The Rule of Gifs

The first rule of gifs is how do you pronounce gif?
ANSWER: with a soft j sound, like JIF peanut butter or Jiffy Lube.

The second rule of gifs has to do with sizing them for a website. If you resize them beyond what they want to come in as, they will not play. The purple elephants above will not animate because they were stretched. So when you bring them in you want to adjust your column size to get the ultimate display size for the page because you cannot edit that after insertion. What you can do is size the drag in box by moving or inserting more columns and re-upload. That is what I did in the example to the right.
Here the gif size is very small. I achieved this by inserting two columns in a 3 column format.
Your assignment:
Create a web page that is all about gifs.
  • Explain what they are.
  • Get an example or two.
  • Explain how to make a gif in Photoshop.
  • Make an original gif.