How to Create Windows Live Messenger Emoticons
Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago at 2:44 pm. 22 comments
Posted in Windows Live Messenger.
Here’s how you can make WLM emoticons, no photoshop needed, but you do have to find gifs.
This will teach you two ways, if you want a more customized emoticon, follow the Hard Way. No Photoshop Needed!
Creating Emoticons [Easy Way]
1. Find an Animated Gif. You can search on Google for some.
2. Save the Gif file.
3. Open Windows Live Messenger
4. Click the Drop Down (Show Menu) Next to Minimize, Maximize, and Close
5. Click on Tools > Emoticons > Create
6. Find the Gif You just Saved
7. Fill out the name and text and your done.
Creating Customized Emoticons [Hard Way]
This is if you want a certain part of the emoticon to show up, like a face, or some part, so it appears much clearer.
1. Find an Animated Gif. You can search on Google for some.
2. Save the Gif file.
3. Upload the Gif to tinypic, photobucket, or another image hosting site. Save the Direct Link because you will need it.
4. Go to SmileyGenerator.
OK now here is what’s going to happen. Depending on the animated GIF file you have, you need to make the gif much smaller than it was before. The best tools are the resize and the crop tool. It can take a bunch of tries to get it right, but if you use the alternate crop tool, you will have no problem getting what you want.
4. Click on Alternate Crop Tool
5. Use the boxes to crop the image, you want to make it sort of small so that it will fit in Windows Live Messenger.
6. After you do that press Crop. A Popup Window should pop up, make sure you allow it the popup to open or you will not be able to save your cropped image.
7. Save that picture to your computer.
8. Open Windows Live Messenger, click Show Menu > Tools > Emoticons > Create.
9. Open your Cropped Gif, and your done!
I wonder if there is a way to make the custom smiley bigger? My custom smileys are too small in windows live messenger, cause I use also text…is there a way?
thx,
aleks
Windows Messenger is only going to allow a certain size. If your making an animated gif by scratch, the smaller, the better. Try 50 x 50, and 3 frames of animation.
Thank you. Your advice helped me very much. Now I can do my own smileys (gif animations) with no problem. The 50×50 was the solution, someone told me before, but something was wrong then…but after you gave me this advice I tryed again with success.
For png images the limit in windows live messenger is 19×19.
With the combination of Ulead GIF Animator 5 and PhotoImpact 11 I think I am unstopable :).
Thanks again for quick help and nice day!
nice thkx 4 the tip
thanks for the instructions - i’ve made and installed a ton of emoticons - so many that i have trouble finding them when i need them - question: is there a way to organize them or sort them within messenger or is there a third party software which will display them all at greater than microscopic size?
If I may tell my opinion…
I am satisfied with that I can name my emoticons like I wish. And then I type the name and it is there.
If I name them with good names, then is no problem to forget..you can make your own system..
maybe copy them in special folder and name them there with the same name you use in messenger. So while you are using messenger you can open that folder, look their big pictures and then just type the name in messenger.
But. like everything ..there must be some smarter solution on the net, with not so much effort..
thanks for the reply - i guess renaming all my emoticon originals to their msn shortcut is an option - i’ll let u know if i find any good 3rd party apps - b
heey how do u make then bigger they were really really small
what about yahoo messenger instead of window live messenger?
I get the animated gifs but, what if i just want to add a still picture to my custom emoticons, how do i do that without them being Super tiny?
It looks like you’ll have to make an animated gif of a still image to prevent it from being tiny.
2 confusing!
can you post the site if you find it cuz its kinda hard to search for it
Post what site?
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U PPL DONT KNOW SHIT!
ha ur so stupid
y do it the hard way?
i got an easier way but…
im not tellin ya!!!
For the record, creating a single frame gif does not trick the program into making the emoticon bigger.
May be two frames of the same will do it.
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I created this image if you cannot see it go to the link. I tried to resize it bu it came out all fuzzy and was completely wrong. how do i fix this
http://a415.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/37/m_f60b44e40220106992138f29f3bbc17e.gif
sorry
I wrote a simple tool to do the hard part for you, after getting tired of hand crafting emoticons. Try it out at http://www.emoticonize.com
I hope people find it useful!
Another way of creating animated emoticons for Windows Live Messenger is to use <a href=”">Emoticu.com</a>, a web app.