1 Sigrid Nagele Otelo eGen, Linz Austria

HOW TO MAKE

Creating dynamic pictures for the web, social media and presentations

2 What is a GIF?

• „Graphics Interchange Format“ • chains together multiple pictures into a single animated image • GIFs have exploded in popularity in recent years, so they are very useful to reach a lot of people, especially on social media

3 How to make a GIF… …using the platform GIPHY: Giphy is super quick and easy to use. It will take you less than 5 minutes to create a GIF, it offers different ways to do it and you don‘t have to register.

• Go to: www.giphy.com • Click „create“

4 How to make a GIF…

• Choose the material you want to make a GIF from • 3 Options:

5 How to make a GIF…

• ...from pictures/photos on my computer:

• Select the pics you want to have in the GIF loop from your files:

6 How to make a GIF…

• Adjust the speed: • Options for text:

7 How to make a GIF…

• Add tags to your GIF!!! like „bioeconomy“, „innovation“, „bloom“, „recycling“

• Upload!

8 How to make a GIF…

• Now your GIF is ready to be shared or to download

Here you find the link to the GIF itself

• download the GIF: Different format versions of right-click on the image > save image as… the GIF are available.

9 How to make a GIF… • Make a GIF from online images/videos: (make sure you do not infringe a copyright!!!)

• Add more images for a dynamic GIF or add a text animation

Upload! Add more images

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How to make a GIF… GIFs are nice to be shared on social media channels as , or and to be used in presentations.

Note: If you don‘t want to share a GIF directly from GIPHY to Facebook or other social media if you right-click channels, you can easily save the on the image: image on your device and share it > save image as… like any other pictures, as you are used to.

11 How to make a GIF… …on my MOBILE: Of course there are a variety of GIF-apps for your mobile. Here you find a short introduction for the app „GIPHY“:

• Install GIPHY • open the app and click +

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• Now you have different options for importing pictures/videos:

click this circle for a single picture or press-and-hold it for recording a video (limited to 8 seconds)

use this button to upload pics or videos from your device (note: maybe you want to prepare your footage before you upload it: right size, ratio, color or filter)

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• Add text, effects, • Add tags stickers and/or and save/ define the video upload it: length.

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• If you upload the GIF, you‘ll find several options to share it via GIPHY or to save it:

Note: If you upload a GIF make sure you do not infringe a copyright and be aware it can be used by others

15 Other ways to make a GIF:

Of course there are many other websites and apps to make a GIF… for example:

Tenor is an online GIF search engine and database owned by google. It’s linked to keyboards, facebook, whats app,.. and is for that reason very popular. To use website or app you have to register.

GIF Editor, GIF Maker or Boomerang are also favored and easy to use apps.

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