We all know about the still images or video images but there are another type of image called animated image. This type of image is generally used in social networking sites as emoticon. The animated image is also used in many websites. It consist of various colours and it always glitter. Now for small animated images we need a special format which is known as GIF file. It is also used for low resolution film clips. The buildings of animated GIF images are generally consist of frames of different images. In the GIF image format some information is stored unlike the still images. The main information stored in this type of image is the control of waiting before displaying the next frame. Main information stored in this image is the number of times to loop through the entire picture. To create animated picture we need a tool called animated GIF generator. Many types of animated GIF generator are available online. Personalized GIF animated images can be easily created with the help of these tools. To create animated pictures we have to use the images in the GIF file format. At first you have to convert your images into GIF file format. Then you can use the online image conversion tool. For image conversion you have to upload the resolution of the image. This resolution will be converted to the resolution of the GIF image. If anyone wants to resize the images then the online image resize can be used. Online image resize is an application which is used to resize the frames of the picture. In the top left most corner, the next frame of the image will be stored. For getting better results it is recommended to use the frames of the picture in different identical resolutions.

There are many GIF generator can be downloaded from internet. One of the best tools for GIF image generator is GIFUP.com; it is a personal GIF animation and avatar generator. One can simply take a picture from the webcam or images can be uploaded from personal computer. The images are also available from flicker or any website. Then let the GIFUP tools to do all the rest of the magic. Now you are ready to get your animated pictures. For sharing it with your friends then you can post it in any social networking websites like face book, Orkut or MySpace. It is absolutely free to download. There is an advantage of using this tool and that is multiple photos can be selected in the dialogue by pressing the control key while clicking on the pictures. It can drop down the link menu. It has scroll box. The main advantage of using this tool is that it can be hidden from your friends by using codes. By the drop down facilities you can create and customize a list of images that you want to convert in animated picture. The text links as well as image links can be created by this tool. There is a facility like coding in this tool. These codes help you to create hidden animated pictures from your friend in social networking sites. The animated gif generator can be created by another tools using Ajax loader. One has to follow some easy steps in order to make new Ajax loader. First of all one have to the choose the type of the indicator which he or she wants to create. Then the background colour is to be chosen. If somebody doesn't want to use any background colour then they have to select on the transparent background option. Then you have to enter the foreground colour if you want to use any colour. Then you have to press “Generate it”.

There are also some another ways to create GIF pictures. You have to follow simple 3 steps. In the first step you have to create an image that you want to use. In this tool you can use any size of image. There is an option in this tool named cavicorn generator which will resize the image to a perfect animated image. It will be better to use a perfect square image size. In the second step you have to submit the image to the form mentioned below and after few seconds the tool will give you the compressed a resized image.