The web's favorite file format just turned 30. Yep, it turns out the GIF is a millennial, too. At the same time, 30 makes the GIF ancient in web years, which feels a bit weird, given that the ...

If you have ever worked with computer graphic images, whether they be from digital cameras, found on the web, or you create them yourself, then you know there are a lot of image file formats that are ...

Image hosting site Imgur has decided the old GIF format for animated images just isn't cutting it anymore. In a site-wide update, Imgur is now converting animated GIF uploads into what it calls GIFV.

An installation in the New York Museum of the Moving Image presents contemporary art GIFs in their original format, on the computers used to build them. Reading time 4 minutes There’s something about ...

Stephen Wilhite, a lead inventor of the GIF file format, passed away last week from Covid-19 infection. According to The Verge, who spoke with the late inventor’s spouse, he was surrounded by family ...

More efficient GIFs lead to speedier download times and less bandwidth usage Crop extra space around the image to reduce its dimensions. When you prepare the GIF, reduce its output dimensions. Reduce ...

In late 1994, controversy was brewing over royalties being imposed on GIFs due to the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) data compression technique used to underpin this image format. Unisys, which had patented ...