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One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2015 Charles Baudelaire<\/p>\n

I find gifs intoxicating, not the looking at them but creating. This is ridiculous. I find sitting down to rip a gif out of a movie and crush it to as small as possible, or to script some sort of weird concoction a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

This morning I read Alan’s post: Ooh Ooh Mr Kotter! I Know How To Optimize My GIFs!<\/a>. It is great, a reminder than some of the fun of giffing is keeping the file size down.<\/p>\n

Alan uses photoshop. I’ve never really got a grip of that application. I tend to use firefox, gifsicle or even javascript<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I though that I would se if I could replicate the sort of optimisation he writes about using gifsicle, for a wee bit of fun and learning. I’ve blogged about gifsicle<\/a> a fair bit here. Gifsicle is a commandline application for working with gifs. It can be downloaded from Gifsicle: Command-Line Animated GIFs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I stared by a sort of replication Alan’s use of GIPHY’s GIF Maker<\/a>. I took:<\/p>\n