So, Why Google doesn’t supports animated GIF images?
The answer is so simple, becauseGoogle doesn’t want it. As the matter of fact, the primary use of Picasa is photography, and the organization of photos. And animated GIFs aren’t really part of that. We cannot say that Google mistakenly forgot to add this feature because, Google has a huge developers team who plans and do several homeworks to implement a single function. Technically talking, animated GIF images require quite a bit of processing. There are multiple multiple color pallets, multiple draw rules, transparency, positioning of individual cells, differing timing between each cell, etc. This means that, the server will need much more processing power than opening 1 MB image file. Many people are requesting in Google forums to enable animated GIF images in Picasa Web Album. But I don’t think Google will add this feature so soon. Because, one of the important part of computing is to choose the appropriate tool for each task. There are programs out there that are specifically desig
