.gif and .png Help!

[Naph]

Simple ask of the general art people. How do I get a .gif to look like a .png when dealing soft edges against backgrounds.
KA's pea sized brain couldn't help without visual so here I must make a post with examples.

A PNG

As Opposed to its .gif

And again a PNG

With it's identical .gif

How do you make the Gif look EXACTLY like the png using Photoshop CS(etc)?

 

[tesher06]

Umm did you try to edit the picture in photoshop? I'm pretty sure there are filters for it.

 

[Naph]

.___.

 

[Krynn72]

I'm not sure you can do it. The compression is done as you save the image, so nothing you do before than will really help, it will still be turned to shit as a .gif.

.gif files suck btw. The only thing they're useful for is animated gifs.

 

[AtomicSpark]

The only thing they're useful for is animated gifs.

NO. Bad Krynn. Learn the wonderfulness of animated SVG/PNG.

 

[arch5]

.png ftw

 

[Raziaar]

It can't be done really. From what I know, GIF does not support partial transparency. It's either all or nothing. And so getting an object to blend into the background would require skilled and tedious work manually getting it to blend in with a background. But what it blends for one, it won't blend well for another as a result.

 

[Krynn72]

NO. Bad Krynn. Learn the wonderfulness of animated SVG/PNG.

Doesnt that require special plugins or viewers? Ew.

 

[Ennui]

solution: use png all the time. gif is basically png's father and is outclassed in every way by his son

 

[Vegeta897]

Yeah except the fact that it can't be animated.

Without extra shit.

We def need a new gif.

 

[Krynn72]

We need cooler native image formats in general. The ones we have now are so oooold. I bet people could come up with cool shit.

 

[Naph]

I do need it animated.

I'm just a detail whore...

 

[AtomicSpark]

Doesnt that require special plugins or viewers? Ew.

No, although Animated SVG requires JavaScript.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG_animation
https://labs.mozilla.com/2007/08/better-animations-in-firefox-3/ (A good blog post for non-techies)

Yeah except the fact that it can't be animated.

Without extra shit.

We def need a new gif.

See above.

We need cooler native image formats in general. The ones we have now are so oooold. I bet people could come up with cool shit.

Examples of Animated PNG.

 

[Vegeta897]

Those animated PNGs aren't working for me in Chrome.

Such is my point...

 

[Eejit]

Works in Opera, noob.

 

[AtomicSpark]

Those animated PNGs aren't working for me in Chrome.

Such is my point...

You wanted something new, yet you complain your browser doesn't support it yet. Hmm.

 

[VirusType2]

Those animated PNGs aren't working for me in Chrome.

Such is my point...

APNG example:

works in FF3

(cool too and only 500K)

BTW is Chrome still a Beta?

 

[Vegeta897]

You wanted something new, yet you complain your browser doesn't support it yet. Hmm.

It should automatically install itself to every PC in the world like some kind of helpful virus.