Lossless animated gifs?

I am trying to make a large size (425x597px) animated gif from a high-detail photograph using adobe imageready, but no matter what settings I use, it still comes out as horribly lossy. I just want the 'optimized' result to look as good as the 'original', but for some reason even if the 'optimized' isn't optimal, I have to save it as that.

Does anyone know a program that will allow me to achieve high-quality lossless animated gifs?

=) Thanks.

 

Hello,
Try GIMP. It's not easy to use, but it's mighty.
http://www.gimp.org/
Mrk

 

Gifs aren't good for photographs as they're limited to 256 colours, so whatever the software the outcome will always be lossy. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gif for a more detailed explanation.