I always enjoy seeing interesting animated gifs in instant messages...
Every now and then, I even get motivated to search for new ones, or come across an interesting animated gif in some other environment - like an email or a web page.
The problem is, sometimes, the gif is really too large to be appropriate for an IM.
So, after happening upon an animated gif that I thought would be fun for IM, if only it were smaller, I went searching to see what options I had to shrink the gif.
I thought about just placing it in a cold swimming pool, but soon realized that gifs aren't subject to shrinkage in that way.
After doing a bit of Googling, I was able to find a great free option: GIFWorks.com. While there might be other sites that offer similar functionality or there might be downloadable freeware that accomplishes the same result, GIFWorks did exactly what I wanted, quickly, easily, and freely. You can find instructions here.
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Posted by David at April 16, 2009 11:12 PM | Categorized under: Reference