.gifs as avatars.

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find another topic thread about this. I've seen a lot of people with .gifs for avatars, and even had a few myself, but often times I find they just plain don't work when you try to upload them, only showing the first frame. They always work in the re-sizing screen, but rarely after, so I initially assumed it was a problem with re-sizing. I made my gifs exactly 160x260, but that ether did nothing, or I'd get an error saying they were too small. I can't seem to find any pattern to it with some working effortlessly, and some refusing to work at all.

Does anyone have a reliable way to upload .gifs, or found something that makes them not work when uploaded?

Your uploaded image needs to be the exact dimensions of the avatar, 160x260.

Yeah, I figured I was doing something dumb on my end. The program I use to make them adds 2 pixels to what ever dimensions you put in, so when I set it to 160x260 I was ending up with 162x262. I never actually bothered to check the gifs sizes themselves after I realized that resizing was the problem. My other gif avatars just happened to come out 260x160.

I know this is an older thread and this might possibly be necroing but I had been getting pms about how I did my avatar, and also about a workaround for the 1mb filesize limit for using gifs with many frames like mine.

I decided to post a tutorial for those who wish to use it. and will bookmark this:

First, take your image, and crop it to 160 width x 260 height. An easy way to do this without breaking your gifs is to use this site.

Save your cropped image to your pc after dragging the box to the 160x260 area you desire and then go to this site to compress the image if the filesize is still greater than 1mb, and re-download.

Viola! You have a high-quality animated gif, albeit a bit fuzzy.

P.S. I hope you guys can forgive the necrobump I don't know if I was supposed to make a new thread about this because this one already existed, if so please let me know for future reference.