Khayalan GIFShot

Khayalan GIFShot is a software tool that was developed specifically to help individuals create animated GIFs out of video recordings taken with their web cameras.

The installation process is a piece of cake and it is over in a few moments, yet if you are interested in bypassing it altogether, you should know there is also a portable version, called Portable Khayalan GIFShot.

The interface you are greeted by presents a straightforward and plain build, as it is only comprised of a few buttons, check boxes and a panel to display the image feed from your webcam. It can be used with great ease by all types of users, including those with little or no previous experience with computers.

This software utility enables you to record with your web camera and save the resulted video to the hard drive, as an animated GIF. Aside from that, you should know it is possible to control the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, sharpness and gamma levels with the help of several slider bars, as well as control establish number of frames per second, aspect ratio and output location.

The main window also integrates some playback controls, which enable you to easily start the recording, pause or stop it, yet you should also know that you can use some keyboard shortcuts to perform these actions.

To sum up, Khayalan GIFShot proves to be quite a useful piece of software. It presents a simple-to-handle interface, a fair amount of options and the conversion process from video to GIF is quite fast and does burden the PC’s performance.