GIF Tools

With Filestar you get 312 different skills for working productively with Graphical Interchange Format File (.gif) files.

About .Gif

Name: Graphical Interchange Format File
Extension: .gif
Format: Binary
Category: Raster Image
Developer: CompuServe
Description: A GIF file is an image file often used for web graphics. It may contain up to 256 indexed colors with a color palette that may be a predefined set of colors or may be adapted to the colors in the image. GIF files are saved in a lossless format, meaning the clarity of the image is not compromised with GIF compression.
MIME Type: image/gif
Sample: sample.gif
Wikipedia: .gif on Wikipedia

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