How to make an Animated Icon

Author’s Note: Please be aware that this is a very old post and is no longer very accu­rate. YouTube has since dis­abled ani­mated .gifs and Entering in the Dimensions in Photoshopmost of these pro­grams and tech­niques are out of date. This is being left up because it may serve as use­ful to some. Enjoy.

Hey, if you have any ques­tions, you should prob­a­bly ask them here. There’s a bet­ter chance that they’ll be read and answered. Same thing with com­ments. There is no writ­ten tuto­r­ial. How­ever, there is a video walk­through after the break.

The Tuto­r­ial

Nec­es­sary Programs

I under­stand that there are other pro­grams out there that do the same job. They may be eas­ier or harder, but this is what I do.

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36 Responses to How to make an Animated Icon

  1. 123nick1 says:

    hey umm i click on the adobe thing and it says i need to log in and all the jazz…so i try to start a new account on it..and it asks abunch of stuff about my company.…what gives?

    i just want a sim­ple ani­mated icon.….

    any tips?

  2. Jordi says:

    hey fan­tik­erz!

    good video, but how do you get the ‘unreg­is­terd hyper­cam 2′ away?

  3. Youcrazy91 says:

    Cam­ta­sia is very easy to make ani­ma­tions because you down­load it take the video with­out the hyper­cam and on the same pro­gram you can con­vert it into a GIF so its super easy, you can also drag in other gif’s to make it more com­pli­cated and look better

  4. Jeremiah1650 says:

    Hey fantikerz.Something about pho­to­shop cs3.i cant get it bcuz i dont where 2 get it.just com­ment m on my youtube chan­nel ok?peace!

  5. Dark flam999 says:

    Hey rj i clicked on the link so i can go on the pho­to­shop but it says its cur­rently unavail­able wat do i do?

    Please reply
    Thanks

  6. Killz says:

    Hey ah is the pho­to­shop thing sup­posed to b huge???

  7. Skull Duskes says:

    for some rea­son it sais i need Quick­Time 7.1 or higher, i got 7.3 but noth­ing hap­pened, what is wrong with it? also i have the same pho­to­shop as you so it cant be that.

  8. saqif says:

    well if u need an unreg­is­tered hyper­cam 2…download it..from the inter­net, its absolutely free. YES GOOD ONE FANTIKERZ. i agree, this is bril­liant. no prob­lems or any­thing just worked out.

  9. Will win­dos movie maker work with mak­ing the mov­ing icon thing?

  10. vampluver1627 says:

    umm…im try­ing 2 get the pho­to­shop up & run­ning, but im stuck, i cant find it! i installed it, and im at Bridge Home, cuz it said it’d have info on it, but im just con­fused. -.- plz plz help!

  11. vampluver1627 says:

    ok…i was lit­er­ally retarded. i didnt look in “All Pro­grams”… it was right there. thanx any­way lol. =]

  12. i dont get it!! how do i get hyper cam>?>

  13. Izaardy says:

    Dear Fan­tik­erz,
    Will ‘Adobe Pho­to­shop 7.0′ work for mak­ing the ani­mated icons? I also love your videos.. Please reply to my ques­tion ASAP. Thanks again Fantikerz.

    Izaardy

  14. Aromat says:

    Very Nice! Thanks!

  15. Skillertv says:

    Hey how do you get the text in the bot­tom to say ur user name and all that reply to me on my chan­nel plz

  16. Gun Veteran says:

    –> THIS IS A LONG COMMENT BUT PLEASE FANTIKERZ COMMENT ME BACK Import > Frames to lay­ers.. it says “Could not com­plete the video frames to lay­ers com­mand because quick­time ver­sion 7.1 or later is required.” i went to the link in your video and i down­loaded it to Win­dows. and then when i try to install it and it says “This Installer can not upgrade quick­time 7 for win­dows pub­lic pre­view. Please unin­stall it first“
    Thanks fan­tik­erz it would be a great help if you could com­ment me back on my youtube page
    http://youtube.com/user/Reverek
    Thanks rj

  17. Gun Veteran says:

    Hey Rj,

    hehe woops on my lat­est com­ment March 4th 5:11 pm it was sup­pose to say this
    –> THIS IS A LONG COMMENT BUT PLEASE FANTIKERZ COMMENT ME BACK <–
    when i go to : Import — Frames to lay­ers… it says “could not complete…

    Thanks Rj =)

  18. pknubsfofun says:

    hey.. i did eery­thing you told me but when i post it on youtube its still just a still.. plz reply what could be going wrong. plzz!

  19. Izaardy says:

    Hey,

    Will ‘Adobe Pho­to­shop 7.0′ work for mak­ing the icons? I really do need help improv­ing on my chan­nel because my rep­u­ta­tion is grow­ing. If you can find any infor­ma­tion about that I’d be glad to hear it. I am not very good at web search­ing.
    Oth­er­wise, how do I get ‘Pho­to­shop CS3’?

    –Jake Izaardy

  20. darkskiller3 says:

    whats the free apple thingy for?

  21. darkskiller3 says:

    when i down­loaed the adobe thingy i open folder after dowload and if shows abode i click and it shows noth­ing atfer i open it
    .what i need to dowhat i need to do?

  22. Wow great thread for runescape ;)

  23. Tree Beard25 says:

    peo­ple say cam­ta­sia is bet­ter and other peo­ple say this way is better…but whats bet­ter for a laggy computer?

  24. Fantikerz says:

    Cam­ta­sia, you’ll have to mod­ify the cap­ture pref­er­ences though.

  25. banknewswe says:

    dued the vidoe was too fast lol i need help with it to con­fus­ing and did u buy sony vegas for 600dollars??

  26. Matt says:

    Dude, k i down­loaded it but when i go to file it has noth­ing it says new win­dow, or new folder.. What do i do??? Email me please help!!!!!!!!!

  27. SK1T VS ALL says:

    Uhh when it first goes on to you youtube accoutn shoul it show a camara?

  28. SK1T VS ALL says:

    as the picture?

  29. SK1T VS ALL says:

    Well Mine wont move wtf?!?!?

  30. sweetgirl says:

    your so cool and hot and I wish I could make vids it would be so cool. your vid are the best

  31. stollen2 says:

    i have done all the things you said but when i try­ing to get it into youtube it don appear

  32. lizard says:

    ok is there another “pho­to­shop” that can use cauz its really hard to down­load cauz there are all these links and other stuff and it just makes me want to cry…

    can use win­dows movie maker? have like all microsoft programs.…(came with com­puter) and have quick­time player

    plus pho­to­shop not free after 30 days

    so like ya any sug­gests or wat not.…??? think got cam thing all setup (as you can tell not good at com­put­ers) HELP *bangs head on brick wall*

  33. girl says:

    Can you make runescape vids with­out no hypercam?

    cos I’m dying with­out it!

    X

  34. createmo says:

    Thank you for your site ;-)

    I made on pho­to­shop back­grounds for youtube, myspace and whatever

    my back­grounds http://tinyurl.com/6exhae" rel="nofollow">:http://tinyurl.com/6exhae
    have a good day and thank you again!

  35. Ernon says:

    Haha ^^ nice, is there a sec­tion to fol­low the RSS feed

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