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GIFs are too heavily compressed, with too few colors, etc. Pretty much all iOS apps support live photos; you can iMessage them; you can even download apps to g
by HappyTypist 9y ago
GIFs are too heavily compressed, with too few colors, etc.
Pretty much all iOS apps support live photos; you can iMessage them; you can even download apps to get the video file or convert it to a GIF.
- onion2k 9y agoGIFs are too heavily compressed, with too few colors, etc. Technically GIFs can have as many colors as you like. Each frame can have its own 256 color palette, and any transparent pixels are left the color of the pixel from the previous frame, so you can build up a full color image over time. This is silly and you'd never actually do it, but still, it is possible. Technical explanation and demo: https://notes.tweakblogs.net/blog/8712/high-color-gif-images.html https://notes.tweakblogs.net/blog/8712/high-color-gif-images...
- Malic 9y agoI've been wondering how that's done for some time now - thanks for pointing me/us in the direction of that article!
- pluma 9y ago"GIF" on web forums these days usually (thanks to gfycat and friends) means "WebM". So just do that: send me a WebM of that live photo. Oh, that's right, iOS doesn't even support WebM let alone let you export Live Photos as WebM (or MP4 for that matter). That you need a third-party app to share Live Photos with anything other than another iOS device is pretty shameful.