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Hi all, I have recently been trying to make an animated gif fo my avatar recently and i have PARTIALLY succeeded... I have followed a couple of videos and downloaded some software and have succesfully made a gif, it is in a Quicktime file. I have tried to put it on as my avatar but it says it is too big (must be less than 48kb...) I know this is a bit of a noobish question but how do i change it to be a smaller file? I do not have Quicktime pro and i cant seem to see how to make it smaller :P I hope someone can help because i spent some time watching all these videos, downloading software and making my silly little gif :D looking forward to seeing peoples answers :D
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How many frames does your GIF consist of?
Try reducing the amount.
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how big is it?
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The gif is 4 frames and it is 579 kb :P
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I'm guessing, but if its only four frames, your images are too big. Try making them smaller..
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I'm guessing, but if its only four frames, your images are too big. Try making them smaller..
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i tried making them smaller, that still didnt work so i found out how to open it in picture manager and then i compressed it, but somehow doing this made it not a gif anymore...i am so confused :? but the avatar i have now is part of my gif, sam can you tell me how you did yours??? :lol:
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Compress all the pictures(i know you've got paint.net, so when you do "save as", save it a jpg, and whilst your doing that, there's a compression option afaik(..er or is it quality. If its quality just put the quality down)) you want to use in your GIF-file. Then, take them to your program and animate them like you did before, when it was too big. I can't think why it would be too big unless your pics are too big, so try it.
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Ok dont worry guys i got a new program and it works fine! Il be practising when i can but for now i have this one :D
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