jukajo
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Edit: Solved! Check out Yoyobuae's post right below this one for the solution.
Hello!
I am having trouble with gif previews in my gallery. While you have to upload an additional thumbnail when uploading gifs, said thumbnail is only used in the 'Lastest submissions' section on my front page (and I think in people's favorites, since it's the same kind of gallery) and even there only for the small previews. In all other places, a picture randomly created from the submission by the page itself is used.
Gifs only work as they should when watching gif submission is full view. Before clicking on full view, a preview is automatically created from the gif itself, which is completely random in size, clipping and animation frame used. This weird picture is what's used everywhere but at the aforementioned place to preview the gif, instead of the thumbnail which was created just for that purpose.
Here are pictures of what I mean:
The Latest Submissions section. As you'll see the small previews (thumbnails) are perfectly fine, but the large one is this weird random bit of the animation...
...that is the same as the standard size of the actual submission (which is not at all what it should look like.
Since the example above is not that bad, look what other gif previews in my gallery look like to get a better idea:
The picture on the top left and the one in the middle with just the white eyelids visible are the exact same size (500x500px), still they get completely different randomly chosen previews. The one on the left with the eye got this completely random tiny preview. which is just a small piece from the actual animation. And then comes the picture on the right which looks perfectly fine?!
I haven't done anything differently with these as far as I can tell and they were all made with the same program. If they were all square cutouts of the actual submission I'd get it, but this? This is just completely random. And I guess I don't have to tell anyone it looks completely awful
After finding out you can get rid of the weird scratchy white previews by turning off transparency when saving gifs, I'm hoping to find a solution for this, too. Is there a special way I have to save the gif to get a nice preview? I'm sure I'm not the only one who has this problem. If there's no solution, a fix would be greatly appreciated!
~jukajo
Hello!
I am having trouble with gif previews in my gallery. While you have to upload an additional thumbnail when uploading gifs, said thumbnail is only used in the 'Lastest submissions' section on my front page (and I think in people's favorites, since it's the same kind of gallery) and even there only for the small previews. In all other places, a picture randomly created from the submission by the page itself is used.
Gifs only work as they should when watching gif submission is full view. Before clicking on full view, a preview is automatically created from the gif itself, which is completely random in size, clipping and animation frame used. This weird picture is what's used everywhere but at the aforementioned place to preview the gif, instead of the thumbnail which was created just for that purpose.
Here are pictures of what I mean:
The Latest Submissions section. As you'll see the small previews (thumbnails) are perfectly fine, but the large one is this weird random bit of the animation...

...that is the same as the standard size of the actual submission (which is not at all what it should look like.

Since the example above is not that bad, look what other gif previews in my gallery look like to get a better idea:

The picture on the top left and the one in the middle with just the white eyelids visible are the exact same size (500x500px), still they get completely different randomly chosen previews. The one on the left with the eye got this completely random tiny preview. which is just a small piece from the actual animation. And then comes the picture on the right which looks perfectly fine?!
I haven't done anything differently with these as far as I can tell and they were all made with the same program. If they were all square cutouts of the actual submission I'd get it, but this? This is just completely random. And I guess I don't have to tell anyone it looks completely awful
After finding out you can get rid of the weird scratchy white previews by turning off transparency when saving gifs, I'm hoping to find a solution for this, too. Is there a special way I have to save the gif to get a nice preview? I'm sure I'm not the only one who has this problem. If there's no solution, a fix would be greatly appreciated!
~jukajo
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