Optimizing Animated Gifs - Crunching down file size using Adobe ImageReady
Let's see... it helps if you can save the various frames with as little color as possible. Also, each frame doesn't have to be 468x60. You can move it to cover different spots in the banner. This should save you some KB's. I hope this helped.
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shpek posted this at 03:46 — 3rd June 1999.
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Designers....
I use Adobe ImageReady and I was wondering if ANYONE had some tips on optimizing animated gifs to bring the file size down. I am able to "crunch it" but I still believe it could be smaller? Are there some tricks that can be applied to the layers themselves BEFORE optimization?
Thanks For the Time
Shpek
rocketman posted this at 23:35 — 10th June 1999.
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Ulead's Gif Animator has an optimization command. (F11 is the shortcut). You don't have to have created the animated gif in Ulead. It's fine to make it in another program and then use Ulead only for optimization. Last time I checked, Ulead had a freeware version.
JP Stones posted this at 17:20 — 11th June 1999.
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I can vouch for GifCruncher being a good program, I used to have a free version on the WN? site, but am currently redoing that section.
JP
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Voltec posted this at 03:30 — 12th June 1999.
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It has been a few days since you posted your question but I just found this forum yesterday. Have I got a website for you to check out! I stumbled across this site about 2 weeks ago and have been impressed!
I compress my static and compressed right to the edge of appreciable quality loss and have always figured I was pretty good at it. But, GifCruncher managed to sqweek a bit more from my images with no visual quality loss.
So, I would highly suggest you check this site out:
http://gifcruncher.com/
Matt
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