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    How can I put a little vid as my av, like images changing every few seconds

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    You need to create an animated GIF image. It's a fairly simple process - search Google for instructions on how to do that with ImageReady or The GIMP. Note that animated GIFs are essentially a whole bunch of pictures, so keeping it under the filesize limit may be difficult.

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    If you a want the picture to have a decent quality, you'll probably be stuck under 10 frames.

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    I would recommend googling for an image
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    You're either going to have a very short animation or a very crappy looking one.

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    Do you think it would work decently with 6 images?

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    GIFs are a palette-based format. What that means is that each GIF image stores every colour that is present in the image in a matrix. And what that means is that the fewer the colours, the smaller the file. GIF images are very efficient if you have large areas of contiguous colour, like a cartoon image. If you try to encode a photograph as a GIF, it will be very inefficient due to the large number of distinct colours.

    So to answer your question, six images is definitely pushing it. You might get away with it if each image has the same general colours AND each image has very few colours. You probably shouldn't bother trying if it's a capture from a video or game, because it'll be very hard to get it under the filesize limit.

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    That'll work easily. Just get someone to do it for you.:P Or do it yourself if you have Photoshop.

    I, generally speaking, agree with o_O, except for the "6 images pushing it" bit. If you're binding something into an animation, it's not necessary to maintain the high resolutions of the original pictures. You can generally sacrifice a couple of colours, as you won't really see them under the current avatar resolutions. Emperically speaking, of course.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Discord View Post
    I, generally speaking, agree with o_O, except for the "6 images pushing it" bit. If you're binding something into an animation
    I disagree with me on that bit too. For some reason I thought avatars were restricted to 5 or 6 kilobytes. They're limited to 19.5KB now and those 6 images come slightly under that. I doubt the frame data and any other information would push it over 19.5KB.

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    Hmm... well, apart from being terribly colourful, I think mine has about a dozen images in it. Size: 6k. I guess I can upgrade it now that the avatar size-limit has been increased.

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    I used to make plenty of animated avatars under 6k (see sig for my old ones), you should have no problems with the new restrictions now since they're higher
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    Will you make my avatar video, I tried av service,but nobody answered to it yet

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