# how do you shrink a gif?

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**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [October 30, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-shrink-a-gif/4008 "2005-10-30T17:00:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![funkylemons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@funkylemons](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/funkylemons)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-shrink-a-gif/4008/1 "2005-10-30T17:00:48Z")

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for my profile picture…

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**Author:** ![Violator](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/violator/32/7278_2.png) [@Violator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Violator)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2005, 5:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-shrink-a-gif/4008/2 "2005-10-30T17:07:58Z")

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photoshop

file: save for web:

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**Author:** ![Jon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@Jon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jon)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-shrink-a-gif/4008/3 "2005-10-30T18:32:27Z")

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[www.gifworks.com](http://www.gifworks.com)

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**Author:** ![Rx3](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rx3/32/7194_2.png) [@Rx3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Rx3)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-shrink-a-gif/4008/4 "2005-10-31T14:43:11Z")

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MS Paint works just fine too 🙂

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**Author:** ![Fetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fetter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fetter)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-shrink-a-gif/4008/5 "2005-10-31T15:46:19Z")

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I can’t think of the name of the program but it came with my Photoshop 7 install. Works great for gifs. I used it for my current avatar… had to cut out a crap load of frames and shrink it a bit to make it the right file size. Went from 250k down to whatever the current limit is… 32k or something like that I think.

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**Author:** ![Daddie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/daddie/32/7621_2.png) [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-shrink-a-gif/4008/6 "2005-10-31T19:05:22Z")

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> [@Fetter](#):
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> I can’t think of the name of the program but it came with my Photoshop 7 install. Works great for gifs. I used it for my current avatar… had to cut out a crap load of frames and shrink it a bit to make it the right file size. Went from 250k down to whatever the current limit is… 32k or something like that I think.

Imageready

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**Author:** ![Fetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fetter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fetter)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-shrink-a-gif/4008/7 "2005-10-31T21:23:52Z")

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> [@Daddie](#):
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> Imageready

:word: That works awesome. Thanks for the help on that one Daddie.

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**Author:** ![funkylemons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@funkylemons](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/funkylemons)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-shrink-a-gif/4008/8 "2005-10-31T21:51:43Z")

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> [@Rx3](#):
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> MS Paint works just fine too 🙂

that just saves the first frame…

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**Author:** ![Violator](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/violator/32/7278_2.png) [@Violator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Violator)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-shrink-a-gif/4008/9 "2005-10-31T21:52:43Z")

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you need to be specific then and say ANIMATED gif.

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**Author:** ![Fetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fetter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fetter)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-shrink-a-gif/4008/10 "2005-10-31T21:55:13Z")

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> [@Violator](#):
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> you need to be specific then and say ANIMATED gif.

:word: These crazy kids and their animated gifs…

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**Author:** ![funkylemons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@funkylemons](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/funkylemons)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-shrink-a-gif/4008/11 "2005-10-31T22:05:11Z")

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![http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~tjf22/lol2.GIF](http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~tjf22/lol2.GIF)

werd.

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**Author:** ![Fetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fetter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fetter)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-do-you-shrink-a-gif/4008/12 "2005-10-31T22:27:50Z")

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Nice one :tup:… that one always makes me laugh.