Comic Genesis Forums

how can you keep the colors from changing when you save an animation as a .gif? an example of color change is my avatar thing.

Can't say I've had that problem... What are the colours *supposed* to look like on your av, and what software are you using to put it together?

If you mean "changing" as in losing nuances, I don't think it's possible to prevent. Unless I'm mistaken, gif is limited to the number of colors it can display.

Don't use MSPaint, if you're using it. It uses a default palette for gifs and will assign all colours to whatever they're closest to. If you use some other program they'll set the palettes to be whatever works best for the image.

i use flash
its supposed to look more solid and...kinda flat i guess
is there a way to color it in gif colors instead of having the program fix it?

Flash isn't very good at gifs either from what I recall. Might wanna just stick to PNG unless you have another program to convert it for you.

can u save animations as pngs? i thought they were just images

Oh it's an animation... hmm, you might be stuck then.

Well, gifs are limited to 256 colors...
so when you save your truecolor document as a gif, the computer has to generate the 256 colors.

There are some things you can try:
when you are saving the gif, you should get a dialog screen asking you for palette selection method or something like that, it will affect the way the computer picks the 256 colors.
Anyways, the screen will let you toggle between "web safe colors" "optymized median cut" and "optymized oct tree" and perhaps some others.
Try if any of these settings makes things better.

If neither helps, you can make a custom 256 colors palette, and then import it to the file. But making the custom palette may be too much work.

But I think the easiest sollution is to accept a slight discoloration. I wonder if you can even notice it without the oryginal for comparision.