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07/29/2008 06:16:38 PM · #1 |
| I have a GIF made up of three screens. I created/saved it in ImageReady, but it is too big (71k when it needs to be under 50k). I tried to Save-for-Web it in PhotoShop, but that makes it only one frame. Does anyone know how I can make the file smaller? |
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07/29/2008 06:45:05 PM · #2 |
I think the only way to get smaller gif size is to size-down the original images, or the whole thing prior to saving.
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07/29/2008 07:07:20 PM · #3 |
What Cindi said... GIF does not support variable "quality" settings like JPEG does. It *might* be possible to reduce file size by reducing the color depth on the GIF, but intuition tells me it might not be that big a benefit. Let me look at it once...
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Yes, in the dialog when saving your GIF file, you can replace the default number of colors (256) with something smaller. I saved a JPEG image as GIF, and left the defaults, it was 97kB. I then saved it again and set the number of colors to 32, and the size was reduced to 53kB. I also turned on dithering to offset some of the degradation from reducing the number of colors, but I did this on both copies.
Message edited by author 2008-07-29 19:14:25. |
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07/29/2008 07:08:51 PM · #4 |
I think GIF files use the Indexed Color color model -- if there aren't too many colors in the image(s), try reducing the number of colors in the color gamut/palette.
k -- stop typing faster than I do!
Message edited by author 2008-07-29 19:09:32. |
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