Question on the handling of GIF's

Rene wrote:
> Is there any good or pratical reason why the possibilities for the
> manipulation of GIF-files are so hugely limited within Photoshop??
>
> I understand the indexed color brings some limitations, but even the
> most basic of transformations like rotate or mirror are unavailable
> for a GIF-file.

Umm. That's not true. Select All and Transform allows you to do those
things without changing color mode.

It's pretty annoying........
>
> R.
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tacit <tacitr.DeleteThis@aol.com> wrote:

> In article <531i0sF1qh76pU1.DeleteThis@mid.individual.net>,
> "Rene" <poolster.DeleteThis@planet.nl> wrote:
>
> > Is there any good or pratical reason why the possibilities for the
> > manipulation of GIF-files are so hugely limited within Photoshop??
>
> Yes. Because they are indexed color, they have a maximum of 256 colors.
> When you rotate an image, Photoshop must interpolate the image, and
> doing this requires more than 256 colors.

Photoshop lets you rotate an indexed color image without any limitation.
Yes, the result may be poor (unless you rotate +/- 90° or 180°), but
Photoshop certainly does not prevent you doing it anyway.

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