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GIF Padding Adder

Online GIF Maker

This online utility lets you add padding to a static or animated GIF. You can apply padding to all sides of the GIF or just specific selected ones (top, bottom, left, right). You can also set the padding width in pixels and the padding color (either a solid color or create transparent padding). Both the original GIF and the padded GIF can be previewed in the built-in GIF player before downloading. Created by GIF experts from team Browserling.

GIF Padding Adder

Online GIF Maker

This online utility lets you add padding to a static or animated GIF. You can apply padding to all sides of the GIF or just specific selected ones (top, bottom, left, right). You can also set the padding width in pixels and the padding color (either a solid color or create transparent padding). Both the original GIF and the padded GIF can be previewed in the built-in GIF player before downloading. Created by GIF experts from team Browserling.

Tool Options

Padding Size and Color

Adjust the width of the padding around the GIF.
Adjust the color of the padding around the GIF. (Use "transparent" for invisible.)

Select Padding Sides

Padding Preview

Enable real-time preview of the input and padded GIFs.
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What Is a GIF Padding Adder?

This is a browser-based program that adds padding around static and animated GIFs. By adding padding, you can expand the visible boundaries of a GIF on all sides at once, or target specific sides: top, bottom, left, or right. This is especially useful if you need to increase GIF dimensions, visually separate a GIF from surrounding elements on a web page, make it stand out in multi-color layouts with various backgrounds, or create a framing effect. In the tool options, you can find several settings for customizing padding. The "Padding Size" option (specified in pixels) sets the thickness of the added space. The "Padding Color" option sets the color of the sides. Here you can enter the color by name, for example, "white" or "blue", by hex code or by RGB code. You can also make the padding fully transparent by entering "transparent". However, it's important to note that GIF files do not support partial (alpha) transparency. Instead, they allow only one color in the 256-color palette of each frame to be marked as fully transparent. Because of this, the padding color can't be semi-transparent (like in WebP or PNG). In the tool options, you'll also find checkboxes that determine which edges will be expanded with padding. The padding is added to all frames of the animation, increasing the overall GIF file size. For example, adding 40 pixels of padding to all sides of a 300×300 GIF will increase its size to 380×380. If padding is applied only to the top and bottom, then only the height will change. Similarly, if padding is applied only to the left and right side, then only the width will change. The program is also includes a real-time GIF preview function, allowing you to see what your animation will look like with the new padding before it's downloaded. Gifabulous!

What Is a GIF Padding Adder?

This is a browser-based program that adds padding around static and animated GIFs. By adding padding, you can expand the visible boundaries of a GIF on all sides at once, or target specific sides: top, bottom, left, or right. This is especially useful if you need to increase GIF dimensions, visually separate a GIF from surrounding elements on a web page, make it stand out in multi-color layouts with various backgrounds, or create a framing effect. In the tool options, you can find several settings for customizing padding. The "Padding Size" option (specified in pixels) sets the thickness of the added space. The "Padding Color" option sets the color of the sides. Here you can enter the color by name, for example, "white" or "blue", by hex code or by RGB code. You can also make the padding fully transparent by entering "transparent". However, it's important to note that GIF files do not support partial (alpha) transparency. Instead, they allow only one color in the 256-color palette of each frame to be marked as fully transparent. Because of this, the padding color can't be semi-transparent (like in WebP or PNG). In the tool options, you'll also find checkboxes that determine which edges will be expanded with padding. The padding is added to all frames of the animation, increasing the overall GIF file size. For example, adding 40 pixels of padding to all sides of a 300×300 GIF will increase its size to 380×380. If padding is applied only to the top and bottom, then only the height will change. Similarly, if padding is applied only to the left and right side, then only the width will change. The program is also includes a real-time GIF preview function, allowing you to see what your animation will look like with the new padding before it's downloaded. Gifabulous!


GIF Padding Adder Examples

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Add Padding to a Street Fighter GIF

In this example, we add padding to a GIF animation of Akuma from the Street Fighter series performing a Hadoken attack. The original GIF is a sprite animation with a transparent background, so we apply a fully transparent padding of exactly 50 pixels on all sides. This modification visually expands the GIF canvas, creating room around the character and preventing the sprite from appearing visually clipped or too close to the frame boundaries. The padding is applied uniformly to every frame, which increases the GIF dimensions from 160×145 to 260×245. (Source: Capcom.)

Required options
These options will be used automatically if you select this example.
Adjust the width of the padding around the GIF.
Adjust the color of the padding around the GIF. (Use "transparent" for invisible.)
Enable real-time preview of the input and padded GIFs.
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Add Top and Bottom Padding

This example demonstrates how to use padding to create a neat visual framing effect in a GIF. We add 40 pixels of dark gray (#2e2e2e) padding to the top and bottom of animation frames. This creates a letterbox-style effect (found in old movies), making the cart appear to move through a tunnel. The left and right edges remain untouched to preserve the horizontal motion. The GIF's canvas height increases but its width remains unchanged. (Source: Pexels.)

Required options
These options will be used automatically if you select this example.
Adjust the width of the padding around the GIF.
Adjust the color of the padding around the GIF. (Use "transparent" for invisible.)
Enable real-time preview of the input and padded GIFs.
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Add a Decorative Frame

In this example, we add a thin decorative frame around a GIF of a cat sitting inside a fish bowl. The frame is created by adding a 10-pixel wide padding to all four sides of the GIF. We choose a warm beige tone "rgb(182, 140, 103)" as the padding color to avoid visible contrast lines between the padding and the GIF content. (Source: Pexels.)

Required options
These options will be used automatically if you select this example.
Adjust the width of the padding around the GIF.
Adjust the color of the padding around the GIF. (Use "transparent" for invisible.)
Enable real-time preview of the input and padded GIFs.

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Quickly change the speed a GIF animation is played at.
Quickly flip a GIF animation horizontally or vertically.
Quickly reverse all frames in an animated GIF.
Quickly minify a GIF and make it smaller in size.
Quickly change the background color of an animated GIF.
Quickly change how many times a GIF gets repeated.
Quickly stop looping the GIF and play it just once.
Quickly rotate a GIF animation by the given angle.
Quickly change the width and height of a static or animated GIF.
Quickly crop a region from a GIF animation.
Quickly redact sensitive information from a GIF.
Quickly pixelate any region in a GIF animation.
Quickly blur any region in a GIF animation.
Quickly sharpen any region in a GIF animation.
Quickly increase or decrease the brightness of a GIF.
Quickly increase or decrease the contrast of a GIF.
Quickly make any color in a GIF transparent.
Quickly fill transparent GIF regions with a solid color.
Quickly delete one or more frames from an animated GIF.
Quickly extract multiple frames from a GIF.
Quickly preview a GIF animation at any framerate (fast or slow).
Quickly shuffle frames of a GIF animation.
Quickly increase the size of a GIF.
Quickly change the total playback time of a GIF.
Quickly freeze a GIF at a specific frame.
Quickly surround a GIF animation with a border.
Quickly remove the border that surrounds a GIF animation.
Quickly add padding to all sides of a GIF animation.
Quickly add a background to an animated GIF.
Quickly remove the background from an animated GIF.
Quickly add any text (captions, subtitles) on an animated GIF.
Quickly add a running time clock to a GIF animation.
Quickly add a counter that shows frame numbers.
Quickly round the corners of a GIF animation.
Quickly remove colors from a GIF and leave only gray shades.
Quickly cut a frame range or a time interval from a GIF.
Quickly decrease the framerate of a GIF animation.
Quickly increase the framerate of a GIF animation.
Quickly generate a solid color or color gradient GIF.
Quickly generate an animation with random color pixels.
Quickly generate a tiny 1x1 spacer GIF.
Quickly make a GIF loop back and forth.
Quickly draw random pixels on an animated GIF.
Quickly optimize a GIF animation to use less memory.
Quickly print low-level details about a GIF and its frames.
Quickly convert an animated GIF into a single-frame PNG image.
Quickly convert a PNG image into a static GIF image.
Quickly convert a multi-frame GIF into a still JPG image.
Quickly convert a JPG image into a GIF with optional transparency.
Quickly convert a GIF animation into a static WebP picture.
Quickly convert a WebP image into a single-frame GIF image.
Quickly convert an animated or static GIF into a raw BMP image.
Quickly convert an uncompressed BMP file into a GIF image.

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Fade-in a GIF

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Cross-fade GIF Frames

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Cross-fade two GIF animations.

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Normalize GIF Speed

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Change GIF Framerate

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Change GIF Quality

Change the quality of a GIF.

Change GIF Canvas Size

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Convert Base64 to GIF

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Convert GIF to Base58

Base58-encode a GIF.

Convert Base58 to GIF

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Convert a sequential GIF to progressive GIF.

Convert Interlaced GIF to Non-interlaced GIF

Convert a progressive GIF to a sequential GIF.

Convert APNG to GIF

Convert an animated PNG to an animated GIF.

Convert GIF to APNG

Convert an animated GIF to an animated PNG.

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Convert an animated PNG to an animated GIF.

Convert GIF to AVIF

Convert a GIF animation to an AV1 animation (AVIF).

Convert AVIF to GIF

Convert an AV1 animation (AVIF) to a GIF animation.

Convert GIF to HEIF

Convert a GIF animation to a HEIF animation.

Convert HEIF to GIF

Convert a HEIF animation to a GIF animation.

Convert GIF to BPG

Export a GIF animation to a BPG animation.

Convert BPG to GIF

Convert an animated BPG to an animated GIF.

Convert GIF to AVI

Convert a GIF animation to an AVI video.

Convert AVI to GIF

Convert an AVI video to a GIF animation.

Convert GIF to WMV

Convert a GIF animation to a WMV video.

Convert WMV to GIF

Convert a WMV video to a GIF animation.

Convert GIF to MP4

Convert a GIF animation to an MP4 video.

Convert MP4 to GIF

Convert an MP4 video to a GIF animation.

Convert GIF to MKV

Convert a GIF animation to an MKV video.

Convert MKV to GIF

Convert an MKV video to a GIF animation.

Convert GIF to MOV

Convert a GIF animation to a MOV video.

Convert MOV to GIF

Convert a MOV video to a GIF animation.

Convert GIF to GIFV

Convert a GIF animation to GIF video (GIFV).

Convert GIFV to GIF

Convert a GIF video (GIFV) to a GIF animation.

Convert GIF to Data URL

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Convert Data URL to GIF

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Convert GIF to ASCII Art

Draw one or more GIF frames as ASCII art.

Convert ASCII Art to GIF

Create an animation from multiple ASCII art drawings.

Convert GIF to ANSI Art

Draw one or more GIF frames as ANSI art.

Convert ANSI Art to GIF

Create an animation from multiple ANSI art drawings.

Convert GIF to Unicode Art

Draw one or more GIF frames using Unicode glyphs.

Convert Unicode Art to GIF

Create a GIF from multiple Unicode drawings.

Convert GIF to Braille Art

Draw one or more GIF frames using Braille characters.

Convert Braille Art to GIF

Create a GIF animation from Braille characters.

Change Colors in a GIF

Replace one color in a GIF with another.

Make GIF Black and White

Convert all colors in a GIF to just two black and white.

Extract GIF Colors

Find the color palette used in a GIF.

Extract GIF Color Index

Find the color index used in a GIF.

Randomize GIF Color Index

Randomly change the color indexes of a GIF.

Reduce GIF Colors

Remove colors from a GIF.

Re-quantize GIF Colors

Run various color quantization algorithms on a GIF.

Create a True Color GIF

Create a GIF with more than 256 colors.

Create a Binary Color GIF

Convert a 256-color GIF to a 2-color GIF.

Add Dithering to a GIF

Convert a non-dithered GIF to a dithered GIF.

Remove Dithering from a GIF

Merge dithered pixels and create a non-dithered GIF.

Change Delay of Frames

Change the delay interval between individual GIF frames.

Split a GIF

Split a GIF into two or more GIFs.

Join GIFs

Join two or more GIFs into a single GIF.

Shift a GIF

Shift GIF frames to the right or to the left.

Hide a Part of a GIF

Hide the selected area in a GIF by drawing a block over it.

Slice a GIF

Extract a part (a range of frames) from a GIF.

Duplicate a GIF

Create multiple GIF copies side-by-side.

Duplicate GIF Frames

Create multiple copies of individual GIF frames.

Skew a GIF

Skew a GIF animation by an angle.

Unskew a GIF

Reverse a skew in a GIF animation.

Swirl a GIF

Create a pixel whirl of any radius in a GIF.

Generate White Noise GIF

Create a GIF that animates white noise.

Create a Quasistatic GIF

Make a GIF animation go so slow that it appears almost static.

Create a Single-frame GIF

Create a static GIF that contains just one frame.

Create an Empty GIF

Generate a GIF that contains nothing.

Create a Scrolling Text GIF

Generate a GIF that contains a scrolling marquee.

Watermark a GIF

Add a semi-transparent watermark to a GIF animation.

Remove Watermark from GIF

Remove a watermark from a GIF animation.

Convert a GIF to a ZIP Archive

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Add a Comment to a GIF

Add a hidden comment in GIF's metainfo section.

Delete GIF Metainfo

Clear all metainfo from a GIF.

Create a GIF of GIFs

Animate multiple GIFs at the same time side-by-side.

Create an Animated Message

Add an animation effect to a message.

Put One GIF on Another GIF

Layer two GIFs and put one GIF on top of another GIF.

Put a GIF on an Image

Overlay an animated GIF on any image or photo.

Put an Image on a GIF

Overlay any image or photo on an animated GIF.

Check if GIF is Transparent

Quickly check if a GIF file has any transparent pixels.

Check if GIF is Animated

Quickly check if a GIF file is animated or static.

Find GIF Dimensions

Quickly find the width, height, and aspect ratio of a GIF image.

Find GIF Size

Quickly find the file size of a GIF image in bytes or kilobytes.

Emulate a Slow Image

Convert any image to a GIF that emulates slow Internet speed.

Create a Loading GIF

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Glitch a GIF

Let Zalgo destroy a GIF animation.


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