3 Simple Ways to
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PhotosPhotos

Share one or more photos of a project, recipe, or whatever you've made, quickly and easily.

Step by StepStep-By-Step

Share your step-by-step photos with text instructions of what you made so others can do it too!

VideoVideo

Share your how-to video. You'll need your embed code from a video site such as YouTube.

Create an animated Avatar

Step 6Save it as a GIF

Save it as a GIF
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  • GIMP5.bmp
  • scream.gif
Click File>Save, save it wherever you want and enter in whatever you want for a filename, as long as it ends in ".gif". A new window will pop up, asking if you want to save it as an animation or merge the layers. Make sure you click "save as animation."

Click export, click ok in the rest of the windows that pop up, and it will save you a brand new animated gif. Now open it, and feel proud of yourself as you watch it.
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3 comments
Sep 13, 2011. 3:55 PMemccullough says:
Thank you SO much for this. <3
Sep 12, 2009. 2:27 PMliquidsnake says:
very helpful article.I have developed my avatar using the guidelines.Only problem i am experiencing is that of the size of the file.My file has the size of 136 KB and the allowed file size on the website is 11Kb.How do i reduce the size? thanks!
Oct 30, 2007. 12:04 PMhyperdyne says:
so know that i've seen it all, will it work on Holly Dolly from youtube or is there already an 'instructable', for that? 3173 êαK34

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