Quote Originally Posted by crono_logical View Post
Although your gif is only 4 frames and would normally become small enough easily for avatar limits here, the major problem with it is the massive jpg artifacts in it making it difficult to actually compress as small as it should. I'd suggest you remake it from scratch using a better source for the pictures and not whatever jpgs it appears to have come from (read - I'm too lazy to actually go over each frame pixel by pixel to clear up the artifacts like I'd normally do since there's far too much corruption in that image )

Converting to jpg is a big mistake when working with any images - jpg is for end-results only, not for work in progress
Quote Originally Posted by Marshall banana View Post
Reduce its colors in Adobe ImageReady; doing that reduces its size and cleans it up a bit.
Thanks guys.

So what image format should I save pictures in before I turn them into animated GIFs? I thought for sure JPEG would be good since it usually takes up the least space.