Blessed Are The GifMakers

06 Aug 2014

*browsing tumblr like OMG that picture is moving*

I’ve tried it a few times. Making GIFs in Photoshop is pretty hard. You have to import and trim the video, then deal with the timeline and frames and everything. And to do those sweet cinemagraph things you need to mess about with masking layers and often times it all gets a bit too much, and you cry.

Also I understand there are a few sites online that let you make GIFs, but they always slap their big ugly logo on to every frame, so they’re pretty good candidates for avoidance most of the time.

Wouldn’t it be great if there was something like this?

Well good news, it actually does exist! It’s this little program called GifCam which simplifies the whole process a lot. You can download it directly from here and check it out.

And here’s one I prepared earlier too:

ps. unfortunately GifCam only available for Windows right now.