Animated GIF Max Size

KatWoman <spamfree.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote:

> "Erik H." <jaywalkersunite.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1181262670.953854.83470@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> > I'm trying to create an animated GIF of 29 photos (through the
> > windshield of a car going down a road).
> > I have put them into layers in Photoshop Elements 5.0, first on top
> > and last on bottom. They are at an 800x600 resolution.
> > It tells me that the file is too large to create to animate. Even
> > when it is down to .01% of the resolution, it still is too large.
> >
> > Does anyone know why?
> >
> > Is there a better file format to do this in?
> >
> > I don't want to download a new piece of software.
> >
>
> 800x600 isn't a resolution it is the image size
> go to file >>>image size make sure it's at 72 or 96 resolution
> and make the image size smaller too

No, it won't make the image size smaller, unless you check the 'Resample
Image' checkbox and that means you are resizing the image to a smaller
size in pixels. Resolution has nothing to do with this, and GIF doesn't
even support resolution. It's the image size that matters here and
clearly 29 images of 600 x 800 pixels means you'll end up with a huge
file size, because you would have 29 frames of 600 x 800 = 480.000
pixels per frame. That's a file size of more than 13 MB uncompressed!
You either have to use much smaller images, or a lot less frames.

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Perhaps I should clarify exactly what I am attempting:

I had a Intervalometer-equipped digital camera set up in a vehicle
shooting out through the windshield. Every minute (for ~20 minutes)
it took a photo. The only thing changing in the series of photos is
what you can see through the windshield, a little more than half the
frame. (I have posted the first pix at:
http://jaywalkersunite.googlepages.com/IMG_2181Medium.JPG/IMG_2181Medi...full.jp).
The way I understand it, an animated GIF only resamples the parts of
an image that changes. So really, the actual resolution needed for
the GIF is about 800x350 (after the initial pix is loaded).

Even when (in the "save for web" section I have it down to literally
less than 10 pixels, it is still too large. The xxx kb @ xx.x kbps is
down almost to zero.

Does anyone know the max size that Photoshop elements 5 can handle for
animated GIFs?
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Perhaps I should clarify exactly what I am attempting:

I had a Intervalometer-equipped digital camera set up in a vehicle
shooting out through the windshield. Every minute (for ~20 minutes)
it took a photo. The only thing changing in the series of photos is
what you can see through the windshield, a little more than half the
frame. (I have posted the first pix at:
http://jaywalkersunite.googlepages.com/IMG_2181Medium.JPG/IMG_2181Medi...full.jp).
The way I understand it, an animated GIF only resamples the parts of
an image that changes. So really, the actual resolution needed for
the GIF is about 800x350 (after the initial pix is loaded).

Even when (in the "save for web" section I have it down to literally
less than 10 pixels, it is still too large. The xxx kb @ xx.x kbps is
down almost to zero.

Does anyone know the max size that Photoshop elements 5 can handle for
animated GIFs?
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Erik H. <jaywalkersunite.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:

> I had a Intervalometer-equipped digital camera set up in a vehicle
> shooting out through the windshield. Every minute (for ~20 minutes) it
> took a photo. The only thing changing in the series of photos is what you
> can see through the windshield, a little more than half the frame. (I
> have posted the first pix at:
> http://jaywalkersunite.googlepages.com/IMG_2181Medium.JPG/IMG_2181Medium-f
> ull.jpg). The way I understand it, an animated GIF only resamples the
> parts of an image that changes. So really, the actual resolution needed
> for the GIF is about 800x350 (after the initial pix is loaded).

That is still 800 x 350 x 29 frames = 8 MB uncompressed. I don't know
what the maximum size is for PE5, but it's clear you don't want that
kind of file on the internet. Can't you use a video format?


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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl
Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.com
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