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Author Topic: Easiest way to make a .GIF for avatar use?  (Read 626 times)

Facekillz058

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Easiest way to make a .GIF for avatar use?
« on: October 16, 2012, 07:15:53 pm »
Yeah, I had an idea for an avatar and I need to know how to make it.
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Re: Easiest way to make a .GIF for avatar use?
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2012, 07:16:38 pm »
GIMP has some plugins for outputting gifs.
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Re: Easiest way to make a .GIF for avatar use?
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2012, 07:20:27 pm »
...you don't need plugins. GIMP can save to gif by default. Choose the animate by layers option (instead of flattening the image) and it will save as an animated gif. Make sure to choose an appropriate delay!
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Re: Easiest way to make a .GIF for avatar use?
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2012, 07:21:17 pm »
So wait, will each layer be a frame in the GIF?
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Re: Easiest way to make a .GIF for avatar use?
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2012, 07:32:56 pm »
Yep, that's how it works.

You can choose additive or replace, to - most people choose replace.
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Re: Easiest way to make a .GIF for avatar use?
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2012, 07:41:20 pm »
Photoshop can do the same, as far as I know. (One would hope so.)
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Re: Easiest way to make a .GIF for avatar use?
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2012, 07:41:45 pm »
Thanks for the help.
Instead of figuring that though, I went with MSpaint and a free GIF making website. :P
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Re: Easiest way to make a .GIF for avatar use?
« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2012, 08:49:37 pm »
A decent second choice. It's how I used to do it... until I realized it was a LOT harder for most gifs. :P

I don't know exactly what you're doing, obviously, so figured I'd choose the "easiest" solution for most of the possible situations. If you're just cycling between a couple existing images, a gif website is probably best, yeah.
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