The GIF file format is virtually responsible for an entire new dimension of graphical stupidity. GIF files are mini, animated, low quality images that usually portray a meaningless and funny/disgusting/lame story/joke/message meant to make forum or gaming user profiles look cool. You might be in a situation where you might need to resize GIF files, read on to find out how.
More useful purposes of GIF files include on screen tutorials of how to perform a task on your computer and the beloved animated banners you see flashing on numerous websites (yeah, look who’s talking right?). GIF files can also be converted from static images or from a video file and maybe too large for use as avatars/profile images due to the size limitation most membership websites set on these images.
In this case, your best option would be to resize the image. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s state of the art (note: italics imply sarcasm) Paint tool as well as several other popular imaging tools tend to break the animation when GIF files are resized rendering the, I repeat meaningless and funny/disgusting/lame story/joke/message, useless. To make sure this calamity doesn’t happen, GIFWorks.com provides a free, web based editor tool that allows you to seamlessly resize GIF images to you preferred size maintaining the original animation and quality of the image. All you need to is select File > Open Image, once the file is uploaded, choose Edit > Resize, select your desired size and downloaded the modified image. Update: GIFWorks is no longer active. You can use the alternative solution mentioned below.
Another alternative solution, which is also a free, web based image editor is the Blibs editor tool. If you are aware of any other solutions, please share it in the comments.
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In many conditions we have to resize the GIF file format and it’s relly great post who want to resize the GIF file format . Thanks for sharing it.
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The links to this free editor tool from gifworks.com leads to a paid subscription site called clipart.com that will not even let you into their site without a $15 a week subscription fee.
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Thanks for notifying. I’ll look into it.
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You’re right. You can use the alternative solution mentioned in the post.
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