How do you take gifs?

[jwunderl]

Here’s the programs I typically use to make screen recording gifs:

Pizzas, Pirates & Ninjas

I use gifox on my mac, as it was the easiest to use one I could find when I started needing to make gifs to respond to students on my class forum, but screentogif is what I’ve heard is good for windows. If I need to edit a gif (compress, shorten, etc) I just use ezgif.com, as it does a good job at most things and the compression algorithm (gifsicle) it implements is real nice / one I used on the command line before I found the site.