JPEGs, GIFs, and MSpaint (OH MY!)

Atrus · Post by **Atrus** » Sun Jan 06, 2002 1:28 am

Well, you have a browser that can view those images. If you're using MSpaint I pity you. So go download <A HREF="http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/" TARGET=_blank>GIMP for windows</A>. GIMP is free and just as powerful as Adobe Photoshop. You'll probaly need some help with it, and the best book I've found is Grokking the GIMP, which is online <A HREF="http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/" TARGET=_blank>here</A> (I still haven't gotten a hard copy of it). Enjoy!------------------
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DABskippy · Post by **DABskippy** » Sun Jan 06, 2002 11:50 am

For X-mas i got a new HD and i had to reinstall windows on it, and as soon as i did this, i was going to make a comic, and i suddenly realized my computer no longer even had the abbility to even VIEW a JPEG or GIF, much less edit them. its like a need a JPEG Codec or sumthing...

ZOMBIE USER 3098 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 3098** » Mon Jan 07, 2002 1:45 am

There is a special way you can get some nice Adobe products for free... but I shouldn't be mentioning it, right? (heh heh heh!)As for Gimp, yeah, good program, interface is a little messy, takes a while to get used to it, but eventually you'll learn to use it. MS Paint is pretty bad... I could never draw w/ that thing.-Albrecht <A HREF="http://ntnation.keenspace.com" TARGET=_blank>http://ntnation.keenspace.com</A>

Seven3 · Post by **Seven3** » Mon Jan 07, 2002 2:09 am

Personally, I found MSpaint to be quite good as part of package: GIMP and Photoshop 5.0 (tryout) for colour, text, and effects, <a href=http://www.xnview.com>Xnview</a> for batch conversion and Gifs (GIMP doesn't support them), and Paint for screen grabs, cleaning up my B/W scans, and adding pixel-perfect borders.As a sole-solution for comics tho', no way.
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Atrus · Post by **Atrus** » Mon Jan 07, 2002 4:31 am

GIMP does support GIFs by default, just without LZW compression (the source of all the legal trouble). You can even download the LZW enabled plugin, but they say it's your job to make sure you're not breaking the law. I've had some trouble with the color reduction not coming out as well as I wanted, but that's really not it's fault.------------------
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Seven3 · Post by **Seven3** » Wed Jan 09, 2002 12:52 pm

Making sure of course, that you're saving in 256 colour or grayscale mode if you're using PNG instead of Gif. True colour images are better in Jpeg (jpg) if you don't mind a little loss.------------------
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