How to create GIFs of Live Photos and share them to Instagram and Facebook

How to create GIFs of Live Photos and share them to Instagram and Facebook

<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href='http://www.imore.com/how-create-gifs-live-photos-and-share-them-instagram-and-facebook' title="How to create GIFs of Live Photos and share them to Instagram and Facebook"><img src='http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large_wm_brw/public/field/image/2015/09/live-photos-gifs-instagram-hero.jpg?itok=9VWw7rir' />[/url]</p> <p class="intro">Until apps support them, the giffery has to be done. It is known.</p> <p>Apple's Live Photos feature for the iPhone 6s isn't exactly a movie or a still image: it's a mixture of both. And until app developers build support for Live Photos in their apps, you can exploit that JPG-and-MOV-combination in order to share your Live Photos to the world in gif or movie form. Here's how to do it!</p> <p>Luckily, if you have a computer and Lightning cable nearby, it's pretty easy to turn a Live Photo into a bonafide Instagram video or gif. Here's what you need to do.</p> <h2>How to turn a Live Photo into a gif</h2> <ol><li><strong>Connect</strong> your iPhone to your Mac via its Lightning-to-USB cable.

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</li> <li>Open <strong>Image Capture</strong>.</li> <li>Each Live Photo is saved as a JPEG and a MOV file. <strong>Select</strong> the MOV files of the Live Photo you want to transform and <strong>download</strong> them to your Desktop.

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</li> <li>Open the MOV file in your GIF-creator of choice. (I love <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gif-brewery/id435989461?mt=12&at=10l3Vy&ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">GifBrewery[/url], personally, but there are plenty of free gif-making services on the web.)</li> </ol><h2>How to share a Live Photo to Facebook</h2> <ol><li><strong>Follow</strong> steps 1-4 in the previous how-to and make a gif on the service of your choice.</li> <li><strong>Upload</strong> your gif to Giphy if your gif service doesn't already provide you with a URL.

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</li> <li><strong>Share</strong> the URL on whatever Facebook page you want.</li> </ol><iframe src="//giphy.com/embed/xTiTncW7z362KVRj4k" width="480" height="640" frameborder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> <p>via GIPHY</p> <h2>How to share a Live Photo to Instagram</h2> <ol><li><strong>Follow</strong> steps 1-3 in the previous how-to, but don't use gif-making software. </li> <li>Open <strong>AirDrop</strong> on both your Mac and iPhone. (If you don't know how to use AirDrop, here's a quick primer.)</li> <li><strong>AirDrop</strong> the MOV video(s) you want to share from your Mac to your iPhone.

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