How to make GIFs consisting of screenshots without losing image quality?

Question

I would like to make a GIF depicting a couple of screenshots from Tibia, but all the ways I know lead to more or less a loss of image quality. Do you know any program whose features will help me preserve the original look of the images?

Answer 1

I'll teach you my way of doing this which is a bit more tech than using an image manipulation software but still quite simple.

Note before we start: It's highly recommended that you make a backup of your screenshots. A wrong command could result in overwriting your screenshots.
 

1. Install ImageMagick (Official page: https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php)
2. Open command prompt (WIN+R > cmd)
3. Copy the folder directory where your images are and type cd <paste folder directory here>
4. Now go to the folder and create a text file named list.txt. In this file you'll add all file names for images you want to be part of your GIF, one file per line. If the file name has spaces you have to wrap it with ", for example, "File Name.png"
5. Now go back to the command prompt and type the following command:
   magick convert -dispose background -delay 100 -page +0+0 @list.txt Output.gif
6. Press ENTER and this will create Output.gif in the same folder as your other images, each frame having 1 second duration. If you want to change the frame duration just change the -delay value knowing that 100 = 1 second.

Hopefully that helps you and creates GIFs in a quality you're looking for. In my personal experience the results have really good quality but I'll let you check it and decide for yourself. :)

Comments

Hello, thanks for the answer. Unfortunately, this destroys the quality of GIFs in the same way as any other GIF maker.
https://i.imgur.com/IsLwR9C.gif > here is image I made in this way.