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Yo,

chibipoe, have a Kouga icon. :)

If you want it to say anything let me know, but it's so close to the 40K limit that snazzy animated text probably won't work. My only idea is "KOUGA SMASH!" but I'm having flashbacks to the "RODERICK USHER SMASH!" wank on fandomw_wank.

Huh. Guess I accidentally set my default icon to be YapYapYap, but since it so accurately describes Livejournal, I don't think I'll change it just yet.

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Good lord, what do you use to make these icons? I was playing yesterday and yeah....utter crap.

I like the YapYapYap....it is a really good example of this system, especially when we just post random yappings. :D

Virtual Dub (and now VirtualDubMod, for recent formats like .ogm), which is a free utility for Windows. It'll advance things frame-by-frame, *and* you can copy frames to your clipboard. Then I paste them into Photoshop, on top of each other with each frame to its own layer, crop to square, shrink to 100x100, then switch to ImageReady to make the actual animated gif. I could probably paste directly into ImageReady and do all the cropping and stuff there, come to think of it...

Once I get into ImageReady and make the gif, I then notice it's like 200K and start throwing out frames and shrinking the dimensions and taking the colors down from 64 to 32 to 16 to get it to fit in LJ's 40K limit, and then back to Photoshop to drop in any text.

Sounds like a lot of work, but it's easier to do than say - the most difficult part is getting it into the right size limit. :) The fewer frames, the smaller it is - Kouga up there started as 34 frames, and I had to drop almost half of them.

Virtual Dub is the only thing I haven't played with there... :D You *might* be able to skip the first photoshop step....depends on if there's much in the way of brush or filter work involved....ImageReady doesn't much care for that...

I was trying to do one of those nifty little scratchy type ones...just wasn't happening though. 'Course, me and the free account has kinda kept me from going icon crazy....I could...... ;D

That's why I love my Journalfen account - I only use it to post to fandom_wank and the various other wank communities there, but I paid for an account once I got a Real Job [tm], and I can have up to 500 icons. So I should have an icon for every possible reference, reaction, and emotion before too long...

I like the yap icon though *grin* I think I should get one to be honest.

XD If you feel like you want that one, you're welcome to it.

It's given me ideas, but I couldn't take this one since it'd only confuse me and wonder what I'm doing on my friends page XD *is really quite stupid on occassion*

:) One of my DeviantArt friends used to have an icon of one of Kakashi's chakra dogs, and when someone else got a different icon of the same dog, I kept mixing them up until I finally remembered who had the animated icon and who didn't.

Yay! Kouga! *saves and prepares to upload it to his JF account, where he has lots of icon space(more than LJ at least)*

Kouga Smash would be cool, as I am at a complete blank for anything else, really. >.o

OK, here ya go!

Man, I love JF icons. I said I'd get a paid account as soon as I got a Real Job [tm] and I did. 500 icons, BAY-BEE!! I've only got 30-odd up right now, and I use maybe 10 of those on a regular basis, but HEY! I can have 500!

I have 6 currently. :) Of which this one is the sixth.

*works on trying to accomplishing a morphing effect with a pair of gifs*

MY ICON COCK IS BIGGER THAN YOURS!!

Heh. I'll just never get around to /deleting/ any of the unused icons, and I'll end up having to search through six jillion to find the one I want.

OMG MY NINJA ICON COCK IS SO SMALL! ;o; */sasuke*

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