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flgurl69 · 03-18-2008, 08:54 PM

I downloaded some free shareware and tried creating my own animated avatar... not sure how I did it

but I got it????

I previewed it, saved it as a gif file in my pictures. When I open the file and try to save as my new avatar it isn't animated anymore.

What am I doing wrong?

abbie's mom · 03-19-2008, 04:09 AM

Hi

Your file is too large: 98.78kb - dimensions 160 x 160.

The allotted file size for avatars is 48.8kb - dimensions 125 x 125

Pare it down, and it should load.

flgurl69 · 03-19-2008, 09:48 AM

Oh thank you!

I will have to try this again tonight when I get home.

Mybabyboymax · 03-19-2008, 10:15 AM

I was having the same problem and once I sized it down it worked

alaskayorkie · 03-19-2008, 10:21 AM

Nice avatar, though! It can be difficult to get the size down. You have to use fewer pictures of lower quality. I can usually only get 3 or 4 pictures into a full-size avatar. Once you get close, you can reduce the size from 125 pixels to 115 or 100.

Jeri Cunningham · 03-19-2008, 01:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flgurl69

I downloaded some free shareware and tried creating my own animated avatar... not sure how I did it

but I got it????

I previewed it, saved it as a gif file in my pictures. When I open the file and try to save as my new avatar it isn't animated anymore.

What am I doing wrong?

What software did you download? I would love to try it.

Sookie · 03-19-2008, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by alaskayorkie

Nice avatar, though! It can be difficult to get the size down. You have to use fewer pictures of lower quality. I can usually only get 3 or 4 pictures into a full-size avatar. Once you get close, you can reduce the size from 125 pixels to 115 or 100.

I didn't know that!! You learn something new every day.

I made my very first Avatar today and I just made it 100px x 100px at 72dpi. Someone told me once that that's the size it had to be.

So if I do fewer pics I can make mine at 125px x 125px?

peanut · 03-19-2008, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Sookie

I didn't know that!! You learn something new every day.

I made my very first Avatar today and I just made it 100px x 100px at 72dpi. Someone told me once that that's the size it had to be.

So if I do fewer pics I can make mine at 125px x 125px?

it has to be under 48.8, thats the main thing

Sookie · 03-19-2008, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by peanut

it has to be under 48.8, thats the main thing

Ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Thanks!

flgurl69 · 03-19-2008, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeri Cunningham

What software did you download? I would love to try it.

I went to downloads.com and got it. It's called Ulead GIF animator.

http://www.download.com/Ulead-GIF-An...cdlpid=5422267

flgurl69 · 03-19-2008, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by alaskayorkie

Nice avatar, though! It can be difficult to get the size down. You have to use fewer pictures of lower quality. I can usually only get 3 or 4 pictures into a full-size avatar. Once you get close, you can reduce the size from 125 pixels to 115 or 100.

Thanks! I hope I can resize it. I am pixel challenged lol!

I just don't get the percentage and pixel ratio stuff. If I use photobucket to resize, I'm okay but when I try to do it myself...

I'm going to try to resize but if I delete some of the frames, will that help with the file size so that it will work? TIA.

flgurl69 · 03-19-2008, 07:10 PM

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Jeri Cunningham · 03-19-2008, 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flgurl69

I went to downloads.com and got it. It's called Ulead GIF animator.

http://www.download.com/Ulead-GIF-An...cdlpid=5422267

THANKS!

I'll try this and hopefully create an Avatar of my own

alaskayorkie · 03-19-2008, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Sookie

I didn't know that!! You learn something new every day.

I made my very first Avatar today and I just made it 100px x 100px at 72dpi. Someone told me once that that's the size it had to be.

So if I do fewer pics I can make mine at 125px x 125px?

Yes, as a donating member you can go as big as 125 x 125 providing you stay under the 48.8 kilobytes. So if you're at 52 kilobytes, you can either dump a photo or shrink the size.

Quality has something to do with it too, but I haven't figured that out yet. If I save my images as "low" quality on my mac's iphoto, I can sometimes get more photos into a 125x125 pixel avatar. But "low" quality doesn't equal dpi, so I'm not sure what it means.

flgurl69 · 03-19-2008, 07:45 PM

I can get it saved as my avatar but it still isn't animated. Even put it in photobucket and tried but still no animation. Anyone have a clue what I did wrong? I resized everything so I think that's okay.

Thanks.

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flgurl69 <3 My Little Bella Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Cape Coral, Florida Posts: 1,626	I give up! I can get it saved as my avatar but it still isn't animated. Even put it in photobucket and tried but still no animation. Anyone have a clue what I did wrong? I resized everything so I think that's okay. Thanks. __________________ Official Member of The cRaZy Club "If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it." -- Erma Louise Bombeck