K-Pop - K-Pop Icons & Fan Creations #7: These small boxes pack a colorful punch!

**pink velvet** · 11-17-2021, 12:16 PM

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**Violent Delights** · 11-17-2021, 12:41 PM

Thanks for the gorgeous new thread, Rae.

**pink velvet** · 11-17-2021, 06:21 PM

No problem

So when it comes to making icons out of gifs I think I have the first two steps down.
1. Find a gif.
2. Open photoshop

**Violent Delights** · 11-17-2021, 06:55 PM

Then you want to Crop - (100 px by 100 px) and Save (Ctrl, Shift, Alt + S).

But you'll probably need to delete frames, reduce the number of colours/lossless (when saving) to get it under 100K.

Then you could get into the realms of deleting alternate frames and changing the time delay to reduce the file size.

**dive into you** · 11-18-2021, 05:30 AM

Yeah that's it

If the icon is zoomed too far away, I usually reduced the gif to 200px or 300px etc depending on how close I want it. I copy all the frames and put it onto a new image that is 100px x 100px so just moved it all around.

**Violent Delights** · 11-18-2021, 05:31 AM

Won't a 100x100 crop achieve the same thing though? You don't have to select the whole thing.

**dive into you** · 11-18-2021, 05:49 AM

Not always. I guess it depends on the gif and I like playing around with the whole thing to see what works

**Violent Delights** · 11-18-2021, 05:52 AM

Well that's good to know.

**dive into you** · 11-18-2021, 06:01 AM

I guess everyone has their own way of making icon gifs

**Violent Delights** · 11-18-2021, 06:02 AM

Of course. Some better than others.

**pink velvet** · 11-19-2021, 07:08 AM

Thanks guys!

Attempts will be made

**Violent Delights** · 11-19-2021, 08:44 AM

Looking forward to it.

**dive into you** · 11-20-2021, 05:36 AM

I am too

**pink velvet** · 11-22-2021, 08:33 AM

I have some issues with gifs actually opening in the program. I think some are just too big that everything freezes so there's that

**Violent Delights** · 11-22-2021, 02:08 PM

it's not the lightest of programs to run. Plus Tumblr doesn't necessarily save them as a straight .gif either.


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