Now that we know exactly what it is and a bit of history about it, let’s find out how to make one using After Effects and Photoshop. The limit of the palette is set at 256 per image.
GIFs are well-suited for simple images such as logos or graphics with solid areas of color and less suitable for live-action videos because of the color palette limitation. Since its birth, it has become widely used all over the World Wide WEB (WEB) due to its small sizes, broad support, and flexibility between applications and operating systems. It was developed by a team at CompuServe on 15 June 1987. GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format and it is a bitmap image format. By reducing the frame rate, you will reduce the final size of the GIF. Pro Tip: If the GIF size is still too large, go back in After Effects and change the video Frame Rate (FPS) to something between 12-15 frames per second.
This is exactly what this article will be about. There will be lots of situations where you will be asked to deliver a smaller-size file with better quality. While it is easy, it doesn’t work all the time. You can easily move your export inside Adobe Media Encoder, select GIF, and hit that render button. Lately, a lot of clients are asking for GIF files of their projects to post on social media.