How do I save .gif’s optimized pics with color?

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Lynn Johnton
Jul 17, 2003
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I’ve been working 2 hours on an animated gif (using ImageReady) and everytime I try to save it the optimized pic has no color and is of poor quality. When I try save as .html it’s the same. Is there anything I can do to save it with the same quality and color it has in .psd format? I’m not too picky about quality, but after the work I put into it I would like color.
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dave milbut
Jul 17, 2003
try different gif settings… dithered 128 if you have a lot of colors. gif’s only support a max of 256 colors btw, but a lot of colors can be "faked". the most problematic areas for gifs will likely be gradients.

hth, dave
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Don McCahill
Jul 18, 2003
Also, play with the methods used to bring the colors down to 256 … I like Adaptive, in most cases, which choses the 256 colors closest to what are currently in the pix (so a sky and clouds shot will get mostly blues and whites).

The worst choice, in many cases, is the web safe selection, which will give you only about a dozen blues and whites, which would result in terrible banding in the above cloud pix.

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