Making animated terminal avatars with your (user)name for free!
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"Your cursor color will be gray instead of green to decrease the .gif size."

the difference in filesize is going to be neglible!

Originally Posted by davemies

"Your cursor color will be gray instead of green to decrease the .gif size."

the difference in filesize is going to be neglible!

Actually, I decreased an avatar from 40KB to 17.8KB (under the 18.5KB avatar limit) by removing excess colors and turning it into grayscale.

the justinwiz avatar you have on this forum is 17.4kb but opening it and exporting it from fireworks with an exact palette (i.e. removing any unnecessary colours but still keeping the green) results in 4.32kb.

exporting the same gif as a greyscale palette would be 2.95kb. so yes it's smaller but 4.32kb is pretty small anyway and the difference is less than half a kb

exporting your gif as 16 colours (including green i.e. not greyscale) comes in at 2.92kb

so based on that i think you would be safe to offer colour version if you tightened up your exporting options

same story in photoshop if you reduce the colours in the export palette

Originally Posted by davemies

the justinwiz avatar you have on this forum is 17.4kb but opening it and exporting it from fireworks with an exact palette (i.e. removing any unnecessary colours but still keeping the green) results in 4.32kb.

exporting the same gif as a greyscale palette would be 2.95kb. so yes it's smaller but 4.32kb is pretty small anyway and the difference is less than half a kb

exporting your gif as 16 colours (including green i.e. not greyscale) comes in at 2.92kb

so based on that i think you would be safe to offer colour version if you tightened up your exporting options

same story in photoshop if you reduce the colours in the export palette

Ah, that makes perfect sense. I'll change my post right away.

oh yeah, forgot to say, it's nice of you to make these for free

Originally Posted by davemies

oh yeah, forgot to say, it's nice of you to make these for free

I appriciate it.