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Photoshop CS4 animated snowfall gif - runs really slow in browsers


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Hello all,

First time posting to this forum after searching and not being able to find an answer on the archives of this forum or the internet.

I followed the below listed tutorial via "Planet Photoshop" to create a falling snow effect for a Christmas logo.

Everything went great but when I save the file in Photoshop CS4 under
"Save for web and devices" as a gif, I hit preview in browser and it moves really slow.

I have tried to preview it in Internet Explorer, Safari and Mozilla. They all seem to preview it slow.

I think there are to many frames possibly. I followed the tutorial. It does not say how it should be saved. Perhaps this is my trouble.

planetphotoshop.com/animated-snow-tut.html

If anyone can help on what Im doing wrong I would really appreciate it or if anyone can help me adjust the logo I have included the file just in case.

Thanks in advance!
 

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I just did a few changes to it i made another copy of the snow layer and moved it out of frame slightly by pulling a corner and making it bigger. now the snow looks like it is falling not just flashing on and off.
CLICK IMAGE TO RUN IT.
 
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Hi there, Thanks for the help. Your right, the image you did makes the snow move much faster.

I went in to Photoshop CS4 and changed the animation frames from 4 seconds to 1.17 seconds. When I hit "save for web and devices" and preview it in the browser it still appears slow.

Not to sure what I am doing wrong here.
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Please help.
 
Thanks I just tried to reduce frame time again to 1 second and still no luck. Still previews extremely slow or no movement at all. Seems to get locked up.

Looks great in Photoshop but as soon as its saved problems begin. :(
 
Sry. Unless it's your computer ... Lame suggestion probably, but have you tried restarting? Do you have a lot of programs open, RAM issue? Don't mean to insult your intelligence/tech savvy :mrgreen:

There are some people on here who know animations really well. If I see one of them, I'll direct them to this thread.
 
Clare he said it runs fine in Photoshop, what you saving it as mate?
 
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Hi again,

Appreciate the responses. My IMAC is pretty new actually and it runs great so I think on the computer side of things Im okay for now. :) Im wondering if its the way its being saved possibly? Maybe needs setting adjustments?

I am saving it as a gif file. Not to sure.
 
Thanks Paul. I definitely followed these steps for saving as a gif when I saved the file.

Not to sure why the snow is falling so slow. I reduced the seconds as small as I could take it.

The sample you did seems to be the fastest I have seen the snow move.
 
@dv8_fx,

Yes, I actually previewed it before saving it several times. It started off fast for one round and then went back to slow again. I also waited for it to completely save before previewing it.

I was trying bunch of different things. I also tried to contact the guy who actually created this tutorial with no success.

Im pretty good at this stuff but I have to admit, this one is tough.
 
If anyone has found anything different please let me know. Im still working with this animation to get that snow to move faster. I have tried everything.
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This is no solution to your problem, but why not try making a different animation, a small one maybe, just to see if for some reasonthere is something corrupt in the snowflake anim. Have you done a scan on your computer? Of course, if it's a mac that isn't likely an issue, at least not with viruses.
 
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