Picasa: no animated GIFs

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Friday, August 31, 2007

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Google's Picasa doesn't support animated image files, so if you try to upload an animated image via Blogger, you'll have a problem as it'll stop being animated - because, behind the scenes, pics uploaded via the Blogger post editor are stored on Picasa Web Albums.

So if you want to post an animated pic on Blogger - perhaps an animation you've created from several separate images using a free animated GIF creator - the solution is just to upload it elsewhere to a free file host which allows hotlinking and supports animated GIFs, like Fileden, and then link to it from your post using the "Or add an image from the web" option of the Blogger toolbar's "Add Image" icon.

(Via Blogger's Known Issues blog.)

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3 Comment(s):

My grandpa once told me about "animated GIFs"... what are they again?

(By Anonymous, at Friday, August 31, 2007 5:25:00 PM) Edit Comment

If I took that as a joke I'd say, go ask your grandpa! :D

But I shall take that seriously. An image file that shows moving pictures, it is. Check this out fer instance...

(By Improbulus, at Tuesday, September 04, 2007 8:37:00 AM) Edit Comment