What is .gif file extension?
GIF, or Graphic Interchange Format, which is an often used animated raster graphics file and it is also the second most common image format on the World Wide Web after JPEG. GIFs are a familiar formats for web graphics, specifically for the small images, images that contain text such as navigation buttons and images with only a few different colors, such as line drawings, black and white images. GIF uses the LZW compression algorithm and is owned by Unisys. GIF files can also combine transparent pixels, where the color can be set to transparent, which allows them to blend with the color on the background Web page.
You can see a list of software programs here on www.easyfileopener.org that can open this file type so that you don’t need to search for it on the web. You can then open your file with this extension using a software listed below.
