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Jmm
Member
08-16-2002
| Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 9:17 pm
Bigd, hi there, what happens when you open the file? Aren't they animated then?
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Bigd
Member
09-13-2001
| Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 9:26 pm
Hi JMM!!!!!! they are no longer animated. I have the file, it looks the same but no action
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Jmm
Member
08-16-2002
| Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 9:29 pm
Bigd, What is the extension on the file after you save it?
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Bigd
Member
09-13-2001
| Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 9:30 pm
.gif
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 9:35 pm
BigD What are you using to look at the file after you have downloaded it? Have you tried opening one in Internet Explorer?
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Bigd
Member
09-13-2001
| Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 9:43 pm
I am at a loss. I tried opening it with IE, but it didn't move there either. I probably don't know what I am asking. I have an email(OE). It has some animations in it's body. I saved the animation - it is on my hard drive as a file, but it is now just a picture - it isn't animated. I wanted to save it so if I wanted to post it in the body of a message I could. Am I missing something or just stupid?
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 10:01 pm
BigD: I know you're not stupid. And I don't think you're missing anything. When you are looking at the image, do you right-click on the image then click on 'Save As..' to save the images from the e-mail? Does it prompt you with the name of the file as it was originally attached or are these images 'in' the e-mail itself?
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Jmm
Member
08-16-2002
| Tuesday, June 15, 2004 - 10:07 pm
Bigd, Can you forward that email to me? Just take out the personal message and forward the attachments and let me take a look at them?
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Strawberry
Member
07-18-2002
| Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 4:55 am
I was having troubles with this awhile back BigD when I would be searching for animated gifs on the net. I use Internet Explorer and some times I would save an animated gif and it would only give me the option of saving it as a bitmap. I would do that and then try and resave it as a jpeg or gif. That didn't work either because it lost all animation. I did some research on it and I found several technical websites stating that Microsoft Internet Explorer has a glitch in it and sometimes you can't get animated gifs to save. You can try forcing it to save as a gif or jpeg by putting .jpeg or .gif at the end of the file name like in the olden days. Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. I found it usually doesn't work. Something you might try is downloading another browser like Netscape and saving animated pics from that. I haven't tried that yet, but that's what the suggestion was that I read in the Microsoft IE help pages. Anyway, I hope that helps to answer your question.
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 1:11 pm
Yeah...what Strawberry said...I was thinking along the same lines. ;)
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Carrie92
Member
09-15-2003
| Monday, June 28, 2004 - 8:52 pm
Can someone explain pixel size? I know that when I post an image it has to be less than 65k, but how can I guess my the pixel size how big it's going to appear in a post? I'm looking at an image right now that is only 2k, but 988 x 520 pixels.... that sounds huge. What would be the ideal pixel size to cover a good majority of the left-to-right of a post box and few inches down? ( I want to post a big US flag for my July 4th edition of Tess' Tales )
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Monday, June 28, 2004 - 9:15 pm
Carrie92: The recommended maximum width of an image posted here is 600 pixels. The entire 'table' that the thread is displayed in is only 700 pixels wide so that leaves only 100 for the poster name, etc. One suggestion when resizing, I recommend you try to use 1/2 or 1/4 (50% or 25%) image reduction. And make sure the program you are using to resize 'maintain aspect ratio' so your image doesn't become distorted. These two tips should result in much better quality and clarity of the final image. Hope this helps.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Monday, June 28, 2004 - 9:27 pm
Carrie92: I just realized I only offered suggestions without really answering your question. Warning, this is likely to be much more information then you wanted. But here goes. A pixel is one dot of an image. The number of pixels in an image size means the number of dots across and down that make up the image. The color 'depth' or 'bits per pixel' define how many colors possible for each dot on the image. Higher numbers means more colors possible and therefore more realistic representation of the image displayed. The typical image resolution (number of dots per inch or DPI) used to display on a monitor is 75 to 96 dpi. When printing images, however, you want as high of a dpi as you can get. If a printer is designed to print 600 dots per inch (dpi), without modification, a 988 x 520 pixel image will come out on paper as about 1.64 x .86 inches in size. Not really much to see on a standard 8.5 x 11 inch page. Each program used to print images has it's own method of scaling the image for printing. Some use a process called 'interpolation' while others simply multiply the pixels (4 times enlargement means each dot gets 4 dots assigned when printing - not a very good quality results). Ok, I'll stop there and see if you have any more questions about this. lol
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Carrie92
Member
09-15-2003
| Monday, June 28, 2004 - 9:54 pm
Ok, I think I get the idea, but it helps to know the max pixel width on this board. Thanks, Dra!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 11:17 am
OK. So, thanks to Dra I learned how to put two photos together to make one via the Panoramic Image feature in IrfanView. Now what I want to do is, take two (or more) animated letters, specifically the ones I see in the Alphabets section of Animation Factory, and put them together to spell a word. I thought I could do that through Gif Works, especially since Gif Works and Animation Factory are related. But I don't see a "panoramic image" feature in Gif Works, and their "create 3D text" feature (as far as I could tell) doesn't give you the option to use Animation Factory letters. Is it possible to do what I want? Or am I up the creek with no paddle?
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 4:47 pm
Well, I guess it can't be done. Or I'm just too stupid to figure it out. I've been tinkering around with Gif Works and Animation Factory for two days now. No luck. And here I see all these cool animations people personalize for birthdays and stuff. I guess they must have professional software to do it. Oh well.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 5:11 pm
Whoami: I've tried too - with no luck. I've even tried in Animation Shop (included with my PaintShop Pro) and could not easily combine gif images. I don't think there is an easy way to do this because each animated gif is actually made up of individual image frames inside the file along with display instructions, timing, etc. Different animations often have a different number of images in each file so combining isn't really an easy thing to do. I'm sorry I didn't respond before now - I got caught up with another project and didn't remember not responding.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 5:19 pm
Well, at least its not that I'm just stupid. No worries about not replying sooner. I only posted yesterday after all. I just got frustrated with myself is all, which is why I posted again. Besides, you do have a life outside of TVCH! Thanks for trying. 
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Jmm
Member
08-16-2002
| Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 5:53 pm
He does?????? 
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 6:42 pm
Lol, Jmm! And thanks for 'sharing' him, ((hugs))
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Faerygdds
Member
08-29-2000
| Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - 7:44 am
OK... I have a question that is sort of graphical in nature. I am creating a memorial bookmark. I want to include poem that wraps around the border. Word won't let me do the letters upside down and is very clumsy at the wrapped words on the corners. Is there a program that will work better for me and perhaps save it as a graphics file so I can use it as a "border" in Word?
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Tuesday, August 31, 2004 - 8:13 am
Who, there are sites that allow you to select images to personalize yourself. Just go shopping for those sites. (I came upon one the other day but didn't save it, sorry.) I actually think there are tons of free sites out there that offer that tool.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 9:14 am
I love the nothing emoticon thread. It is so entertaining. I know almost nothing about computers. Where do all those images/animations come from if they are not in the tvch clipart section right above this window that I am currently typing in?
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Jmm
Member
08-16-2002
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 9:44 am
Happymom, They are found all over the web. Go to your search engine (google, yahoo, etc.) and search for "smiley" or "smiley +animated". It should take you to a lot of great sites. Then you just need to right click on the smiley you want and save it to your hard drive. (I have a graphics folder just for this) When you get ready to post it on the board type: \image{name of your picture} and it will prompt you from there.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 9:51 am
Here are a few sites you can start with - lots of images to choose from with more added occasionally so check back. MySmilies.com Lots of Smilies BestSmileys.com Even more Smileys. UseLessGraphics.com Lives up to it's name! lol MyImager.com Great for resizing images.
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