icons

[covey12]

where does everyone get those animated forum icons, i looked on google but all it gives me aqre icons of cartoons, and animated movies, not the actual animation

[maverik94]

they have to be .gif images.

[Technician1002]

they have to be .gif images.

Google animated gif. May even find info on making your own custom one.

[jimmy101]

Google for "gif animator freeware".

Basically, they are animated gifs. An animated gif is a gif file with several seperate regular gif images in it. Web browsers (and a few other apps) automatically cycle through the images.

Here's a crappy one I just did with "Microsoft Gif Animator"

[maverik94]

yeah, there are a LOT of paint programs out there that support animated .gif images, icoFX is one that pops to the top of my head.

[mark.f]

I generally use GIMP. The learning curve is a little steep if you've never used something like Photoshop or it before, but eventually you can do some pretty handy stuff.

Microsoft GIF Animator, like jimmy101 said, is a good option as well. I used that before I learned to use GIMP.

Usually, though, animated GIF's need to be extremely small to work as an avatar. Also, too many of them tend to get annoying. I'd stick with a static image, if I were you.

[maverik94]

Actually, my bad, I should say AniFX, not IcoFX.

[mikemurph]

photobucket has them too