ANIMATED GIFS SAVE SPACE
in logos and banners
FACES . EXPRESSIONS . SYMBOLS . ICON-SIZED GRAPHICS
DRAWING . New addition:- PAINTING on tablets and smartphones
Animated GIFs save space
by running on the spot
If you want to tell a whole story in a web banner, but have only your limited strip of pixels to play with, what do you do? Show a video? How about an animated GIF?
Moving images save space because they can say a lot while running on the spot. In fact they can say quite a bit without even adding any text. Facial expressions and body language can say it all.
Video does of course use the power of body language and the moving image. Video occupies only a small part of the page, (unless of course the viewer chooses to watch it full screen).
Animated graphics give more creative freedom. Flash animations and animated gifs are better suited than video for logos and banners.
Drawn animations can also be clearer and sharper than photographic images at very small sizes.
Flash animations have the disadvantage of not being universally viewable. There's no way I know of at the moment to view Flash animations on an iPad. One answer is to make animations in Flash and save them as animated gifs.
A word of warning. It's all too easy to get carried away by the charms and advantages of cartoon style animation! To come down to earth, it's as well to remember that an animation running too close to text can be distracting. The viewer can play or stop a video at will. You can't always do this with a banner or logo.
Of course a banner's aim may indeed be to distract you, luring you away to press a button to exit to another page. Trouble is, it may only succeed in annoying.
If your graphics really insist on getting up and dancing, make sure at least that they steer clear of the text.
Animated GIFs save space in logos and banners.
They run on the spot.
CUT PIXELS, CUT EXPENSE Email big photos . Cut gallery costs
HANDLING ICON-SIZED IMAGES Sharper pictures . Nano images
Icons from photos . Photoshop icons . MS Paint . Graphic Converter
DOWNSIZE GIFs Photoshop GIF optimizer . Rainbow ride . GIF secret
SAVE SPACE Use a pun . Animate . Anagrams . Part for whole
AGENDA ICONS Beat information overload . Calendar icons
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