quality loss

[gobbolina]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask.

I've made four banners for a board RPG which I wanted to animate and turn into one single banner. But as soon as I save it as a .gif it looses quality.

Comments

[gobbolina]

Edit: Okay, I found out what's wrong, but I can't fix it. It's the color mode. I used RGB mode, Gimp says I can save gifs only in gray or indexed mode. Indexed causes the loss of quality, and I don't know how to change this. I already get the best of possible results.

Couldn't edit the post itself for whatever reason...

[smilecarnival]

You do have some control over the Indexed Mode. Before you save your gif, go to Image > Mode > Indexed. A little window will pop up where you can select dithering and edit the palette range.

[gobbolina]

Everything I try looks even worse. -_-

[luminousdaze]

Since those banners don't index well, if you would like the banners to rotate it would be best to use www.random-image.net instead of making them into a gif.
Then you can have a rotating header.