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I am making animated wallpapers for one of my customers MediaPlazza. They want animated wallpapers according to their specifications. I need to reduce the size of the animations to fullfill some of their demands for filesize and dimension. I only need to decrease the file size with some %. I am working with Jasc Paint Shop Pro, but whatever I do to adjust the source images, like add blur, the file size of the animation doesn't become smaller.

I have converted the JPG-source images to gifs and reduced the color depth to only 16 colors, but the gif-animation still doesn't get smaller. What can I do with the source images to get a smaller gif-animation?
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Posted: 2005-05-03 13:09:17
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I use Macromedia Fireworks for optimising animated GIFs... but if you've got it down as small as possible by reducing colours, the only way you'll get it any smaller is by reducing the number of frames.
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Posted: 2005-05-03 22:51:33
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OK, the strange thing was when I reduced the number of colors to only 16, the resulting gif-animation increased in size. I can't understand why.
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Posted: 2005-05-04 11:13:48
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How many frames are normal for animated wallpaper? I have 5 in mine, and if I reduce the number of frames too much, it won't look good.
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Posted: 2005-05-04 13:37:03
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Reduce the number of frames..also try reducing the canvas size :-l This message was posted from a T610
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Posted: 2005-05-04 13:43:37
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I just think that it must be some way to reduce the image complexity in Paint Shop Pro, so the resulting animations become smaller. But whatever I try, the resulting animation becomes bigger. My soruce images are lotus images, like the one below.


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Posted: 2005-05-04 13:55:28
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Have you tried juggling the settings in Animation Shop?
There´s a slider with settings ranging from abysmal to very nice(big) I have resized various .gif´s for phone use, ie Z1010 exploding cube to T610 screen size with acceptable to good results, but i resized the whole animation..
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Posted: 2005-05-04 14:01:25
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I think the problem may be the fact that you are re-compressing your original JPEGs to GIF format. What's happening is the GIF compression is trying to include the JPEG compression artifacts (you know the fringing you get when colours change in the image). This will increase the file size quite a bit.

The reason your animation got larger with fewer colours is that the software dithers two colours to make a third, which looks nicer but doesn't compress very well at all.

GIF compression works best on areas of flat colour. If you can get the original images before they were JPEG compressed you'll get better results. Also, try cleaning up the image as much as possible, remove any dithering, remove any stray pixels in other shades within the flat colour areas. Rough edges don't compress as well as smooth or straight edges.
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Posted: 2005-05-04 15:21:08
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ThreeX, which slider do you mean? Do you mean "Animation Quality versus Output size" in the output wizard? I have already set that to the lowest output size.
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Posted: 2005-05-04 16:10:51
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JoolsG4, I will try what you suggested later this evening. My source images are JPEGS's capured from a Java animation. I have also converted them to BITMAPS, but then the resulting gif-animation also got bigger.
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Posted: 2005-05-04 16:23:24
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