GIF as avatar

[dystracted]

How would I use a GIF as avatar and have it really moving instead of having it frozen?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

They used to work, maybe they turned animation off again.

Nope it's on!

Are you sure there is more than one frame in the gif?

 

[dystracted]

They used to work, maybe they turned animation off again.

Nope it's on!

Are you sure there is more than one frame in the gif?

yeah, is there a size limit?

 

[Weird Harold]

yeah, is there a size limit?

The same pixel and filesize limits as for other image formats.

Your problem is probably that a typical image editor or image management program won't resize animated gifs properly and only resize the last frame. You need a program for editing animated GIFs to get an avatar sized animation.

You're probably going to run into file size limitations if your GIF has more than three or four frames.

ETA: your Av started working as I typed my original post.

 

[dystracted]

The same pixel and filesize limits as for other image formats.

Your problem is probably that a typical image editor or image management program won't resize animated gifs properly and only resize the last frame. You need a program for editing animated GIFs to get an avatar sized animation.

You're probably going to run into file size limitations if your GIF has more than three or four frames.

thanks...worked...

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The same pixel and filesize limits as for other image formats.

Your problem is probably that a typical image editor or image management program won't resize animated gifs properly and only resize the last frame. You need a program for editing animated GIFs to get an avatar sized animation.

You're probably going to run into file size limitations if your GIF has more than three or four frames.

ETA: your Av started working as I typed my original post.

Yeah, she resized it.

 

[Aella_]

I managed to upload a few gifs as my forum av., with the help of the online tools provided by this excellent website:

http://ezgif.com/resize

Most online gifs are too big and don't meet forum requirements of 33KB, so you'd have to trim them a bit.
- My first step was to resize or crop them
- And if that wasn't enough (gif still bigger than 33Kb) I tried to split it or optimize them.