CSmith Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 We've used Adobe Photoshop for a long time at our Advertising Agency. We've made the switch to Affinity Suite recently. Adobe Photoshop was great at creating high quality small gifs of our clients logos for their online ads. Our backend system requires gifs. I've run into an issue with Affinity Photo - it can't make the same high quality gifs as Photoshop. It loses a lot of detail. Please see the screen shot of the logo attached - Affinity Photo on the left, Adobe Photoshop on the right. Both at the same 200px width. Made from a high res logo. Any help on this would be great - thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Hello @CSmith and welcome to the forums. Have you tried the different resampling algorithms when scaling down to 200px? Some are better than others when dealing with such designs. John0 Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSmith Posted April 12, 2021 Author Share Posted April 12, 2021 Hi - Thanks for the response! Yes, I have tried the different different resampling algorithms - I get the same result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 13 hours ago, CSmith said: Made from a high res logo. Can you upload that to the forum? Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSmith Posted April 12, 2021 Author Share Posted April 12, 2021 Hello @carl123. Please see attached. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 It looks fine in the app when I shrink it down to 200 px wide, so I can’t understand why so much detail is lost on export. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 This is about the best I can get for now, (time for beer) The first is transparent, the second had a fill layer added, the same colour as in your original post Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSmith Posted April 12, 2021 Author Share Posted April 12, 2021 Thanks @carl123 It would be great if the Affinity Support / Admins could weigh in on this. Its a small thing, overall in Affinity Photo, but we process a lot of the gifs for our client postings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSmith Posted April 12, 2021 Author Share Posted April 12, 2021 (edited) @prophet Can you share the process of how you made this? I've tried and other members had tried with little success. Edited April 12, 2021 by CSmith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophet Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Sorry, had the wrong format and retracted. Can't get a good GIF either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSmith Posted April 12, 2021 Author Share Posted April 12, 2021 @admin@Affinity Is there a way to open a Support Ticket on this issue? To get these quality gifs for our postings I'm using Photoshop instead of Affinity. It would be nice not to be bouncing around from Software to Software. We're also looking at other apps / software that can solve our problem if Affinity cannot. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted April 12, 2021 Staff Share Posted April 12, 2021 Hi @CSmith, Welcome to Affinity Forums We are aware of a couple issues that are affecting the quality of the GIF export and which are most likely causing the issues you are experiencing here. I'm adding your file to our existing report and bringing this up to the dev team again. Thank you for reporting it.Thread moved to Photo Bugs found on MacOS section. Alfred 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSmith Posted April 12, 2021 Author Share Posted April 12, 2021 @MEB Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 15 hours ago, CSmith said: Our backend system requires gifs. I've run into an issue with Affinity Photo - it can't make the same high quality gifs as Photoshop. It loses a lot of detail. Please see the screen shot of the logo attached - Affinity Photo on the left, Adobe Photoshop on the right. I used the export persona to export a gif with the width set to 200w and the resample to the highest quality. and with different background colour MEB and Alfred 2 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSmith Posted April 12, 2021 Author Share Posted April 12, 2021 @Old Bruce Thank You! I was able to replicate these steps, with the same result. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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