Question about shrinking animated .gif images

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Stan Shankman
Dec 3, 2003
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Greetings all,

I have noticed that when using Image Ready to shrink .gif animations, that the results are not entirely satisfactory. (Image|Size).

The problem results are especially noticeable on .gif images that have transparent backgrounds. — It seems that the borders of the
resultant shrunken images always turn out to be just a little bit polluted. Also, I have noticed that some frames become
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tacitr
Dec 3, 2003
I have noticed that when using Image Ready to shrink .gif animations, that the results are not entirely satisfactory. (Image|Size).

That is correct.

A GIF image is in Indexed Color mode. It can contain at most only 256 discrete colors. Every shade of color counts as an additional color–if the image has 15 shades of blue, that counts as 15 colors.

When you interpolate (shrink or expand) an indexed color image, you’re still limited only to those colors already in the image. You will get better results if you convert the image to RGB, then shrink it, then convert it back to indexed color.

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