GIF Not Clear When Shrunk.

Zac · **Posted:** December 19th, 2009, 12:28 pm

I'm no good at GIF's or even how to do them yet, so I was wondering if someone could help me.
Basically what I want to do is make this picture dance. Like make the legs move some how...
Photoshop the legs so they slightly move little by little. Either that, or could you just make the entire image shake back and forth. Doesn't just have to be the legs...
It means a lot if you could do it for me, and if you do, I would be amazed.
Or maybe someone could show how to make a .GIF with animation.

Thanks,
-Zac

Adbot · **Posted:** December 19th, 2009, 12:28 pm

Killjoy · **Posted:** December 19th, 2009, 4:37 pm

I want to try something like this so I will give it a shot. I can't say how good it going to be because I don't have experiance with .gifs sooooooo..... Yea.

K I will post again when done or edit this post.

Steven · **Posted:** December 19th, 2009, 6:10 pm

I can make .GIFs but I can't make his legs move.

Sorry.

If you have a video, I can make you a video .GIF, but I can't make it an animated .GIF. I can add pictures to it though, if you would like picture with it.

Zac · **Posted:** December 20th, 2009, 2:11 pm

Thanks everyone but I did a lot of research and made my own .gif but I ran into a problem.
When it's done, it looks all good but when it's shrunk down it get's all pixelated and I was wondering if you could make it anymore clear?

But for some reason when shrank, it looks like this...

Steven · **Posted:** December 20th, 2009, 3:08 pm

Wow. XD That's a pretty bad thing.

Uh, I dunno, you saved it by hitting "Save for web and devices" right?

Al3X · **Posted:** December 20th, 2009, 3:51 pm

While animated, did you set it to 256 colors, and lowest possible file compression? The pixelation is more than likely a result of file compression.

Adbot · **Posted:** December 20th, 2009, 3:51 pm

Zac · **Posted:** December 21st, 2009, 11:32 pm

Al3X wrote:

While animated, did you set it to 256 colors, and lowest possible file compression? The pixelation is more than likely a result of file compression.

I read about that online, but I wasn't actually sure on how to do all that, I know that the colors are at 256 but I'm not sure on how to lower the file compression.
I'm using Photoshop CS4, and I can also use ImageReady.

Also I did use the Save for web and devices command to make the .gif.