I have several JPG photos in a folder on MacBook M1, so I could use either iOS or MacOS apps.
What apps could I use to create a GIF from the still photos?
I have iMovie, Afterlight, Darkroom and Photos already on my Apple Silicon device with Monterey 12.2 MacOS.
Please ignore the topic, below because this isn't about a single app. It's about a task for which I don't know which app to use.
MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 12.2
There are several GIF creating apps that you can download from the internet or app store. They way that I have done it is to use iMovie and the Keynote app that already is on the Mac. (It if isn't, you can download it free from the app store. ) You need both apps because iMovie will play a GIF as an ordinary non-looping video but will not export it out as a looping GIF.
Here's the procedure that I do. Put the photos into iMovie. Set the duration at 1 second per photo. Export to the desktop as a video file. Drag the video file into a Keynote presentation template. (Open Keynote, select a template, delete the text in it, and then drag in your video.) Do File/Export to Animated GIF onto the desktop. (In the Keynote export box, set the auto-advance slider to zero.) Play the GIF on your desktop by selecting (not opening) its icon and pressing Command-Y on the keyboard.
You can do the same thing by creating a slideshow in the Photos app, exporting it as a video file to the desktop, dragging the video file into Keynote, and exporting from Keynote as an Animate GIF file to the desktop.
-- Rich
There are several GIF creating apps that you can download from the internet or app store. They way that I have done it is to use iMovie and the Keynote app that already is on the Mac. (It if isn't, you can download it free from the app store. ) You need both apps because iMovie will play a GIF as an ordinary non-looping video but will not export it out as a looping GIF.
Here's the procedure that I do. Put the photos into iMovie. Set the duration at 1 second per photo. Export to the desktop as a video file. Drag the video file into a Keynote presentation template. (Open Keynote, select a template, delete the text in it, and then drag in your video.) Do File/Export to Animated GIF onto the desktop. (In the Keynote export box, set the auto-advance slider to zero.) Play the GIF on your desktop by selecting (not opening) its icon and pressing Command-Y on the keyboard.
You can do the same thing by creating a slideshow in the Photos app, exporting it as a video file to the desktop, dragging the video file into Keynote, and exporting from Keynote as an Animate GIF file to the desktop.
-- Rich
How to Create a GIF from Still Photos
