Creating animated GIFs

Corel Painter can open a QuickTime movie, which can be painted on, then saved as an animated GIF. Additionally, you can create a new movie or animation from scratch in Corel Painter and save it as an animated GIF, QuickTime, or Audio/Video Interleaved (AVI) movie.

For information about creating movies, see Working with animation and digital videos.

Reducing the number of colors

Web designers are always seeking a careful balance when creating graphics for the web. Artwork and images must be as rich and vibrant as possible while remaining small and easily downloadable.

One way of keeping an image’s file size small is to reduce the number of colors used to create that graphic element. Reducing the number of colors used reduces file size and, therefore, download time.

A web artist may end up saving multiple versions (varying in the number of colors used) of the same graphic element. These versions must then be placed on a page, loaded to the page, and viewed to determine if the quantity of colors used is acceptable. This whole process can be time-consuming and confusing.

In Corel Painter, you can make this decision during the process of saving the image to GIF format, by using the Preview window on the Save As GIF Options dialog box.

To visually reduce the number of colors

1	Choose File Save As and name your image file.

The RIFF format contains data about your image that is lost when you convert it to GIF. If you want to edit the file later, save a RIFF copy before you generate a GIF version.

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