high quality gifs

[unreal]

I'm using CS5
So I've made gifs before and never had this problem. I just wanted to save a gif. However the background gets completely fucked up. And it makes the quality of the gif look really low. Is there anything I can do about it.

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[r_sambora_luvr]

i don't know about newer versions of PS as i am an image ready user however i don't think it's all that different...I'd try playing with the optimization settings...

[meaprill]

you can try locking colours when you are compressing your .gif in the "Save for web" panel from 256 to whatever number you use. You can lock those really bright colours (like bright blue and violet) of the background, and then decrease the overall number of colours in the gif, though those "locked" colours will not disappear (if you are unfamiliar with this, I can make some screenshots ;) )

+ background in the tumblr gif was also smoothed (I believe with a new layer filled with a solid colour, which then was put on a blend mode) and as a result the dither on the background is not that obvious in that tumblr gif, because it doesn't have that many pixels that create transitions between colours.

[verito244a]

I'm not the one making this question, but if you can do some screenshots about the procedure you mentioned would be awesome

[unreal]

Thank you and I agree with the person below. If you could make some screencaps :)

[meaprill]

no problem! will do this now =)