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Last active March 3, 2020 08:01
How to easily make Slack emojis with a Mac + Chrome

Some coworkers wanted to know how I made the majority of our over 2100 custom emojis at Intel, so I thought I'd write down how I did this :) First, Slack emojis are required to be 128X128 pixels, and no larger than 128KB, so you'll want to make sure your image/gif is either really large < 1000 px in either height or width, because you'll be shrinking it way down. 256x256 images usually work the best.

HOW TO FIND EMOJIS

  1. If it's a company/place/idea then often googling {name} {icon|logo|symbol} works just fine, like hp logo to get the logo.
  2. Sometimes image files will be in .svg format, and I use https://ezgif.com/svg-to-png to convert these to png after downloading them.
  3. Click on the first image you see in the top search section of your Google search result. This will take you to Google's images section.
  4. Find the image you want and click on it. This will open it in the right-side column.
  5. Right-click the image/gif on the right, and click save image as.... This will save it and you'll se