David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over the last decade, he's reviewed phones for TechRadar as well as covered tech, gaming, and culture for Engadget, Popular Mechanics ...

There's a new kid on the GIF-creation scene, and it's a good kid. This week, Imgur launched a new "Video to GIF" feature that lets you enter a URL, adjust the parameters of a clip, and get a ...

Welcome to part three of this brief journey through the rich history of one of the newest and most popular art forms, the animated GIF. The previous installments are “The Early Years: 1997–2008” and ...

The GIF format remains a popular file format for animating images. However, the technology hasn’t changed since 1987, and its limitations are starting to show. Which is why the image hosting website, ...

Sometimes, whether you’re chatting with friends or posting on social media, words just aren’t enough — you need a GIF to fully convey your feelings. If there’s a moment from a YouTube video that you ...

Most of your digital photos are stored in the JPEG format (a.k.a. JPG), but when you download an image from the web these days, it may be using the more modern WebP format. It's likely you're also ...

Having eye-catching and attention-grabbing graphics is essential when posting online, but sometimes your images don't fit the strict restrictions websites establish. You don't want to try to squeeze a ...

If a picture says a thousand words, then a great GIF can say a million. Whether you want to share a short animated clip that's funny, poignant, informative, or shocking, posting a GIF on Instagram is ...

Sending a video file can use up a large amount of bandwidth, especially if you send the file repeatedly via your website or through an extensive customer email list. Converting the video into an ...