Finding and Optimizing GIFs

Looking for a visual component for your website or video?

Giphy

We used Giphy throughout our Squarespace Online Course. They can provide fun, visual, comedic relief or illustrate a point on your website. You can even make your own with the GIF maker!

Click here for LOLs. 😂

ezgif

Looking to draft up some comps with some sweet free fonts? Ezgif.com is simple online GIF maker and toolset for basic animated GIF editing.
Here you can create, resize, crop, reverse, optimize, and apply some effects to gifs.

Compress Or Die

GIF Compressor

Do you want to showcase your work via GIFs and they are just too big? BIG TIP ALERT! Use Compress-or-die to COMPRESS those GIFs.

Thank you to Amanda Voss for this RAD recommendation!

Squoosh

Google’s answer to compressing and comparing images with different codecs, right in your browser!

Thank you to Tracy Dungo for finding this rad recommendation!