The old-school GIF has somehow become the modern day medium for expressing everything from intense emotional responses to live breaking news. Rather than relying on stock GIFs provided by others, you ...

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 ...

The noble GIF animated image format is over 30 years old, and despite reports that the youth think they've outlived their ...

While the internet has been transformed over the last 30 years into a kind of engineering fairyland, the popularity of low-tech animated GIFs in the age of social media has held up better than most ...

You're messaging your friend, and they just told you the juiciest gossip you've ever heard. It's so utterly surprising that words simply won't cut it. So what do you do instead? You send a GIF of ...

Photoshop CC 2017 tutorial showing how to create GIF animations from videos, graphics & photos! NOTE: Steve Wilhite, the inventor of the GIF, stated in 2013 that "GIF" is pronounced with a soft "G", ...

Still images are sooo 2015. The internet has moved on, and GIFs - everyone's favourite audio-free microclips - have seen a revival worthy of the Big Reunion. With everything from Twitter to Tinder now ...

But even though they’ve been making the rounds on Tumblr for ages, 3D GIFs are only just now making their way into other parts of the Internet. Luckily for you, it’s easy to impress other non-Tumblr ...

Animated GIF files, while fun to watch, can consume a large amount of space on your business website and on forums where you might post them. Animated GIFs are large because they consist of multiple ...

GIFs, what would we do without them? They're on their way to becoming the planet's first true lingua franca. In fact, I already know people who communicate entirely via GIF. I send them a message to ...

David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over the last decade, he's reviewed phones for TechRadar as well as covered tech, gaming, and culture for Engadget, Popular Mechanics ...