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Using Animated GIFs

Using Animated GIFs

An animated GIF is an on-screen picture which uses a series of overlapping graphics to create perceived movement.

Chances are the first movement you saw on a web page was an "animated GIF" (pronounced gif, as in gift). This animation was probably a simple graphic that animated like a cartoon, such as this one:

animated fish