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Reducing Animated GIF File Size with ImageMagick

I often want to optimize an image for use on the web. This is easy to do with ImageMagick.

 magick animated.gif -fuzz 7% -layers optimize optimized.gif

Written by Joel Dare on April 20, 2025.


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