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Modify the userpic resizing tool
Short, concise description of the idea
The page where one can select the portion of a userpic that they want should either not stop animated userpics from being animated or not show up at all if the userpic is animated.
Full description of the ideaI have attempted to upload two different animated userpics (which
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So, Matt, it sounds like yours were hitting this page because they were over the 40k limit. You can avoid it by making sure they're under that limit before you upload them.
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I wonder why Create Userpic showed up for the Invader Zim one I mentioned if it was only 14.16 KB and 100x100, though? Maybe I had accidentally made it slightly more than 100x100 at first? (It's been a while since I uploaded it, so I don't remember)
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ETA: alternatively, the system could outright decline to handle files that are too large, which is quite a good straightforward response as well.
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I'm not savvy in icon-making, but I do know that any kind of manipulation of animated icons involves manipulating the individual frames that comprise the whole image, and then reorganizing them back into the image itself. I'm not sure that this would be technologically feasible in the Userpic Factory to automate something like this.
Anyway, thanks for explaining it better than I could.
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When you add animation to the equation, it gets quite dicey.
I think it's great that LiveJournal even offers a way to create a basic icon. But I'm glad they didn't when I first came here in 2002, because if forced me to learn a graphics software (and animation software) -- and that's been extremely helpful to me in my life (and job!).
Okay, sorry. I'm officially rambling now... (grin)
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Yeah, I always resize my userpics in Paint (or maybe Irfanview a couple of times), so I don't even need the Create Userpic page :)
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This is already in the bug tracking database awaiting a fix, so I'm marking it Migrated.
https://jira.sup.com/browse/LJSV-1270
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