Copying a GIF onto a GIF: Changes colour

[J1mmy]

Ive got two GIF images. Im trying to copy the one GIF image onto the other one by copy and paste. But everytime I do that, the image which is being pasted, changes colour. I dont know why...?

Maybe its something to so with the fact they are GIF images?

[Martoch]

Can you e-mail me both and let me know which one you're trying to put onto the other?
Check your PM.

[J1mmy]

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[lobster]

Hi Jimmy!

Hopefully you've got it all sorted by now, but if not ~ you may wish to check and see how many colours the gif you are pasting into is saved with; for example, if it only possesses 5 colours in it's palette, then any colour you introduce into it is going to have to show up as one of those five colours.


: lobster

[OuTpaTienT]

GIFs have a very limited color palette. You need to do your cut and pasting within an application that will allow you to convert the images to true-color. This way combining the two together will not alter their colors. Then you can convert the combined image back to Indexed color if you want it to be a GIF or just leave it as true-color and save it as a JPG or PNG.

[JohnD2006]

Quote:

Originally Posted by OuTpaTienT

GIFs have a very limited color palette. You need to do your cut and pasting within an application that will allow you to convert the images to true-color. This way combining the two together will not alter their colors. Then you can convert the combined image back to Indexed color if you want it to be a GIF or just leave it as true-color and save it as a JPG or PNG.

Yes, that's the way to do it. Open the GIF in Photoshop for example and select in the menu:

Image / Mode / RGB color

[kenboyles72]

I use PhotoFiltre, http://www.snapfiles.com/get/photofiltre.html. It does a pretty good job of editing different types of pic files. I use it to edit gifs, it preserves the color pretty good. Plus it's FREE