I found a nice free web template and am customizing the images to suit my site. However, after editing, I found that the saved gif image was darker than the original. Can someone help me please? Original GIF image >> Altered GIF image >>>>
Honestly, I can't tell the difference between the two... I'm looking at it on a laptop, maybe on a CRT screen the difference is more obvious.
Look specifically on the white spaces (ie background). The white has turned into a light greyish background.
Save the gif with a transparent background. They both look the same to me. Anyway I saved your modified one with a transparent background.
Its probably an optical illusion - the added word on the second gif makes the same background look slightly darker. Remove the word then compare them again.
In fact, I just colour tested in photoshop, and both backgrounds are #FFFFFF - which supports my optical illusion theory.
That's odd. Mine says one is #FFFFFF and the other is #FCFEF9 This is getting frustrating... huummppp...
If you just save the background as transparent then it will blend in whatever colour of page you use it in.
Thanks sji2671 for the suggestion. I will definitely consider implementing the transparent background. I'm still very curious why the background darkens after I saved it.
It is slightly darker than the original, probably due to the way the gif is saved, dithering/colours or something, I don't know, but when I colour test it I can see the background has lost the colour a bit.
OK guys. Thanks for all the help. Found out that this problem is due to PhotoFiltre. Maybe there's a setting that I did not tweak. Edited the image on photoshop, re-save as gif and all is well. Photoshop Rocks!!