.GIF

📌 .GIF file format is primarily oriented on visual images stored and opened in the Graphical Interchange Format. Basically, it may include up to 256 indexed tones, with a color palette which may serve as a predefined sequence of colors or be adapted to the colors employed in scope of an image. .GIF entries are stored in a lossless container definition, which implies that the GIF compression does not impact on degradation of the visual clarity of the image. .GIF extension is utilized as an essential technological file schema for web-graphics, particularly small images and graphics which involve textual controls, such as navigation buttons.

How to open an .GIF file?

📌 .GIF item definition can be seamlessly explored, opened and uncovered by Microsoft Paint, IrfanView, ACDSee Photo Studio and other substantial categories of graphical viewers. Besides, you can utilize custom visual editors, like Adobe Photoshop, Corel PaintShop Pro, Adobe Illustrator, etc. in order to tweak the transparency of the image layers, set up desirable filters or effects, apply the intelligent selection of the image file fragments, use the integrated toolset and execute other complementary activities. The file format has gained cross-platform compatibility with all accustomed desktop and mobile systems in overall accessibility. In the outcome, you can even create and open animated GIFs for further usage in messengers and web-chats.