subject: How To Optimize Animated Gifs [print this page] A lot of users are not satisfied that animated graphic files are quite large, moreover many websites set limit on the size of loading pictures. If you don't want that your website or website where you are going to put your animated gifs images would be overloaded with them you should think about optimizing animated gifs. So you should take into account few significant points about how animated gifs images compress.
Reducing the size of images - both linear and, in kilobytes - to speed up loading them on modem lines can be understood as the optimization. In this case, reasonable sufficiency must be complied: the picture must be read, not turning into a colored spot, and at the same time should not be loaded from the server for 10 minutes, because many users still have a slow modem connection.
You can reduce the file size by reducing the amount of colors in your animated gifs. Your animation will load faster on websites or you can finally upload your pictures on forums with size restrictions. Normally each frame of a gifs image has its own color palette of 256 colors. You should make this palette global to your image when you start to reduce the gif. There is only one palette for the whole image, and not every frame will have its own color palette. After that is it possible to compress the animated gifs.
Gif image is compressed without loss, but only if the original image was an 8-bit (for color coding only one byte is allocated), in other words it contained 256 colors. If the original image or photo was a full color, there will be deterioration in the quality while saving it in gif precisely because of the loss of colors.
The size of the file also depends on the direction of the gradient filling. Horizontal rows of continuous color compress better than vertical color transitions. Images, photos, and textures with a great number of color transitions raise difficulties while compressing.
Try not to use the blur of colors. The program will scan each point itself, and will mix with the colors to add the missing colors. This will ensure a smooth transition from color to color. And you will get a good result of compression.
Because of the many large frames large animated gifs can play slow. If you want your animation to run faster it's necessary to remove every second frame. An area which remains unchanged can be cut out (made transparent) in all the frames of animation, but the first frame you should leave because it will take a logical area, and will serve as a background. While optimizing, many programs with gifs animations will cut repeating fields even without your participation. And the weight of the animated graphic file will be minimal.
It's also possible to optimize your animated gifs much faster and easier with the help of gif maker websites. All that you need to optimize your images is to choose speed and size of the animated gif. This online-based free tool doesn't require from you learning some optimizing modes and helps you to spend this time for more important things.
