Setting a gif as profile picture!

[GaraMasala]

So i've been wanting to set my profile picture as a gif and i just found out how to. It involves uploading it under your steam profile's artwork. However, you have to check a box that says it's your own original artwork. Now, the gif i want to use is not my own. Is it the content of the gif that i'm not allowed to use or is it the fact that i didn't make said gif?

[Autistic Whales]

Originally posted by Get_Tactical:

So i've been wanting to set my profile picture as a gif and i just found out how to. It involves uploading it under your steam profile's artwork. However, you have to check a box that says it's your own original artwork. Now, the gif i want to use is not my own. Is it the content of the gif that i'm not allowed to use or is it the fact that i didn't make said gif?

Well if it isn't your own just edit it slightly then I guess it should be yours.

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by Get_Tactical:

So i've been wanting to set my profile picture as a gif and i just found out how to

Profile pictures are strictly a still image format and cannot be moving GIFs.

[Chompman]

Originally posted by ShadowGamerPug:

Originally posted by Get_Tactical:

So i've been wanting to set my profile picture as a gif and i just found out how to. It involves uploading it under your steam profile's artwork. However, you have to check a box that says it's your own original artwork. Now, the gif i want to use is not my own. Is it the content of the gif that i'm not allowed to use or is it the fact that i didn't make said gif?

Well if it isn't your own just edit it slightly then I guess it should be yours.

Minor edits are not enough to claim ownership over someone's work but honestly unless the owner reports them steam won't care unless the image violates certain other rules like nudity.

In either case you can't use animated gifs for game profile as they will be static.

[GaraMasala]

Oh, ok. Well thanks for these quick and insightful replies. Much appreciated

[Autistic Whales]

Originally posted by Chompman:

Originally posted by ShadowGamerPug:

Well if it isn't your own just edit it slightly then I guess it should be yours.

Minor edits are not enough to claim ownership over someone's work but honestly unless the owner reports them steam won't care unless the image violates certain other rules like nudity.

In either case you can't use animated gifs for game profile as they will be static.

Alright sorry for false information, it was just an idea.

[chaosphantom]

okay

[𒀚𝓐𝓔𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓸𝓼𒉭🌠Stars affix✨]

k but i've seen someone w/ an animated pfp. so get necroed.

[ElvisDeadly]

Those are the ones from the point shop

You cannot create or upload your own

[𒀚𝓐𝓔𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓸𝓼𒉭🌠Stars affix✨]

goodness... i should've known.

[Spork]

How can i make a gif as the profile pic tho?

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by WarPizza:

How can i make a gif as the profile pic tho?

Easy.

Get a photo or any GIF, and go to upload it on your profile through your profile eediting page. You'll see it tells you there what the acceptable stats are for you to use a custom image - pixel height and width and format (jpg, bmp, or whatever, i can't remember).

As long as you do that, it's as easy as that.


If you need to shrink your image, just use something like MSPaint to do so. See my profile picture right there above? That's my photo, taken from a friend's camera in landscape, and I simply reduced it in paint to fit. Doddle, right?

[𒀚𝓐𝓔𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓸𝓼𒉭🌠Stars affix✨]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Originally posted by WarPizza:

How can i make a gif as the profile pic tho?

Easy.

Get a photo or any GIF, and go to upload it on your profile through your profile eediting page. You'll see it tells you there what the acceptable stats are for you to use a custom image - pixel height and width and format (jpg, bmp, or whatever, i can't remember).

As long as you do that, it's as easy as that.


If you need to shrink your image, just use something like MSPaint to do so. See my profile picture right there above? That's my photo, taken from a friend's camera in landscape, and I simply reduced it in paint to fit. Doddle, right?

bruh what are you talking about? lmao. my pfp is a gif, but as you can see it's not moving.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by 𒀚𝓝𝓪𝓮𝓭𝓻𝓲𝓷:

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Easy.

Get a photo or any GIF, and go to upload it on your profile through your profile eediting page. You'll see it tells you there what the acceptable stats are for you to use a custom image - pixel height and width and format (jpg, bmp, or whatever, i can't remember).

As long as you do that, it's as easy as that.


If you need to shrink your image, just use something like MSPaint to do so. See my profile picture right there above? That's my photo, taken from a friend's camera in landscape, and I simply reduced it in paint to fit. Doddle, right?

bruh what are you talking about? lmao. my pfp is a gif, but as you can see it's not moving.

The point is you CANNOT have a moving custom image (or at least to my knowledge). You need to convert it to a static image, as I described.
And that's how you do it.

[𒀚𝓐𝓔𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓸𝓼𒉭🌠Stars affix✨]

fascinating. just let this years old, necroed post die - as i should have done.

[Chompman]

Originally posted by 𒀚𝓝𝓪𝓮𝓭𝓻𝓲𝓷:

fascinating. just let this years old, necroed post die - as i should have done.

I am allowed to post here since I posted when it was new....

It's a internet rule I swear.