Optimize Animated Gif

How to optimize animated Gif? Is there any source code for the above problem? It is very urgent, please help me.
Thanks in advance.

If you are trying to use an animated gif in an application, that won't exactly work...you should break the image up into individual frames and transverse them on a timer instead.

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Animated Gif Optimization (exporting)

I'm attempting to export an animated GIF using the Export
Wizard. My problem is that I used high quality pictures and
gradients and now i cannot seem to find an export optimization that
will display these correctly. I tried everything from Adaptive down
to Custom but everything gives me blurred pictured and less than
acceptable results. I'm using Fireworks 8.
If anyone could please help that'd be great! Thanks!

jmosier14 wrote:
> I'm attempting to export an animated GIF using the
Export Wizard. My problem is
> that I used high quality pictures and gradients and now
i cannot seem to find
> an export optimization that will display these
correctly.
The GIF format, including GIF89a, is designed for flat,
poster-like
images. It does not compress gradients or Photos very
successfully.
You'll end up with a better looking animation if you export
in SWF
format instead of GIF. Click on the Quick Export option menu
at the top
right of the document window and choose Macromedia Flash >
Export SWF.
In the Save As dialog box, click on the Options button to
customize the
export settings.
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Problems/help with animated GIF exports

I am an experienced Photoshop user. I recently upgraded to CS5 (Windows) and have been attempting to produce animated gif files.
After reading a few tutorials on the topic, I have been able to:
Create a PSD with a few jpg images as layers;
Move the layers to the animation window;
Set the cycle times and optimize the animation window; and,
Use the Save for Web Devices dialog to create the GIF file.
Everything appears to be normal throughout this process. However, the exported GIF file appears as a dark gray frame when I open it in IE, or upload it to my image hosting site.
Anybody else experiencing this type of problem?
Thanks

No, my Photoshop CS5 saves animated GIFs just fine, and I did just what you said. For example (you have to click on an image here to see it animate):
Can you post your image here? Maybe it could be a problem with your browser not animating the image properly? What version of IE do you use?
-Noel

Animated Gif Problem

Greetings
I would appreciate some help.
I am new at creating animated gif's, and am experiencing a
problem with them when I try to view them in a browser.
I am working in Fireworks 2004, the following is what I do.
Create first frame.
Insert simple arrow.
Create second frame
Insert simple arrow with diffrent color
Third frame same but diffrent image.
Set the Optimize Panel to Animated Gif, transparency set to
No tranparency.
Click on File, Export.
Type the name of the file in File Name box.
Select "Frames to Files" option for Save as type option.
In my folder where I saved the files there are now three gif
files.
When I open the file into the following browsers IE 7, 6.0 or
Firefox it remains as a static image in the browser with no
animation, the same is for viewing it in Window Explorer Preview
Pane.
In Fireworks however the animation plays perfectly.
I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me what I
am doing wrong or why they created animated gifs are not playing in
the browser.
Regards
Dave

Instead of Frames to files on export, select Images only.
that should do it -
alex
revbear wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I would appreciate some help.
>
> I am new at creating animated gif's, and am experiencing
a problem with them
> when I try to view them in a browser.
>
> I am working in Fireworks 2004, the following is what I
do.
>
> Create first frame.
> Insert simple arrow.
> Create second frame
> Insert simple arrow with diffrent color
> Third frame same but diffrent image.
>
> Set the Optimize Panel to Animated Gif, transparency set
to No tranparency.
>
> Click on File, Export.
> Type the name of the file in File Name box.
> Select "Frames to Files" option for Save as type option.
>
> In my folder where I saved the files there are now three
gif files.
>
> When I open the file into the following browsers IE 7,
6.0 or Firefox it
> remains as a static image in the browser with no
animation, the same is for
> viewing it in Window Explorer Preview Pane.
>
> In Fireworks however the animation plays perfectly.
>
> I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me
what I am doing wrong or
> why they created animated gifs are not playing in the
browser.
>
> Regards
> Dave
>
>

Animated gif in photoshop

Hi
I'm running Photoshop 7 on a MacBook Pro. I previously used photoshop on a PC.
I created an animation using layers, and saved it as an optimised gif. However, when I tired to upload it to MySpace it would load: error message said it was an unsupported format.
I didn't have this problem before on the PC - any ideas what is different or how I can fix it?
THanks
Seamus

Hi, my apologies if that sounded condescending. Indeed I'm getting the same error as you do when trying to upload animated gif files created in either PS CS2 or IR CS2. I don't know what this site's problem is, because my gifs run in any browser. I have found that myspace accepts a gif file only when I open it in Safari and drag it from the browser window to the desktop first. Go figure.
I know it's annoying to have to open every gif file in Safari and drag it from the browser to the desktop, but at least it works this way.
It might just be some optimization setting in IR, although I wouldn't know what.
Good luck

Changing animated gif's colors

Hi,
I'm using Fireworks CS5. I opened an animated gif and I wanted to replace some of the colors with other colors and have it do this for the entire animation. I know that I can simply change the colors by going to the Optimize panel and select one of the colors in the palette to change it. But I want to use an exact color by pasting in the color's HTML hex code and I can't find a way to do that. I tried using the "Replace Palette entry" option and pasting in the code there. But while the color in the palette window changed correctly, the color on the actual gif was wrong (for instance, I changed an orange to a gray, but the preview image simply replaced the original orange with a different orange instead of the gray I wanted).
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

The replace palette entry feature only works on vectors. Your GIF animation is a bitmap. I'm afrad the only choice you've got is to hand color each state, or recreate the animation with the colors you like.

Animated GIF Doesn't Work At All

I am a Web developer. My client has provided us with an animated GIF image for their landing page. This GIF runs fine on every browser except Safari. On Safari, the GIF never animates; it just stays on the opening frame and looks stupid.
This happens on all Macs running OS X and Safari 2.x as well as Beta 3.
I search here and on the Internet and find nobody reporting this issue, but it sure feels like a Safari-specific problem.

Aha! Nice catch. I saw that extension anomaly, too, Kirk, but since the page code doesn't allow one to easily view what's going on behind the scenes, I wondered if the JPEG might be behind or in front of the actual animated GIF and didn't look further. But downloading the "JPEG" and loading it in Safari 3 shows that it is, indeed, the animated GIF... with the incorrect extension.
Yes, I would think being labeled a JPEG is the problem. Safari 2 is probably being stubborn and assuming that since it is supposed to be a JPEG, it can't animate.
(A page with so little actual HTML or text has to be terribly inaccessible and is probably a problem in terms of search engine optimization as well. Just guesses since I don't work in SEO myself, but worth considering.)

Fireworks MX animated gif problem

I am creating a rotating banner with fireworks and I have
changed all the frame rates from default ( 7 ) to ( 100 ).
Everytime I go to optimize and change to animated gif. the frame
rates change back to ( 7 ). Somebody please help.

quote:
Originally posted by:
r_cronier
I am creating a rotating banner with fireworks and I have
changed all the frame rates from default ( 7 ) to ( 100 ).
Everytime I go to optimize and change to animated gif. the frame
rates change back to ( 7 ). Somebody please help.
What happened is that you picked a factory preset from the
Saved Settings dropdown menu. If you don't want to use presets,
just ignore that top-most dropdown menu. Use the rest of the
options to set your values: as long as you specify Animated GIF in
the upper left dropdown menu and pick a palette, the Optimize
function still works as intended.
Btw, If you need to use your values regularly, it's a good
idea to save them as a custom preset so that will show up in the
Saved Settings menu, along with the factory presets.
Hope that helps. :-)
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Fireworks CS4 animated gif - ghosting - Help Please!

I have creadted a skyscrapper ad using Frieworks with a gradient on the background. When it is played on a PC (I use a Mac), there is ghosting of the text. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? It looks fine on my Mac. When I save as an animated gif, I select dither to make the gradient look smoother. Help! Please!

Hi,
Animated gif backgrounds with gradient would definitely look ghosted or distorted because of the way GIF images are generated. Take a look at the solution suggested in this tutorial http://www.smartwebby.com/free_tutorials/website-design-how-to/GIFs-optimization.asp - I think using the Exact setting might make your Animated GIF with gradients smoother.
- Anita

Animated gif from flash

CS4, AS3.Windows XP SP3.
I've created a pretty simple flash animation with some text that fades in and moves around a bit. Nothing fancy. It runs just fine both locally and on my client's site. I need to turn it into an animated gif so that non-flash viewers will see the animation. But I can't seem to get it to come out right. It needs to have a transparent background and it needs to run just once. Like I said, all that runs fine as an SWF.
When I choose the export option in the file menu (export movie as gif), it does export and I can run the gif but the background is definitely not transparent and the thing loops continuously. Yes, I've checked the "transparent" checkbox and also set the repetitions to 1. Neither of those settings do anything.
I also tried "publishing" the gif. That's even worse. The resultant animation doesn't even resemble my SWF. It's a blocky mess when it runs. It does appear to have a transparent background but it loops over and over and again it's a blocky mess (not sure how else to explain that).
The whole thing is just about 10 layers of different lines of text that are tweened in various ways to get the effect I need.
You can see the animation on the right hand side of this page: www.ssrights.com. It's the one that says "FREE! Consultation..."
Hope someone can help.
Thanks,
Keith
PS: The gif is not in place. I currently have it set to just show a static image if someone does not have flash.

Look, I appreciate that you are making an effot to help, but I hope you realize that most pages like that are just there to attract advertisers. They are mostly nonsense. Filled with fluff and little that's actually helpful. Often copied verbatim from the help file of some application. Not the least bit beneficial. There are tons of "how to" sites out there that say next to nothing and still use a lot of words. I run into them countless times each day. It's beyond irritating when you're trying to learn how to do something. This paragraph on that page you referred me to is a perfect example:
Set other options for your animated GIF publication. Optimize the color of the GIF to remove unused colors so that the image size will be reduced. Set "Dither Solids" so that the colors will be mixed in the current existing palette. Other options you have to set up are Interlace, Smooth, and Remove Gradients. Set all of them very well so that your animated GIF will be published at its best quality.
Just look at the grammar in the last sentense. It doesn't even make sense and offeres zero useful information. Probably came out of the entirely useless Adobe help system that's fond of defining a term with the term itself.
Back to the GIF settings. I've chosen nearly every combination of settings on the GIF publish tab. Nothing I do works. The only thing that solved the problem (and it's a crummy solution) was to change the text to a broken apart graphic. I'm sure you are more expert in Flash than I am and so you likely know how to solve this. Have you created a simple example with text and successfully published it as a GIF? You don't even need to tween the text. It can be sitting still on it's own layer and it still fouls things up. If so, what settings are you using to make this work right? That inforamtion would be very helpful!
Again, is there anyone out there that has specifically dealt with this problem and can offer a specific, viable solution?
Keith

Quality problem with animated gif through flash

i got a problem with making animated gif through flash.
on html/swf publication it looks clear.
but the weird thing is through gif publication, it wouldn't show. and exporting it as a movie as gif cause visual defect when put up on web.
it looks better when you open it in a browser.
this is how it looks for a profile gif in thumbnail mode. blocky and unclear.
how do you get it to look good both in thumbnail mode and in browser mode. i seen other that have a clear gif in thumbnail mode. are my setting wrong for flash? or should i just do gif in photshop instead. i heard rumors flash don't do gif very well.

Change your gif export setting under publish...
          Dimensions         : Match movie
          Playback             : Animated
                                    : Loop continuously
          Options               : Optimize colors
                                    : Smooth
          Transparent         : Opaque
          Dither                 : None
          Palette Type       : Adaptive
          Max colors         : 99999

Duration problem with animated gif

Hi!
I love the animated gif feature and have used it several times successfully.
This time, it seems to ignoring my settings for duration. I've set the number as high as 1500/100, but when I preview in browser (Mac Safari or Firefox), the images just whip by. I did slice the animated area and optimize it as an animated gif and export it. When I worked with it again this morning, the first image reflected the 1500/100, but the rest are still racing. I've tried to attach file here.
Also, I'm wondering if this really should be done in Flash rather than FW. The client wants maybe 5 or 6 images and with the 7 test I have now, I see we're at 216K file size. I don't know flash but if the blog theme we use doesn't have something set up, I assume I'll just outsource the Flash development.
Thanks,
Caryn

Okay...it works for me, but....
One thing to be careful of is saving vs. exporting. When you create your file, you should save it as a Fireworks .png document. Then, to produce your animated .gif, you should export it. I like using the Image Preview (under the File menu), as I can tweak any of the settings I want. Other people prefer the Export item and optimize their output.
There are two kinds of .png files. A Fireworks .png has all the layers, vector shapes, Web layer, active filters, and special proprietary information that Fireworks uses. A flattened .png is just a bitmap, whether it has 32, 24, or 8 bits. There's no distinction between these files based on the extension. Another user once suggested using .fw.png for Fireworks documents and .png for exported .pngs and I found that a good suggestion.
In any case, a good rule to follow is to use save when you want a Fireworks .png and export when you want a Web-ready bitmap of any format.
So, this is my "but." I took your file and changed the durations of the other frames. I saved it as a Fireworks .png. I then went to File > Image Preview and selected Animated GIF as the format. From the Animation tab, I set the number of loops to 3 and exported. I then saved the .png again to store the loop information.
Here's the .png (474k):
Here's the animation (303k):
Given that the .gif format does't have the colors to reproduce photographs well, I still recommend you look into image rotators. These are scripts that can cycle through a set of images. See this thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/518231?tstart=1

Problem with text when publishing as an animated .Gif

I am using Flash CS4 to create a simple 300px250x animated web banner.
Everything works fine when I am in flash and when I export my file as a .swf,
but when I export my movie as an animated .gif, the text becomes a solid box of color...
any ideas why?
I created the text in flash, then converted it to a symbol...
the animation is a simple scroll and fade in.
Could it be because the text is too small or is there something else?
Really hoping someone can give me some insite into this, thanks!

Hi,
Try exporting your file with the following settings to get a high quality GIF
Dimensions   : Match movie
Playback       : Animated
                    : Loop continuously
Options         : Optimize colors
                    : Smooth
Transparent   : Opaque
Dither           : None
Palette Type : Adaptive
Max colors   : 99999
Thanks!
ps: please mark this post as Answered if this of any help to you

Problem exporting as an animated gif

I create animated gifs in Fireworks.
I work on them, save them as a png file and then export as an animated gif.
For some reason, I have followed the same procedure but the file is not exporting correctly export at all or only saves 1 frame.
Also, if I name the file TEST.png, when I go to export I export as TEST.gif however when it is saved to the desktop it reads Page1.gif
??????? I'm really confused.
I have checked all the details in Image Preview and they are all correct.
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks

If you haven't done so, try adding a slice around the animation and optimize / export the slice

Saving Animated .GIF Incorrectly?

Please help! I am trying to save an animated .gif with images
that will rotate through every 1 second.
Here is what I am doing...what am I doing wrong???!!!!
Step 1: I create two frames
Step 2: I add one image to each frame
Step 3: I change the frame delay from the default 7/100 to
100/100, which should be one second
Step 4: I save the image as an animated.gif.
For some reason, despite the frame delay being correct, the
image rotates through at an incredibly fast rate. It seems to stay
at the default 7/100 frame delay and I can't correct it. Even if i
save it as a 3500/100 delay, it still rotates very quickly.
Can anybody help me? This is very frustrating!!

quote:
Originally posted by:
smackitsakic
Please help! I am trying to save an animated .gif with images
that will rotate through every 1 second.
Here is what I am doing...what am I doing wrong???!!!!
Step 1: I create two frames
Step 2: I add one image to each frame
Step 3: I change the frame delay from the default 7/100 to
100/100, which should be one second
Step 4: I save the image as an animated.gif.
For some reason, despite the frame delay being correct, the
image rotates through at an incredibly fast rate. It seems to stay
at the default 7/100 frame delay and I can't correct it. Even if i
save it as a 3500/100 delay, it still rotates very quickly.
Can anybody help me? This is very frustrating!!
There is a bug in the Property Inspector's
Default Export Options that resets frame delays to 7,
whenever you change the options from there. So, don't even touch
it. :-) There are a couple things you could do instead:
When you save the GIF, use Export Preview first
(Ctrl+Shift+X). There, click on the Options tab and select Animated
GIF as the format. Click Export, specify a location and that should
export a GIF with your specified frame delay.
If you really want to set the default export options on the
source PNG, then use the Optimize window (F6). It has exactly the
same interface as the Property Inspector's default export options,
but it doesn't reset the frame delay when you specify "Animated GIF
WebSnap 128". Go figure...
That's how it works on CS3 here. I hope it will work out for
you as well. :-)
SiamJai
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