Why Are GiFs Low Quality? (What Makes Them?)

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Gifs are awesome. Who doesn’t love a good giddy-up? These animated image files have made communicating with visual cues much easier and more enjoyable. If you type “GIF” into your search engine, you will get millions of results.

But just because there are so many out there doesn’t mean that they are all good quality. In fact, some really suck – especially when it comes to working with them on your computer. There are two main reasons why Gifs may appear as low quality.

The first is because they have either been saved incorrectly or they were that way when you downloaded them from the Internet. The second reason is more relevant to how you intend to use the Gifs and if you need super high-resolution images to do so.

Why Are GiFs Low Quality

Why Are Gifs Low Quality

Gifs are images, whether animated or not, they are, therefore, saved as image files and if you save a Gif incorrectly, it will appear as low quality on your computer.

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This is because when we save images, we need to specify what quality the file is saved at. When saving a Gif, you get two options. The first is the image quality and the second is the number of colors it uses.

When saving an image, whether it is a Gif or not, we need to make sure we are saving it at the right quality. This is especially true when it comes to Gifs. If you save a Gif at a super high quality, it will be very large in size.

Low-Resolution Gifs

Gifs are very small in size and are great for sharing online or sending as a message.

This is because one Gif can contain a lot of information such as movement, color, and even audio. They are compressed in the same way that images are and, in fact, they can be created from any type of image.

The problem with low-resolution Gifs is that when you view them on your computer, they can appear as very low-quality images and can be really blurry. This is because, when you view them, your computer has to work out what the image is and then re-create it on your screen.

This is a lot of work for your computer and for some low-resolution Gifs it can be too much work.

What Does “low Quality” Mean for A Gif?

When we talk about Gifs being low quality, what we are really talking about is the resolution.

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Resolution is the amount of detail that you can see on an image. The higher the resolution, the more detail you can see. Where resolution is important for still images, it is even more so for Gifs. This is because Gifs are a combination of images put together to create a short video clip.

If you have ever watched a Gif and then tried to save it, you will notice that it is made up of many little images. This means that the resolution needs to be super high. It needs to be high enough that when you view the Gif on your computer, you can see the same level of detail as if you were watching it on the Internet or in a message.

Why Do Gifs Look Low-Quality on Your Computer?

As we have seen with low-resolution Gifs, if the image quality isn’t high enough, you can end up with low-quality images.

When you view a low-quality Gif on your computer, it first has to work out what has been created in each of the frames of the Gif. It then has to reconstruct this information so that you can see it on your screen.

Because your computer has to do this extra work, it can slow down the process of loading the image and the playback speed of the Gif. This can make it seem as if the Gif is low quality.

How to Fix It!

If you have a Gif that you would like to use on your computer or save as a different file type, you can do so by adjusting the image quality.

When you open the Gif, you will be able to see the quality settings next to the file name. This is where you can change the quality settings to suit your needs. If the Gif is low quality and you would like to save it as a different file type, you need to change the quality settings to make it a high-resolution image.

You can also change the image quality settings on the website where you have saved the Gif. If you have found a Gif that you would like to use on your computer, you can also download it directly to your computer.

Conclusion

Gifs are awesome. Who doesn’t love a good giddy-up? These animated image files have made communicating with visual cues much easier and more enjoyable. If you type “GIF” into your search engine, you will get millions of results.

But just because there are so many out there doesn’t mean that they are all good quality. In fact, some really suck – especially when it comes to working with them on your computer. There are two main reasons why Gifs may appear as low quality.

The first is because they have either been saved incorrectly or they were that way when you downloaded them from the Internet. The second reason is more relevant to how you intend to use the Gifs and if you need super high-resolution images to do so.

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