How can I create a gif with more than 256 colors like this one?

photoshop gif 256color
Thibaut Maurice picture Thibaut Maurice · Mar 28, 2014 · Viewed 13.2k times · Source

Bonjour ! this is my first question !

I'm trying some UI animation in Photoshop, and I want to export in GIF file. But, GIF can't support more than 256 colors right ? So my quality is really low...

I think I found a gif with 32697 colors on this website, so is it possible ?...

http://phil.ipal.org/tc.html

If someone can explain me how it's work... I'm pretty lost.

Thanks for your answer.

Answer

Johnny picture Johnny · May 29, 2014

True-color GIFs are a hack that uses the animated GIF format, puts a 256 color square in each frame, offset from all previous frames, makes each frame not disappear when the next frame appears, and loops only once. Few programs other than web browsers display such images correctly. The files are very large as a result and not suitable for web use.

Try PNG instead.

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