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

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Legalize Mary Jane님이 먼저 게시:

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 didn't know Steam supported APNG.
Neat.

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Dr.Shadowds 🐉님이 먼저 게시:

If you want I edit your gif, just upload a copy to like dropbox or something, and I edit it for you if you want, and show you how it's done with examples, do note I be back in about 2hrs so up to you.

Hey dude im having a problem compressing this gif to 8mb. i know this thread is old but mind if you help me out. I don't got adobe photoshop :(

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Blooplate님이 먼저 게시:

Hey dude im having a problem compressing this gif to 8mb. i know this thread is old but mind if you help me out. I don't got adobe photoshop :(

Tips are this.
- Delete 1 frame every other 1 - 2 frames, as long as the playback transition is good then on the right track.

- Change resolution to be smaller, but make sure to keep same aspects ratio, don't want to make it too small.