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CelestiaLegends
05-10-2005, 01:23 AM
Does anyone have any tips on rendering to an Animated GIF?

The quality is drastically worst than rendering from Image Ready (I havn't tried PS9's animation yet.) There's "spots" - though there's some in image ready, it's not any worst than when you work in indexed color. (It's much worst rendering from AFX.)

There's also a matte at the edge of a highly animated area.

Tips? Tutorials?
Mylenium
05-10-2005, 10:08 AM
Export a Quicktime file from AE and then import that into Image Ready. Quite obviously you know how to take it from there (I prefer to use "perceptual" palettes). There will always be problems - in a GIF you only have 256 colors, so try to keep the fidelity of your colors within a certain hue/ saturation/ value range by adjusting them in AE. Use an adjustment/ helper layer with the "Posterize" effect to preview things from within AE.

Mylenium
CelestiaLegends
05-11-2005, 07:04 AM
WOW! Great tips =)

Thanks alot, I managed to make it work. I never knew you could import Quicktime into image ready =/ (I really don't use that part of photoshop much :x )

Thanks again =)
CelestiaLegends
05-12-2005, 07:39 AM
I seem to have run into somewhat of a problem >_<

Image Ready won't import a file, though it does import another. File #1 has very few colors, 4.39 MB, which it did accept. It's in Quicktime MPEG-4 Format.

File #2 is 4.95 MBs, MPEG-4 format, but more colors. This is the one Image Ready won't import. I've tried: Lowering to Best, rendering out to Animation (both Millions of Colors and 256,) but it still doesn't work.

Image Ready simply gets the "hourglass" (windows) and hangs - nothing happens. (The box with the preview doesn't show up.)

Any ideas? =/
Mylenium
05-12-2005, 09:29 AM
Mmh, perhaps too many frames? I think there's a limit to the number of frames you can import (has to do with the memory treatment of the GIF files in browsers), but the number of colors itself should not be a problem. Or are you using non square-pixels nad unusual aspect ratios?

Mylenium
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