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The Perfect GIF

September 09, 2014 Watch in 12 minutes 🇺🇸 USA

Last year at Barcamp Omaha, I did a tongue-in-cheek talk on Impostor Syndrome. This year, I was floundering on picking a topic for Barcamp—until Derek Eskens suggested I do a talk on GIFs. With only two days to prepare, I think it turned out fairly well.

In the talk I discuss: pronunciation, GIF sources, how to create your own GIFs, and GIF search and workflow. If you listen closely, you can hear the audience (playfully) boo when I finally pronounce GIF for the first time in the talk.

Watch on YouTube: The Perfect GIF

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I did not post slides for this talk, given the loss in fidelity with an unanimated deck. But I’ve included below the list of referenced resources.

Sources

Utilities

  • LICEcap to create GIFs
  • gifwit to catalog/search GIFs
  • HoverZoom for easy inline previews of animated GIFs (not mentioned in the talk, but still worth including).

Animated GIFs used (in order of appearance)

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7 Comments

  1. remybach Disqus

    10 Sep 2014
    Ha ha... can't say I agree about the pronunciation of "gif", but great talk :)I realise you don't use Android but for anyone that's interested, I created an app for my gif workflow: http://remy.bach.me.uk/blog...

  2. jmhobbs Disqus

    10 Sep 2014
    Gifsicle is a killer tool for fine tuning timing on gifs and optimizing them too - http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/And, of course, I have to plug http://dun-dun-duh.com/ and http://gifmebro.herokuapp.com/

    1. zachleat Disqus

      10 Sep 2014
      gifmebro is amazing! Can it do a variable length gif?

      1. jmhobbs Disqus

        10 Sep 2014
        It's just a dumb little thing. Would be totally possible to configure it up. I'll put the code on jithub.

      2. jmhobbs Disqus

        10 Sep 2014
        https://github.com/jmhobbs/...

        1. jmhobbs Disqus

          10 Sep 2014
          It's pretty hairy in there, I didn't clean it up much before putting it up.

        2. zachleat Disqus

          11 Sep 2014
          Awesome!
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