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August 22, 2016 11:00 am GMT

Creating Animated GIFs the Right Way with Cloudinary

Animated GIFs are very popular, although there are other options such as HTML5 video, CSS, and JavaScript for animations. Short video clips are often created in GIF format and then shared on social media. Cloudinary, a cloud-based image and video management solution, enables you to quickly and automatically create animated GIFs. Cloudinary also helps you to optimize GIFs and converting them into video formats. Optimal File Size and Image Quality With a maximum of 256 colors, GIF doesnt seem to be a good choice for photographic content. In addition, the format often results in rather large file sizes, especially when it contains animations. So, when you convert a video into an animated GIF, you must weigh between video quality and file size. Cloudinary offers simple compression for animated GIFs, which you can easily apply to any GIF file that you host using its URL. Although this is a lossy compression, the original files remain untouched, which enables you to create an appropriately optimized version on-the-fly. https://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/fl_lossy/image.gif To apply compression, simply add fl_lossy to the images URL, and youll receive a version of your GIF animation that was optimized to be the best compromise between image quality and file […]

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