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In short, Facebook is converting your image to the JPEG/JPG format (Join Photographic Experts Group). There seems to be no current way to upload images to use as a profile picture or to your photo album which Facebook will not convert to JPEG.
...a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital photography
(image). The degree of compression can ...
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When you save a GIF (export for web) you have the option to select a color to make it transparent. note that you only get to pick ONE color, so you will typically end up with halo's around your image where it blends from your image into the original background color.
You're better off getting the original PSD file and then saving it as a transparent PNG.
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The main trick, in my experience, to adding smooth transparency to an image in GIMP is using the Layer → Transparency → Color to Alpha... tool. Of course, you have to know how to use it to good effect — on its own, all it does is make your images look all funny and translucent.
If I take the image you posted above, and just run Color to ...
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This has very little to do with GIFs.
Firstly you need to create the face-morph effect. There are apps that do it for you but it isn't a one-click process.
Secondly ther is a transition effect to blend between stages. It includes tiles, waves and a gradient mask.
Either way, this video (which it was at one point) isn't an easy process if video editing ...
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The way transparency works with 8-bit gifs/pngs is that a pixel is either fully transparent or fully opaque.
On the corners of a circle where the circle blends transparently to the background, there are usually pixels that are semi-transparent to smoothen the transition. This smooth transition can not fully be reproduced with 8-bit gifs/pngs.
One way of ...
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when you're on a slower connection, you got the full effect of waiting for the image to come in. It can be torture sometimes. That's where the brilliant Interlaced GIF89a idea came from.
Interlacing is the concept of filling in every other line of data, then going back to the top and doing it all again, filling in the lines you skipped. Your television ...
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Here is an article on exactly your problem. Been having this problem as well. hope this helps!
Facebook uses a low quality jpg compression so any solid colors end up looking heavily pixelated. Solution is to add images at double the size with noise.
http://www.vancouverpov.ca/wp/social-media/tips-to-improve-facebook-cover-photo-quality/
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I'm betting that the photo of the girl is killing your size right now. To test that, remove her frame and replace it with one of the other frames of your animation. I'll bet the size drops quite a bit.
Animated GIFs are best kept small by keeping their color pallets limited, and avoiding continuous tone graphics (photos, gradients, opacity shifts, etc.). ...
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There is no tool in Photoshop that will let you erase different layers at once.
What you can do instead is grouping all your layers and applying a mask to the group. I would actually recommend that whenever it's possible (and by that I mean almost always!), you use masks instead of the eraser.
It works with animated gifs too:
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Here's a good visual explanation of what happens as you load an interlaced gif. Unless you've got a really slow connection, the actual linked examples won't show as any different.
The page makes a good point that interlaced gifs are not smaller and don't actually complete downloading any faster - they just look as if they do, because they start showing ...
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An interlaced image renders by drawing every x number of horizontal lines first, then going back to the top and filling in the next set of lines, and repeats. It gives the effect of an image slowly becoming higher-res as it loads.
It was useful back in the day of dial-up connections. It's not used much these days.
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You can:
reduce the image size (fewer pixels = smaller file)
reduce the frames in the animation
reduce the color pallet further
posterize the images (larger flatter areas of color compress better for GIFs)
Use software that can add additional compression techniques (IIRC, Fireworks is good for this)
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You're experiencing dithering due to the color reduction of the GIF color table. Gif images can only contain a maximum of 256 colors. There's really not a great deal you can do about it.
You are asking the gif format to support smooth color, which it doesn't. The best you can do is experiment with the dithering options in the Save for Web window. However, ...
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In the Save for Web dialog, be certain to set the Mat color on the right of the window to the color of your web page background.
Gifs do not support full 8bit transparency, they only support 1bit transparency. The best you can do is use a color which matches the web page background so the image blends into that color easily.
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There is a better/easier way, that took me about 5 minutes (because I wasn't familiar with your file).
Here are the steps:
On the main timeline, put your cursor on Frame 40 in the top layer and press F5 to extend the timeline.
Press "V" to show the instance properties, and then change the symbol type (of the instance on the stage, not the symbol in the ...
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Dithering is used to simulate a non-indexed color using the 256 colors in the defined palette.
If you want to avoid dithering, you need to:
1) begin with an 8-bit image (rather than RGB) and select only those colors defined in the palette; or
2) use RGB and then save using an adaptive palette with dithering disabled.
option 1 is best for your stated ...
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The simplest answer is going to be "Use absolutely anything other than MS Paint"... I put a couple of free, and low-cost, photoshop alternatives in this answer here to a related question http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/5901/3327 For something so simple you want to use Paint, I recommend the first one, pixlr, which runs in a web browser, no ...
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Go to the Image -> Transform -> Flip Horizontally.
I had 2 layers and after flipping, the animation worked as expected. If you are having problem, could you upload your GIF somewhere and paste the link here so I could have a look at it?
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Adobe really hosed CS3 and CS4 where this is concerned.
To open an animated gif with Photoshop CS3 or CS4 choose File > Import > Video Frames to Layers. This will open the animation but in my experience you lose all transparency for the frames. So you have to reconstruct the transparency if it exists. There is simply no way to open a transparent animated ...
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The problem here is that the image has a "fade-to white" at the edges, and you have not removed this. The fade or anti-aliasing is achieved using greys which become high contrast against darker colors.
I don't use GIMP, but in simple terms, the easiest way work with this is to make a new layer on the bottom of the layer stack and flood fill it with a color ...
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The free image editor Greenfish Icon Editor Pro has this functionality out of the box. It is a function called "Remove Matte", where you just specify the color component you want to be replaced with transparency. In your case white.
This also supports partial transparency, so you will get smooth edge towards the transparent parts. This is not supported in ...
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It seems to me that something which handles light is the way to do this. You want to mimic light as it plays across a surface, and a 3d package is probably best suited to this. If you want to mimic this by hand, you need to understand what light does to an object, and the quickest way to get a feel for this is to freeze-frame videos of the effect (youtube ...
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For the current version (2.8.0), in the name for each frame layer, include (replace). For example:
frame 1(250ms)(replace)
That will tell gimp to replace instead of stacking. Note that you can use the stacking for some pretty cool effects as well.
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