Any Photoshop experts?

Problem saving .gif

[Fryman]

I have a .gif I have modified with Photoshop. How can I save it exactly like it is? I mean, the only option I see is "save optimized as", and when I save it with that it looses a lot of quality and looks horrible, is there any way to save it as an "unoptimized" .gif?

[benihana]

Im guessing youre using imageready, as you mention save optimised as..

It depends on the edits you have made to the image. A gif can only have a maximum of 256 colors, so if youve added a lot of additional colours to the original, you will have to compromise.

Try playing with the optionsa in the optimise pallette, change the number of colours to 256 and try changin the color reduction algorithm options - i find selective or adaptive are normally quite good.

Ben

[Gomez]

The best thing to do is open the original gif image, switch it to RGB from indexed color, complete your edits, then use 'save for web' in which you have the option to save as gif, jpg or png.

[FocalEnergy]

If you are worried about losing a lot of the quality, try saving it as a .png file. The PNG format is a lossless compression format, with quality better than a GIF and half the time can even have a smaller file size than GIF's. It uses a different algorhythm to compress the image, that reduces file size with out any color or pixel info loss. Go to www.w3c.org to get the full low down on PNG's, as it is W3C's recommended image format.

[Jon_King]

>>is there any way to save it as an "unoptimized" .gif?

Save for web and make sure colors are set to 256 and Lossy to 0.