Imgur just gave itself an early birthday present: One week before the popular image hosting service celebrates its sixth anniversary, it unveiled a web-based video to GIF conversion tool Thursday. The ...

The GIF is one of the internet’s native art forms and few websites have as big a repertory of the medium as Imgur. Still, finding the right GIF can be hard, and making your own is even harder, so the ...

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, ...

Are you an animated GIF virgin? Do you hang your head in shame when your friends share their custom made GIFs? If so, then the new video to GIF tool from the popular image hosting service Imgur might ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Jan 29, 2015) - Imgur, the Internet's visual storytelling community, today unveiled Video to GIF, a feature to help anyone create animated GIFs from existing videos.

GIFs are the lifeblood of the internet, the reason most of us get up in the morning. But they haven’t really gotten better in the past 25 years—until now. Imgur claims to have “reimagined the GIF” by ...

The Internet’s love of GIFs is second to none. There are blogs, search engines, an apps dedicated to sharing the little, looping moments. But most of us, myself included, don’t create them ourselves; ...

We've entered the new era of the GIF. Or, at least, popular image-hosting site Imgur is kicking GIFs up into high gear. To compress the giant GIFs that people make into a more manageable format, Imgur ...

Here’s an embarrassing secret: Before today, I’d never made a GIF. I mean, obviously I’ve seen them, laughed when they’ve been passed along, and made a note so that I could share them myself later.

Imgur is the internet’s best time sink, where 250 million monthly users silently consume an endless community-curated collection of absurd GIFs, inspiring tales, pop science explainers and giant meme ...

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