I've tried and tries again but I can't manage to get any of my sigs under 30kb if they have animated text. All it does is fade in a dn out but I can't do it. I use no more than 25 frames but I can't get it under 30kb. Is there some sort of trick to this or something? Because if there is I can't figure it out.

Try using less frames, and always chose the option "Save optimized as"

 

 

 

^^ If you use Imageready for animating.

Youll have to use less colours. The problem with a fade in/out animation is that it increases the number of colours used in the gif by like 10 fold or something stupid. Its hard to retain quality. Perhaps have the fade in etc over block colour instead of gradiated or textured to reduce the extra colours needed.

Ok, I'll try that, thanks.

Try using less frames, and always chose the option "Save optimized as"

 

 

 

^^ If you use Imageready for animating.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EEK!!! imageready...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i used that for a year but got fed up with the poor animation quality of it and switched to macromedia flash MX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

optimising it helps and lowering frames also helps. if those dont work try changing the type of tween your using.

 

 

 

You can also read some guides on optimising .gif

 

Try using less frames, and always chose the option "Save optimized as"

 

 

 

^^ If you use Imageready for animating.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EEK!!! imageready...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i used that for a year but got fed up with the poor animation quality of it and switched to macromedia flash MX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

optimising it helps and lowering frames also helps. if those dont work try changing the type of tween your using.

 

 

 

You can also read some guides on optimising .gif

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it also destroys the sig with ultra poor pixel quality, if your doing pixels anyway, with abstract, i tried one and it still made it poor quality.

if u want lower size try black and white lol.

I wish I had the 500 bucks to dish out for flash. But luckly before school ended I had the principal get the info I need to get an education version for only $100. :twisted: And the only down side is that I can't do web commerce but I wouldn't be doing that anyway. So now it's just a matter of getting around to order it. :)