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nelljessica
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December 26, 2018
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Gif quality - want larger size

  • December 26, 2018
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Hello,

I know GIF loss of quality in Photoshop has been discussed in this forum many times, but I can't seem to find any answers to my specific problem. First off, I am using Photoshop CC version 20.0.1 on a MacBook Pro with OS 10.13.6. I am trying to create a two-frame digital ad, size 428x60. There is really not any animation besides the text changing on the second frame. The frames are supposed to loop 4 times and then stop. I have created ads with this same setup, size, settings many many times without problems. Now, however, when I go to Export the ad for the web, and save as a gif, the quality is terrible--not just the photo (I know that loss of image quality is to be expected), but the whole thing, type and logo are pixelated as well. My original file starts out at 795 kb and gets compressed to around 25 kb--and I don't need it to be that small. 100kb would be fine. I just can't figure out how to compress it to any size besides "optimized."

Here is the gif result and the settings I am using:

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!!

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    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
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    December 27, 2018

    You are also not going to have much details in a wide 256 mapped color image that is only 60 pixels high. You image image is basically a wide icon with poorer color support than icons can have. You would be better off saving 8bit color jpeg images and use a java script to switch the image being displayed a few times on your html page for better 8bit color support.

    JJMack
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      Silkrooster
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      December 27, 2018

      That is what I was thinking, but wasn't sure how they were going to use the image. Ex. a forum would not allow javascript.


      Maybe the thing to do is design at a higher resolution yet then scale down when exporting, it might dither better. (No guarantees.)

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        nelljessicaAuthor
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        December 27, 2018

        I thought of this too, I'll go ahead and try it. Thanks!

          S_Gans
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          S_GansCommunity Expert
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          December 26, 2018

          Personally, I find that with GIF's with lots of colors, dither will often make the image look worse. Have you tried turning off dither (or lowering it a lot) and also turning off Transparency, since this has none in the image?

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            nelljessicaAuthor
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            December 27, 2018

            Thanks for the suggestion! I tried lowering the dither to 20% and it didn't help much...

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