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# I hope...
This meets all the size limits etc.
Don't think I've posted it before.

(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:39, archived)
# Oooooh.
Animations can be as large as 250kb, by the way, but that's lovely and effective as it is.
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:40, archived)
# .
Cheers, I'm no expert on compressing files, and the original is over 500kb. O_o

Glad you like. :)
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:42, archived)
# I use the GIMP for gif animation optimizing
simple steps:

1. make your GIF with max colours (no dithering)
2. open gif in gimp
3. reduce the number of colours: switch to RGB and back to Indexed from the Image - Mode menu (no dithering, usually. dithering gives better looking pictures but tends to increase the file size a lot).
4. choose filters - animation - optimize (for gif)

save as gif.

If it's still too big, go back and reduce the amount of colours even more (powers of two are good: 2, 4, 8, 16 - anything in between won't help much) or reduce the image size.
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:49, archived)
# ..
you make it sound so simple, my cat could do it.
I'll give it a go in future.
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:50, archived)
# it's pretty easy
getting the most out of gifs is harder, but for captured video that's more or less the best you can do.

if you have largish parts of your animation that are 100% static between frames they'll optimize very well, which is why drawings / flash-type animations with very few colours in large sections compress so good.
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:54, archived)
# What prog
are you using?
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:50, archived)
# ImageReady
version seven-point-twelvty-two (or something!)
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:51, archived)
# This may assist
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:55, archived)
# my tips above will probably work on image ready too
but I don't have it, so you'll have to translate :)

edit: showing off:

(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:55, archived)
# image ready has a small arrow that one can click
and choose 'optimise to filesize'.

This, as might be expected, optimises to a filesize.
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:58, archived)
# If it do be
at all like Photoshop CS3 (which absorbed IR), you can choose to "optimise to filesize" - if the result doesn't look good at the desired filesize, then play around with the width and height, chop off as much background as you can, and bob's your ankle.
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 23:07, archived)
# v nice
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:41, archived)
# Lonely bike......
Watching the world whizz by....



Most woo!
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:41, archived)
# Watching the world pass by
Very nice.
Yay for long exposures!
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:41, archived)
# Nice,
woo.
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:41, archived)
# In other news...
I have been mucking about with post-its and photoshop (to colour).

(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:44, archived)
# arf!
Try to get still images under 50kb though, or people will get upset!
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:47, archived)
# Erp!
Pants! I thought this was small enough.
I shall prepare for the flaming. ;)
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:48, archived)
# *flames*
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:52, archived)
# Bathtime!
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:47, archived)
# Very good
was it animated gif? Sorry - total novice here
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:45, archived)
# Ta.
Yep, aminated gif is right. I'm no expert either though. :)
(, Fri 25 Jan 2008, 22:46, archived)