Having Probs with Gif
I am having problems with my company logo as I have designed the original as a PDF with a transparent background and this looks great. However as sson as I convert this to a gif it goes really grainy (See:http://www.mma.net)
Have any of you got any Ideas why this is happening as I have Photoshop5 at home and it does not do this but when I use Photoshop4 at work it does! Is this a bug in Photoshop4?
thanks
~Vy~
AndyB posted this at 15:43 — 10th March 2000.
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One solution would be ... work at home with the better tools
Seriously - it could be a problem with how the font is rendered when the image is compressed or the # of colours is reduced to reduce the file size.
Did you try converting to indexed colour before export as GIF??
vy22 posted this at 16:07 — 10th March 2000.
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No I didn't but I will give that a try!
Can't work at home as the software is registered to me and my company require me to use software registered to them for copyright reasons.
Suzanne posted this at 23:58 — 10th March 2000.
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vy22, would you please explain what the reasoning would be behind that sort of policy? A gif is a gif, is a gif, no matter where it is created. Is it because they don't want the company files anywhere but at the company?
The logo didn't appear to be anti-aliased, which would explain the jaggies on the edges. I didn't see any dithering, however (speckles). I have no idea about PS, but I believe it has an anti-aliasing option, which is normally turned off when you change to the indexed colour (i.e. you cannot create an image with anti-aliased edges in an indexed colour type file) however if you start with a true-colour file, anti-alias and then change the image format to indexed colour, it should keep the anti-aliased edge.
hth,
Suzanne
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Brian Farkas posted this at 01:07 — 11th March 2000.
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You should try indexed color before exporting, as mentioned. If you fix the graphic on your computer and bring it on a disk back to work, I don't see why they'd have a problem with it... Make sure you use an adequate number of colors while exporting, also.
Brian
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