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I've made a new animated .gif as an avatar, but I can't get it below 45kb no matter what I try. I've seen people post full motion video and also video-within-avatars that are obviously under the size limit but have a very grainy, desaturated, ugly look to them. I don't mind ugly as long as I can get this avatar to 40kb or less. I've already wasted too much time on something pointless, I might as well see it to fruition. What programs do you use to do this? Is it adobe photoshop/imageready? thats the only program I've seen that lets you put the quality on a very easy-to-use slider bar. I made this avatar using the Gimp to crop and resize the pics, and unFREEz to compile them into an animated gif. I tried using aGif to reduce the file size but that puts the stupid 'aGif - UNRE' on top of your finished file, and it couldn't get the size below 45kb anyway. Any help, advice, or tips you can give will get you my eternal gratitude and possibly a handjob if you play your cards right. |
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It used to be 12kb and people still seemed to have long and complicated animations whilst I've had a simple black and white jpeg which wasn't allowed... it's a head-scratcher. |
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Reduce the number of frames, limit the color palettes, play with dithering and then think about using the horrid gif compression. Use ImageReady, save for web or Fireworks save settings. Photoshop won't do animations. |
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Can imageready be downloaded/purchased separate from photoshop? I thought the two were bundled together.. marlowe: yeah I remember it was 12kb, then wasn't it 25kb for a while before finally being upgraded to 40kb? Even with 40kb I can't seem to make this work. |
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cs3 photoshop comes with all that imageready shit built in, then it's just a matter of saving to Web & Devices |
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Just make it greyscale. |
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