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Fred Weiss
Merchant Member
The specification for the GIF format calls for Indexed Colors. Photoshop or Imageready will automatically convert them when you generate the file.
If you're going to be doing any amount of this type of designing, I would recommend that you switch to Flash movies. My Express Clipart site uses two and the file sizes are much smaller along with the effects and controls being much better. Examples are the green ticker tape and the clipart animation seen HERE. The clipart movie contains 10 separate image sets, all of which are animated and totals 305kb. Your animation if done in Flash would probably be well under your size limit.
I must have tried out around 2 dozen products for this and even bought and abandoned one. The one I ended up with and am absolutely pleased with is SWF Quicker. It has a small but easy learning curve to it. They offer a free trial download and tutorials.
Replicator
New Member
I use CoffeeCup Gif Animator . . . Works very well and saves very small !
iSign
New Member
as far as the white goes, I see it in one of your screenshots & not the other, but I would remove it from a layerd version so there is absolutely no white. In my earlier example, & pulled down the gif from your sig & removed the white with the magic wand, so it got fuzzy by the shadow as to what it saw as white... still looked ok, but on yours you did a few other things I question.
Your current sig has a larger shadow, that doesn't add anything IMO... and then it is cut off with a sharp line which ruins the effect entirely. You also have a bigger logo, which might be fine for your website, but for a signature that shows up a dozen times in some threads... you might consider cutting back on that a bit
..not trying to run you around... just sharing an opinion, and getting some receptivity to it... I keep sharing 
I got your email, & the .psd file with no white in it looked like a 3 or 4 click "save as" operation to get what I would expect to work, so lets see...
iSign
New Member
hmm... I was just out the door when I logged on to see if you got this handled... now I see that your one screenshot was from the "save for web" window & that's where it's putting that halo of white around it.
My earlier 5 minute success last night was from you old file that allowed me to leave the first checkbox in the .gif save dialog box set to "exact"
The .psd file you emailed me won't offer me that choice. "Exact" is greyed out & I think it said 256 below that, but on the "exact" one it said something like 104 ... anyway, as you can see the new one made that shadow go ugly black with a hard edge. I tried altering color management settings and other guesswork... but I can't figure it out. Learning can be fun.. but you can also feel free to grab the one I did & use that if you want
...gotta go get my coffee :Sleeping:
My earlier 5 minute success last night was from you old file that allowed me to leave the first checkbox in the .gif save dialog box set to "exact"
The .psd file you emailed me won't offer me that choice. "Exact" is greyed out & I think it said 256 below that, but on the "exact" one it said something like 104 ... anyway, as you can see the new one made that shadow go ugly black with a hard edge. I tried altering color management settings and other guesswork... but I can't figure it out. Learning can be fun.. but you can also feel free to grab the one I did & use that if you want
...gotta go get my coffee :Sleeping:
Thanks for all the advice you guys give,, i will admit i have a lot to learn still,so i guess i need to get my nose on the other screens LOL, guess the old saying is true,if your not learning your not earning!!!!!
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PMG, I echo Fred's recommendation of using Flash, particularly for the animated GIF you posted. You can move graphical objects in and out of the "stage" very smoothly unlike the stuttered start-stops that tend to occur with GIF image animations.
Current SWF Flash players fully support both vector and bitmap images. You can use bitmap objects with alpha channel masks or vector-based masks. FlashCS3 will support just about any effect from IllustratorCS3 and will preserve and even animate layers from a multi-layered Illustrator or Photoshop file.
Current SWF Flash players fully support both vector and bitmap images. You can use bitmap objects with alpha channel masks or vector-based masks. FlashCS3 will support just about any effect from IllustratorCS3 and will preserve and even animate layers from a multi-layered Illustrator or Photoshop file.
Ian Stewart-Koster
Older Greyer Brushie
PMG, you can further optimise gif files for the web if you slice them up, as you may find certain segments can handle a heavier degree of compression without important loss, and you keep the better detail for the text where it is needed.
You'll need to read up on slicing, though.
I'm not sure your actual pic would benefit much though, either. In other pix, it can help a lot.
You'll need to read up on slicing, though.
I'm not sure your actual pic would benefit much though, either. In other pix, it can help a lot.
Replicator
New Member
SwishMax isn't too bad to learn . . . Can't wait to see the finished version.
Good Luck !
Good Luck !