2003-11-08, 16:34 | Link #2 | |
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Adobe ( ) ImageReady CS Some other unknown programs |
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2003-11-08, 16:36 | Link #3 |
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Avoid GIFs at all costs... they are really ugly and limited to 256 colors. Use PNGs instead.
If you need to make something animated, Flash_Squirrel's programs are the best I have heard of.
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2003-11-08, 16:45 | Link #4 | |
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Jpeg is the best, PNG is still not fully supported on the 'net. |
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2003-11-08, 16:55 | Link #5 | |
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On the other hand, it is widely known that GIFs are limited to 256 colors. http://www.scantips.com/basics9g.html If you look closely, you can see the bad dithering in your signature. My signature has no such problem.
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2003-11-08, 17:56 | Link #7 | |
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I love gif, I can get a big (animated) signature with transparency without exceeding the 50.000 byte rule ashibaka: I doubt anyone will notice the 'bad' dithering in Flash' signature, unless the distance between their eyes and the screen is less than 30 CM... |
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2003-11-08, 18:04 | Link #8 | |
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2003-11-08, 18:17 | Link #11 |
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Tried png, after I had to resize my signature (the almighty Xris ordered me to do so )
the original GIF I used (68825 bytes) a 100% jpeg of the same image (78070 bytes) the png I made out of the same source as the gif (148192 bytes) also, transparency did not work in this image in the end, the png was more than twice as large as the gif. So I went for a jpg of 30 KB. Flash: As for the quality of the gif in Photoshop, PS has several palettes, my guess is you (or the program) picked a wrong palette Last edited by [Titan]; 2003-11-08 at 18:27. |
2003-11-08, 18:21 | Link #12 | |
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Actual PNG: 59163 B To convert, I just ran "convert hideous.gif small.png" on the commandline. Nothing special. By the way, my signature is also transparent.
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2003-11-08, 18:44 | Link #13 |
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that's because you converted the 256 colour gif to png, instead of the 23812 colour source picture, even with maximum compression using irfanview, I can't get the filesize below 130 KB
bottomline: -gifs have only 256 colours, which is not really a problem unless the source contains a huge amount of unique colours -png has superior compression techniques compared to gif and supports 16.7 million colours, but if you have a large amount of unique colours in your picture, filesize can get large, also, transparently does not work correctly in IE (which a huge amount of internet users use, and I don't think they care about IE not being a browser, I know I don't ) -jpg also supports 16.7 million colours, and has great compression (really useful if some mod orders you to get your sig size below 30 KB j/k ), but has no transparency and compression is lossy I'll quit here, it's not like we're ever going to agree 100% anyway |
2003-11-08, 18:55 | Link #14 | |
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Yeah, whatever. Just don't use GIFs.
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