I am writing some code using PHP and Imagick which gathers multiple images into

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Asked: May 20, 20262026-05-20T20:53:19+00:00 2026-05-20T20:53:19+00:00

I am writing some code using PHP and Imagick which gathers multiple images into

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I am writing some code using PHP and Imagick which gathers multiple images into one animated GIF using the following code:

<?php
    error_reporting(E_ALL);
    ini_set('display_errors',1);

    $anim = new Imagick();


    for($i = 0; $i<=36; $i++) {
        $bgImage = new Imagick('Background.gif');

        $imagick = new Imagick("sw_layers-$i.gif");

        $bgImage->setImageColorspace($imagick->getImageColorspace());
        $bgImage->compositeImage($imagick, imagick::DISPOSE_PREVIOUS,0,0);

        $draw = new ImagickDraw();

        /*** set the fill color ***/
        $draw->setFillColor( new ImagickPixel( "orange" ) );

        $draw->annotation( 10, 10, 'Hello world');

        $bgImage->drawImage( $draw );

        $anim->addImage($bgImage);
        $anim->setFormat("gif");
        $anim->setImageDispose(3);
        $anim->setImageCompression(imagick::COMPRESSION_JPEG);
        $anim->setImageCompressionQuality(50);
    }

    echo $anim->writeImages('Result.gif', true);
?>

The background image and “Hello world” are supposed to appear for every frame. As you can see i am joing the text image, the background image and the layer into a single frame. the layer image contains some kind of a drawing with a transparent background so my supplied background and text should appear in that case. However, the problem lies in the filesize of the animated gif “result.gif” which turns out to be around 3 MB for a 30 frames image.

The question is, How can i reduce the filesize without affecting the quality that much? i am open to answers including running a commandline tool on the system.

Thanks