Re: GIF Optimizers?

For jpegs, there are two things I do to optimise:

First, if certain areas of the picture do not have relevant detail - for
example a bit of random pixel noise in the sky - I quickly select those
areas and run a slight gaussian blur over them before compression. Because
of the compression algorithm that jpeg uses, blurred areas compress better
without severe compression artefacts.

Secondly I use XAT Jpeg Optimiser (free from the cover disc of a magazine!)
to compress less important picture areas more than more important ones.

For GIFs I know nothing special. Fireworks 3 seems to reduce the colour
depth as well as anything - and making sire that there is not the odd pixel
inexplicably a different shade from surrounding ones helps to permit colour
depth reduction as well as subsequent efficiency of saving.

Andrew Armstrong

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Subject: GIF Optimizers?


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