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October 5, 2003 2:19 PM from

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How can I save in GIF without loosing color? Trying to make Beatnik clock.

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Reply #1 October 5, 2003 2:32 PM from

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Saving as .gif format will always loose colors since its a format use for web applications it limits the amount of colors to 256.

Reply #2 October 5, 2003 5:30 PM from

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If you have Photoshop, and the number of colors on your GIF is less than 256, then I believe that Photoshop can optimize the palette (or so I hear) used by the GIF so that it will lose as little quality as possible. I don't think that MS paint has this ability.

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Reply #3 October 5, 2003 6:46 PM from

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DM... if your image contains less than 256 colors, you shouldn't lose any even with Paint.

Reply #4 October 5, 2003 7:50 PM from

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What I use to do when I skinned Beatnik, I'd throw it in Uleads Gif-X/Color Shift, and save...Did the trick with all my colorful colors

http://www.ulead.com/gifx/runme.htm

Reply #5 October 5, 2003 7:53 PM from

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http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/32466/

Reply #6 October 22, 2003 2:10 PM from

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in all programs you will lose qualitty when saving in GIF but if you use photoshop or paintshop you will lose less color than in paint.

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