I've been experimenting with making GIF animation all consist of 3-4 text boxes changing every few seconds. I bought CoffeeCup for this matter and am creating the images in Fireworks (saved as JPG/GIF). No matter what I do, the final product keeps screwing up the colors making light blue into purple, drop-shadow into solid black, etc. Am I doing something wrong? is CoffeeCup just a bad product? What do you use for GIF animation?
Just found out that animated GIFs can be created directly from Fireworks. Guess this CoffeeCup product is a POS and I should ask for a refund...
Any chance you could show what image your trying to make into a gif? since the 255 colour limit kind of limits any high quality animations, which is a shame really, almost as if the people who came up with the spec didn't think the internet wouldn't get faster
I use ImageReady and never seem to lose much colour. There is usually a 'Selective' colour mode so that it stores the most suitable 256 colours.
Gosh, this almost sounds like what happens to me when I try to edit a gif with a new colour... the new colour always changes to one already in my image... because the gifs and pngs are indexed colours. This means there are only x-number colours. The colours you want are maybe not being included, so you draw everything and it looks fine and then you go to save and the programme says, Oh ya, I need to change these colours to the ones I have on my palette. Check you palette colours. Second possibility is, are the colours changing to CYMK?? Printer's colours? I happen to remember that blues often turned kinda purple without corrections... so check that there isn't a CYMK colour option set somewhere (I know NOTHING about Coffecup so I dunno if it even has this feature). Hope I steered you in the right direction.
I'm with Video UserPic http://www.visifly.com/Video_UserPic/ this tool creates animated GIF from video clips (AVI, MPEG, etc..) example: