Dithering methods (no dither, diffusion, pattern, etc)
The others don’t particularly make your gifs look good. You’ll find that in gifmaking, the ones you will be using 99.9% of the time are selective and adaptive. Most images concentrate colours in particular areas of the spectrum.”Ĭustom: “ Uses a colour palette that is created or modified by the user.” For example, if you were to remove colours from the colour table after choosing adaptive, it would turn into custom. For example, an image with only the colours green and blue produces a colour table made primarily of greens and blues. This colour table usually produces images with the greatest colour integrity.”Īdaptive: “ Creates a custom colour table by sampling colours from the predominant spectrum in the image. Selective: “ Creates a colour table similar to the Perceptual colour table, but favouring broad areas of colour. Perceptual: “ Creates a custom colour table by giving priority to colours for which the human eye has greater sensitivity.“ In this menu you can specify which method is used for the way colours are generated and reduced in your gifs. This is the first drop down menu which will have options such as “Selective” and “Adaptive”. We’re going to be looking at the colour reduction algorithm menu first. Because of this, I’ll go through every setting and explain what everything is and does. Depending on the scene you are giffing, your settings will have to change. There is no such thing as one save setting to rule them all. I am able to see exactly which settings I used and how big they are because of it. Relatively speaking, I can see that the one on pattern is the best. With 4-up view you can test out 3 different save settings next to each other and see which looks best compared to the others.Īdaptive, diffusion (100% dither), 256 colours. All of them are versions of your gif with different save settings. The others are different versions of your gif.
By having this one present, you are able to compare the other versions to see which one looks the most like what you created in Photoshop. You can’t save this version. This version will be used as a reference for the other 3 versions of your gif. This is what your gif looks like in Photoshop before saving it. On the top left you can see the original image. By using the 4-up tab, you are able to see multiple versions of your gif with different settings, which you are able to adjust per version. Once you’ve done this, you’re met with 4 different versions of your gif. What you want to do if you haven’t already, is click “4-up”. If you’ve never changed this, it’s most likely that you’re in “Optimized”. We’re going to optimise this window for gifmaking, because the rest of the tutorial will be making use of the 4-up view.Ībove your gif, there should be a handful of tabs that you can click. You see the gif you’ve been working on and the settings with which you can save it on the right. When you open the “Save for Web” window, you’re met with something that will most likely look similar to this. We’ll have to do a little bit of setting up before we start addressing the settings we will be using. This fully depends on your version of Photoshop. You might find that it won’t be under export but just simply in the file menu. You can find this window under File > Export > Save for Web. Opening the “Save for web” window.īefore anything, we need to open up the save for web window. In this tutorial we’re going to go through what all these settings mean and which settings are best for gifmaking. This window comes with many different options and settings, which may appear pretty confusing for first time users or even long term users of Photoshop. You need to go through the “Save for Web” window before you can save it. Saving an animated gif in Photoshop, works a bit differently than when you save a regular PNG or JPEG image.
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