GIMP 2 anyone? Animated Avatar size problem...

[fLYtRap]

I want to change my avatar, but since this forum doesn't allow size bigger than 10kb I need to re-size my new avatar from 32kb down to 10 or less. It is really hard to do it since the avatar have 69 layers (BTW why not change rules and allow little bit bigger avatars )
Anyways I can't manage to save it using GIMP 2 as PNG format. I have to flatten layers in order to do that, but than avatar won't be animated

[fLYtRap]

This one will do for now until I figure this GIMP out.
With my IQ 130 shouldn't take long time

[fLYtRap]

Well, so I made some progress and came up with 3 layers animation

Looks like I got long way to go to get to 69 layers

Anyways this is fun

[fLYtRap]

All right, not bad, although this one only have 21 layers it is a full version of the original avatar with 69 layers, good job 8)



And here is the original.

[guns1inger]

Don't know about you, but in FF 2.0.5, only the bottom one is moving. 21 layers for a static image is wasting a lot of space

[fLYtRap]

Don't know about you, but in FF 2.0.5, only the bottom one is moving. 21 layers for a static image is wasting a lot of space

That is why I was asking to increase size of avatars.

And here is explanation:

The bottom image with 69 layers is 32kb in size and the one that I came up with 21 layers is 10kb.
If you open IE 6.0 instead of FF you will see that all of them are moving. I am not sure why FF only recognize the last one.
If avatar size would be increased to 35kb I could use original.

[fLYtRap]

Here I got from GIMP Help:

[fLYtRap]

A little bit more info:

[thecoalman]

AFAIK there is no such thing as animated png, there is new animated format based on png. Neither IE or Firefox have support for this.

They do however support a .gif renamed as .png . Or even .jpg like this one. Note there is also no such thing as animated .jpg.

[fLYtRap]

There is a little bit about PNG and IE:

[thecoalman]

Here's a better version for you so she don't get whiplash :

[fLYtRap]

AFAIK there is no such thing as animated png, there is new animated format based on png. Neither IE or Firefox have support for this.

They do however support a .gif renamed as .png . Or even .jpg like this one. Note there is also no such thing as animated .jpg.

Well the original avatar has extension *.PNG, but I have no clue how it was created. In GIMP I wasn't able to save with that extension that's is why is it as *.GIF. Also I never said anything about animated *.JPG or did I?

[fLYtRap]

Here's a better version for you so she don't get whiplash :

thanks...how did you fix that?

BTW I'll change it later when the thread is gone.

[thecoalman]

Well the original avatar has extension *.PNG, but I have no clue how it was created. In GIMP I wasn't able to save with that extension that's is why is it as *.GIF. Also I never said anything about animated *.JPG or did I?

What I'm trying to say is you .png is not .png but a .gif , someone just renamed it with a .png extension.

I have a very good gif animator and have been workin with them for a while. Ulead Gif animator if you want to give it try.

[fLYtRap]

Well the original avatar has extension *.PNG, but I have no clue how it was created. In GIMP I wasn't able to save with that extension that's is why is it as *.GIF. Also I never said anything about animated *.JPG or did I?

What I'm trying to say is you .png is not .png but a .gif , someone just renamed it with a .png extension.

I have a very good gif animator and have been workin with them for a while. Ulead Gif animator if you want to give it try.

I see, now this makes sense to me since I wasn't able to save it with PNG extension.

That Ulead looks interesting but its not FREE, so I can't use it

[thecoalman]

It's packaged with their image editing program and hasn't been updated for years. You can usually pick an older version of the image editor up on sale for less than what they are selling the animator for alone online. :P