laurenreynoldsisdead:  so how do you make gifs without a mac?

Here is the gif tutorial.

Everything is the same except for the capping program used.  If you have a PC, download KMPlayer instead.  It is the same thing, basically, but the controls are a bit different.  Go to the beginning of the scene you want gif’d, then click CTRL+G (a frame extraction box will open).  Create a folder on your desktop to put the frames in.  Then change the settings.  These are what my settings usually look like (I just keysmash the name of the folder or whatever):
 

Then click “start”, play the scene, pause the scene when it’s over (make sure it’s a short scene!), then click “stop”.  Then you can follow the instructions in the tutorial above. :)