UGA 5 save .gif without Optimizing

[stoneknight]

Is there anyway of saving a animated gif without optimizing it? before the animation is optimized it looks great but after I save it the colors are all blurry and there's little floating dots all over it.

[VikingAnimations]

A GIF has to be optimized somehow. The file format requires it. Do remember that GIF files have a maximum of 256 colors.

For best quality (but large file size) Photo 256 is the cleanest. You can tweak this a bit more... The more colors your animation has to start with, the less likely it's going to look as good as the images you started with.

Some info about your animation would shed a little more light on this... How many frames, what pixel size, and what optimization settings are you using?

[stoneknight]

Thanks for replying. It's comic style art that I color myself with Photoshop. I use the Photo 256 setting and the pixel size I choose depends on what the finished gif turns out like. sometime I make it smaller to hide imprefections. the amount of frames really varies anywhere between 4 to 25+

the blurred colors I can live with it's the little floating dots that I'd really like to get rid of.

[VikingAnimations]

You may have too many colors to be cleanly rendered in GIF format - hard to say for sure without seeing the creation in question.

You could try this...

On the Optimize tab, click the Optimize Panel button:

This will bring up a little dialog box...



Change the method from "median cut" to "minimum variance" and see if that helps.

Another option is to preserve the local palette for each frame. Makes for a bigger GIF file, though.

[stoneknight]

Thanks very much I'll try your advice