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All About Gif 89A - This page is a very technical explanation of the GIF89a format and how it allows animation.
A Few Scanning Tips - The Gif and Scanning
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Create a Transparent Gif in Photoshop - If you're using Photoshop 3.0, you'll need to get the Gif89A Export Filter from Adobe. Later versions should automatically install this filter: you'll find it within Photoshop under File/Export/Gif89 Export. If it's not there, try reinstalling Photoshop
FAQ: Converting GIF or JPG to PNG - The GIF format for images is very popular. Nearly every graphics program supports it. However, there are several problems with GIF (Gif rhymes with Jiffy peanut butter.) GIF was born in the days of very slow modems. To make the images smaller, GIF allowed only 256 colors. This is okay for icons. But GIF is useless for photos. When you convert a photograph into a GIF, quite a bit of the image is lost.
FARP - Saving pictures, file formats ... explains about gif and jpeg compression
File Types and Optimization - This lesson is designed to help you understand file types and file optimization. In this lesson, you will learn about GIF, JPG and PNG file formats. This lesson uses Adobe's "Save for Web" feature, located in Illustrator and Photoshop. Adobe ImageReady offers the same features, but is set up a little differently. It is recommended that you attend the class lectures to get the full understanding of this lesson.
GIFConverter - A graphics viewing and converting program for the Macintosh.
GIF - Graphics Interchage Format
GIF - a Whatis.com definition - Graphics Interchange Format
Gif Images - Learn about the gif format.
The Gif Format - About the Gif format
GIF - Compuserve's Graphics Interchange Format
GIF, JPEG or PNG? - Here are some file formats you may have seen before. They have one thing in common: they don't belong on the Web. Before we go into these "leftover" formats, let's summarize why the three formats we've talked about so far are good to use on the Web.
Image File Formats - Choosing the right file format to save your images in is of vital importance. There are three image formats in constant use on the net — GIF, JPG and PNG. Each is suited to a specific type of image, and matching your image to the correct format should result in a small, fast-loading graphic. Saving and exporting into these formats will require a decent image editor.
JPG vs GIF - JPG vs GIF
JPG vs. GIF vs. PNG - Following are the most commonly used graphics file formats for putting graphics on the World Wide Web and how each differs from the others.
GIF vs. JPG -Which Is Best?
Gif Wizard - GIF Wizard reduces GIFs, JPGs and BMPs up to 90% without sacrificing quality. Crop, resize, rotate, adjust colors and compress in one integrated online editor.
The Graphics File Format Page These pages contain specifications for various graphics file formats; along with a number of relevant graphics utilities, information, and URLs.
IMG Format Comparison - comparisons between gif and jpeg
Transparent gifs - The GIF89 transparent color extension allows an image to specify a transparent color, which can then be displayed as the same color as the background on which the image is to be displayed....a tutorial to show you how.
Transparent GIFs, Part 1: Creating and Optimizing
Preparing Graphics for the Web - An article on how to use gifs and jpegs properly for the web.
Prepressure - The GIF file format
Photoshop 5.5 - Optimizing Web Graphics
Saving the .gif - Photoshop tutorial to save the .gif
Smooth, Tight Images For The Web in Photoshop - There are any number of methods you can use to optimize and deploy nice smooth images as gif files to the Web. Usually it's much better however to "pixelsmith" the image by hand for the best results. After we took a look at the of this reader's problem, we knew this was a case for some rather serious pixelsmithing...
Web Style Guide - The GIF
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