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To: ManyMoose who wrote (275595)	10/20/2008 1:06:24 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793928

Sounds good. The neat thing about GIF files is they can have multiple frames. They are however limited to 256 colors which is usually plenty since the 256 colors one GIF file uses can be different than the 256 colors another GIF file uses. This characteristic can also be exploited to compress JPEG files. If you take a JPEG file and convert it to GIF it reduces the colors to 256 and then if you take the newly formed GIF file and convert it back to JPEG which is a more efficient format, you end up a JPEG file that is 25 to 30 percent of the data size of the original JPEG file. There are also compressors that do the same thing, but this is just a trick if you don't have one. * * *