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# Shed

Clicky for biggy

I'm wank-poor at optimising animated GIFs. Anyone wanna give me some advice...like what s/w to use and how to do it?
(rymix, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 17:54, archived)
# woo yay!
brilliant!
(I helped save b3ta! rawr isn't really here., Fri 27 Jun 2003, 17:55, archived)
# woo!
(I helped save b3ta! PMGT -Bacon., Fri 27 Jun 2003, 17:56, archived)
# i use gifscile. its nifty.
also people always say turn dithering off, it helps gifs compress better.

edit: woo
(tefski, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 17:56, archived)
# chairs
.
(rymix, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 17:56, archived)
# secondly: gifs are better at compressing horizontal lines than verticle ones.
100% FACT

edit: reducing the colours etc works too
(tefski, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 18:00, archived)
# it also seens gifsicle has failed me this time.
thats quite optimized :)
(tefski, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 18:02, archived)
# yeah
just tried it and saved 0 bytes. nice ;)

Gotta sort out the source image instead methinks
(rymix, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 18:08, archived)
# how odd
(I helped save b3ta! ?, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 17:56, archived)
# That's fantastic.
I'm not sure why, but it is.
(Moo Lefty Drinking From His Own Udders since, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 17:56, archived)
# name the band.
(I helped save b3ta! Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 17:58, archived)
# shed seven.
(I helped save b3ta! PMGT -Bacon., Fri 27 Jun 2003, 17:58, archived)
# .
http://www.shedseven.com
(rymix, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 17:59, archived)
# dads heaven?
(I helped save b3ta! ?, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 17:59, archived)
# first and most important
less colours and less detail make for smaller pictures... you've used photo-quality colours and really complex pics, so that's why it's so big - it's too big, really, even the small one - 150-200K is the suggested limit, you're a snip under 300!

and the program you used to make the anims will probably be the best one to use to make it smaller
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 18:00, archived)
# woo och yay
I'm sure i saw that on sesame street when i was little, at the end you hear a little kids voice shout out "SHED"
(Chorlton, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 18:02, archived)
# I've managed
to get the big one down to half a meg if you are interested.
(nospoon The Olympigs would have been more entertaining., Fri 27 Jun 2003, 18:02, archived)
# and the little one
to 170k using Fireworks
(nospoon The Olympigs would have been more entertaining., Fri 27 Jun 2003, 18:05, archived)
# nice one
I don't have fireworks though. Any chance you could up them somewhere so I can swap them for mine? If you don't mind, that is...
(rymix, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 18:09, archived)
# I would recommend...
...imageready for optimising - it gives you a 4-up display for testing different optimisation options, which I find great.

I find trial and error is the best way, but generally speaking fewer colours, fewer frames and less dithering helps a lot - it's surprising how much you can take out without losing the essence of your animation.

Also, as a last step, I find I can usually add 15% to 20% lossy compression before the picture starts to deteriorate too much - it can help make the file that bit smaller.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 18:05, archived)
# I just
tinkered with Imageready and managed to get the sizes down a bit

Cheers for your help
(rymix, Fri 27 Jun 2003, 18:13, archived)