Who needs help with animated avatars?
By Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
Manchester, England
April 6, 2007 9:49am CST
I have seen a lot of discussions lately concerning animated avatars and asking how to make the animated gif display as an animated avatar in the discussions instead of just a static image on a black background. It finally occurred to me that it may help if I started a discussion on the subject.
Mylot has a lot of members, so it is important to keep the size of images small so that the site will not be slowed down by heavy graphics, so avatars are resixed when they appear in the discussions. This is fine for a static image but causes a problem with animation, because the only image that will appear is the first frame. The simple way to solve this is to reduce the size of the animated gif to within 60 X 60 pixels, which requires the use of animation software.
I personally use Ulead Gif Animator, but they are several other programs available. If you have a problem finding the right program, then I will be happy to resize your avatar for you.
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10 responses
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
6 Apr 07
Hello rainbow, your's was just one of many discussions that I came across aking for help on this subject, so it seemed important to offer help to those who may need it. I find the social side of Mylot more valuable than the earnings.
As for the Easter Bunny, I am still a child at heart so I could not resist it.
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@crackhead (1826)
• India
6 Apr 07
I agree with you Asylum animated avatars slow down the loading of a site, we aren't small figure of users here. Lets say there might be 1000 members online at any time and not less than that. Of them if 200 users have the animated avatars they are equal to browsing pages with 1000 normal avatars.
They take hell of the bandwidth and slows down the loading time and the sites speed. But as you suggested no one would be knowing about the Gif animation softwares. Hope they will reduce their avatar size and let them help mylot.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
6 Apr 07
Yes, I imagine that many members have tried reducing the size with Adobe Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, which will only open and edit the first frame. I do not know if any free versions of animation software exist, which is why I made the offer to resize images for those who require it.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
6 Apr 07
The one that I use is Ulead Gif Animator, which costs around £30 to £35 to buy. You can download a trial version from: http://www.download.com/Ulead-GIF-Animator/3000-2186_4-5422267.html although I am not sure whether the trial version has any restrictions or limitations.
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@soccermom (3198)
• United States
6 Apr 07
Hi asylum! I have 2 images in the "my photos" section that need resizing! I spoke to you about this before, and attempted to do it myself but still couldn't get them to work. If you could help I'd appreciate it! Where do you find this software? I'd hate to keep harrassing you to fix my images!
@soccermom (3198)
• United States
6 Apr 07
Thank you so much! You, my friend, are one of the many people I am grateful for today!
@vesuvius (1677)
• Philippines
9 Apr 07
Wow!! Looking at the previous comments, I think you really have been one great help for people with concerns about their GIFs and I commend you greatly for that...
I really might need your help someday and I hope you wouldnt mind...
I would just want to ask if I could shrink a GIF using the Corel Photo Paint?? A lot of my IT friends have told me that I could but I cant seem to analyze how exactly I am gonna do that... My friends cannot help me directly because they're cities far from me...
I hope you could share your thoughts on this...
B-)
@Combiflame (182)
• India
30 Apr 10
Hello, saw the URL of your disscusion on another post therefore came here. It is my hmble request to you that if you can resize my avatar such that it would work I will be highly thankfull to you. For your information I'am a bit of new to *GIF images therefore, don't know how to do even basic things. Can you to it for me? YOu can see my avatar moving at here. http://mylot.com/Combiflame
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
2 May 10
I apologise for the late response, but this is a very old discussion and I have not checked it for a long while.
I have resized the image and it should now display fine. Simply copy the image from the page and save it to your computer, then you can upload it to Mylot and set it as your avatar the same way that you did for your original file.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
7 Apr 07
dear mr asylum:
Re: animated profile page
i shall be obliged if you could assist me in building my profile page with animations and graphics.
thanking you
sincerely
mimpi ghosh
(a tech-illiterate)
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
7 Apr 07
I hate to disappoint you my friend, but what I am referring to is converting an animated gif into a smaller file so that it will appear animated in the discussions.
If you are looking for advice about customising the profile page, then I suggest that you try:
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/945034.aspx
@Marie2473 (8512)
• Sweden
7 Apr 07
You have already solved my problem :-) BIG thanx to you =) It does look nicer now =)
@maribel1218 (3084)
• Philippines
7 Apr 07
Hi asylum,
I was familiar with your username because you are the one everlasting team up with me with her discussion thanking us that she customize her page with our help lol!!!
I was about to ask everlating on how to resize a gif because I really love gif specially as attachment to my respond lol! Big favor can you make my avatar move lol! just kidding!
I already download the link that you provided and hopefully will able to resize some of my gif collections here.
Thank you for sharing this helpful information asylum!
@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
6 Apr 07
Hey dude, I just want to say that you are really nice to offer your help this way. Nice one. ^^
