[Help] Making emoticons for MSN in Photoshop/ImageReady

Garabaldi · 03-14-2008, 02:40 AM

sup d00dz.

I need some help here.

I'm using Windows Live Messenger with MSN Plus! and am trying to create my own custom emoticons.

I can create them fine, but they always get resized to 19x19 px., which is way too small (since they're of my face ^_^). I read somewhere that animated emoticons could be as large as 50x50 px. - which should be big enough - as long as they were animated gif's.

So, I tried importing my emoticons into ImageReady and adding a second, duplicate frame and then simply looping it. I saved it as a .gif and tried importing it into MSN, but it still resizes it to 19x19 instead of 50x50.

Any help here?

EDIT: Just to give an indication of the sizes, here.

The first emoticon is one I made, and the second is an animated one which I downloaded. So, I should be able to get my custom ones as large.

TroyMcClure · 03-14-2008, 10:50 AM

Forget MSN.
Discover the wonderful world of Pidgin.

Garabaldi · 03-14-2008, 02:43 PM

Problem solved. MSN just has a file size restriction.

03-14-2008, 02:40 AM	#1
Garabaldi Join Date: Oct 2005 Canada Posts: 3,600	[Help] Making emoticons for MSN in Photoshop/ImageReady sup d00dz. I need some help here. I'm using Windows Live Messenger with MSN Plus! and am trying to create my own custom emoticons. I can create them fine, but they always get resized to 19x19 px., which is way too small (since they're of my face ^_^). I read somewhere that animated emoticons could be as large as 50x50 px. - which should be big enough - as long as they were animated gif's. So, I tried importing my emoticons into ImageReady and adding a second, duplicate frame and then simply looping it. I saved it as a .gif and tried importing it into MSN, but it still resizes it to 19x19 instead of 50x50. Any help here? EDIT: Just to give an indication of the sizes, here. The first emoticon is one I made, and the second is an animated one which I downloaded. So, I should be able to get my custom ones as large.
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03-14-2008, 10:50 AM	#2
TroyMcClure Join Date: Mar 2007 Italy Location: Monza Posts: 332	Forget MSN. Discover the wonderful world of Pidgin.
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03-14-2008, 02:43 PM	#3
Garabaldi Join Date: Oct 2005 Canada Posts: 3,600	Problem solved. MSN just has a file size restriction.
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