

Unoptimizing animations, which makes them easier to edit.

Gifsicle’s optimizer is pretty powerful, and usually reduces animations to within a couple bytes of the best commercial optimizers. You can also use transparency to make them even smaller. Optimize your animations! This stores only the changed portion of each frame, and can radically shrink your GIFs. It can shrink colormaps and change images to use the Web-safe palette (or any colormap you choose). Prints detailed information about GIFs, including comments.Ĭontrol over interlacing, comments, looping, transparency.Ĭreates well-behaved GIFs: removes redundant colors, only uses local color tables if it absolutely has to (local color tables waste space and can cause viewing artifacts), etc. Making a GIF animation with gifsicle is easy.

In case the tool is installed on the server and the extension still shows the message Image Optimization Tool cwebp is not installed (the content of the message may differ depending on the tool which is not. Gifsicle is a command-line tool for creating, editing, and getting information about GIF images and animations. The Google Page Speed Optimizer uses four third-party tools to optimize images, such as jpegoptim, optipng, gifsicle and cwebp. Depending on command line options, it can merge several GIFs into a GIF animation explode an animation into its component frames change individual frames in an animation turn interlacing on and off add transparency add delays, disposals, and looping to animations add and remove comments flip and rotate optimize animations for space change images' colormaps and other things.
