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Yesterday: GIFs are great! But actually making them kinda sucks.

Today: GIFs are great! And any video (or burst!) on your iOS device can be GIFFed, edited, and posted using the Tumblr app.

Here’s how:

Open a new photo post.

Pick a video (or a burst!). 

Poof. Now, it’s a GIF.

You can crop it. Zoom it. Trim it. Make it fast. Make it slow. Make it loop. Make it rebound back and forth. Make a whole bunch and arrange them into a photoset. See what other people are making over in the #made with tumblr search, then go have fun with this thing already.

Available on iOS right now, Android in just a little bit

And now, a few exciting tips:

Don’t underestimate bursts(!)—they produce extremely handsome GIFs. 

The shorter your GIF is, the better it’ll look. 

The rebound button is rad. Try it out and enjoy the resultant smoothness. 

Speaking of smoothness, 1.5x is a really smooth speed. 

GIF a slow-mo video, then speed it up in the GIF maker. An incredible, pudding-like smoothness. 

Too much face for one selfie? Make a photoset. 

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Something Wicked

#HappyHalloween! #HalloweenMovieList

#TheConjuring

See it before you stop at any house for candy. 

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#HappyHalloween! #HalloweenMovieList final suggestion:

#TheHouseoftheDevil

Watch this well put together “something’s in the house with the babysitter movie” before you go trick or treatin’!

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#HalloweenMovieList

#Clean,Shaven

There is no horror greater than being inside a disintegrating mind. This film puts the viewer inside the mind of a man experiencing a schizophrenic break. Lodge Kerrigan created one of the best movies about mental illness. 

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#HalloweenMovieList

#JacobsLadder

This film gets left out of horror lists, but this movie has conspiracy theories, disturbing flashbacks full of demons and a solid performance by Tim Robbins, playing a Vietnam veteran. 

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Day 16 of #HalloweenMovieList

#Seven

Is the best of the serial killer horror movie. It has the inventive killer, the buddy cops trying to solve biblical clues the killer is leaving behind, good acting, and a twist ending that ties everything up nicely into a little. . .Well, I won’t give anything away. But Brad Pitt’s last scenes in this movie show he has tremendous talent that hasn’t been recognized.

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Day 15 #HalloweenMovieList

#JeepersCreepers

A monster hunting people? Check. 

Monster doing something creepy with people after he gets them? Check.

Fun sounding song that will sound creepy to you forever, after you see this movie? Check. 

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Day 14 #HalloweenMovieList

#AngelHeart

Is an up an adapted version of Faust and it is a frightful look of a man who sells his soul to the devil. 

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Day 13 #HalloweenMovieList

#InvasionoftheBodySnatchers (1978)

There have been 3 different versions of this movie, but the 1978 version is the scariest one because of the scream. 

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Day 12 #HalloweenMovieList

#TheHunger

If you see stylish vampires in any movie post 1983, it owes a debt to The Hunger, directed by Tony Scott, and starring the eternally sexy and stylish Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie as old vampire companions. The film follows Susan Sarandon a doctor who is asked to look at John (David Bowie) because of a mysterious illness making him older. 

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Day 11 #HalloweenMovieList

#Dracula (#Coppola version, 1992)

Coppola’s version of Dracula is a visual feast with a fantastic performance by Gary Oldman, a memorable score by Wojciech Kilar, and even Keanu Reeves. Coppola’s Dracula succeeds where many vampire films fail -- it captures the allure and romantic beauty of the Dracula myth. 

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Day 10 #HorrorMovieList

#TheShining

The list wouldn’t be complete without it. Stanley Kubrick meticulously researched the root of our fears and mined Steven King’s story for the morsels that would scare us down to our subconscious. Kubrick drew on unsettling images from such artists as Diane Arbus, and created the perfect horror film telling the story of man and his family taking care of a deserted hotel in the winter. Does the man get cabin fever and go crazy from working on a book? Or is it more sinister -- does he get possessed? You decide.  King got mad about how Kubrick changed his story, but The Shining film elevated horror into art and made the original fiction story better. 

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Day 9 #HalloweenMovieList

#WaroftheWorlds

#StevenSpielberg comes closest to doing a horror movie with this end of the world film. He captures the despair and horror of an alien attack by drawing on the media images of real world tragedies from past wars to the September 11 attacks. War of the Worlds is often overlooked by horror lists, but it is seriously scary.

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Day 8 #HalloweenMovieList

#TheMist

Is a much better reboot of John Carpenter’s The Fog. There haven’t been that many good scary monster movies released in the last 10 years, but this is one of them. 

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Day 7 #HalloweenMovieList

#TheDescent

This film mines your cave fears, when a group of women doing some adventurous caving meet up with something below the earth. 

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Day 6 #HalloweenMovieList

#TheBabadook

This film is the boogeyman, the book comes alive and the creepy kid rolled into one so you will be afraid to look under your bed when it is done. 

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Day 5 of #HalloweenMovieList

#TheCounselor

#CormacMcCarthy penned the script, The Counselor about narco culture gone horrifically wrong for smooth talking lawyer, Michael Fassbender. It has a midnight movie feel in parts and over the top performances by Cameron Diaz and Javier Bardem, complete with cheetahs and car hood dancing but it is a disturbing movie that will get under your skin.