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Animated gif problem (ghosting?)

ThreeCubedThreeCubed Grandma Winky's fat anklesRegistered User regular
edited January 2012 in Help / Advice Forum
I made an animated gif in Photoshop CS3, all went well:
strongerglasses2.gif

It's been giving me no problems.

When I uploaded it, however, to a website, it turned into this:
1326836863889755.gif

My questions:
1) Was this caused by some setting that I need to tweak in creating the gif?
2) What is this effect called? I've seen other gifs around the internet with the same problem. I'd like to research it, but I can't even figure out what to google.

Pre thanks!

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  • JHunzJHunz Registered User regular
    It looks like the website you uploaded it to tried to do some shitty compression to it or something (whatever they did to it actually increased the filesize, but it looks like they mangled each frame down to a lower-res version). The general technical term for this sort of stuff is artifacting.

    It should be obvious by the fact that it works fine off of your dropbox that the problem lies not in the GIF, but it wherever you tried to put it.

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  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    It looks to me like it lost all but two frames

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  • ThreeCubedThreeCubed Grandma Winky's fat ankles Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    Thanks Paladin and JHunz. It's a pity because the whole point of the website is to upload pictures for other people to look at and fave.

    :/

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