Art *sob* I need heeeeeelp..(again)..

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  1. Stardust Phox

    Stardust Phox Such a Taurean I am!

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    *hoarse-ish-ly, as if has been crying for a while* I-I-I can't sssshare aart, b-because m-m-my files are only s-aved as bmp~s... *sniff wail* please help me... I can change.. the filetypes t-t-t-t-t-to .tif or .awd, but.. that'ss not g-good for the i-i-internet, rright? *sniff sniff*

    ...help me...

    *she who is in constant need of help :sad:
     
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    Stardust Phox, Jun 27, 2002
  2. Holly Jolly

    Holly Jolly New Member

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    Oh! That's easy!

    Ya, what you have to do is tak...okay yeah, you're screwed. :)

    What program are you using to save your work? Remember it is always best to save things as a jpeg...and compressed is always nice. Yeah, .tiffs will do you no good on the net. However bitmaps do work with geocities and such, so you do have a couple options. Poor widdle stadust bunnie. :eek:
     
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  3. Zanza

    Zanza .Net-ing & PHP-ing~*
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    Me too ..

    I want to know too how to change the .bmp to .jpeg .. :sad:
     
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    Zanza, Jun 27, 2002
  4. ~ Zack ~

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    Well, this works for me... when doing a "Save As" when you type in the file name and such, put ".jpg" at the end.

    Example: The picture of my character, Tybal, I'd type as "Tybal.jpg"

    Of course could just be me or something. :dizzy2:
     
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  5. BakaMattSu

    BakaMattSu ^__^
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    Just changing the extension on the filename will NOT work...

    You'll need to either save it out (perhaps) export it from your art program as something more web-friendly (the main three are JPEG (*.jpg), GIF (*.gif), and PNG (*.png)...)

    If your pic isn't too large, or has a small amount of colours, I suggest going with GIF, which uses a color palette index to store information...

    But otherwise, it may be preferrable to stay as a Bitmap image (bmp, jpg, png), since the compression may work better for you...

    In any case, you may need to even download yourself a small freeware utility to do the conversion....Here's a few small programs I found in a quick search. Any one of them should do the trick for you.

    Aha View
    XNView
     
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    BakaMattSu, Jun 27, 2002
  6. Stardust Phox

    Stardust Phox Such a Taurean I am!

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    I'm using Canon ScanGear Toolbox 2.2, but I can use about two or three other programs:

    ArcSoft PhotoStudio 2000
    Canon CanoCraft CS-P 3.8
    Imaging for Windows


    Thing is, if I scan with ScanGear, I don't get a choice in filename OR type.
     
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  7. BakaMattSu

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    Don't worry about the first save. You can always convert the image later. Once you've got your Bitmap, just open it up in Aha (500k download above, Free), right-click on it and pick Convert...

    An easy 1 minute BMP->JPG conversion. Cool, ne?
     
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    BakaMattSu, Jun 28, 2002
  8. Stardust Phox

    Stardust Phox Such a Taurean I am!

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    I feel like such a retard now. ^^; Thanks BUNCHES for your help, Mattsu-san. (I've always said that sounds cool...) *huggle* All I had to do was tell ScanGear that I wanted the files saved as jpgs. ^^;; *feels so relieved* I rescanned everything and deleted the bmps. (I saw the difference in filesize...O.O)

    I uploaded a pic. I have more, mostly Megami Kouhosei...

    MEEP! I have to send the Script contest entry! I scanned my three main characters. ^_^ ^_^

    *the ever-grateful one
     
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  9. DrunkLeprachaun

    DrunkLeprachaun Tetsu Oushi

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    Well, I don't think you needed to delete all your .bmps. You could just open the file in Corel photo house, or even paint, and just save as as a jpeg or gif. Then you could just delete the bmp original if you wanted to.
     
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    DrunkLeprachaun, Jun 28, 2002
  10. Zanza

    Zanza .Net-ing & PHP-ing~*
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    I'll try this way too .. it would help alot turning bmp to jpg .. :D

    ITS PAYBACK TIME BMS [​IMG]!!

    I just hope that this gets as famouse as mine :sweat2: !!
    So help me out here will ya people :glazed: ?!!
     
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