How to resize .GIFs and more

[Feren Silver]

Do not use any of those terrible online FaceBook resizing programs, the quality is terrible.

What you'll need:

• Animation Shop 3
  
• A file to work with:
  • .GIF
  • .AVI
  • .MPG
    • Prism Video Converter if you don't have the correct file formats

Steps:

1. Open up Animation Shop 3:
   
   
2. File > Open > Choose your file:
   
   
3. The animation frames will load as such:
   
   
4. Animation > Resize Animation:
   
   
5. Resize the animation to the desired pixels. Note: It's better to keep the aspect ratio the same, unless you want oddly stretched .GIFs.
   
   
6. Click ok. You should notice the frame size shrink within the application:
   
   
7. File > Save As:
   
   
8. Choose somewhere you will remember (i.e. desktop):
   
   
9. Options will pop up before the file saves, you can change stuff if you need to but I rarely do.
10. Upload it to your preferred site (we'll use Imageshack - because he hate captchas):
    
    
11. You can use either of two link codes from this page:
    
    
12. Pasting the image; for Forum Code, it's straight forward just a simple copy and paste:
    
    
    Uploaded with ImageShack.us
    
    You'll notice you get a URL linking back to the site, you can remove this if you want, or you can use my method.
    
    Pasting via the Direct Link requires you to copy the code and click on the Insert Image button on the edit options:
    
    
    
    
    Click OK and:
    
    
    
    
    
    Alternatively you can just use IMG brackets.
    
    
    

 

[cosrob97]

Thanks for the guide it helped me heaps.

 

[Gurtaton]

Feren, you're one of the few guys I've seen who actually focuses on quality guides. Will use this in the future should I decide to get a new .gif avatar (which I doubt).

10/10.

And congratulations on UE. You deserved it.