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Using the Color Palette
There are two kinds of color palettes for animated GIFs: local palette and global palette . A local palette is an index of all the colors used in a single frame of an animated movie. If the colors in your animation vary from frame to frame, using a unique local palette for every single frame of your animation gives you better quality but increases the file size.
A global palette, on the other hand, is an index of colors commonly shared among the frames in the entire animated movie. If the colors in your animation are mostly the same from frame to frame, using a common global palette for the entire animation greatly decreases your file size.
By default, Ulead GIF Animator builds a global palette automatically to free you from having to index the colors yourself. Unlike a local palette, which is "read only? a global palette can be modified. In this tutorial, you will learn how to modify the Color Palette , save it as a palette file, and reuse it in another animated project.
To begin, open a sample *.UGA file and switch to Optimized mode. Click View: Color Palette to display the Color Palette.
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