How can I color correct a Gif

[Little Yamori]

Hi All,

Well, I was super stoked to be able to create animated gifs with a transparent background directly in AS, but was soon challenged on how to maintain the colors of my characters. Things were getting a little washed out (a lot actually). It seems that gifs are limited to 256 colors, but when I exported as a png sequence, animated the layers as frames in Photoshop and saved again as a gif, all my colors were perfect, so I don't think that "color limit" is the issue, but in Photoshop the animation was a little screwy. So therein lies my dilemma...

I'm stumped

[Víctor Paredes]

Have you seen the Animated GIF tutorial?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHWPzJ-Tq2Q

[Little Yamori]

Thank you Victor!!

That was a tremendous help. One thing I would note, after re-rendering a few times to get the settings right (I made the new layer for all the color squares for the sample Gif colors) but noticed that since I had "shading" turned on for my character, the samples didn't account for the shaded areas and the program "guessed" at the colors to replace them with. I got around it for now by upping the colors to 128, since I was short on time, but I'll try to approximate the shading colors manually and add them to the squares for reference.

Thanks again for the quick help. This is making a huge difference for my new project.

LY

[Víctor Paredes]

That was a tremendous help. One thing I would note, after re-rendering a few times to get the settings right (I made the new layer for all the color squares for the sample Gif colors) but noticed that since I had "shading" turned on for my character, the samples didn't account for the shaded areas and the program "guessed" at the colors to replace them with. I got around it for now by upping the colors to 128, since I was short on time, but I'll try to approximate the shading colors manually and add them to the squares for reference.

You are welcome
Here is another little tip: the eyedropper works over any place on the screen, not only inside AS, so you can keep the Preview window open and take the colors from it.

[Little Yamori]

Here is another little tip: the eyedropper works over any place on the screen, not only inside AS, so you can keep the Preview window open and take the colors from it.

Awesome, that's perfect!! Thanks