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.

When working with images, certain file formats may be better than others, depending on what your goals are. This infographic showcases the best uses for JPEG, GIF, and PNG file formats. The ...

Steve Wilhite, the computer scientist who created the popular GIF file format in 1987, died in intensive care last Monday from complications of COVID-19, a report said.

Wilhite and his team at CompuServe created the the GIF image file format from the earlier Unisys-owned LZW algorithm in 1987. It went on to become the most popular image format on the internet.

How to Convert GIF to JPG in Photoshop. The GIF file specification originated with the CompuServe online service. Its indexed-color format restricts it to a maximum of 256 shades, which limits its ...

So now you can convert most of the video files in different formats like AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MKV, MOV, VOB, RMVB, etc., to the GIF formatted files. The only drawback associated with this freeware ...

Steve Wilhite, inventor of the GIF file format, poses in 2013 at the Webby Awards in New York City. That year, the Webby Awards honored Wilhite with a lifetime achievement award.

How to Enlarge GIF or JPEG Files. Knowing how to enlarge files in GIF or JPEG format lets you fit your images to the media in which you want to present those images. Your Web page may require an ...

The GIF file format (and I'm not going to get into the debate as to whether it's a hard G or a soft G) may not be as popular on the Web as other image file formats.

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 ...

Imgur also had to build its own file container to work with its new format, which it is calling .GIFV. This will essentially let the MP4 video GIF play back as a normal GIF would. There’s no ...