Signature Problems!?

**Mermaid Saphira** · 02-05-2012, 12:00 PM

My signature isn't showing up! Help?

**Spindrift** · 02-05-2012, 04:17 PM

Looks like the site you're hosting your image from is down.

**Mermaid Saphira** · 02-05-2012, 04:20 PM

ooo alright thanx

**Mermaid Narina** · 09-08-2012, 03:59 AM

mine doesnt show as a picture, when i use the url from my photobucket site, it doesnt seem to work?

**Winged Mermaid** · 09-08-2012, 04:46 AM

Originally Posted by Natasha

mine doesnt show as a picture, when i use the url from my photobucket site, it doesnt seem to work?

I hope you don't mind, I used my Admin abilities to go into your profile and take a look at your coding. It turns out you linked the PAGE your photobucket image was on, but not the actual direct link. Where it says "Direct Link" that is the link you need to use. I went ahead and snagged it and replaced it, and it seems to be working now.

**Mermaid Narina** · 09-09-2012, 02:20 AM

thankyou so much!

your amazing- im so bad with technical stuff x.x
your awesome!

**Mer_Adella** · 11-05-2012, 11:51 AM

I currently have a video of me swimming that I would love to use in my signiture. I was told that I have to have it in .GIF form...is this true?

**AniaR** · 11-05-2012, 03:46 PM

yup, I think it's possible to upload a video right into your sig lol ^.^ so upload it to a gif making site, and then make sure the size is correct

**Ashe** · 11-06-2012, 12:26 AM

Soooo... I'm needing a touch of help too with gifs and all that. Believe me, i've been searching ever since i started here, but nothing makes sense haha! So, i have a short 6 second video of me swimming on my computer and want to put it in my sig. I guess i need to make it a gif first? Well, i went to Bloggif.com and made one, but it came out turned sideways! I also cant put in in my sig even though i downloaded it!

Anyone care to help? Just looking for a gif maker site or something

**Winged Mermaid** · 11-06-2012, 06:53 AM

That is correct! The gif formats are the animated pictures. Actually you can make one yourself, and it's easy!

First, take the video and crop it down to the portion that you want the animation to be. The shorter the better. Don't go over 10 seconds if possible. Save that as a video clip. Then go to a online video to gif converter site. You can google "video to gif converter online free" and it will give you different sites. Such as gifninja: http://gifninja.com/ . Upload your clip, and it will make it into a gif! Save it. Some will let you resize in the process. If not there's actually a site in the signature thread (http://www.online-image-editor.com/) that will let you crop and resize gifs, as well as add text, borders, and other great stuff!

If your video is uploaded to YouTube, you can use GifSoup (http://www.gifsoup.com/) to make a portion of your video into a gif. However gifsoup has off days and can make one rage quit.

If you have a mac and are computer literate, this is a good way to make a good quality gif: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1FB3aTkzVc . There are other tutorials out there for Mac and PC (photoshop, gimp, and other methods) if you google for them.

Gifs can get big in size quickly. I found the only image site that hosts the gifs that are as big/long as I want them is ImageShack.

**Winged Mermaid** · 11-06-2012, 06:55 AM

Originally Posted by Kalani

it came out turned sideways! I also cant put in in my sig even though i downloaded it!

Anyone care to help? Just looking for a gif maker site or something

The site that's in the signature restrictions site (this one: http://www.online-image-editor.com/) also will allow you to rotate gifs as well! Just upload, edit, and save!

**Mer_Adella** · 11-06-2012, 08:01 AM

OK i hate to be a bother... i went and changed my vid to a .GIF format using the links you provided WM...but after I put it into my signiture (the video showed up while editing my sig) and then i posted on a thread, all it shows is the link of where you can view the .gif...any way to correct this?