A little sparkle?

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I thought mabes I could festive up my avatar in the spirit of the holidays, but I can't seem to re-upload my pic with even the barest of sparkle-tags w/out getting the "file's to big" error. I'm just using Photobucket's animated stuff. It seems to save edited pics as GIFs on the site. I don't know what that means, exactly, but it seems like something I should share.

I even tried it with just one *tiny* shimmering star to see if the problem was that I'd been going hog-wild, but nothing doing.

Is there a way to give my gnome some holiday beshizzle by converting the animations in a way that lets him sparkle w/out over-taxing the file size allowance? I feel like I've seen lots of animation around these parts, but don't know how to do it. (I encourage you to talk down to me, BTW -- I really don't have the know-how to match my lofty tech ambitions and I get cold feet even creeping into this area of the forum. I started looking for like-minded threads, but then everything went blurry and I fell down.)

Happy Anything-and-Everything-You-Celebrate!

GB (Who sparkles in her heart, if not on her avatar)
 

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Can you email me the file, GB? macallister.stone (AT) gmail.com
 

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It's always so risky to ask for help, here...*I* might see the request, then dog only knows what'll happen.
 

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It's always so risky to ask for help, here...*I* might see the request, then dog only knows what'll happen.

Oooooh! I'm like a new girl! So... Energetic?

Are there outfits to go with it? OMG! It's like paper dolls, but... different!?!?
 

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It makes me a little dizzy, you waggin' your head like that...
 

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It makes me a little dizzy, you waggin' your head like that...

PS- My legally blind husband would like all similarly animation/aniMOTION-sensitive folks to know that all gnome ass dancin' + head waggin' will stop if you hit the escape key...

Charming though it may be.

PPS- My legally blind husband's wife would like the rest of you to know that if you *accidentally* hit the escape key, and then you want the dancing to come back, a nice "refresh" will get U hopping again!
 
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It'd be cool if like after a minute that thing turned around :D