Avatars.Who has the best?

[HumboldtBlazer]

How do you resize and animated gif without losing the animation?

 

[vbgagnon]

I was lucky enough to get mine the correct size. I had tried to resize a different one and it stopped the animation.

 

[Error401]

How do you resize and animated gif without losing the animation?

open it in photoshop, save for web, resize it, select gif, check animated, save, tada.

 

[jon2]

open it in photoshop, save for web, resize it, select gif, check animated, save, tada.

HE LIVES!!!

Glad to see you pop in. Anyways I do the same thing.

 

[WoodiE]

OK, I think mine's getting stale. I think this thread has motivated me to go and search for a new one....

OK, I changed mine. It's one of the public avatars. But I used it....well....because it's MY car. I didn't know WoodiE made it an avatar. It used to be one of the pics in the forum banner. So I think I'll go with that..

Yup after the new header design was put in place we wanted to keep some of the old graphics and thought using them as avatars would be pretty cool - thanks to Chris!

I feel all warm and fuzzy inside that my avatar made it to the list...thank you, thank you, thank you! Unfortunately I can't remember for the life of me who sent me the image to use as an avatar.

 

[jon2]

Yup after the new header design was put in place we wanted to keep some of the old graphics and thought using them as avatars would be pretty cool - thanks to Chris!

I feel all warm and fuzzy inside that my avatar made it to the list...thank you, thank you, thank you! Unfortunately I can't remember for the life of me who sent me the image to use as an avatar.

Yeah its a winner alright... Now who would be worty of being Buzz?

 

[robriguez]

Nah... its too good to be the king to vote for anyone else... so i win!!

 

[HumboldtBlazer]

open it in photoshop, save for web, resize it, select gif, check animated, save, tada.

wow it's that easy? poop, I'm an idiot.

 

[Team 17]

I like Rolex, Jon2 & well .....MINE!

 

[jon2]

I want to get one of those RCNT but TEAM CALI avatars!! Those Rock!!

 

[Blah420]

lol i want one also

 

[Error401]

HE LIVES!!!

Glad to see you pop in. Anyways I do the same thing.

Over worked and under paid, but still suckin wind.

 

[Rolex]

To create an animated .gif, open Photoshop, then open the photo you want. Create a duplicate layer and make the changes you want on that layer. I have 2 layers for my avatar. One with eyes open, one with them shut. You continue to save within Photoshop. When it's done, click on 'File' then click on 'Jump to' and it will open a secondary program within Photoshop called, "Image Ready." This is where you set the timing for each frame, and can view it animated to see the results. I have a few versions of mine, including him winking one eye, and wiggling his ears. I'm currently working on a multi frame image of blinking, then wiggling his ears, followed by a wink. I'm an old hand at Photoshop, but Image Ready is still new to me, so it's time consuming.
Anyway, if you have created your own, or changed the timing, you now hit "Save Optimized" and it will save it as a layered and timed .gif file. Then you click "Image" on the top menu bar, then click "Image size". Reduce it there by typing the pixel numbers in. You might have to crop it first to get it square.
Then click "Save Optimized As....." and either save it to a floppy or under another name. You DON'T want to reduce your original to 60 x 60 or it will be extremely poor quality if you want to enlarge it and work on it again.