GIF from photos and pictures: an animation out of your own frames

Online tool for building a GIF out of photos and pictures: you upload the frames, set their order and how long each one is shown, and the tool assembles an animated GIF. Animated GIFs on input are split into all of their frames, which makes merging two GIFs into one the same action rather than a separate tool.

How to make a GIF from photos

1
Upload the pictures

Drag the files into the upload zone or click to pick them — several at once is fine. JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, BMP and GIF are accepted, animated GIFs included.

2
Arrange the frames

Drag the thumbnails with the mouse or move frames with the arrows, and drop the extras with the ×. “By file name” lines a camera roll up in shooting order, and the field under each frame takes its duration in seconds.

3
Set speed, size and transition

Choose the overall speed, the direction, the colour count and the output size. Turn on the crossfade if you want a slideshow, and keep an eye on the “file size” tile — it is recalculated on every change.

4
Check it and download

Press play to watch the animation with its final delays and transitions, then “Download GIF”. The finished file stays on the page — with its real weight and a button to save it again.

Assemble an animation from photos and join existing GIFs

Drop photos or GIFs here
JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, BMP, GIF ·

Add two or more pictures and they become animation frames. An animated GIF on input is split into all of its frames with their original delays, so two GIFs turn into one.

A GIF holds at most 256 colours per frame, so photos with smooth gradients (sky, skin, a blurred background) get noticeably coarser in one. Save WebM when colour accuracy matters.

What the tool does

Animated greeting card: a frame and a caption
Frames by occasion — birthday, wedding, New Year, Eid, graduation — and two captions over the animation: a greeting on top, a signature below. Frames are drawn from formulas rather than shipped as pictures, so they stay sharp at any size. 14 fonts, your own colour and outline.
The file size before you build it
A counter shows the approximate weight of the GIF and recalculates it whenever you touch the size, the colour count or the frames. It warns you past 10 MB — the threshold where messengers start refusing a GIF.
Crossfades between frames
Blended in-between frames are added to each gap, turning four photos into a slideshow instead of a flip-book. Four transition lengths are offered, and when the animation loops the last frame fades back into the first.
A separate duration per frame
One list sets the overall speed — from 2 seconds per frame up to 25 frames per second — and any single frame can be given its own time. A hand-set duration is not reset when you change the overall speed.
Merging existing GIFs
An animated GIF on input is split into frames with their native delays, so two GIFs in a row become one. Frames are composited with their disposal method honoured, so a GIF that only redraws the moving part does not fall apart.
Reorder by drag, by arrows or by name
Thumbnails drag with the mouse, and the arrows on every frame work on a phone and from the keyboard. “By file name” puts a camera roll back in shooting order: IMG_2 lands before IMG_10, not after.
Reverse and there-and-back
Besides the ordinary direction there is reverse, and a pendulum that runs to the end and comes back without doubling the frames at each turn.
Dithering and a shared palette
Dithering breaks smooth gradients into dots so a sky stops banding at 128 colours. One palette across all frames removes the colour shimmer between frames and makes the file smaller.
Transparent or custom background
Padding from the fit mode and the backdrop under transparent PNGs can be white, black or any colour you pick — or left transparent, in which case the GIF keeps its transparency.

Frequently asked questions

How do I make an animated greeting card?

Upload your photos, open the “Greeting card” block and pick a frame for the occasion — each thumbnail shows your own photo inside it. Then type the greeting into “caption on top” and the signature into “caption at the bottom”, and choose a font and colour. The frame and captions hold still while the photos change underneath, which is what makes it a card rather than just an animation. Set 256 colours for a card: a patterned frame shares the palette with the photo.

How many pictures can I upload?

Up to 300 frames. An animated GIF counts as all of its frames, so two hundred-frame GIFs already take up two thirds of the budget. Crossfades raise the total: the assembled animation is capped at 600 frames, and if a transition does not fit it is shortened, which the tool says right under the setting.

How do I merge two GIFs into one?

Upload both of them as ordinary files. Each is split into its own frames with their native delays and they queue up one after the other — no separate merge mode is needed. You can then reorder them by dragging, exactly like photos.

Why is my GIF so heavy?

Three things drive the weight at once: the frame size, how many frames there are and the colour count. A 640-pixel GIF from forty photos easily runs to tens of megabytes. The “file size” tile shows the approximate result in advance and highlights itself past 10 MB. The fastest way down is the frame size — the weight falls roughly with the square of the side.

What happens to pictures of different sizes?

A GIF has one size for the whole animation, so frames are brought to a common one. By default each frame fits whole and padding is added at the edges; you can fill the frame with cropping or stretch instead. The default size comes from the median of your uploads and is capped at 640 pixels on the long side.

Why do my photos look coarser in the GIF?

The GIF format stores at most 256 colours per frame while a photograph has tens of thousands, so smooth gradients like sky or skin have to be approximated with dots. Dithering, which is on by default, does that tidily and removes the banding. If colour still matters more, set 256 colours or save WebM, where the colour stays full.

Can different frames be shown for different lengths of time?

Yes — every frame has its own duration field in seconds. That is how you keep a title card on screen for two seconds while the rest run at half a second. A hand-set time is not reset when you change the overall speed.

How do I reorder frames on a phone?

With the ◀ and ▶ arrows under each frame — they are always visible and they work where dragging with a finger cannot. They also move frames from the keyboard. Dragging a thumbnail with the mouse stays for desktop browsers.

Are all the frames of an animated GIF always read?

In Chrome and Edge, yes. Safari and Firefox cannot yet hand over the frames of an animated GIF one by one, so there such a file is added as a single picture — its first frame. The tool warns you about that rather than dropping frames in silence.

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