gif image question

Ok, I made my poem icon. I made it as a slide-show type animated gif, and it's pretty.

But when I save it as a gif file, it looks crappy, because it goes down to 256 colors.

This didn't bother me with the John/Aeryn icon I made a before, but with this new one it's very obvious, probably because there's a lot of bright colors. Also, very detailed pictures

Is anyone able to, or know how to save/create a gif file so that is doesn't lose all the image detail when you save?

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Well, I finidhed my icon. I'm still not totally pleased with how the second frame looks, but I darkened the last frame a bit and I think that helped.

Anyway, I love the words. It's a short poem that I got from Hamlet.

I had a blast making the overlay icons, to use as images, adn I'll put those up later this evening with a bunch more.