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How do you keep a GIF detailed when resizing in Photoshop?

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July 24, 2019
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When making GIFs, the initial image is almost always too big so needs to be resized - but whenever I do so, it always makes the GIF blurry afterwards. It's not always to a massive extent, but it's frustrating to see what would otherwise be a good, sharp GIF become blurred when made smaller. How do you resize the image, but still keep it HQ?

Message was edited by: Sahil Chawla

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Mike_Gondek10189183

Community Expert

Gifs are often used for type, If so keep a.psd version with live type & shapes. Then use save for web to make you .gif. You need to use the correct settings, so please share what settings you are using, should you like more help.

Trevor Dennis that is a lovely gif.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

There is no info on original or resized pixel width and heigh, nor is there a sample file - which makes it hard to comment. That being said, this sounds right and expected.

pvrichAuthor

Participant

Since it happens with all of them, I didn't include a particular example. There are some really good HQ GIFs (e.g, this random one on google) that are fairly large size wise.

Basically my question is just how do you get GIFS to look like that example without making them massive in file terms.

Image result for gif real

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

GIF files are indexed colour mode, which for best results should be resized in RGB colour mode.

You didn't mention that the GIF was animated, I was thinking static like a website icon.

This is why an example is important.

So it all comes down to reducing frames, reducing detail and colour, reducing pixel size and file size, dithering etc.

Sahil.Chawla

Adobe Employee

Hi there,

That does not sound good, let's make it right.

Could you please let us know the version of Photoshop you're using?
Also, does it happen with every file or some specific files?
What's the size of the gif?
Are you scaling a really small image into a big one?

Regards,
Sahil

pvrichAuthor

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Hi Sahil,

It's Photoshop CC 2018. It happens with every single GIF. They have to be under 3mb each time for the website specifications, so the end file isn't particularly large. Sometimes it's much larger images into smaller ones, but often it's cropped a lot first just to get the target area, so the reduction isn't drastic. It's usually scaled down to around 500 or 540 pixels (width).

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