GIF for avatar. Why...

[PhatBasstard]

How are some of you getting the GIFs you're using for your avatars down to the 5MB limit?

I made a simple 2 frame one. Both frames within the (new) 80x80 limit in size. It's still 11MB.

This is my first (homemade) GIF. What am I doing wrong?

[Wrong Robot]

I'm not very good with working with .gif but, you may want to compress it into jpg, then re-compress it into .gif, this should yield two very tiny images. that could be combined into .gif form again.

[Matt Till]

It's all about compressing, removing colors.

My avatar use to have around 200 colors, now it has like 12 or something like that. Plus I made it go a bit faster. Also, it's smaller than 80 x 80.

I don't know if transparent backgrounds make gifs bigger?

[allan grossman]

Only a couple of bytes bigger.

[PhatBasstard]

Changed both frames to 80x60.
Decreased colors to 16 on both frames.
Avatar looks like crappola.
Still 11MB.

[Thor]

Please check your PM

Thor