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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?

	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)