# GIF Grain **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [February 8, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gif-grain/101275 "2004-02-08T04:16:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![muffins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@muffins](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/muffins)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gif-grain/101275/1 "2004-02-08T04:16:57Z")
hey there. whenever i export a animated gif file, the picture quality sucks bad. look @ this. ![](http://www.duckk.com/pics/vbf.gif) its all grainy and bad. It happens if i have a jpeg in any of my animated gif’s ; they come out terrible. is there anyway to fix this? Thanks, ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gif-grain/101275/2 "2004-02-20T02:44:10Z")
bump ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gif-grain/101275/3 "2004-02-20T14:06:53Z")
just set the colors to a abnormal hight. Like 1024 or something else insane. Also there are some other options you can set, try to fille with them Just make sure ditter is none. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gif-grain/101275/4 "2004-02-21T04:16:21Z")
Here is an update. I do Publish Preview -\> GIF and it looks fine. It’s ok until It’s exported to the desktop. That is when it begins to look like crap. But in the preview it looks great. I:-)