Graphic Interchange Format. It will be a picture of some kind. Here is a site that explains it: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/G/GIF.html Image files, generally from web sources, they may be transparent / animated.
There is only one file that the name ends with GIF. The only file that ends with GIF is saving a picture.
an image file
A Graphics Interchange Format file is a picture format file.
.gif is a picture format they can be either a animated picture or a still
.gif is an image file, suitable for charts and simple graphcs that do not require a large colour palette.
.gif is one of many image supporting file formats. So if you have a .gif reading application you'll see pictures, often in motion. Another popular image supporting format is .jpg. My personal experience is that files with .jpg extension tend to be larger (longer) than the .gif files.
Change the .gif file to a .mov file
A .gif file is a picture. It is not as compressed as a .jpg file so it appears larger than normal.
Graphic Interchange Format. It will be a picture of some kind. Here is a site that explains it: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/G/GIF.html Image files, generally from web sources, they may be transparent / animated.
.gif stands for: "Graphic Interface File"; they are 8 bit graphic images allowing for 256 possible pixel colours using the RGB colour formating system.
A .GIF is a file and is saved like any other file.
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.