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mouseyicons in icon_tutorial

Making a gif file smaller

Nov 22, 2010 16:28

Is it possible to make this file LJ size (It's about 53kb and it needs to be 40 kb) in GIMP without removing any frames? I really doubt it's possible but I thought I'd just ask you lot.

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program: gimp, animation: animated gifs

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royalbk November 22 2010, 16:39:46 UTC

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Not useful advice but...er...might I say that the combo of frames and shortness of the icon looks terribly...suggestive?

*tries to drag her mind out of the gutter*

mouseyicons November 22 2010, 16:53:24 UTC

:/ I see what you mean. Oh god there goes my childhood! Haha The water effects seem to make it better though. Do you think I should put it behind a cut?

biscayne November 22 2010, 16:55:12 UTC

anylinde November 22 2010, 18:03:56 UTC

Ahahahaha :D

corpusdeliicti November 22 2010, 16:40:32 UTC

I don't know much about GIMP so I don't know if you can.

But maybe try reducing colors?

mouseyicons November 22 2010, 16:47:35 UTC

Thanks for the advice even though I have absolutly no idea how to do that 0_o I'm a bit of a noob.

corpusdeliicti November 22 2010, 16:57:41 UTC

I have no idea how to do it in gimp so I just did it for you. It's now 37K instead of 53K

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mouseyicons November 22 2010, 17:00:52 UTC

Thank you so much! That's so incredibly nice of you especially as you really didn't have to! *Is way too excitable* I will credit you. :)

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nomadicwriter November 22 2010, 17:33:10 UTC

(I see 42109 fixed it for you while I was typing this epic comment, but anyway, here's how to do it in GIMP for future reference ( ... )

mouseyicons November 22 2010, 17:47:19 UTC

Thank you! I wanted to know how to do it so I could do it myself later on. :) Just followed your steps and it worked perfectly. Thanks again. :D

captivatedlady November 22 2010, 18:56:31 UTC

I just saw your comment & wanted to ask about setting the dithering to none. When I do that it always looked really melty, like a melting oil painting or something so I use another setting.
Does setting the colors back allow it to look better with the setting at none?

nomadicwriter November 22 2010, 20:59:30 UTC

Does setting the colors back allow it to look better with the setting at none?Kind of the opposite, actually: less colours makes having any sort of dithering look worse. Basically, when you've got a smooth gradient on the original picture, colour-reduction can't handle it very well. Either you get flat areas of colour called 'banding', which is the oil painting-type effect you mentioned, or you can try to break up the visible edges between colours a bit by using 'dithering': patterns of dots that mix a little bit of one colour into the next ( ... )

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anylinde November 22 2010, 18:05:11 UTC

DRAGONITE! ^_^

mouseyicons November 22 2010, 18:14:08 UTC