Cool Tools Café (I3):

GIF Creation Tools

Rebecca Fordon

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 What’s a GIF?
● Animated
● Small file-size
● Useful in many
applications

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 What to record
● Path to follow on a
website or application
● Step in a multi-step
process

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 Where to use
● LibGuides
● Instruction (add to slides)
● Quick how-to, sent via
email

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 Benefits
● Easy to make and reuse
● Autoplay, but are silent

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 Consider
● Accessibility (caption, and use as
supplement only)
● Copyright
● Distraction level

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 GIF-Creation Tools
Mac PC
● GIF Brewery 3 (free) ● Screen to GIF (free)
● GIPHY Capture (macOS 10.12+ ● GifCam (free)
free) ● Recordit (freemium)
● Recordit (freemium)
● Kap (macOS 10.12+, free)
● Gifox ($4.99, also very limited
free version)
● Gifable ($1.99)

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VERY Quick Demo

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 Additional Resources
● readthedocs.io, GIFs as Documentation
● Christian Bouffard, “Get to the point using animated GIF instructions.”
● Karl Schur, “Using Animated GIF Images for Library Instruction”

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 Still need more?
Get slides:
http://bit.ly/gif4lib

or contact me:
fordon@law.ucla.edu
@thefordon on twitter

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