I just purchased my 3rd coffe cup software. (am I addicted? lol) It is the GIF Animator. This is the first one that I am having problems with. I do not know what I am doing wrong but I am creating my gifs with Adobe Photoshop Pro and everything is looking good. Lens flares nices and sharp and all layers working together. But when I put together a "userbar" animation and save them in the Animator all the sudden the lens flares look horrible along with some of the text. I have tried all the settings in the CC Animator with the same results. Am I doing something wrong. Wish this forum allowed signatures then I could show you what I am talking about.
1. URL to your Website (MOST IMPORTANT ITEM)
http://3ggamingclan.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=218
I am Gandalf, the Top "Userbar" in my siggy is what I am reffering to.
2. Operating System you are using
Win XP Home
3. Which application (most people leave this out)
Coffee Cup GIF Animator
4. Version of the application
7.5
5. Are you using the trial or registered version
Registered
6. What specific steps have you taken to create this issue?
Trying to make an animated user bar. Explained above in more detail.
7. Does it occur every time?
Yes, and at no motter what graphics settings I use with CC GIF Animator.
8. Can you recreate this on another computer?
Yes
Below is a link to the orginal gifs that I saved all together in Adobe.
http://www.thriftywebdesign.net/images/ … serbar.gif
Can you see the difference?
Robert M. Yelverton
Registered User
12 posts
Janys Hyde
Senior Advisor
6,076 posts
Robert Yelverton wrote:
I just purchased my 3rd coffe cup software. (am I addicted? lol) It is the GIF Animator. This is the first one that I am having problems with. I do not know what I am doing wrong but I am creating my gifs with Adobe Photoshop Pro and everything is looking good. Lens flares nices and sharp and all layers working together. But when I put together a "userbar" animation and save them in the Animator all the sudden the lens flares look horrible along with some of the text. I have tried all the settings in the CC Animator with the same results. Am I doing something wrong. Wish this forum allowed signatures then I could show you what I am talking about.
1. URL to your Website (MOST IMPORTANT ITEM)
http://3ggamingclan.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=218
I am Gandalf, the Top "Userbar" in my siggy is what I am reffering to.
2. Operating System you are using
Win XP Home
3. Which application (most people leave this out)
Coffee Cup GIF Animator
4. Version of the application
7.5
5. Are you using the trial or registered version
Registered
6. What specific steps have you taken to create this issue?
Trying to make an animated user bar. Explained above in more detail.
7. Does it occur every time?
Yes, and at no motter what graphics settings I use with CC GIF Animator.
8. Can you recreate this on another computer?
Yes
Below is a link to the orginal gifs that I saved all together in Adobe.
http://www.thriftywebdesign.net/images/ … serbar.gif
Can you see the difference?
I just purchased my 3rd coffe cup software. (am I addicted? lol) It is the GIF Animator. This is the first one that I am having problems with. I do not know what I am doing wrong but I am creating my gifs with Adobe Photoshop Pro and everything is looking good. Lens flares nices and sharp and all layers working together. But when I put together a "userbar" animation and save them in the Animator all the sudden the lens flares look horrible along with some of the text. I have tried all the settings in the CC Animator with the same results. Am I doing something wrong. Wish this forum allowed signatures then I could show you what I am talking about.
1. URL to your Website (MOST IMPORTANT ITEM)
http://3ggamingclan.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=218
I am Gandalf, the Top "Userbar" in my siggy is what I am reffering to.
2. Operating System you are using
Win XP Home
3. Which application (most people leave this out)
Coffee Cup GIF Animator
4. Version of the application
7.5
5. Are you using the trial or registered version
Registered
6. What specific steps have you taken to create this issue?
Trying to make an animated user bar. Explained above in more detail.
7. Does it occur every time?
Yes, and at no motter what graphics settings I use with CC GIF Animator.
8. Can you recreate this on another computer?
Yes
Below is a link to the orginal gifs that I saved all together in Adobe.
http://www.thriftywebdesign.net/images/ … serbar.gif
Can you see the difference?
Have you checked everywhere that there is not some automatic optimization going on that is reducing the quality of the original?
Janys http://blogthemeforge.blogspot.com/
(my photographs and graphics as freebies to liven up your blog, web site or desktop)
http://artycraftycreations.blogspot.com
(exchanging crafting ideas)
Robert M. Yelverton
Registered User
12 posts
Well in Adobe PhotoShop the end product looks good. Everything still looks good using CC GIF Animator after I set up the sequence and timing. The looks do not deteriate until after I save the whole thing as a gif in the CC program. So that is has to be what is doing it. I have tried all the saving settings in different combinations all to the same effect. I do not use the optimize part at all since what that does is just to remove things to reduce the size of the gif itself. So if anything the "optimization" would just deteriate the end result even more.
Does anybody else use this program along with Adobe to create the first stage gifs? If so what settings do you save the gifs in with the CC software?
Does anybody else use this program along with Adobe to create the first stage gifs? If so what settings do you save the gifs in with the CC software?
Janys Hyde
Senior Advisor
6,076 posts
Robert Yelverton wrote:
Well in Adobe PhotoShop the end product looks good. Everything still looks good using CC GIF Animator after I set up the sequence and timing. The looks do not deteriate until after I save the whole thing as a gif in the CC program. So that is has to be what is doing it. I have tried all the saving settings in different combinations all to the same effect. I do not use the optimize part at all since what that does is just to remove things to reduce the size of the gif itself. So if anything the "optimization" would just deteriate the end result even more.
Does anybody else use this program along with Adobe to create the first stage gifs? If so what settings do you save the gifs in with the CC software?
Well in Adobe PhotoShop the end product looks good. Everything still looks good using CC GIF Animator after I set up the sequence and timing. The looks do not deteriate until after I save the whole thing as a gif in the CC program. So that is has to be what is doing it. I have tried all the saving settings in different combinations all to the same effect. I do not use the optimize part at all since what that does is just to remove things to reduce the size of the gif itself. So if anything the "optimization" would just deteriate the end result even more.
Does anybody else use this program along with Adobe to create the first stage gifs? If so what settings do you save the gifs in with the CC software?
Sorry,
Perhaps I should have been clearer by saying that I was talking about the animator doing the optimization, and not PhotoShop.
I shall check it myself and see if the same happens. Let's see if anyone else has been able to replicate your problem too....
Janys http://blogthemeforge.blogspot.com/
(my photographs and graphics as freebies to liven up your blog, web site or desktop)
http://artycraftycreations.blogspot.com
(exchanging crafting ideas)
Robert M. Yelverton
Registered User
12 posts
Well I still have not figured it out. But I went ahead and used another animation software program (a free really old one) and if you look at my links again it is all fixed. So it definatly is the CC software on this one. (sigh)
Janys Hyde
Senior Advisor
6,076 posts
Robert Yelverton wrote:
Well I still have not figured it out. But I went ahead and used another animation software program (a free really old one) and if you look at my links again it is all fixed. So it definatly is the CC software on this one. (sigh)
Well I still have not figured it out. But I went ahead and used another animation software program (a free really old one) and if you look at my links again it is all fixed. So it definatly is the CC software on this one. (sigh)
Robert,
I downloaded the gif program and saw that it does a lot of optimization in there. However, under the circumstances you will be doing us all a favour if you go and let Scott Swedorski know about this one so he and the team can look into this. Maybe the program needs some overhauling?........
bye,
Janys http://blogthemeforge.blogspot.com/
(my photographs and graphics as freebies to liven up your blog, web site or desktop)
http://artycraftycreations.blogspot.com
(exchanging crafting ideas)
Mark Searson
Senior Advisor
3,694 posts
I think you will find that this is happening because of the way CC Gif Animator is compressing the data. Ijust created a smilar thing in Photoshop, saved the animation and it losses colour and flare.
I think this happens because it is trying to make the saved file as quick as it can - in the process, because you have used some rather colour intensive techniques within Photoshop, it will lose some of the finer detail.
You know, you could always try and use Firestarter for similar effects. If you do not already have it, download the trial to give it a test drive.
Mark Mark Loves CoffeeCup
I think this happens because it is trying to make the saved file as quick as it can - in the process, because you have used some rather colour intensive techniques within Photoshop, it will lose some of the finer detail.
You know, you could always try and use Firestarter for similar effects. If you do not already have it, download the trial to give it a test drive.
Mark Mark Loves CoffeeCup
Robert M. Yelverton
Registered User
12 posts
Well I did turn in an email to the staff on this one because IMHO the detail loss and the pixelation trash level is just unacceptable for a finished software product. Especially considering that the free software that I used to create the much better end animation is pretty dated being put out in 1999. But an email has been sent in about it.
I wonder if they would let me swap the CC Animator for the CC Firestarter? LOL!
I will be waiting for a reply from them before downloading and trying FireStarter. Thanks for the replies and I will let you all know if anything happens.
I wonder if they would let me swap the CC Animator for the CC Firestarter? LOL!
I will be waiting for a reply from them before downloading and trying FireStarter. Thanks for the replies and I will let you all know if anything happens.
Adam R.
Senior Advisor
3,116 posts
Did you edit out the user/login? I even registered but can't access the page that you were referring to, kinda making it hard for people to help. I took your .gif and made a swf, looks the same to me as far as quality, but I can't see what you were seeing. Are you saving as a .gif or .swf?
http://www.flashstrap.com
http://www.lodipc.com
http://www.lodipc.com
Robert M. Yelverton
Registered User
12 posts
Sorry about that. I forgot that that was a gaming clan site that I host and that part of the forum is accessable by the |3G| Gaming Clan members only. Well below you find a link to a temp web page that I made. I put 2 images on it for everyone to take a look at. The top image
is the one done with the CC GIF program and the bottom one is the one that I did with the same exact images from Photoshop but only animated in the free old software. As you can see that side by side there is a huge difference, especially look at the lens flare effects on the left.
http://thriftywebdesign.net/userbar.html
is the one done with the CC GIF program and the bottom one is the one that I did with the same exact images from Photoshop but only animated in the free old software. As you can see that side by side there is a huge difference, especially look at the lens flare effects on the left.
http://thriftywebdesign.net/userbar.html
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