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**What are some other innovative uses of GIFs?** - You can use GIFs to show a quick demo of how to do something that would be difficult to describe in...

**How on earth do I make a data visualisation GIF? I'm not a dataviz expert!** Google have a [tool for that](https://datagifmaker.withgoogle.com/edit). It's very easy to use. You don't need a...

**What about team GIFs in Slack?** You could use the GIPHY integration, or you could use [Sir Gifs-A-Lot](https://slack.com/apps/A0K58U9DH-sir-gifs-a-lot), which lets your team make GIFs using their webcams. This can be...

**What's it all about really? I get what GIFs are, but not why?** Apart from making people laugh or making them intrigued, GIFs are all about capturing moments, and moments...

**There are even GIFs showing how to use GitHub and the terminal** This [government tutorial ](https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/03/03/how-to-use-github-and-the-terminal-a-guide/)uses GIF screenshots in its how-to. 

**How can GIFs go badly wrong, and why?** GIFs can cause people with photosensitive epilepsy to have a seizure. There's a really good [Motherboard article](https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9am8de/so-how-exactly-does-a-gif-cause-a-seizure) about it, but strobing GIFs...

**What about digital heritage, though?** You can make GIFs from multiple photos/other images with the apps mentioned upthread, and lots of people do - with the usual caveats about length...

**Other cool data things** [Instructions for how to make complex data visualisation GIFs in R,](https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2017/06/a-study-on-global-seismic-activity-between-1965-and-2016/) for those sustainable software folk. Here's [a tutorial for making animated infographics in Photoshop](http://tabletopwhale.com/2014/11/03/how-to-make-an-animated-infographic.html) (come...

Kelsey Wroten is an illustrator who [makes GIFs by adding dynamic elements to still images](https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/jpvz9b/queer-women-live-their-lives-in-these-gifs). All you comics artists out there (cough, @lorrainechu3n), this is something that you could think...

You can add some fun new effects in GIPHY Cam, which make use of both speech and face recognition, but it's a bit buggy at the moment and sometimes crashes...