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the bee charmer from alabama (bee_charmer) wrote in rp_tutorials,
@ 2011-07-17 22:15:00

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images: animation, images: editing, question: graphics

Problems Making GIFs in Photoshop [Solved]
Until recently, I've been pretty decent at cutting my own videos with YouTube Downloader and making GIFs out of them, but then out of nowhere, I started running into a quality issue. Now, I'm not sure whether it's just this particular video that I cut because I haven't found the patience to try anything else at the moment, but it's driving me up a wall. I've tried several times now, but I keep getting the same results.

I don't know all the technical lingo, but I do believe the problem I'm having is called banding. In other words, every GIF I save under any setting (I keep referring to Google with my problems) comes out with wavy lines of color that weren't there before. I'm aware there's a speed problem with this particular GIF.

I'm not worried about that because I can fix it myself, but this quality issue is really starting to annoy me. What am I doing wrong?

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cdan
2011-07-18 05:17 am UTC (link)

Do you delete every other frame instead of capturing every frame? I'm not sure if that could help but it's worth a shot. And have you saved them as 'Adaptive' and 'Pattern' (instead of 'Custom' and 'No Dither')? Also, I save mine as 'Bicubic' instead of 'Bicubic Sharper'. I'm not sure if any of that might help but if it doesn't, let me know and I'll ask around with some other gif folks.

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	bee_charmer 2011-07-18 04:48 pm UTC (link)
	Actually, I do normally delete every other frame if the gif itself isn't too long in the first place. That was one of the many things I tried during my fix. I tried it again last night and solved my dilemma. Turns out that I actually needed it as Custom and Bicubic (thank you!) (Reply to this) (Parent)

gweakles
2011-07-18 05:17 am UTC (link)

Hmm. This problem could be due to resizing larger than the actual image/video size (but I'm sure you know better), the Youtube quality itself (gifs are really only good from there if they're HD), or the gif settings itself.

If you have it on the setting with the most colors--and sometimes if it's 'dithered' it will come out better. You may even have to make it a bit smaller to hide the quality.

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	bee_charmer 2011-07-18 04:50 pm UTC (link)
	Video size wasn't the problem at all, it turns out. That thought had actually crossed my mind, but then it didn't make sense that when I watched it on YouTube in HD that it looked better than the GIF. The problem was the color settings and a few other minor settings. I opened up a file I'd saved for a previous GIF and used those settings instead. Worked like a charm! (Reply to this) (Parent)