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Animated Gifs Anonymous
Everytime I try to make a gif out of a video I have taken or sample from somewhere, the quality of the GIF always looks crappier than it does while I'm editting it?

I use Adobe Image Ready and any advice to Gif making or guides that can be provided would be greatly appreciated.

Picture is kind've related.
>> Anonymous
Also note I can only save it as a gif if I choose "Save Optimized As" and it is this option that seems to be killing my quality. Save as only allows me to save as a PSD file. Any more information perhaps?
>> Anonymous
>>253713
export it
>> 2k
>>253712

Some Copy Pasta......

"A GIF file employs lossless data compression so that the file size of an image may be reduced without degrading the visual quality, provided the image fits into 256 colours. (However, there is a hack that can overcome this limitation under certain circumstances; see True Color.) The GIF format's 256-colour limitation makes it unsuitable for photographs, though losslessly compressed photographs tend to be unacceptably large for the web anyway."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF


I would imagine the issue your having with that Katamari video is the immense amount of colours, most GIF programs will substitute one color another colour to ensure that it makes use of the 256 colour pallette.

Try a shorted video maybe 2 - 3 seconds and see how the quality comes out. You should see a visual improvement.