A few pictures, set in motion.
Turn photos or pictures into a GIF, animated WebP or MP4 in your browser: put the frames in order, time each one and add words. Nothing is uploaded.
By Suraj Kumar5 min read
A before and after, a product from four sides, a short how-to in three steps: a few still pictures shown one after another say a lot. The KeepSimp animation converter puts them together into a GIF, an animated WebP or a short video, in your browser, so your pictures stay on your device.
Add the pictures together.
Open the animation converter and add two or more still pictures at once: drop them, choose them or paste them. Added together, they become the frames of one animation.
The frame list lets you put them in order with buttons or by dragging, set how long each one shows, copy a frame or take one out. The first picture sets the size; the others are fitted inside it and centred, so pictures of different shapes get a border rather than being stretched. A picture added while the animation is selected joins it.
Set how it plays.
Choose whether it loops for ever, plays once or plays a set number of times. Speed runs from a quarter to four times as fast. Reverse plays it backwards, and boomerang plays it forwards then backwards without showing either end twice.
The preview plays the file itself, as your browser will show it. Pause it to step through the frames.
GIF, WebP or a video.
Under Where will it go?, Chat or email saves a GIF, which plays almost anywhere. Website or app saves an animated WebP, with full colour and a much smaller file. Social video saves an MP4, the smallest of all, where your browser can write one.
A GIF holds at most 256 colours in a frame, so photographs can show bands in skies and skin. Under More options, the Best GIF encoder, gifski, gives each frame its own colours and looks smoother; it is slower, so it is a choice rather than the start.
Words, fades and a logo.
Under More options you can write top text and bottom text across the frames, in three sizes, with an outline so it reads on any picture, and choose the seconds between which it shows. Fades in and out, colour filters and a small logo in a corner are there too.
Keep it small enough to send.
Turn on Must be under a size? and choose 256 KB, 1 MB, 5 MB or 10 MB. If the file comes out larger, the converter lowers the quality, then the frame rate, then the size, measuring each try, and the result says what it changed.
Many pictures at full camera size make a heavy animation. Starting smaller, under Resize in More options, keeps more of the quality for what matters.
Further reading
Topics: gif maker · make a gif from pictures · photos to gif · images to gif · animated gif maker · gif from photos online · slideshow gif · no upload
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