Making an animated gif file is not easy. It takes lot of time, effort and expertise to get things done. However, there are number of online service that make process of creating animated gif easy as ever.

There is no need to install any software or spend hours together reading tutorials. Simply upload images, select animation style and its all done. Here are 5 service to make animated gif online:

1. Gickr -It allows you to instantly create Animated GIF online for free. Just upload pictures or get them from your Flickr account. Create funny flashy slideshows with you and your friends, cartoons, previews, banners, etc. Very handy tool, however ads on the site can be very distracting.

2. GIFup -Very good free online GIF animation and avatar generator. Simply upload images from your computer, from your Flickr account or from any web site and GIFUP will make a cool animation avatar, banner or GIF slideshow. You can save it to your computer, share it with your friends or post it on Myspace, Hi5, Friendster, Blogs, Forums, etc.

3. GIFworks -It is an online GIF image editor. Create your own special effects with any GIF,even animated ones. You can Resize, colorize, optimize, and jazzercise it and then save it.

4. Picasion -Create Animated GIF online for free at Picassion. Upload your pictures or grab them from Flickr or Picasa Web, make avatars or funny animations and post it to MySpace, LiveJournal, Bebo, Digg, Facebook etc. Create animated avatar or MySpace avatar at Picasion.

5. GifSUN -Just upload your images or photo you want to animate online. Upload multiple pictures or photos to got best flashy animated gif. You can share animated gif and organize images collection with tags.

Above should take care of basic gif animation needs. In case you know any other interesting service for making gif online, please do share by adding a comment.