Inspired by Europeanea.Eu's yearly Gif It Up competition, we're running workshops on how anyone can make their own gifs from openly licensed and public domain, museum, library, and archival materials.
Gifs are created using free online tools and software.
This is a beginners introduction to creating Gifs.
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Gif It Up - Creating Gifs using open content & online tools
1. Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
Open Education Resource Advisor
Educational Design and Engagement, LTW
Except where otherwise stated, this document has been licensed CC BY 4.0
Cranes from BL Royal 12 C XIX, f. 40,
Europeana, British Library royal Collection,
Public Domain
Create Gifs from openly licensed
museum, library, and archival
materials.
2. Timetable
13:00 Welcome! Introduction to Gif It Up and the world of gifs.
13:30 Using stickers and effects.
13:50 Playing with colours.
14:10 Video to gif.
14:30 Break – stretch legs, grab drinks, etc.
14:40 Altering and animating.
15:00 Create your own gifs!
15:45 Share what we’ve made.
16:00 Finish.
4. So what are Gifs?
A GIF (with the file extension, .gif) is
basically an image file format that is
animated by combining several other
images or frames into a single file.
Does anyone remember the dancing
baby?
5. GIF IT UP 2016 entry by Tim Highfield from Brisbane, Queensland,
Australia. Source material from Libraries Australia via Trove. CC BY-SA
6. Created by Europeana.eu for GIF IT UP 2017
Source material from the British Library. Public Domain
7. Created by Europeana.eu for GIF IT UP 2017
Source material from the Rijksmuseum. Public Domain
8.
9. Flying Fish, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, CC BY
GIF IT UP 2016 entry byAupetit Harmonie from Nanterre,
Ile-de-France, France.
Gif It Up is a competition run by
Europeana.eu in October each
year.
Enthusiasts and lovers of the
internet are invited to create
brand new GIFs by remixing
copyright-free and openly licensed
material from four international
digital libraries.
10. Are the rights given to persons over the
creations of their minds (usually for a set
period of time).
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR):
11. Is an area of IPR that covers the rights of
authors of original creative works.
Copyright:
12. Is the permission, or authorisation,
to re-use a copyrighted work.
A Licence:
15. CRC Flickr account
• The Centre for Research
Collections’ Flickr account
is an example of an Open
Educational Resource.
• It contains several
hundred images from our
images database
https://www.flickr.com/photo
s/crcedinburgh/albums
16. Do you accept this challenge?
Gif from Giphy.com, character from ‘The Emperor’s New Groove’ Directed by Mark Dindal
17. Go to the following URL for the electronic
version of ‘Adding stickers and effects’
http://edin.ac/2EGAFs6
Stickers and effects
18. Go to the following URL for the electronic
version of ‘Playing with colours’
http://edin.ac/2CwB7Ds
Playing with colours
19. Go to the following URL for the electronic
version of ‘Video to Gif’
http://edin.ac/2HrG7Nc
Video to Gif
20. And now
Image gif via digg.tumblr.com, original source YouTube user AprilsAnimals
21. Go to the following URL for the electronic
version of ‘Altering and animating’
http://edin.ac/2CwFyxP
Altering and animating
22. GIF IT UP 2016 entry by Gualtiero Bertoldi from Padova, Italy. Source material from
The British Library via The European Library via Europeana / @europeanacollections.
25. Go to the Padlet where we have been
sharing our gifs.
Write the names of your favourite Gifs on
the slips of paper.
Vote for your favourite Gifs!
Editor's Notes
Notes: Expect the workshop to take approximately 3hours.
How do you say it?
Do you use Gifs? Where, and for what purpose?
Do you use Gifs? Where, and for what purpose?
Do you use Gifs? Where, and for what purpose? Gifs can be used to make a statement.
To communicate a message.
I’m looking at you.
Or just for fun.
Europeana.eu is an excellent resource for public domain and openly licensed digital content from galleries, libraries, museums, and archives across Europe.
A Creative Commons (CC) licence is one of several open licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work.
A Creative Commons (CC) licence is one of several open licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work.
http://www.images.is.ed.ac.uk is the University of Edinburgh’s online collection of digitised library, galleries, museum, and archival content. Where possible content has been openly licensed, and the library are going back to look at previously digitised images to see where open licences can be applied to encourage re-use and sharing of the collections.
The University’s CRC Flickr account contains a great collection of images from the University’s images database.
Free time to get creative!
Possible images for Gif use from the Centre for Research Collections at The University of Edinburgh
Everyone’s a gif winner!!
For more information about re-mixing and creating with openly licensed content, go to http://www.open.ed.ac.uk