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Graphic Interchange Format
Short for Graphics Interchange Format, another of the graphics formats supported by the Web. Unlike JPG, the GIF format is a lossless compression technique and it supports only 256 colors. GIF is better than JPG for images with only a few distinct colors, such as line drawings, black and white images and small text that is only a few pixels high. With an animation editor, GIF images can be put together for animated images. GIF also supports transparency, where the background color can be set to transparent in order to let the color on the underlying Web page to show through. The compression algorithm used in the GIF format is owned by Unisys, and companies that use the algorithm are supposed to license the use from Unisys.
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How do you put a GIF on Google Buzz?
Change the .gif file to a .mov file
What kind of file has a name that ends with gif-?
There is only one file that the name ends with GIF. The only file that ends with GIF is saving a picture.
What is a series of graphics stored in GIF format?
A GIF image can store an animation. That is multiple images are stored into the GIF file and displayed in sequence. It is possible to control the delay between two images and also to make the animation repeat. The multiple images that are stored in the GIF file make out the series of graphics.
What is a gif file?
A .gif file is a picture. It is not as compressed as a .jpg file so it appears larger than normal.
How do you save a GIF on your computer?
A .GIF is a file and is saved like any other file.
How do you save GIF extension file in Dev c plus plus?
The extension is actually immaterial. It merely serves to give the operating system a hint as to the file's content, allowing the file to be associated with a particular application, such as a GIF file viewer or an image editor application. In order to save a GIF file, you must first re-encode the image (assuming it is not already in GIF format), and save the output to a file with a GIF extension.
What does the gif file format have?
.gif is a file format. Most commonly .gif files are animations or images with a short 5-10 second effect. Non-animation image file formats are: .Jpeg and .PNG.
Whether gif file is a image file or video file?
It is an image file, not video. GIF file format support more pictures in one file to create and view it as short animation, but this not a video.
How gif file open?
A GIF file (graphics interchange format) is a simple, low quality image file or animation. Most raster image programs can open and edit GIF images, but GIF animations acn only be edited by programs specifically capable of doing so. GIF files can be viewed by many different programs, usually any program that can display an image file will allow you to see a GIF.
What is a giff file?
Are you talking about 'gif' not 'giff'? if you are than a gif is an industry standard raster graphic or image format. To make it simpler incase you didn't understand, it is an image that is animated, or could be a picture put into a gif form.
What kind of file has a name that ends with gif?
an image file
How can you covert a gif file in to an editable text format?
A gif file has information that cannot be directly editing it just by modifying it as raw text. If you open your .GIF in notepad, you will see what I mean.
