@Parallax Skull
I finally snagged the source mp4 you sent me. I want to know more about how you choose your color palette. I have some ideas for optimizations, and the general goal is to allow for more colors in the same file size, but I figure that the colors I start with should be somewhat close to the ones you pared down to instead of just putting up with photoshop's automatically selected ones.
Clarification on these two things or some screenshots would be helpful.
Also you mentioned in the thread you start your edits with 720p source videos, but the .mp4 you sent me is already reduced to 540x304. Are you reducing the frame size in premier before exporting to photoshop? If so what interpolation method are you using? There are different ways to choose how to color pixels when reducing an image and what you use can have an impact on things like weird noise showing up in areas that should be one solid color.
turns out this is a thing in gimp and I was misremembering it as being in photoshop. It's like the one thing that's easier to do in gimp than photoshop, which probably means either I just don't know how to do it in photoshop, or photoshop takes care of it automatically in a way smarter way than gimp does because gimp sucks nuts. I was badly mixing up what ps/gimp/ezgif can each respectively do before I went and made my edit to your other gif which is why some of the stuff I was talking about a few weeks ago might not have made much sense.
I finally snagged the source mp4 you sent me. I want to know more about how you choose your color palette. I have some ideas for optimizations, and the general goal is to allow for more colors in the same file size, but I figure that the colors I start with should be somewhat close to the ones you pared down to instead of just putting up with photoshop's automatically selected ones.
I found a decent way to get solid colors to come out better, something i was trying to figure out earlier this page.
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After
It takes some manual work to modify the palette but it's not that hard. I can sort the palette by popularity, delete the least used colors, and eyedropper some solid colored areas from the source video.
Before
After
It takes some manual work to modify the palette but it's not that hard. I can sort the palette by popularity, delete the least used colors, and eyedropper some solid colored areas from the source video.
Also you mentioned in the thread you start your edits with 720p source videos, but the .mp4 you sent me is already reduced to 540x304. Are you reducing the frame size in premier before exporting to photoshop? If so what interpolation method are you using? There are different ways to choose how to color pixels when reducing an image and what you use can have an impact on things like weird noise showing up in areas that should be one solid color.
turns out this is a thing in gimp and I was misremembering it as being in photoshop. It's like the one thing that's easier to do in gimp than photoshop, which probably means either I just don't know how to do it in photoshop, or photoshop takes care of it automatically in a way smarter way than gimp does because gimp sucks nuts. I was badly mixing up what ps/gimp/ezgif can each respectively do before I went and made my edit to your other gif which is why some of the stuff I was talking about a few weeks ago might not have made much sense.
Yeah I export the video from Premiere in the final resolution the gif will be unless I plan on cropping it in Photoshop. IDK what interpolation I'm using other than "default." When I have some spare time I'll answer the above in more detail.
Photoshop's gif export is a "legacy" feature, meaning they haven't taken it out of Photoshop, but they also no longer support or update it. Maybe Gimp's useful for something after all? I'm curious now.
Photoshop's gif export is a "legacy" feature, meaning they haven't taken it out of Photoshop, but they also no longer support or update it. Maybe Gimp's useful for something after all? I'm curious now.
Streamable made it all blurry but I think you can see what I'm doing when I pick colors. The color table on the right is sorted by popularity, so I delete the bottom-right color and replace it with a color I picked from the source video.
High res screenshot so you can actually see the settings I'm using.
High res screenshot so you can actually see the settings I'm using.
