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Originally posted by Baleur
200kB is crazy small for a .gif.
Actually, 200KB is crazy big for a gif.... Especially for a display picture.
An animated gif is not meant to be a full blown movie. Also, almost any average animated gif can be reduced in filesize by a great deal (without loosing quality) if you make it properly.
A big mistake is to store each frame as a full blown image. In (gif) animation this is really not the proper way of doing things. You only need to save the region that changes. Together with this, another mistake is to save the images (or individual frames for that matter) as 256 color images while only like 40 colors are used for example. And, as with most pictures of DP size and purpose, you can often reduce the used colors quite a lot without anyone noticing anything. Not to mention that quite often way too many frames are stored and you can often do with far less frames.
So, 200Kb is very big for a gif, even for an animated gif.
And especially if you want to use something like that as a display picture because then it means your contacts need download 200Kb each time, just for a display picture.
I would suggest to use the proper tools to reduce the animation and file size. Tools like GIF Constructions Set.
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