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Will the size of animated wallpapers be larger if the original pictures are JPG's? |
MobileVisuals
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The original pictures for my animated wallpaper are JPG's. Then I use JASC animation shop to convert them to GIF's.
Would it better to have the original pictures as GIF's from the beginning, so JASC wouldn't need to convert them? Would the resulting GIF animation be smaller then?
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blayv
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maybe better quality. dont' think it woul be smaller
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ThreeX
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I donīt really think it would matter.
Animation shop manipulates even .gif files to make them smaller in size and load smoother so..
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blayv
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No, I meant he it were gif from the start it would have been crisper cause gif looks better than jpeg .
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ThreeX
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How can .gif look better than .jpeg when it supports only 256 colours?? 
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blayv
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Jpeg is blurry compared to gif. If you make gif->gif you won't loose colors.
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Cycovision
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Yeah, the Jpeg's have already been compressed so you're effectively taking an already relatively low quality image and reducing the colour depth to make it even more low quality. You'd be better starting off with raw bitmap images.
Of course, the thing about gifs is that it depends very much on what the image actually is. If the raw bitmap naturally doesn't use many different colours and shades then the gifs will look much better.
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MobileVisuals
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OK, there is no use in using original gifs instead then I guess. The problem that I have is that my customer MediaPlazza requires that most of the animated wallpapers should be less than 15 kb. It seems impossible to make them that small and still look good. I am using JASC animation shop and even if I only use 5 frames and optimize it as much as I can with the optimization wizard, the wallpapers become too large.(about 20 kb) How can I make the wallpapers smaller? This is one of the pictures I am using in my wallpaper:
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Cycovision
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It's the graduated fills that are causing the problem. I doubt very much that you'll get a small gif file size from that base image 
The only way would be to change the base images to use less colours in the first place by not using graduated shades.
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MobileVisuals
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You were right. When I made the pictures less detailed the gif-animations became much smaller! |
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Posted: 2005-04-18 23:51
