Just the other day I asked my Twitter followers to recommend me a good app for making animated GIFs out of my photos. The response was stunning in its silence – not a single reply. But I don’t care. I now have PicGIF, a Mac app that does one thing: Turn Pics into GIFs.
Actually it does two things, as you can also convert videos into animated GIFS, but that works just like the photo converter. To use it, you add a batch of photos, adjust the crop (fill, full or stretch, just like a wide-screen TV) and pick the speed that the frames will flip. You can then add a caption, and export. And that’s it.
I love how these simple, single-serve apps from iOS are now arriving on the Mac. Yes, I’m sure I can make a better GIF in Photoshop, but I could probably be done making one in PicGIF by the time Adobe’s Moby App has even launched.
Source: iTunes
Thanks: Jane!
Charlie Sorrel writes reviews and how-tos. Follow Charlie on Twitter at @mistercharlie, and at micro.blog on @mistercharlie
One response to “PicGIF, An Ultra-Simple Animated GIF-Maker For Mac”
Very neat! You should also check out Cinegif. They can create GIFs from video and still image, but also create cinemagraphs and streaming GIFs.
Thanks for sharing.