How do you place gif as icons without losing color quality?

[Grevous85]

You can try using a tool like Piskel, or Aseprite. I use Piskel (and most of the time, I use GIMP at the same time) to make my animated thumbnails.

(I'd recommend trying out Piskel first, since it's free.)

ok, thank you very much for the recommendations, I will try them to see which one I prefer.