A .gif file can be opened in most photo editing programs, and edited in software such as Adobe Photoshop, as well viewed in all OS native photo preview applications.
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.
.gif
.gif is an image file, suitable for charts and simple graphcs that do not require a large colour palette.
Well i believe it would bet a gif file, as in the extension .gif
Animated images would use a .gif format.
Open the File Explorer or Finder application on your computer. Navigate to the folder or location where you want to search for GIF files. In the search box, type *.gif and press Enter. This will show you all the files that have the .gif extension in that folder or location.
Program file extensions simply identify the type of program. For example, an executable program will have a file extension of .exe, and some music files will have the file extension of .mp3
I use program VidGIF is a tool for converting selected video file to animation GIF formats.
Tools executed from a command line have an .exe file extension and MMC Snap ins have .msc file extension.
Files are named in the method: filename.extension When the file is a program, the extension is 'exe' so if a file called 'hello' was a program, it would be called: hello.exe
Tools executed from a command line have an .exe file extension and MMC Snap ins have .msc file extension
Graphic Interchange Format (file extension)