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[Lady Amethyst]

Originally Posted by xmasbaby75

Just go to UserCp then "Edit Avatar" -- this is where you can upload your animated gif or other picture file. If you don't have one yet, I can help you - just pm me and I will give you my email address to send your pictures to.

Hummmm...I am a PSP and Animation Shop "Junkie"...lol..However, I have been trying to get the "moving avatar" thing going and I just can't. I was wondering if you can tell me what it is that I am doing wrong? I know for a fact that my file is a "gif" and (it is within the allowed file size), but it will "NOT MOVE!" I'm trying to figure out how to get the avatar to change pictures? Please Help And Thanx In Advance..

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by Lady Amethyst

Hummmm...I am a PSP and Animation Shop "Junkie"...lol..However, I have been trying to get the "moving avatar" thing going and I just can't. I was wondering if you can tell me what it is that I am doing wrong? I know for a fact that my file is a "gif" and (it is within the allowed file size), but it will "NOT MOVE!" I'm trying to figure out how to get the avatar to change pictures? Please Help And Thanx In Advance..

It has to be the right size, not just the file limits, but the physical size, as well. If it's bigger, Yorkietalk automatically resizes it and it loses the "moving" aspect. If you are a non-donating member the largest side can be no more than 75 pixels, and the "overall file limit" size can be no more than 20 kb. So there's two measurements you have to look at. If your avatar is within both these limits, you can upload it to this thread and I'll take a look at it for you. I use PSP too, and you can do lots of unique things with their animation program.

[Lady Amethyst]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

It has to be the right size, not just the file limits, but the physical size, as well. If it's bigger, Yorkietalk automatically resizes it and it loses the "moving" aspect. If you are a non-donating member the largest side can be no more than 75 pixels, and the "overall file limit" size can be no more than 20 kb. So there's two measurements you have to look at. If your avatar is within both these limits, you can upload it to this thread and I'll take a look at it for you. I use PSP too, and you can do lots of unique things with their animation program.

Ya Know....Using my PSP for years is one of my "pride and joys". When I first learned to use it, I was apart of a group who made what they refer to as "Sigs..or (Signatures). Working and being a mom, I had to drop out of it, so it's been awhile since I "played around with it..so to speak..lol"

Anyway..Upon learning the tricks of the trade, my LOVE was making animations. But what I couldn't figure out was why others weren't so crazy about them. Well, it was "THE FILE SIZES" of them. I enjoy the quills and boy can't they get up there in size. 1-2-3 mbs!! Yep, you were right. I see that I am truley not allowed to use the sizes that I want. I had to really work hard at "shrinking" my pictures and playing around in animation shop. These turned out to be some very SMALL size pictures. I'd hope they could be seen by people who "don't" wear glasses! LOL

Again..Thank you so much for your help and advice. Now in spare time, I will try making alot of things, (just remembering the file size limit) and play around further!

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by Lady Amethyst

Ya Know....Using my PSP for years is one of my "pride and joys". When I first learned to use it, I was apart of a group who made what they refer to as "Sigs..or (Signatures). Working and being a mom, I had to drop out of it, so it's been awhile since I "played around with it..so to speak..lol"

Anyway..Upon learning the tricks of the trade, my LOVE was making animations. But what I couldn't figure out was why others weren't so crazy about them. Well, it was "THE FILE SIZES" of them. I enjoy the quills and boy can't they get up there in size. 1-2-3 mbs!! Yep, you were right. I see that I am truley not allowed to use the sizes that I want. I had to really work hard at "shrinking" my pictures and playing around in animation shop. These turned out to be some very SMALL size pictures. I'd hope they could be seen by people who "don't" wear glasses! LOL

Again..Thank you so much for your help and advice. Now in spare time, I will try making alot of things, (just remembering the file size limit) and play around further!

I made my avatar in animation shop, you can even open a movie file with it, but getting it into a file size that YorkieTalk will accept is a real challenge. Animation shop has the "optimization" feature, and that comes in really handy for shrinking the file size without losing too much quality. I hate to admit it, but one of the main reasons I became a donating member was you can have bigger avatars!

[yorkie mad]

Trying to think how to explain this emm right you know under your avatar name you have :yorkie talker
senior
500 club ect well could you tell me where the code thingy is so I can see what my next thingy is lol
If you don't reply don't worry , just read it back and its total waffle lol

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by yorkie mad

Trying to think how to explain this emm right you know under your avatar name you have :yorkie talker
senior
500 club ect well could you tell me where the code thingy is so I can see what my next thingy is lol
If you don't reply don't worry , just read it back and its total waffle lol

I'll PM you!

[Princessangela3]

Thanks for all the warm welcomes! I have Princess Bella Da Mia who is no longer the little pup in the pic but now 18 months old and most definately my baby!

Angela

[mamartini]

I'm trying to update my avatar with my new addition but cannot seem to get it to work. I have photoshop and power point. Can you help me?

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by mamartini

I'm trying to update my avatar with my new addition but cannot seem to get it to work. I have photoshop and power point. Can you help me?

You need a program that can make animations; I don't think photoshop or powerpoint can do that. I have Paint shop pro, and it comes with an animation program, and there is also a free one available from Photoscape. You can open the avatar you have with Photoscape, and add or subtract pictures to it. Photoshop allows you to edit pictures, but you need something like photoscape to put several pictures into one file, called a gif file. Here's the link to the thread, with the free program. http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/yor...ng-avatar.html

[becky k]

everytime i try to post a pretty graphic comment to a friends page it just shows up with the written code? am i doing something wrong or do you have to use a special code besides the url .do you need to upload it somewhere instead of taking it off a site? and can you use any site like the myspace graphic s? going crazy here.

[xmasbaby75]

You have to use the IMG code .... [IMG]http://www. the url goes here ... then [ /IMG] (no spaces)

[Luvhcky]

It appears you figured it out. Your picture is moving fine. I wish I could figure out how to set up my page and put a background on it.

[mamartini]

Ok, I can't seem to get it to move on the forum but it will move on my computer. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by mamartini

Ok, I can't seem to get it to move on the forum but it will move on my computer. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.Attachment 279926

That's a cute avatar, but it in much too big of a file to use here. There are two sizes you have to match first is the pixel size, how big is the picture in physical space. Your is perfect, and it's 75x75. The other size you must meet is KB, that translates roughly to how many pictures are in the file times its physical dimensions. You have 42 different frames in your avatar and your overall file size is 81.1 KB, and you are allowed no more than 20 KB. So you just have too many pictures. The special effects you have in your pictures with the pink frames added too many frames. When an avatar is over size limits, it is resized, and loses the moving capabilities. They are strict on this and just one tenth of a KB over, and it won't work.

I redid it to give you an idea of the size that would work; this is 18 KB. Click here to see avatar

[mamartini]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

That's a cute avatar, but it in much too big of a file to use here. There are two sizes you have to match first is the pixel size, how big is the picture in physical space. Your is perfect, and it's 75x75. The other size you must meet is KB, that translates roughly to how many pictures are in the file times its physical dimensions. You have 42 different frames in your avatar and your overall file size is 81.1 KB, and you are allowed no more than 20 KB. So you just have too many pictures. The special effects you have in your pictures with the pink frames added too many frames. When an avatar is over size limits, it is resized, and loses the moving capabilities. They are strict on this and just one tenth of a KB over, and it won't work.

I redid it to give you an idea of the size that would work; this is 18 KB. Click here to see avatar

Thanks so much. I tried for so long.