Some of you may be saying, I don't need one of those or I already knew how to do it. But this was a big win for me today. Sometimes you need a little GIF to add some levity or in my case to quickly show an awesome tool without a cumbersome video. I did so many Google searches, but have never quite figured it out until TODAY, FRIDAY!
Today I mashed a few different articles that I have been reading and finally found the method that WORKED. I am going to treat it a bit recipe of what I needed.
1 cool feature that you want to share with someone
1 WeVideo website (you can substitute many other screenshot style resources out there, this is my prefered one as I can use it on my Chromebook while being at school)
1 https://ezgif.com website (this one has so many tools that I was able to figure out pretty easily)
2 Tbsp of candy of choice (Skittles worked well for me here)
Step 1: Take a screencast of a website, don't worry if you are only want part of the screen ezgif has an awesome feature I will talk about.
Step 2: Download the video from WeVideo (Go through the finish, when it is complete you will have a link to do this from)
Step 3: Go to https://ezgif.com and click on Video to GIF and upload your video. You can also put in a URL, I didn't try that option though.
Step 4: Choose one of the many options they have to edit your video.
Today I mashed a few different articles that I have been reading and finally found the method that WORKED. I am going to treat it a bit recipe of what I needed.
1 cool feature that you want to share with someone
1 WeVideo website (you can substitute many other screenshot style resources out there, this is my prefered one as I can use it on my Chromebook while being at school)
1 https://ezgif.com website (this one has so many tools that I was able to figure out pretty easily)
2 Tbsp of candy of choice (Skittles worked well for me here)
Step 1: Take a screencast of a website, don't worry if you are only want part of the screen ezgif has an awesome feature I will talk about.
Step 2: Download the video from WeVideo (Go through the finish, when it is complete you will have a link to do this from)
Step 3: Go to https://ezgif.com and click on Video to GIF and upload your video. You can also put in a URL, I didn't try that option though.
Step 4: Choose one of the many options they have to edit your video.
- Crop allows you to crop the video like you would a photo (amazing, get rid of all of the other parts of the website!)
- Optimize will compress your file so that you can easily download and upload it to your Blog
- Speed (you can slow down or speed up as needed)
Step 5: Click on the Big Blue Button to see the preview below. This was one that I did not figure out right away. There will be two different videos on the screen after clicking the button. One is your original, the other is the new one.
Step 6: Once you are happy click the Save button on your newly created animated GIF.
Step 7: In your Blogger post click on the photo like you would to upload an image. Upload the GIF file.
Finally sit back and enjoy the enhancement that the animated GIF you generated has created.
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