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Image Host Websites
- Images/GIFs come from your computer
- Upload file to site, copy image URL from there to post onto forums

Sites:

- IMGUR [x] *no account needed


- Discord [x] *account needed


- Tumblr [x] *account needed

Resizing Images
- Sometimes its not easy to tell the image youre copying from another website is too big for the forums, or its incredibly small and hard to see.

To Resize:
1. Create the image coding for your picture, [I M G]url here[/ I M G]
2. In the first bracket, add "= # # #" - You can resize almost infinitely, but the best sizes for the fights are in the size range of 100-400, with 400 being the largest you'll want to use depending on your image.
note: you dont need to make all images 400 for the best quality, its dependent on the image itself and can take a couple of tries to find the best size for posting.

Examples:

Image w/o Size Codes


100 [i m g= 100] [/i m g]


200 [i m g= 200] [/i m g]


300 [i m g= 300] [/i m g]


400 [i m g= 400] [/i m g]



- You can also go half steps

250 [i m g= 250] [/i m g]


This case 250 seems to be an appropriate size for this picture, but always make sure to double check that your post isn't being stretched by an image after you post. It may look alright in "preview" but then still be too large or too small when in the forums.

How to make GIfs using Gaia Avatars
Cause sometimes drawing is too much


e.g. Ramen Shop Genjutsu feat. Tai Yaki

1. Create each frame as you like, save to your computer (don't need to save each as an outfit but you can just to be safe until you're done)
*note: since this is just saved from the avatar maker, don't feel confined to your inventory! you don't need to save the avatar to get the image



*For this gif, I made 4 avatar frames

2. Upload into EZGIf
*select all images you want to use while holding the control so that they all are uploaded to the site, not just the first one you click



3. Move some frames around, decide frame rate (speed)
*note: the images don't always load the way you selected them, so make sure they're in the right order. Select "copy" to duplicate a frame; I duplicated the noodle bubble and blank shop frames in order to have the bubble appear and disappear in a loop.



*changing the frame rate on individual frames can make them last longer or shorter than the rest;
you would use this feature if you want to show quick motion between frames, or you want an image to be seen longer
*if you want the gif to be quicker or slower all together, you can change that here with frame rate or with the speed tool once you've generated your image
- advantage of having both tools: you have a frame difference in your gif and want to change the overall speed without having to change all the frames rates accordingly to maintain your frame difference, which is where you use the speed tool on your final gif to then speed up/down the loop

4. Click "make a GIF"

5. If you like the resulting gif, click "save" (site is NOT an image host, you will lose anything you don't save!!)



6. Go to image hosting site and upload gif there
7. Follow img host site guidelines for getting URL
8. Post!

Final Product:

Very helpful! Thank you for this