JethroTull Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 I uploaded my friend here sitting at a keyboard. It's a GIF file that is animated, but all I get is the initial image. I noticed others (Redeyedrich) have moving avatars. Anybody know what the problem is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 the problem is its size. If the forum software has to re-size your gif, it takes a single frame from the gif, re-sizes that frame, and that becomes your avatar; ie, you lose the animation. The solution: re-size the gif yourself before you upload it as your avatar. Hope that helps. PS: if you don't know how to re-size the animation, post the original and someone can re-size it for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 By size...Hermit...do you mean the 'volume' of the gif ? not the dimensions..right ? How would you cut back on the 'volume'..like the frames adding up to large a size ? Curious.... I was referring to re-sizing the image dimensions,.. not the file size. To answer your other question,.. one could reduce the file size by eliminating some frames from the animation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kissandra Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I'm glad it doesn't move. I never liked that gif. It's unnecessarily vulgar and stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aspensound Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I'm glad it doesn't move. I never liked that gif. It's unnecessarily vulgar and stupid. Ditto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JethroTull Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 I'm glad it doesn't move. I never liked that gif. It's unnecessarily vulgar and stupid. Who cares what you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrophile Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I care what she thinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JethroTull Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 What's wrong with it ? I think it's great !!!! They would rather spend their time looking for 74 hidden LP covers in a picture. I work in the IT profession, so the GIF is particularly dear to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 It's really just too long for an avatar..way too much data...and it'd be hard to scale it back for effectiveness.... Rather graphic though isn't it ? Right. ..on all points. there's 240 individual frames in that animation (200kb gif file). that's way too much data for the avatar file size limit of 45kb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock Action Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 What's wrong with it ? I think it's great !!!! Hey, I've had a lot of days at work that looked just like this! So I can certainly appreciate it. And as far as being vulgar, it sure beats a photo of someone getting fucked by a horse. It's only a bloody cartoon. Literally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JethroTull Posted January 30, 2008 Author Share Posted January 30, 2008 Hey, I've had a lot of days at work that looked just like this! So I can certainly appreciate it. And as far as being vulgar, it sure beats a photo of someone getting fucked by a horse. It's only a bloody cartoon. Literally. LOL!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock Action Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Now that...i dunno....that might be kinda neat. Well, I know where to find the horse... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redeyedrichard Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Right. ..on all points. there's 240 individual frames in that animation (200kb gif file). that's way too much data for the avatar file size limit of 45kb. Yeah, I had to cut my avatar size down...and the amount of frames. I remember my computer was down at the time...but I think it was Hermit that helped me out in my hour of avatar crisis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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