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[CS6] 2.5x size change after exporting an animated gif.


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Hi.

I recently edited an animated gif consisting of about 50 frames - at a total size of 1 MB. I added a small logo in every frame. When I export the gif it is about 2.5 MB in size. The logo is way too small to account for this size change (despite being pasted in every frame).
What "save for web" export setting could have caused this size change? ... Or is it something else?
The Save for Web interface says this about the finalized gif before export: "Original: 'filename.psd' - 526K" - and then when I export the file it suddenly becomes 2.56 MB.

Thank you for your time.
 
did you physically add the logo to each frame or just the top layer.

also did you export it with png-24 preset as that will be a better quality and useless if the gif was just gif preset or jpeg.
 
I added the logo to each frame.

Here's the settings I used:

optimum gif settings for web.png

I added the logo again on an other gif, and that worked without it increasing much in size. I wonder what I've done...
 
If you added the logo to each frame it's going to increase the size probably substantially. Hoogle is right about the question did you add the logo to the top or per frame. Without seeing what the file is supposed to be doing it's all just a guessing game for everybody
 
It will not matter whether the new object's layer be on top of everything or added to each layer or frame. The file size will still be affected by the inclusion of objects in each animation frame.

But there's a weird thing about doing animation in CS or in PS's Image Ready. I don't why it happens but maybe has something to do with the data that gets saved along in the gif.

There's a tendency that re-saving a worked-on animated gif will produce a bigger file size than what it actually should be.

This even becomes more apparent the longer time spent on doing the edit.

Assuming you are done with the needed edits on the document, try redoing the entire psd by creating a new document of the same size and dragging the entire layer contents of the original into it. Then proceed with the sequencing and saving of the gif animation. You may notice in the file info of the new psd, the file size may be smaller than that of the original animation psd.
 
Another possibility is the gif save settings. It may have been set higher than what the gif was originally saved in. Doing it at a different or higher setting will definitely make the file size bigger.

But if all goes well, doing as I first suggested above will result in a smaller file size. Using the appropriate gif settings in Save As will even make it smaller but not as large as what you ended up with.
 
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