gif quality

What settings are you using? Is the problem with images with transparency or with all images?

Try increasing the number of colors you include when saving – that will give you smoother edges. For more complex images, I usually save as gif 128 no dither. For text, experiment with the anti-aliasing settings for text (strong for larger text to crisp for smaller text).

Flo

"Zack" wrote in message

i have photoshop 7.0 and when save for web and use gif, i dont get any antialiased edges. is there anyway to get around that? any program that could help? I am working on a website, so smooth graphics are imparitive.

I use the max colors available, and I have even tried bluring the edges with the blur tool before saving but the gif just discards the smooth edges i have made. Its fine when i save it as PNG-24 or high quality jpeg but I guess that is the problem with gifs, is that they is not enough colors on the pallette available to make the antialiased edges. It would come out fine if I put it on a matte of the background color of my site, but I’m trying to avoid that. Any suggestions? by the way my settings are for the gif:
color reduction: selective, lossy: 0, colors: 256, dither: 100%, tranparency: yes, matte: none, no transparency dither, interlaced: no, web snap: 0%
Hope that helps

"Flo Nelson" wrote in message

What settings are you using? Is the problem with images with transparency

or

with all images?

Try increasing the number of colors you include when saving – that will

give

you smoother edges. For more complex images, I usually save as gif 128 no dither. For text, experiment with the anti-aliasing settings for text (strong for larger text to crisp for smaller text).

Flo

"Zack" wrote in message

i have photoshop 7.0 and when save for web and use gif, i dont get any antialiased edges. is there anyway to get around that? any program that could help? I am working on a website, so smooth graphics are

imparitive.

Thanks so much for that, im sure it will help, ill try it. Thanks again!

"Flo Nelson" wrote in message

Transparency makes it a horse of a different color :-). The only way I’ve found to get perfectly antialiased edges with transparency is a little complicated but doable:
1. save as gif without transparency – save on a background color (or

matte)

that is the same color as the dominant color in your background.
2. open up the gif – change to rgb – select the background color with the
magic wand set to 1 and then delete your selection. Save again as gif. You’ll have nicely antialiased edges.

Personally, I only do this when I really need to (overlapping images, patterned background, etc.) – otherwise I save with background color – doesn’t add much to file size.

By the way, most of the time I’ve found diffusion dither to be the best

for

the web – and most of the time no dither is the best for sharp images (try 88% if you really need dither).

hth,
Flo

"Zack" wrote in message

I use the max colors available, and I have even tried bluring the edges

with

the blur tool before saving but the gif just discards the smooth edges i have made. Its fine when i save it as PNG-24 or high quality jpeg but I guess that is the problem with gifs, is that they is not enough colors

on

the pallette available to make the antialiased edges. It would come out fine if I put it on a matte of the background color of my site, but I’m trying to avoid that. Any suggestions? by the way my settings are for

the

gif:
color reduction: selective, lossy: 0, colors: 256, dither: 100%, tranparency: yes, matte: none, no transparency dither, interlaced: no,

web

snap: 0%
Hope that helps

"Flo Nelson" wrote in message

What settings are you using? Is the problem with images with

transparency

or

with all images?

Try increasing the number of colors you include when saving – that

will

give

you smoother edges. For more complex images, I usually save as gif 128

no

dither. For text, experiment with the anti-aliasing settings for text (strong for larger text to crisp for smaller text).

Flo

"Zack" wrote in message

i have photoshop 7.0 and when save for web and use gif, i dont get

any

antialiased edges. is there anyway to get around that? any program

that

could help? I am working on a website, so smooth graphics are

imparitive.