Help ........ I want to change a photo to a gif format to use as an avatar, but I can`t find how to do it. I need somebody clever to advise me ......... :roll:
Doug.
Open it in any piece of imaging software Paint.net is a good free one. Then save it as a gif.
Download and install Irfanview -
http://www.irfanview.com/ (http://www.irfanview.com/)
Run Irfanview, and load old picture.
Click on "Image" - "Resize/Resample"
Select "Set new size as percentage of original" - change values to about 10% that should be good enough for an avatar - Click "OK"
You now have a small picture but not a GIF.
Click on "File" - "Save as" - NOT "SAVE"
From the drop down menu at the bottom, select GIF (or Compuserve GIF) - Click "Save"
Make sure you know where you are saving it - there is a drop down thing at the top which you can change.
Job done.