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.
- If it's a company/place/idea then often googling
{name} {icon|logo|symbol}
works just fine, likehp logo
to get the logo. - 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.
- 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. - Find the image you want and click on it. This will open it in the right-side column.
- Right-click the image/gif on the right, and click
save image as...
. This will save it and you'll se