Great Idea, in practice, it doesn't always work very well

  • This plugin is very important for many of the sites that we build. However, unfortunately, the resized animated GIFs sometimes lose their colour vibrancy and look much more dull and faded compared to the source GIF. See an example of this here:
    https://ibin.co/2DZEUNWTJbW8

    One idea for this plugin would be to bundle it up with ImageMagick, or check for the presence of ImageMagick on the server, and if it’s there, then use this to resize the image instead (which would work better than deconstructing the image in PHP).

    convert big-animated-gif.gif -coalesce temporary.gif
convert -size <original size> temporary.gif -resize 100x100 small-animated-gif.gif

    Or perhaps using the Imagick PHP library:
    https://php.net/manual/en/book.imagick.php

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