Better Quality Gifs

[PuffballsUnited]

Every time I make an Icon for my flash movies it's all grainy and crappy. Then I look at some of the icons on the front page and they're all smooth and good looking. How do they do it?

[Technozeus]

when I made my first game here I had that problem also. What i did was then find a very small gif picture of a sky for the background and then I drew what i wanted over it and when I saved it as a gif and the loss of color isn't that bad. The only advise I got for you really is to try and find or make a picture with as few colors as possible because if you save it as a gif, at least the loss of color will not be as bad.

[reefermadness]

Solution 1.:
Dont use bitmapped filetypes

OR

Make the picture in double resolution and resize them in flash, this makes it look alot smoother..

[mechanixnut]

Using Photoshop is really good for small Gifs. It saves them with better quality than Flash does. And the colour problem doesn't happen.

[uyersuyer]

I just take a screenshot, then crop the proper dimensions in Paint Shop Pro and save it as a GIF.

[EmmDubya]

There's a site called formatilicious that converts images. Export it as a JPEG and then convert to GIF and you should get better quality.

Well, you should

[OctoFlash]

try not to use much colors and gradients... a gif can just have 256 colors, remember this. ;)