printscreen images in animated gifs

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markd2
Jan 19, 2007
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have created a animated gif, but i am having problems with the quality and colour of the image when i transfer it into image ready and save it as a gif it totally loses its orginal quality…

while its being viewed in image ready its fine just when the document is on explorer that it looks really poor quality…

its probberly something simple but i cant get my head round it atm…
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Don_McCahill
Jan 19, 2007
GIFs only have 256 colors, so if your image has gradients or shadowing, it probably will look bad. Unfortunately you cannot animate anything else, so you will have to live with it, or simplify the image.
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Ed_Hannigan
Jan 19, 2007
And make sure you have enough colors specified.
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stevent
Jan 19, 2007
Or use Flash.
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Art Campbell
Jan 19, 2007
Mark,

If, when you say you’re using printscreen images you mean screen snaps, then you’re probably going from millions of colors to 256. Which would make things look poor.

I don’t know if PNG, the second pass at GIF, supports animation.

As Steven points out, Flash would work. And if you’re doing something related to showing people how to run an application by walking them through different screens, you should probably look at Adobe Captivate, which is designed for this kind of thing. There’s a 30-day eval available, I think.

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Scott_Falkner
Jan 19, 2007
PNG is superior GIF in every way, except it does not support animation.

PNG 8 supports transparency, lossless compression, and interlacing, and uses the same palette limitation as GIF, hence the name: 8, for 8-bit or 256 colours.

PNG 24 supports the full 16.7 million colour palette, 8 bit for each RGB channel. It also supports antialiased transparency and varying transparency, allowing images to appear translucent. Unfortunately, the most popular web browser, Internet Explorer 6, does not support PNG 24 transparency. This is because Mirosoft is slow to respond to changes and not particularly interested in open formats.
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glennrp
Jan 19, 2007
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PNG is superior GIF in every way, except it does not support animation.

The PNG development group felt that that was just another way that PNG is superior to GIF.
Many of them still do.

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