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Saving a high-contrast GIF

Saving a high-contrast GIF - Illustrator Tutorial

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Saving a high-contrast GIF

Alright, so I'm still working inside the Save for Web & Devices dialog box. And as you may recall we are working on optimizing that Astormann.ai file, that's found inside the 12_exporting. And I have applied a medium quality JPEG as well as 256 color GIF to this graphic. And so far GIF is winning by a mile where this low color, high contrast graphic is concerned. We don't have any of those terrible compression artifacts at work inside the GIF view and the file is smaller. It's less than 15K as opposed to more than 24K in the case of the JPEG image. But we can get this file size down even smaller if we work at it, not way smaller but we're going to be able to shave away about 3K here. First of all we don't need all these colors. So currently we've got the Colors set to 256 Colors. If you switch over to the Color Table we are not taking advantage of nearly all those colors, because the entire bottom section is empty. If we had 256 colors this entire Color Table view would be filled up…

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