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5. Working with PhotoLine / 5.7 Creating Images For The Web

### 5.7.3 Saving GIFs

Options/File/GIF allows you to set the default options for saving GIF files.

The first option is Interlaced. It means, that the image saved in way, that allows a web browser to show quickly a coarse version of the image that is enhanced afterwards.

Animation Replays controls, how often animated GIFs are replayed. A value of 0 leads to an endless animation.

If a GIF file contains several layers, is will be displayed as animation in web browsers. Because this is not always the desired effect, you can define that documents containing layers are saved as Normal Image (that is a GIF with only one layer) or as Animated GIF (with several layers). If Ask is selected, PhotoLine asks you every time, when you want to save a picture with several layers, whether you want it to reduce to one layer.

A very important point is Reduce Colors. Because GIF can only save images containing a maximum of 256 colors, the number of colors usually hast to be reduced on saving. Therefore you can define a color reduce preset, that will automatically be used on saving. You can use one of the predefined presets or define your own with Reduce Colors (see chapter 5.7.2). If Ask is selected, PhotoLine shows the Reduce Colors on every saving. This allows you to choose the best reduction for every picture.