gif file size
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- anzelina
what are some ways to shrink down the file size of an animated gif?
- armed_rob0
imageready controls how many colors your gif uses.
- anzelina0
where is that control panel?
- fugged0
dunno if you want to get this drastic or if it will destroy the look you're going for, but here's a little trick that I use sometimes when file size is critical.
Since gif's are run length encoded, the more same colored adjacent pixels you have, the smaller the file size.
With that said, try placing a layer on top of the image with alternating black/transparent lines.
example
file size: 31K
file size: 17K
- anzelina0
fugged that's an awesome idea.
won't work this time around cause there's text that will get jacked.
will remember it for future though!
- anzelina0
nm rob, i found it!
thanks guys
- armed_rob0
no problem.
Remember to lock the colors you dont want to go out.
- davi-t0
LOSSINESS drops it a ton too. Lossiness settings basically adds noise to the image but u won't even notice it until u add a lot.
- fugged0
actually, noise is the devil. i think the "noise" you're thinking of is really a dithering, compensating for a smaller color pallete.
- doesnotexist0
i was gonna say you can put those lines in with quickimage, but i suppose youd have to save each from and do it, and that would just be stupid.
imageready for sure though
- davi-t0
nope, 'noise' is just what it looks like when you add the lossiness (ie. In PS, the save for web feature, GIF lossiness slider bar). completely seperate from dithering...
- fugged0
yeah it does look like noise. I guess when I think of noise, I think of random pixels.
the way the lossy setting works for gifs in photoshop is it creates tokens for redunant pixel information. when you crank up the lossy setting, photoshop looks for similair image patterns and changes the image data so that it can re-use tokens thus saving space. blah blah blah. ok. imma shut up.
sorry.