# Animated gifs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-gifs/745565>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 8, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-gifs/745565 "2016-02-08T21:58:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-gifs/745565/1 "2016-02-08T21:58:31Z")

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I would like to make some dirt-simple animated .gifs

Can anyone point me to some preferably free or low-cost software?

Thanks for any and all inputs.

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-gifs/745565/2 "2016-02-08T22:06:57Z")

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There’s all kinds of gif makers available to use online. [Google](https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=gif+maker)