i can't figure out how to make the K smaller, but it seems like something i should be able to do easily.

are you using adobe imageready to make the gif?

your best bet is to resize the image
animated gifs get crazy big easy

yeah, you can either resize it or delete every X frames.

i went back to photoshop and made each frame a smaller amount of K
and then the file size of the animated .gif doubled.

clearly i have no idea what i'm doing.

but through large amounts of trial and error, i think i've gotten what i need.
though i had to delete a few frames i would have prefered not to.

oh well.

lets see it mang