Animated Gif icons?

Stridder44 · Post by **Stridder44** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:12 am

Was this in Imageready or Photoshop that you speak of? Because when I open the gif in Photoshop it only wants to show 1 frame. And in Imageready, it's a @#$^& to get it to save it as a gif and not a psd.

NOTE: The gif Im trying to edit would be the one you see to your left

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:22 pm

i have no iphoto and i have no photoshop, does anyone know of a 3rd party free replacement?

thanks! 8)

Lysistrata · Post by **Lysistrata** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:33 pm

Stridder44 wrote:Was this in Imageready or Photoshop that you speak of? Because when I open the gif in Photoshop it only wants to show 1 frame. And in Imageready, it's a @#$^& to get it to save it as a gif and not a psd.

NOTE: The gif Im trying to edit would be the one you see to you're left

You won't be able to open it in PS and see all the frames. You're going to have to open it in Imageready. Once there, you need to select "Save Optimized as" instead of just saving to get that pretty little .gif you're wanting. You should probably also save it as a Photoshop file, too. Otherwise, if you decide to edit it in the future, you can edit the photoshop file. Once you save it as a .gif, it's gonna flatten the layers and make it a pain to edit.

--Lys

michael · Post by **michael** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:34 pm

SuperJeremy3000 wrote:i have no iphoto and i have no photoshop, does anyone know of a 3rd party free replacement?

thanks! 8)

The GNU Image Manipulation Program should do the job, although it's powerful stuff so can take its toll on slower machines. I would really just recommend buying a copy of Photoshop Elements really though, about £30 here in Britain and you might be able to download a demo or get one with macworld, if you read it.

Lysistrata · Post by **Lysistrata** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:38 pm

zaudragon wrote:Use “Merge Visible” or “Flatten” (the former is better). Presto! An image with a white background! Don't forget to save!

You don't need to flatten it. When you save as a .gif, .jpeg, etc. it automatically flattens that file type. I wouldn't recommend flattening any photoshop file anyway because what if you wanted to change something later on? Trust me, layers are your friend.

You could also select "Save for Web...", but that's only in photoshop and it's only for single-framed web graphics.

--Lys

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:32 pm

is this doing what i think its doing? is the first frame in 74 x 74 and the rest of it is not? Gimp is awesome but im just crazy lost!

Lysistrata · Post by **Lysistrata** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:52 pm

SuperJeremy3000 wrote:

is this doing what i think its doing? is the first frame in 74 x 74 and the rest of it is not? Gimp is awesome but im just crazy lost!

Actually, only the last frame is smaller than the rest(and has his feet cut off).

It only took me a moment to fix it for you, so see if this file works for you.

-Lys

Stridder44 · Post by **Stridder44** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 6:18 pm

I got it to 48x48, with a white background and I tested it in Camino, and it all works fine! However, I'm still being told that it doesn't run as a buddy icon

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 5:29 am

Lysistrata wrote:
SuperJeremy3000 wrote:

is this doing what i think its doing? is the first frame in 74 x 74 and the rest of it is not? Gimp is awesome but im just crazy lost!
Actually, only the last frame is smaller than the rest(and has his feet cut off).

It only took me a moment to fix it for you, so see if this file works for you.

-Lys

thank you so much!!!

Post by **evands** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 7:16 am

The sheer number of animating ducks on this page has officially become scary

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 7:24 am

evands wrote:The sheer number of animating ducks on this page has officially become scary

RUN AWAY!

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:09 am

wat about the dancing wookie?

Castaway · Post by **Castaway** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:56 pm

it's quite easy if you have fireworks MX, that's better for working with and saving .gifs than imageready.

Stridder44 · Post by **Stridder44** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 7:34 pm

Fireworks huh? I'll have to give it a try

Stridder44 · Post by **Stridder44** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 12:03 am

Ok Im sorry to be such a nag but I can't get it to work with Fireworks either!

michael · Post by **michael** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:02 am

I'm sorry to nag also but is this thread ever going to die?...

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:38 am

got a feeling no.. unless the mods close it

howabout one of the devs post a table/list of all the image sizes and types that adium accepts to have animation/ transparency etc and wat protocol supports wat? that shud sufficiently answer the questions posted in this topic

Adam Iser · Post by **Adam Iser** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:40 pm

If you've got a 48x48 animated gif that doesn't animate on AIM when dragged into the account sheet, give us the gif and we'll look into it.

Stridder44 · Post by **Stridder44** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:29 pm

michael wrote:I'm sorry to nag also but is this thread ever going to die?...

Yes as soon as I figure this out

And Adam, the gif I'm trying to edit is my avatar which you see to the left

Many thanks!

Adam Iser · Post by **Adam Iser** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:44 am

Stridder44 wrote:And Adam, the gif I'm trying to edit is my avatar which you see to the left

That image is 42x47. It WILL NOT WORK unless it is between 48x48 and 50x50.

Show us the 48x48 animated gif that, when dragged onto the image well on the account sheet, does not work. Failing presentation of such an image I can assure you the issue, if one exists, will never be resolved.

If nobody has such an image I'm going to lock this thread.