As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. By default, GIMP exports GIF animations at a frame rate of 10 frames (100ms) per second. Logos By Nick LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to. There’s a variety of factors that impact this, but image file size is a factor that certainly should not be ignored. If you want your site to load quickly for users with slower internet speeds - and prevent them from bouncing from your page - you’ll have to make sure your site loads in a reasonable amount of time. You’ll notice that the image on the right is slightly more pixelated than it originally was, but unfortunately this is the compromise we have to make when creating graphics for the web. Once you’ve done that, go ahead and click Export and check the file size.Īs you can see, stripping down the photo’s colors to just 255 reduced the PNG file size dramatically.Īs for quality loss, here’s a before and after comparison… This information is automatically captured by your operating system anyway. Don’t worry about preserving thumbnail or timestamp data. This is all useless information that needlessly takes up disk space. Open up the Advanced column and make sure you have unchecked absolutely everything listed in the entire menu. Upon export, you’ll be prompted with the following export menu…
Now, go ahead and export your image as a PNG file. Leave those values just as they are (or set those values if GIMP didn’t default to them) and click Convert. This will bring up the Indexed Color Conversion menu.īy default, “Generate optimum palette” will be selected and the maximum number of colors should be set to 255.
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