Can anyone whip up an avatar pic for me?

**Amplitudo** · 02-26-2010, 04:32 PM

I have this animated .gif I would like to use as my avatar pic, but I can't figure out how to get it to work. Also it has a white background, I downloaded an editor and tried for about an hour to change its background color before giving up.

The .gif is attached if anyone is interested.

**1812lsd** · 02-26-2010, 06:54 PM

I don't understand, the attached gif file has a transparent background! Just upload it and see what happens...

**Amplitudo** · 02-27-2010, 06:08 AM

As you can see, this is what it looks like when I upload it. White background and no animation.

**1812lsd** · 02-27-2010, 02:00 PM

It is not the image then, it is this site not letting you use animated gif's!

**CingularDuality** · 02-27-2010, 10:59 PM

Originally Posted by 1812lsd

It is not the image then, it is this site not letting you use animated gif's!

Animated GIFs work fine for others...

I see a non-animated gif attached, that has a white background, not a transparent background.

**Amplitudo** · 02-28-2010, 10:44 AM

When I click on the attached file it opens up a little window with a white background showing the animation. You guys don't see that?

I'm confused now.

**1812lsd** · 02-28-2010, 04:03 PM

Me too, as I said all I did was save your attached image and open it with adobe fireworks cs4 and bang works a treat with no white background.

**1812lsd** · 02-28-2010, 04:15 PM

Just to prove that I am not insane, lol.

**Amplitudo** · 02-28-2010, 06:24 PM

So, is there a way to use the super-cool Guile .gif. Or am I stuck with the angry Bison?

**1812lsd** · 03-01-2010, 07:56 PM

I have uploaded it to my squads website and it works fine, I have used it as my avatar on our site also & it works fine, as soon as you upload it to this site it turns into a non animated white background gif. So I think you are out of luck buddy, unless you can get some helpful admin on here to help you out. Good Luck!

**CingularDuality** · 03-01-2010, 10:04 PM

How's this look?

**Amplitudo** · 03-01-2010, 10:23 PM

Thanks a ton guys, I got it to work!

**1812lsd** · 03-02-2010, 03:22 PM

What was the prob?

**Amplitudo** · 03-03-2010, 07:33 AM

I had to re-size the image to 100x100 or lower. It was just a bit too big. For some reason it would display the image when it was too big, but no animation.

**snooggums** · 03-03-2010, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by Amplitudo

I had to re-size the image to 100x100 or lower. It was just a bit too big. For some reason it would display the image when it was too big, but no animation.

I believe the forums auto-resize the pic when they are too large in pixels or file size, I had the same issue with non-animated .png files getting a white background and being changed to a .jpg (which doesn't support animation).

Mind if I use that for a non-TG forum? Its very nice!