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Question for Flash Users and Animators!
13 years ago
So, I've run into a problem quite frequently with animations. As most of you know, .swf is not an acceptable format for icons here on FA.
My problem is, every time i change my Flashes to a .gif for animated icons, the quality degrades and it becomes ugly and i don't want to use it.
The colors distort, everything becomes oddly pixilated as if i just ran over the image with a strong sharpen tool.
Does anyone know of a good way to maintain .gif quality using flash or photoshop for animated .gif FA icons?
My problem is, every time i change my Flashes to a .gif for animated icons, the quality degrades and it becomes ugly and i don't want to use it.
The colors distort, everything becomes oddly pixilated as if i just ran over the image with a strong sharpen tool.
Does anyone know of a good way to maintain .gif quality using flash or photoshop for animated .gif FA icons?
If there's an option for dithering, make sure it's turned off. Also make sure to increase the color depth if possible.
Graft
~graft
OP
hmm, did try that to no avail, thank you for the future advice though <3
mtext
~mtext
Keep in mind a .gif can only handle 256 colors, so if whatever you've drawn in flash has gradients or lots of complicated color-changing across frames, it won't translate very cleanly. You could save a local palette for each frame if you absolutely can't simplify, though that'll increase the file-size of the gif quite a bit.
Graft
~graft
OP
I didn't know that about gradients <3 there could be a few dozen colors in a simple gradient, never considered that before, though even with fiddlin with it, my colors still change to something else, I wonder if it's just the color I'm choosing
mtext
~mtext
Depending on the program you use to save the image (Paint is notorious for this), it'll force-remap the colors on the fly to the more limited palette, and it usually doesn't do a very good job of guessing which colors are the important ones. You can play around with adjusting color-depths beforehand, or starting out in 256 colors to try to reduce that effect, or even making up your own palettes and importing them. Or just poke around for a program that'll save reduced-colordepth pictures more faithfully. Irfanview is good.
