I've got a question on gif's. I made a buddy icon, but it's to big for AIM, I've tried a lot of things to make it smaller, but I can't make it small enough without losing a bunch of quality. You guys have any tips? Thanks.

Is it animated?

If you're making it on MS. paint, usually it doesn;t work.
I make it with iconart..
you could always make the demensions(sp) 48x48 because it still works for me.

I'm using ImageReady, and yes it's animated.

aim has major limits ... if you have alot of frames on it thats why you cant use it ..because too many frames increases the size? iono but i think soo . on mine i would make it like 40x40 and then add a like 2 frames

how many frames do you have on it in imageready?

Make the size 50x50 pixels.

decrease each frame size and add a border so it won't look inadequate