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Skype jiving man - how to use elswhere
Sep 16th, 2014 at 10:32pm
 
just on skype text messages \o/ creates a dancing jiving tiny man - I Would like to use him as my avatar or indeed anywhere
? how to do this??? Roll Eyes
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Reply #1 - Sep 17th, 2014 at 4:11am
 
The program should have a PC folder that contains animated gifs or swf playback. The display itself may be with its own background eg white space to fill a square or rectangle eg portrait or landscape area. If it appears against any background behind it then it's likely to be a gif with a transparent background ie invisible.

The alternative would be the use of an Internet file rather than a PC folder file that Skype would offer each time.

If not available in one form or another, it could be created with more than 1 file... like a playback that includes more than 1 animated gif eg face, shoulders, body... to represent the dancing man. Animated gifs vary in quality and playback performance if created small yet using some html or other command to let it display larger eg twice its real size.

If viewed within a web browser then the program may have a right-click action or actions eg like a context menu offering save, print, rename, properties. Properties may say it's actually from a website and provide part of the full URL, three clicks will select all so you copy and visit that URL to view the image etc.

If you contact the creator of a program, you can ask for copyright use for an avatar. You may need to resize it eg 80x80 pixels yet some forums will allow large avatars.
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Reply #2 - Sep 17th, 2014 at 4:13am
 
Google search can help with websearch results yet click images and identify the exact image and size if possible.

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=skype+dancing+man+animation

Images link:

LINK: images

When Google links to an image, it offers the website as well as the view image option, sometimes the right-click, save as will get that image from Google's cache, but visit the website linked and you may access the same size or a link to a larger image display further on... eg thumbnail or medium or large or actual size. In some cases, Google search offers extra search options eg search for face or large size only or colour or black and white or photo etc.


Clip art websites may feature the original image or a similar one. Skype may provide a default dancing man yet may be customised to provide a different animation. Once the actual name is learnt, then Google search with that info for more...

Just looking for Skype led to the terms icons or emoticons and that led to this and therefore to this example:

http://skypeicons.com/

Towards the end of the webpage...

The code given there is not going to help on the RT Forum... you would need to use the image URL instead eg User CP Control Panel avatar image choice.

http://skypeicons.com/images/s/icon-dance.gif

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Reply #3 - Sep 17th, 2014 at 4:44am
 
You may find an image on another forum and it's used as an avatar alongside some Profile info eg the dolphin avatar here:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/

then the username denis.martindale/

then the filename dolphin.jpg

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Info may sometimes be seen for images when we quote another's forum post, as the image URL may be there, or some alignment code like left, center or right...
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Reply #4 - Sep 17th, 2014 at 9:27am
 
The use of animated avatars is to be strongly deprecated.
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Reply #5 - Sep 17th, 2014 at 2:23pm
 
Embarrassed  Like mine ?

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Reply #6 - Sep 17th, 2014 at 8:52pm
 
Like yours.  Especially if you want people to pay attention to what your are posting and not be distracted.
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Reply #7 - Sep 17th, 2014 at 11:53pm
 
Gif him an inch and he may take a mile.
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Reply #8 - Sep 21st, 2014 at 7:13pm
 
many thanks you clever posters I had forgotten about my ? \o/ - so many answers will go a hunting now  Smiley
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