GIF to Flickr
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System Environments
Operating Systems
- Main- : OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)
- Sub- : Debian GNU/Linux Wheezy (7.8)
- Server: Debian GNU/Linux Wheezy || Squeeze
- Mobile: iOS 7.1.2
A way to upload a gif to Flickr in OSX
A GIF image is not officially supported in Flickr. Whenever you want to upload a gif into Flickr, it would give an error message back to you. There however would be a way to upload it. I'm not sure whether it's a bug or not, but it seems to work by now.
Here a way I want to show you is kinda a detour. The Key is PhotoScape X. It doesn't matter which software you used in order to make a gif in a first step. Once it goes through PhotoScape X after no matter how you made it, it can be oddly and interestingly possible to upload it to Flickr.
For example, I've made a gif file in two ways. One is from directly images by virtue of PhotoScape X. Another is first making a move via Screeny or QuickTime Player, and then a gif via GIFBrewery. If it is from a movie, then I use PhotoScape X even though it doesn't seem to be necessary. Everything I made has been succeeded in uploading it onto Flickr.
Long story short, if you use PhotoScape X at the end, then it is possible to upload it onto Flickr.
FYI) The reader should be reminded that
- GIF Brewery is a commercial software. It costs you $4.99.
- PhotoScape X is a free software and the latest version # is 2.2. But I recommend PhotoScape X 1.8 having no commercial appearing. The others including an AppStore for Mac version keep showing commercial.
- PhotoScape X is highly beneficial to keep in you OSX, though it looks quite out of an OSX native app style.
Examples uploaded onto Flickr
Figure 2: English/Korean spell-checker in Emacs 24.3, OS X
Figure 3: Workflow of PhotoRec in Debian 7.8
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- The PhtoScape X icon from the Homepage, COPYRIGHT (C) 2001-2015 MOOII TECH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- The GIF Brewery icon from Homepage, © GIF Brewery.
- The Flickr icon from Wikipedia, © Flickr.
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