How to Add Animated GIFs to Gmail Emails

If your work culture or social relationships thrive by sending GIFs (animated image format) to each other, then you probably want to embed GIFs in your Gmail email as well. But if you just copy and paste into an email, the image will not have an animation effect, and if you add it as an attachment, the recipient has to open it to see it and it takes a lot of steps. So, how to directly embed an animation in Gmail email?

Steps

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Compose emails. As you usually do; Sign in to your Gmail account, click Compose or Reply , and compose the email however you like. In theory, you could do this step after you’ve found the GIF; But in reality, it’s up to you!

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Find GIFs. Animation has become an indispensable part of the information exchange process on the Internet. Millions of people have put their time and effort into compiling interesting and highly entertaining GIFs. If you can’t think of an image to embed, just search online for keywords like funny gif , party gif or cat gif and you’ll be so excited you want to. Find someone to instantly send a message you’re interested in.

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Save the GIF to your computer or find its exact URL. To embed an animation in a Gmail email, you need to save it, not just copy and paste. Copying and pasting will only create a still image, and reduce the entertainment of the GIF.

You can embed the animation using the image’s URL, but this only works when you have the exact path of the file (and not just the link of the page containing the GIF). You can get the exact URL by right-clicking on the image and selecting Copy Image URL . If you have problems with this then the safest alternative for you is to save the file to your computer.
To save the image to your computer, right-click the image and select Save Image As . Then save the file to a location that you can easily access (e.g. the desktop). When you’re done, you can delete the photo.

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Click the “Insert Photo” button in Gmail. The option is a mountain with the sun above it, located in the toolbar at the bottom of the message box. A smaller window will appear for you to select photos.

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Make sure that the option labeled Inline in the Insert images section at the bottom right of the window is selected. Otherwise, your photo will be added as an attachment and must be opened by the recipient to view it.

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Select a GIF image. You have two main options for embedding animations: You can choose Upload if the GIF is stored on your computer, or Web Address (URL) if you know the exact address of the image.

If you choose to upload, drag and drop the GIF into the frame, or click Choose photos to upload . Select your GIF file and click Open . The file is automatically added to the email; otherwise, click Insert to confirm again.
If you want to use the web address, paste the exact URL of the image into the text box. If the link is valid, a preview of the animation will appear. Then, click Insert in the window to embed the image.

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Resize or move the GIF as needed. When you click, the image will be highlighted in a blue frame. From here, you can click and drag the corners of the frame to your desired size, or click on Gmail’s built-in options including “Small”, “Best fit” and ” Original size” (Standard size). If necessary, you can also delete the photo by clicking the link shown below the GIF image.

If you want to move the animation, you can drag and drop the GIF into another part of the email or move the text around the image.

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Send email! After composing the email, adding recipients and embedding the animation, click Send to send the message. Your friends and colleagues will be giggling in no time!

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