will be exported as GIF, you should know that you only have 14 seconds to achieve it, you must already have your subject in mind to do it.
Once you have saved your GIF, you will be able to modify it by applying a whole bunch of filters to it, but also by speeding up or slowing it down. You can also add text or small stickers. After modifications it will be automatically saved in your gallery and you can also share it on social networks.
Here we hope that this tutorial will be useful to you, there are other applications like GIF camera, but GIF Me! Camera is a little more complete even if it includes ads, ads that can be removed by taking the pro version at 0,99 €.
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You should also know that some manufacturers allow you to create GIFs directly from the base application, this is the case with Samsung, you just have to go to “Mode” in the photo application then “Download” at the top and you will be able to download a shooting mode for GIF. So what about you, are you a GIF fan?
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