How to make an animated GIF from pictures
- Drop your files on the box above (or click it to choose them) and put them in order with the ↑ and ↓ buttons.
- Check the settings below the box; the defaults suit most files.
- Press Convert. Long jobs show a progress bar and can be cancelled; you then see what was made and its real size.
- Download the .gif file.
What is kept when you make an animated GIF from pictures
- Pictures become frames in the order you set, each shown for the time you choose; the GIF loops forever, once, or a set number of times.
- Pictures of different sizes are fitted to one frame size — letterboxed on a background you pick, or cropped to fill — so nothing is stretched.
- Each frame gets its own 256-colour palette (exact when a picture has fewer colours); transparency in PNG/WebP is kept as GIF’s on/off transparency. Unchanged areas are not stored twice, which keeps the file small.
About JPG, PNG or WebP and GIF files
Any mix of JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP or GIF pictures can be used as frames; a GIF contributes its first frame. It opens in every image viewer.
A GIF holds one or more frames, each with up to 256 colours, a display time in hundredths of a second, and a rule for what happens to it when the next frame appears. It plays everywhere, which is why it survives. It opens in every browser, chat app and image viewer.
Good to know
- Pictures with the same size and framing make the smoothest animation; crop them alike before you start.
- Browsers play frame delays of 0 or 10 ms as 100 ms, so 20 ms (50 frames per second) is the fastest a GIF really plays.
Privacy and limits
The file is read and converted by this page in your browser; there is no upload and no account. Frame count, size and memory are checked from the file’s structure before any frame is decoded, so a hostile GIF cannot exhaust the tab. Files up to 25 MB are accepted; a file of the wrong type or a damaged file is rejected with the reason.