I use XX for most of my optimising because I find (unlike some) I can usually make my JPEGs smaller and better-looking that way and I appreciate the selection of GIF and PNG export controls.
I've just tried re-exporting your GIF from XX and come up with the following observations:
<UL TYPE=SQUARE><LI>It only needs 5 colours to export at 15249 bytes using the 256 colour optimised palette.<LI>You can reduce that to 13972 bytes with the same 5 colours in the 16 colour optimised palette.<LI>You can get that down to 13907 bytes using the WebSnap optimised palette. It appears to be one of the anti-aliasing colours (and not one of the two main colours) that's being changed here.<LI>Swapping the 16 colour WebSnap optimised GIF for the same in PNG knocks that down to 12718 bytes.<LI>Further manual reductions in the number of colours don't appear to bring any improvements in this case.[/list]IMHO, you won't do much better than that, but I'd be delighted for someone to prove me wrong!
Peter
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