Design it with gifs: the best resources to be the king of WhatsApp

The support of animated gifs in WhatsApps is about to arrive.It is one of the main demands of its users, who want to enjoy on this platform one of the options that most smiles generates in other instant messaging solutions., to be prepared when the time comes, we will see a selection of some of the best resources to use gifs and be the kings of WhatsApp .

If we do a little history, the gifs are not exactly a new development.They have been with us since the 80s and were created by the CompuServe firm, which was looking for a means to facilitate a color image system to download files of files.It became very popular due to its compression format , LZW , which did not involve data loss, maintained image quality and reduced file size.

But if for something the gifs stand out it is for their animations , a variant of the original format that allows us to see several images-distributed in a timeline-in one place.It is much more attractive than an emoticon and allows you to create small video clips that are repeated , usually in a loop.They have become so popular that we could say that we can answer any message with a gif.

the best pages to find gifs

The fastest when we want to express something with a gif is to go to one of the multiple pages that allow us to use the ones that already have and share them .There are different ways to do it, either through a code that we embed in a web page or blog, like a video with *.html5 format, or we can also download the gif as if it were an image and then share it as and how we do with any photo.

It is still not entirely clear how WhatsApp will support the gif, although the latter option will be the one with the most possibilities.The truth is that for you to have a choice and go creating your own collection to share here There are a number of pages where it is possible to find all kinds of animated gifs sorted by categories:

• Giphy is undoubtedly one of the best places to find gifs files.With a careful interface, it is very easy to navigate through the different categories and find what we are looking for.In addition, it offers options to embed on the web as if off a YouTube video or share immediately on Twitter.


• Lolgifs has the appeal of encompassing the multitude of gifs that they are publishing.It is difficult to find something concrete, but on the contrary we can enter the page and spend hours browsing and seeing the immense amount of images they have.To save them, just with doing it like any image we found on the web.


• Go Gif is similar to the previous one although with a slightly cleaner and tidier interface.Although it does not have categories, if you have tags that tag the publications, then facilitate your search.To save them, as in the previous case , we only have the option to do it as an image.

• Gifmania is a veteran page that reminds us of what the gifs were a while ago, when users chose an image of @ circling on itself to indicate they had email.Its aesthetic seems a bit dated, but it still has some interesting resources, especially animation.


• Gifsoup is a page well structured by categories in which we can find any type of gif to share.It is also possible to create our own from YouTube videos, for which we only need the video URL and then select the clip to generate the gif.Very simple to make and edit, so that everyone can create their own without great difficulties.

But you can also create your own Gifs

Other times what we want is to create a gif based on a series of photos that we already have or that we have taken with the mobile, videos, etc.So much if we do it from a computer as if we use the smartphone, we have different options to create our own animated clips.Let's see some of the alternatives:

• Gifmaker is a web service that allows you to upload a series of photographs or images with which to create our own gif.The limit for our creativity is put by us and our quality as photographs.You need to have flash installed for use and we can upload images in JPG, PNG or GIF format .


• Make a Gif is one of the best options to generate our own image clips.They can be created using a YouTube video, our own videos, a video capture from the webcam and then uploaded to the cloud if we are registered.It also has a large repository where you can find many gifs that we can use.


• Img flip is designed so that we can create our gifs and memes quickly and easily.This way, text is also added to the animated gif, a fundamental element that helps contextualize and reinforce the message we want to send.


• Gif creator is very similar to Gifmaker, but in this case no flash is needed for its creation.It allows us to generate the gif, choose the level of compression and download it, since shortly after its creation they are removed.
  
• GifBoom is designed to be used from smartphones , for which it has apps for both Android and iOS, from where, using the camera, we can create gifs of up to 60 seconds and then share them on the page itself.It is widely used especially by teenagers and young people, as you can see as soon as you enter the page.

• Frinkiac is a scene selector of The Simpsons with which we can create animated memes and gifs.To do this, we only have to add the images we want to build the gif and add text if we want.who thinks that everything in life can have a scene from The Simpsons, this is your page.


• Gif Me! Camera is also designed to take a picture or video clip with the camera of the smartphone, apply a filter if we want and share it quickly.What prevails in this app for Android is simplicity.

With all these resources, we just have to wait for WhatsApp to implement the long-awaited support for Gif that users demand so much.We put creativity in it.

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