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Images to GIF

Two to ten pictures, in your order, a frame time you choose.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.About the extension

How to convert Images to GIF

  1. Drop the pictures; drag them into order.
  2. Set the time per picture.
  3. Press Make GIF and download.

What happens to your file

Every picture is decoded on Fylane’s servers and fitted inside the first one’s frame — never stretched, the rest of the frame transparent — then ImageMagick draws them as frames shown for the time you chose, looping forever, and gifsicle optimises the result. GIF keeps 256 colours a frame: photographs will band a little; screenshots and drawings look exact.

Ten pictures at most on this page (fifty through the API), and the first one at most 4 000 pixels a side — a GIF is a big file per frame; resize the pictures first for a small one.

Questions

Why is my GIF so large?

A GIF stores every frame as an indexed picture with no video compression. Fewer, smaller pictures make a smaller file; Compress GIF afterwards helps too.

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "image.to-gif",
    "options": {
      "frame_ms": 500,
      "file_ids": [
        "<second file id>"
      ]
    }
  }'

The same operation, image.to-gif — Two to fifty pictures as one animated GIF — fitted to the first, a frame time you choose, looping — drawn by ImageMagick and tidied by gifsicle. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.