Compressing a GIF

[♿ zewm]

I need to compress a GIF

As of the recent, I started learning to work with adobe after effects. Naturally, I've set myself a goal to make an animated GIF "Artwork" for my steam profile. The hard part, ironically, was not so much making the GIF itself, but rather compressing it to a suitable size of 8 MB and that without major loss. After doing some research on this topic, I made the whole project colored in similar colors and removed some of the animations (e.g. fog). After rendering scaled down with Adobe After Effects, the GIF now is 33.7 MB big. Are there any tips on what I can do to further reduce the size of the file (on the image, there are 6 tiny spots with colors starkly differing from the main color range. Would changing those to a similar color range make a big difference)? Is there any optimizing/compressing software anyone could recommend?

P.S. As mentioned before, I have Adobe After Effects and I also have Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Media Encoder.

Thanks in advance
tzm13

[♿ zewm]

Editing a GIF with Photoshop

The GIF plays as a whole when I open it just like that, but when I import it to Photoshop, it slows down and abruptly stops in the middle of the animation and loops again. Any ideas how I can get all the frames of the GIF in the timeline?

My Problem:

YouTube™ Video: GIF Problem 

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[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

You now have 3 threads. Why?

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/12/1753525161661170863/

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/12/1753525161662213469/

[DirtyFishy]

Post in the Adobe forums.

[Iceira]

Is search engine broken, sorry if im hard butt, but then other read it, and learn to search better, and now it make sense.
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/make-animated-gif.html

[♿ zewm]

Originally posted by Iceira:

Is search engine broken, sorry if im hard butt, but then other read it, and learn to search better, and now it make sense.
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/make-animated-gif.html

Whatever the hell your hard butt blabbered, the information on the site you linked does not help with the problem.

[Iceira]

Originally posted by tzm13:

Originally posted by Iceira:

Is search engine broken, sorry if im hard butt, but then other read it, and learn to search better, and now it make sense.
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/make-animated-gif.html

Whatever the hell your hard butt blabbered, the information on the site you linked does not help with the problem.

seek and you will find , plenty of other guides,

[♿ zewm]

Originally posted by Iceira:

Originally posted by tzm13:

Whatever the hell your hard butt blabbered, the information on the site you linked does not help with the problem.

seek and you will find , plenty of other guides,

How about you "seek" someone else to annoy? If you think I haven't searched, you're wrong. Now if you don't have any ideas on what could solve my issue, be so kind and don't spam this discussion.

[↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect]

Since using gif file format you lose a lot of the colors why not try out .apng which is an animated png with little quality lose.

This is an animated PNG file.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=159787819

[♿ zewm]

Originally posted by Legalize Mary Jane:

Since using gif file format you lose a lot of the colors why not try out .apng which is an animated png with little quality lose.

This is an animated PNG file.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=159787819

I can control how many colours I lose.

[↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect]

Originally posted by tzm13:

Originally posted by Legalize Mary Jane:

Since using gif file format you lose a lot of the colors why not try out .apng which is an animated png with little quality lose.

This is an animated PNG file.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=159787819

I can control how many colours I lose.

K.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Compress with this
https://ezgif.com/optimize

[♿ zewm]

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

Compress with this
https://ezgif.com/optimize

after the cut out every second frame with that tool, the file size increased.

[Is there a future?]

Seriously do you have so few space that you can't store even one gif?

[♿ zewm]

Originally posted by Salvatore Piracci Schaan Kamil:

Seriously do you have so few space that you can't store even one gif?

If you'd watched the Video I linked you wouldn't have needed to write this redudant question. I am trying to compress the file to 8 MB because steam artwork size is limited to the mentioned size.

[Is there a future?]

Well...
I was so surprised that I told myself...
That man's joking.

Thus I asked

Now I know.

Thanks-