Tumblr highlights its GIF-creation tool on iOS

In case you were privy or not, Tumblr had a GIF-creation tool inside its photo post option. Their making it more prominent though as a separate options so users will be aware it exists. You won’t just be able to create GIFs from your clips but also draw on top of them, or place emojis, or superimpose text, much like what you can do with Snapchat. Of course, it isn’t a comprehensive editor but you can tweak your GIFs as you please. It’s currently available on iOS but should be making its way to Android soon. 

Source: Engadget

Twitter adding the ability to search for and add GIFs to tweets

Sharing GIFs in tweets and direct messages is even easier with the new GIF search feature. Whenever you’re composing a Tweet or Direct Message, you can search and browse the GIF library. So if you’re looking for the perfect cat yawn or dance move to express exactly how you feel, just click the new GIF button. You can search by keyword, or browse categories of different reactions. People can now spice up tweets with hysterical GIFs.

Starting today, GIF search will roll out over the coming weeks to everyone around the world on iOS, Android, and twitter.com. To learn more, check out Twitter's Help Center.

Spruce up your email with GIFs using Giphy for Gmail

Looking to add some spice into your emails? Giphy wants to arm you with tons of animated GIFs for your Gmail messages. The Giphy extension is free and it lets you easily insert GIFs into your emails. Once you’ve installed the extension, you’ll see the Giphy rainbow icon in your Gmail composition window. From there you can select which popular GIFs you want to add to your message.

Source: Cult of Android | Download: Chrome Web Store (Free)

Microsoft brings you clearer GIFs with Blink photo app on Windows Phone

Microsoft wants to make sure the GIFs you make look better with the new update for its Blink app. The burst mode camera app is helping improve the image quality of creating GIFs with a series of still photos. The new algorithm is said to reduce the “noise” in images.

“Blink automatically analyzes the motion in the scene. Where the motion can be stabilized the algorithm effectively performs a very long exposure by merging the entire Blink sequence, where the motion can’t be stabilized the sequence is left untouched. One way to think of this is optical image stabilization on a region by region basis,” Microsoft said in a blog post.

Source: The Next Web | Download: Windows Phone Store (Free)