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[ash48]

Ok you gif making people. I have a gif animator that I can finally use (yay!) and I made this as an experiment (isn't he cute?!). The question is, what's an ideal size (mb wise) for a gif? This is 5.7mb. It took a while to load so I wondered if that was normal for a gif. And does it take ages for it to animate the first time when you first view it? For me it's slow and then once it's animated it once it runs smoothly.

I will keep playing but I rather like the idea of gif making. :))

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[ash48.livejournal.com]

This is great info. Thanks! That all actually makes sense to me. I'll have a play with sizes and I like like idea of only using every 2-3 frame.

And I am not looking forward to the photobucket change at all!! I liked the way it was. I will really miss a lot of their features. I didn't know about their 5mb limit.

Um...what about Tumblr- do you know?

Thanks so much for your great advice.
xxx

[kj-svala.livejournal.com]

The tumblr limit for gifs is 1 mb, and that`s, not much.
That`s one of the resons why I, so far, didn´t post this many gifs to my tumblr. I still need to figure out a decent setting for my gifs so I can upload without them looking all crazy and weird.

It would be much easier for me to get tumblr sized gifs done if I`d be using Photoshop. But, I`m not, so I have to try find a different way.

I really don´t like most of the changes to photobucket. I`m wondering about what is going to happen to all the files that are over the new file limit. Because so far I could upload gifs up to 10 mb. And I have a LOT of gifs over 5 mb.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Wow - only 1mb. But theres so many gifs on Tumblr. I'd be curious how they all manage to make them under 1mb. I'd be pretty sure they not all be made thru photoshop. Hmmmm...

Oh and the gif animator I now have is simply called GIF Animator. Very simple, but doesn't allow you to actually colour it or anything. It simply animates the stills. I am hoping to do any colouring etc in my vid program and then export stills.