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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: Kodiac on July 16, 2004, 01:31:52 PM

Title: Pictures
Post by: Kodiac on July 16, 2004, 01:31:52 PM: :help: how do i post a picture??
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Post by: Isamil on July 16, 2004, 01:45:48 PM: File atachments.

Go to post a message.
Look down.
Figure it out from here.
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Post by: Kodiac on July 16, 2004, 01:50:58 PM: The picture size is too big. It wont post it. Is there any way to make the pic smaller?
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Post by: johnjacobjingle on July 16, 2004, 01:56:51 PM: i'll help him!
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Post by: Kodiac on July 16, 2004, 02:54:38 PM: alright... the screenshots are 2000 kb, and max is 100.....so no pics for y'all
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Post by: Isamil on July 16, 2004, 03:06:15 PM: Save it as a jpg
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Post by: Grimm on July 16, 2004, 03:39:05 PM: Find a good hosting place.
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Post by: Sancho on July 16, 2004, 04:14:42 PM: Quote
Save it as a jpg
open it up in Paint, save as...jpg, it'll be much smaller, with just a little loss in quality.
Title: Pictures
Post by: lolfighter on July 19, 2004, 07:46:02 AM: I have never been able to notice any loss of quality when converting a bitmap to jpeg.
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Post by: Dirty Harry Potter on July 19, 2004, 07:48:01 AM: it gets a tad blurry, doesn't harm too much, but if you say take a screenshot of your whole desktop and you save it as a JPG, then you can't read the fonts(well at 1600x1200 at least)
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Post by: lolfighter on July 19, 2004, 07:52:33 AM: I just tried that. In 1600x1200. The picture is now a mere 109kb in size, and I still notice no difference. Time to cast "reparo" on your glasses, DHP. :p
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Post by: Dirty Harry Potter on July 19, 2004, 08:04:03 AM: Very well you can read the fonts(my memory must have screwed me there) BUT! look at this! (top is bmp, button is JPG, then pasted into the same picture and saved as a bmp)

meh i can't upload BMP's, but you just try what i did LF.

take a screenie, then save that image as BMP and then JPG. you'll notice a difference.
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Post by: Satiagraha on July 19, 2004, 03:14:40 PM: yep, big difference between bmp and jpg quality when you're using paint. Make a 300x100 turquoise image and put some black text on there, save it as a jpeg and reopen it, it will have distortions in the color around the text, zoom in closer to see it better.

NOTE: Photoshop is an exception. When you export an image as a jpeg in photoshop, you can select a quality, 1-12 12=best. Pretty much anything above 6 or 7 is going to be identical to the original image (no distortion or "blurryness") although it will be a larger file. You can export it as a quality 1 and it will look like you saved it from MS Paint (total crap) but at least it will be a small file... Not to mention that Photoshop can utilize anti-aliasing on almost every feature including text.

[EDIT] Example added below, Enlarged for your viewing pleasure ^_^
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Post by: Kodiac on July 19, 2004, 04:10:43 PM: thanks, but even in paint and saved as a jpeg its 204 kb, max is 100, and i dont know where to find hosting.... sorry
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Post by: Dark on July 19, 2004, 04:11:14 PM: send it to me cd2021@gmail.com and i will host it for you
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Post by: Satiagraha on July 19, 2004, 07:29:27 PM: Quote
thanks, but even in paint and saved as a jpeg its 204 kb, max is 100, and i dont know where to find hosting.... sorry
Photobucket.com (http://www.photobucket.com/)

They are specifically meant for direct linking to post images on forums and stuff. Their max image size is 250k.
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Post by: Kodiac on July 20, 2004, 08:27:06 PM: umm bad news guys.... MY 120 gigabyte hard drive fried itself last night and it had ALL my games on it. i dont know how it happened, so dont ask, and i wont lie. IM sorry about teh pictures, i'll get more asap. (my computer does this sort of thing regularly, i think it got jealous after asal got his own computer, but im not sure...)
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Post by: Kodiac on July 20, 2004, 08:27:41 PM: games does include screenshots and pictures btw
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Post by: johnjacobjingle on July 20, 2004, 08:52:18 PM: i can second this very wierd occurence, we just got up today and viola, his harddrive could not access it's files, it had no format, and it was full as well as empty. i just stared dumbfounded :-(

anyway, we'll get him fixed up agian soon tbh irl omgwtfbbq haxx0rs on teh his pc!
Title: Pictures
Post by: Satiagraha on July 20, 2004, 09:38:59 PM: Quote
games does include screenshots and pictures btw
Nice double post :p

I once had a HD that one day got reeeealy reeealy slow, took forever to do anything, even after defrag, etc. Then it just stopped working. Bios didn't even detect a device on the IDE bus. It kept trying to boot from CD etc. *sigh* that was when I figured it was time to get a new HDD :rolleyes:

Edit: Kodiak, see my post in this (http://www.lunixmonster.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=41&st=100&#entry23028) thread
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Post by: johnjacobjingle on July 20, 2004, 09:52:15 PM: *chuckles* kodiac's noob at forums ;-p

anyway, yah, his harddrive is totally screwed, won't even format.

so *shrugs* guess we need a new one or something 8pouts*
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Post by: lolfighter on July 21, 2004, 07:55:34 AM: Kodiac, let me guess: You took up mapping, and stored your only copy of the source code on that disk? C'mon, admit it.
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Post by: Kodiac on July 21, 2004, 09:00:31 AM: no, i refuse to repent! mapping is for people like mr bill....i just break stuff. anyway, hopefully i can get a new hd eventually......but i wont be palying ns for a few days