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# If you import an amimation into photoshop, it has already been optimised once,
Because of this it is full of artifacts, so the reoptimising it again will increase the file size, because you are trying to optimises a grainy file,

When I make animations, I always save the indivualy frames that I am going to use as the highest quality I can, so they are as clear as possible, and then let imageready do the optimising.

If I am making individual transparent frames to import into animationshop or whatever, I aleways save them as transparent PNGs, they are a lot clearer that gifs.... and thuse when you optimise them into gifs the files are a lot smaller...

I hope this makes some sort of sence//

(The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Fri 6 Apr 2012, 21:54, archived)
# I'm not too familiar with all the jargon, but this all sounds logical
Wasn't sure what the pros and cons of PNGs are. I've come across them of course but never tried saving anything as one. But yes that sounds like a good idea...
(I helped save b3ta! Photoshop Bitch 2014 edition, Fri 6 Apr 2012, 22:03, archived)
# The advatage of the png is, that it doesn't loose any image information when you save it,
so remains beautifull and clear and clean, and you can also use them to keep transparent files, so are great for importing into animation software, because they will optimise far better than a transparent gif which has already been optimised once and is full of graininess, that is really hard to optimise, because optimising grainy images with lots of variations just buggers them up the poop shoot ;-) and makes them masive
(The invisable man Is having a long lazy soak in search, Fri 6 Apr 2012, 22:14, archived)
# aaaah!!
useful :)) although sometimes PS elements won't load really mahoosive files/too many frames, so some form of scaling may be needed beforehand... trial & error :))
(I helped save b3ta! maggenspies mayhaps, Fri 6 Apr 2012, 22:47, archived)
# That would make sense if you've used the "lossy" option when optimising.
If not, the GIF will be lossless, just like a PNG, and you can cheerfully save it and open it and re-save it as many times as you like with no degradation.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Fri 6 Apr 2012, 23:49, archived)