Reduce GIFs - these are your options

GIFs are among the most popular media content on the Internet. You can use the small animations to express a wide variety of feelings or just to cheer up your friends. Sometimes you can also use GIFs as a profile picture. For this, the GIF must meet a certain format. With GIMP you can easily shrink the GIF.

What is the best way to reduce GIFs?

If you want to reduce a GIF, you don't necessarily need an expensive software like Photoshop. Already the free tool GIMP brings all the necessary functions.

1. Download GIMP from this page and install the program in a location of your choice.
2. Open GIMP and import the GIF. To do this, go to "File" > "Open" and navigate to the graphic. Select the graphic and click "Open".
3. Now select the menu item "Image" > "Scale Image". A new window should open where you can enter the future size of the image.
4. Once you click on "Scale", the image will be scaled. Now you just have to save the GIF.
5. To do this, go to "File" > "Export" and select where you want to save the GIF. Klicken Sie auf „Exportieren“ und aktivieren Sie die Option „Animation“. Nun können Sie auf „Export“ klicken und das GIF wird an den gewählten Ort exportiert.