How to insert a Gift in Gmail? If you want to add life to your email through animated images, we will teach you.
The Gifts within Gmail
The Gift, or the well-known as moving images, are a fun, creative and different medium to express anything we want. They can be used in practically everything, from private messages on social networks or in messages within our Gmail.
They have different ways to be added, one of the main options is to copy them from a web address and insert it into our email. But there are also other options such as uploading them from our computer, to the mail or through a mobile application.
Whichever option you choose, you should know that none of them is complicated and you can carry it out with simple steps.
Steps to add Gift to my Gmail
If you want to give a new meaning to add Gifts to your Gmail emails, then follow the steps that we will now indicate:
In case I don't have Gift on my computer
You must open your daily use browser, in case you do not have Gifts on your computer, then you will have to give yourself the task of searching for them online and downloading them. For this you must:
Find the right Gift
Write in your search engine the words that come to describe the GIF you want to obtain, you can also search for them with .gif. Example: Gatoskating.gif, surely different image options will begin to appear, choose the one that best suits what you want.
Normally, search engines have a filter where you can optimize the search and only show results similar to what you want. You can specify that within the browser options and make your task of searching for Gift easier.
Copy the Gift URL
Then you only have to open the URL that includes the Gift, so that being on the page, copy the same URL you can use the keyboard commands “Ctrl+C” for Windows computers and “Command+C” for Macs, that is if you see which makes it easier for you.
Although you should also know that some Pages that provide Gift, have their own automatic GIF save button, where you only have to click and it will save the mobile image to your computer.
Go to Gmail
Then you just have to open your Gmail, going to the "compose" section, it is in the upper left, when you do, a pop-up box will open where you can write.
Then add the recipient's details, as if email address, the subject why you are writing and obviously below the message.
Add Gift
Then you just have to click on the icon similar to a photograph. After that, a window will open where it will show you the options you have to add images.
If you decided to save the GIF inside your PC, then you will have to locate it and let it start uploading.
In case you did not decide to save it, but you have copied the URL of the web where it was, in the upper right, you will find the option to add the URL.
After all this, you just have to paste the link of the GIF in Gmail text box.
Do not worry, because sometimes before the GIF is sent, an icon of a damaged image may appear, that is completely independent, because when it is sent, the recipient will receive the mobile image, just as you wanted to send it.
Submit
Finally, you just have to click on the send button, by doing so your email will be sent automatically, so that when the person opens it they can immediately appreciate the animation.
Ready! That way you sent a Gift via Gmail, without the need to have downloaded it into your computer.
In case you own and want to send the Gifts from my computer
Actually the steps in this case are exactly the same as the previous ones, only instead of copying, pasting or adding a URL, you simply go to the image icon and upload the GIF you want to send.
This process is not long at all and only takes a few moments, unless of course you have connection problems or the chosen Gift is damaged in some way. For this, the same Gmail, informs you when you are within a bad internet signal and you can search new Gift within the internet, if the one you have is not right or not what you want.
Click Submit. It's at the bottom of the email window. Doing so will send your mail to the specified recipient. Once that person opens it, the GIF will automatically display the animation.
Final Tips
When saving a Gift, we can fall into certain errors, such as:
That the Gift is saved as a video file, for this we must make sure before downloading that the file extension is .gif and not any other such as .mp4. Also if you are using the Windows operating system, you can choose the "save as" option, from it you can add the extension to the file yourself and make it .GIF.
You also have to be very careful when sending the gift, because some of them do not show the full animation, when sent via Gmail. The best thing is that you verify that the damaged file is not found, from your own computer.
On the other hand, it is also very important that you look for a reliable GIF provider. Because many downloadable files, not only those can contain viruses and programs that are harmful to our PC. We also recommend that after your search and obtaining new GIFs, you always keep your antivirus updated.
Finally, you should know that you yourself can create your own Gift, depending on your tastes and creative tendencies, for this there are many applications that can help you, that way you can express better and more freely, what you want to the other person.