- [Instructor] If Canva is the place to go
to release your inner creativity
and create some professional looking images
for your social media accounts,
Giphy is the place to go to create a quick GIF
and get it uploaded.
Let's take a look.
To get started, I'm logged into a free Giphy account,
and I'm just going to click on the create button.
Now right off the bat, you'll notice that
the user interface is much simpler than that of Canva.
And that's why I think it's a bit easier to use.
Now primarily, we're going to be creating GIFs in Giphy,
but notice that you could also create stickers or backdrops.
So to get started creating our GIF,
we're just going to click on choose file.
Now, I actually have three photos here on my computer
that I'd like to turn into a GIF.
So I'm just going to select photo number one to start.
And notice that now that that photo is uploaded,
we can start to edit the caption for this photo,
we can edit the style, the animation,
and we'll do that in a minute,
but I want to turn this into a GIF.
So I'm just going to upload the other images as well.
So now I have my three images uploaded
and you can see that it's cycling through them in a GIF.
And right now it's set to stay on each image
for three seconds,
but we could move this slider if we wanted to
and bring it down to, say, maybe 1.5 seconds.
So it just moves a little bit quicker.
But now that I have those three images uploaded,
let's go ahead and click on continue to decorate.
So from here we have a bunch
of different things that we could add.
At the top, you'll see there's some different tabs.
So we're on the caption tab right now,
and we're going to add a caption,
but we could also add a sticker,
we could use some filters
or we could even draw on the GIF if we wanted to,
but we want to enter a caption.
So let's go ahead and do that.
So we've entered a caption.
And if I go over to the left side of the screen
in the preview area,
I can actually drag this around and move it.
I could also resize it if I wanted to
and I can change the color if I'd like as well.
I kind of like the white.
I guess maybe we'll stick with the white for now.
We can change the style.
So you can see how that affects your GIF as well.
We'll leave it as default.
But I am going to add an animation,
so let's go ahead and add the wavy animation.
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and then it cycles through those three images.
So you can really get as creative as you want here.
But I think this is pretty good for our GIF for now.
So I'm just going to scroll down
and I'm going to click on continue to upload.
You'll notice that when I do that,
I can enter some tags if I wanted to.
I can determine whether or not I want this GIF to be public,
because you can just browse through GIFs on Giphy,
so if you make it public,
it'll just be available for people to see
on the Giphy website, which may be
even some more marketing for you.
But whenever you think you've got everything all set
and you've got your tags added if you wanted some,
go ahead and click on upload to Giphy.
Okay, so there you have it.
Our GIF has been uploaded.
And notice that right from here, we could share this GIF.
So we could share it to our Facebook page, Instagram,
or any other social account that you'd like.
We could also embed it in a website if we'd like.
So, pretty simple.
Again, if you're looking for that full featured tool
that you can really get creative with
and create professional looking graphics,
Canva's probably a better option.
But if you're just looking to create a quick GIF
and get it uploaded to your account,
maybe it's just something funny
that you were inspired about.
Giphy is definitely a great tool for that.
As you can see, in this video alone,
I was able to quickly create a GIF
that's ready to be uploaded.
A great tool for those quick little inspirations
that you get throughout the day.