The Insightful Path

If you would like to create your own animated gif for your projects or just to spice up your website but have little to no experience, here are three simple steps to creating your own gif like a pro! Step 1:  In the application paint (or any other visual application you have) , create your own drawings. (These can also be your pictures.) Here are the drawings I created in Paint. Because I want to create a visual story, all of my pictures have a certain order.     Step 2:   Once you have your drawings/pictures completed, open the http://picasion.com/ website. There are many other online free applications available but so far this one has been simple and easy to use on standard images so I am recommending it. (If I am not mistaken, there are other websites that can process audio and video files, depending on the complexity of the gif you are trying to create. Mine is pretty simple for now.)   Step 3:  While in the h...

Just because I feel more creative and want to add other types of media to my blog.. I decided to create my own GIF. The drawings were mine but there is an online application that will automate it for you - http://gifmaker.me/. Try it out as well! For those who are not familiar with GIF, here is a Wikipedia description: The  Graphics Interchange Format  (better known by its acronym  GIF ;  / ˈ dʒ ɪ f /  or  / ˈ ɡ ɪ f / ) is a  bitmap image format  that was introduced by  CompuServe  in 1987 [1]  and has since come into widespread usage on the  World Wide Web  due to its wide support and portability. In layman's term, it simply means an animated picture or group of pictures. Anyway, here is my little art project of sorts.. hehe... I might actually add this "skill" to my resume once I perfect it. (assuming I do ofcourse.. hehehe..good luck to that!) Here is another first for me as well.. (not sure why but w...