Animated Gif icons?

Castaway · Post by **Castaway** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 3:18 pm

Is it possible to have an animated .gif as your adium icon? And if so, how do you do it?

TheSilverFox06 · Post by **TheSilverFox06** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 3:39 pm

I was sure something like this would be in the wiki, but I couldn't find it.

Yes. Drag the image file into the picture well (as opposed to double-clicking on the well and choosing a picture).

Perez · Post by **Perez** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 3:42 pm

Last I tried, it was not possible. In the .80 release notes it says:

(AIM) Added support for setting animating buddy icons (drag an appropriate GIF from the Finder)

However, there's a trac ticket (try searching there before posting - good stuff) that says:

when i choose my icon, it does not appear to other people as a motion icon but rather a still icon. it only shows the first frame.

michael · Post by **michael** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 3:46 pm

Resize it to 48x48 in photoshop or whatever (keeping the animation) and save as a gif. Then drag in as Silverfox said, the issue is if you drag an icon bigger than this or the wrong dimensions Adium resizes it automatically...but in the process loses animation.

Castaway · Post by **Castaway** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:01 pm

hey, i tried all of that, and it still didnt work. Just to make sure, the attatched should work, right?

http://img10.echo.cx/img10/1623/vivi4lb.gif

Adam Iser · Post by **Adam Iser** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 7:26 pm

That image is 47x47...

Castaway · Post by **Castaway** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 8:14 pm

er whoops. I did it before with 48 48 and it didnt work either. Besides, it doesnt matter if it's smaller does it? here's a 48 x 48

http://img26.echo.cx/img26/3575/vivi3mo.gif

1985 · Post by **1985** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 8:24 pm

Castaway wrote:er whoops. I did it before with 48 48 and it didnt work either. Besides, it doesnt matter if it's smaller does it? here's a 48 x 48

http://img26.echo.cx/img26/3575/vivi3mo.gif

Uhm, that one is 45*48... Not 48*48

Rita · Post by **Rita** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 8:46 pm

Castaway wrote:er whoops. I did it before with 48 48 and it didnt work either. Besides, it doesnt matter if it's smaller does it? here's a 48 x 48

http://img26.echo.cx/img26/3575/vivi3mo.gif

Based on what Michael said (empahsis mine):

the issue is if you drag an icon bigger than this or the wrong dimensions Adium resizes it automatically

I would assume it does matter if it is smaller. Sounds like it needs to be exactly 48 x 48.

Castaway · Post by **Castaway** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 9:27 pm

well it's a moot point since it still doesnt work in 48 * 48

michael · Post by **michael** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 9:47 pm

Are you doing what Silverfox said still? Perhaps you've forgotten about that bit after resizing... So here it is, the long awaited:

How to set an animated buddy icon in Adium on AIM

1. Find your animated image, now open it up in an image editing application such as photoshop. Resize the image to exactly 48 by 48 OR 50 by 50 pixels. Save you image and quit.

2. On the personal tab of the account settings in Adium's preferences, drag your image from it's location in the finder to where your current icon is, do not click on "choose icon..."

That should most definatly work, if not I take it all back it must be a bug, to be dealt with here

Adam Iser · Post by **Adam Iser** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 10:00 pm

Castaway wrote:well it's a moot point since it still doesnt work in 48 * 48

It works with a 48x48 for me...

Perez · Post by **Perez** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 11:45 pm

...Yep, dragging a 48x48 image into the image well in the Preferences works for me.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 11:10 am

i'm on the msn protocol and trying gif transparency.. does the image size requirement? (i should hope so.. since other ppl's icons look bigger than 48*48..

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btw 48*48 transparent gif works on msn

michael · Post by **michael** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 11:22 am

Sirius wrote:i'm on the msn protocol and trying gif transparency.. does the image size requirement? (i should hope so.. since other ppl's icons look bigger than 48*48.. )

btw 48*48 transparent gif works on msn

Not animated it doesn't, MSN doesn't support animated display pictures let alone Adium; but you can go all the way up to 96x96 in terms of resolution.

Castaway · Post by **Castaway** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 1:20 pm

yay! i did it. The problem was that since there was no canvas color the image was only like 48 * 45 at max (like 1895 said). So, by adding a canvas color, it made it exactly 48 * 48. Thank you everyone for your help!

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 7:53 pm

michael wrote:Not animated it doesn't, MSN doesn't support animated display pictures let alone Adium; but you can go all the way up to 96x96 in terms of resolution.

yea.. i didn't think msn supported animation.. hence y i tried transparency instead.. but yea.. i was looking for the 96x96 thing.. thx~

Post by **evands** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 1:16 am

MSN avatars are in PNG format. That said, a properly applied GIF image with transparency should still be okay.

Stridder44 · Post by **Stridder44** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:03 am

Can someone please explain how to make a canvas background white (or whatever color)? Im using Photoshop/Imageready CS

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 5:04 am

Stridder44 wrote:Can someone please explain how to make a canvas background white (or whatever color)? Im using Photoshop/Imageready CS

Make a new layer. Paint Bucket it white. Move the layer to the bottom. Use “Merge Visible” or “Flatten” (the former is better). Presto! An image with a white background! Don't forget to save!