{"id":14854,"date":"2011-02-04T16:10:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T15:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=14854"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:05:02","slug":"the-best-ways-to-make-an-animated-gif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-best-ways-to-make-an-animated-gif\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Ways to Make an Animated GIF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to make a <strong>cool animated profile picture<\/strong>, you should think about making a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GIF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>GIF<\/strong><\/a>. They&#8217;re really easy and quick, and as long as you have the materials (a series of images or a video), it couldn&#8217;t be easier.<\/p>\n<p>To take the pain out of the process, we&#8217;ve rounded up <strong>3 of the best desktop apps<\/strong> for <a title=\"All GIF creators on Softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/windows\/gif-animation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">creating GIF animations<\/a>. Download the one you like the best, get animating and a funny GIF avatar will be yours!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/easy-gif-animator.en.softonic.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14872\" title=\"easy\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/02\/easy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/easy-gif-animator.en.softonic.com\/\">Easy GIF Animator<\/a><\/strong> is one that lives up to its name &#8211; it&#8217;s a feature-rich, easy-to-use GIF animator that&#8217;s especially useful if you want to make GIFs from scratch &#8211; i.e. without a set of images. That&#8217;s particularly useful if you want to make a text-based GIF, say with a song lyric, funny quote or instructions. Easy GIF Animator isn&#8217;t a free program, but the trial version has 20 free uses, so you&#8217;re sure to be able to get what you need.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ms-gif-animator.en.softonic.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14870\" title=\"gifani\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/02\/gifani.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ms-gif-animator.en.softonic.com\/\">MS GIF Animator<\/a><\/strong> is an old-fashioned program, but it&#8217;s no-install and free, so if you want to get animating quickly, it&#8217;s the perfect fix. This app supports .AVI video. Making a GIF from a video file is the ultimate easy GIF and takes an absolute a minimum of effort &#8211; just grab an .AVI file, pick the frames you want and save as a GIF. MS GIF Animator will let you make various tweaks and improvements, but even with very little involvement, you&#8217;ll still get a great GIF!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beneton-movie-gif.en.softonic.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14871\" title=\"bmg\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/02\/bmg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/beneton-movie-gif.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Beneton Movie GIF<\/strong><\/a> is the last in our list. Completely free and very user-friendly, it has loads of sample GIFs and help, so even if you are attempting something a little more complex, you won&#8217;t have any problems. It doesn&#8217;t support video however, and be warned that it tries to install other software items, so keep an eye on the installation process!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to make a cool animated profile picture, you should think about making a GIF. They&#8217;re really easy and quick, and as long as you have the materials (a series of images or a video), it couldn&#8217;t be easier. To take the pain out of the process, we&#8217;ve rounded up 3 of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-best-ways-to-make-an-animated-gif\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Best Ways to Make an Animated GIF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-14854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334451,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14854\/revisions\/334451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14854"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=14854"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=14854"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=14854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}