I'm trying to set my profile picture to an Animated GIF and it's too large. HOW THE HECK DO I COMPRESS IT?

Are You Pictures All n by n pixels?

goldfish678 wrote:

I'm trying to set my profile picture to an Animated GIF and it's too large. HOW THE HECK DO I COMPRESS IT?

Are Your Pictures All n by n pixels? (A square?)

Show us the gif.

novice27b wrote:

Show us the gif.

How?

goldfish678 wrote:

novice27b wrote:

Show us the gif.

How?

Oh, in a project, yeah… Here ya go http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/20705922/

Here's a nice trick.
Open GIMP. It's free, if you don't have it, download it.
Drag whatever picture you want into it. The box at the right side of the screen will show all of the ‘layers’. In this case, they will be your frames. If you want one frame to be longer than another, right click on it, select ‘edit properties’, and add after the name, in parentheses, how many milliseconds you want it to last. Eg, 3000ms (three seconds), 500ms(.5 seconds), so on.
When you have all of your frames arranged, (they will play in order of that from top to bottom), click on the ‘filters’ tab in the main window. Scroll down, and at the bottom should be an option called ‘Optimize (for GIF)’. Select that, it will run, and a new window will open up. This will have all of your layers, but they will look strangely sheared, missing a bunch of pixels. This is completely normal.
In this window, go to ‘File’, ‘Export’, and save your file as a .gif. When another window pops up, select in the ‘Frame disposal’ option, ‘Cumulative’. This means your frames will layer on top of each other as the gif plays.
Finish exporting it, open up the gif, and make sure it's satisfactory. If it is, you can close GIMP now. If it's not, make more adjustments.
But anyways, that should lower the size of the file.

novice27b wrote:

http://i.imgur.com/oaqVvkL.gif

Thank you!

if you have photoshop, I think you can save for web and devices and there's a lossiness slider (marked “lossy”)

blueservine wrote:

Here's a nice trick.
Open GIMP. It's free, if you don't have it, download it.
Drag whatever picture you want into it. The box at the right side of the screen will show all of the ‘layers’. In this case, they will be your frames. If you want one frame to be longer than another, right click on it, select ‘edit properties’, and add after the name, in parentheses, how many milliseconds you want it to last. Eg, 3000ms (three seconds), 500ms(.5 seconds), so on.
When you have all of your frames arranged, (they will play in order of that from top to bottom), click on the ‘filters’ tab in the main window. Scroll down, and at the bottom should be an option called ‘Optimize (for GIF)’. Select that, it will run, and a new window will open up. This will have all of your layers, but they will look strangely sheared, missing a bunch of pixels. This is completely normal.
In this window, go to ‘File’, ‘Export’, and save your file as a .gif. When another window pops up, select in the ‘Frame disposal’ option, ‘Cumulative’. This means your frames will layer on top of each other as the gif plays.
Finish exporting it, open up the gif, and make sure it's satisfactory. If it is, you can close GIMP now. If it's not, make more adjustments.
But anyways, that should lower the size of the file.

/This

Closing, problem solved