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Rom Manic
May 4th, 2005, 05:08
...Imageshack (http://www.imageshack.ws) will convert a BMP to PNG for me in less than 10 seconds (Varying with size), considerably reducing its size but keeping the same picture quality...

...I love you, Imageshack. You make all my BMP's seem less evil and HUGE... :happy: :blush:
2fast4u
May 4th, 2005, 08:13
why use bitmaps in the first place?
Eagle
May 4th, 2005, 12:53
why use bitmaps in the first place?

You can't always control what you get off the web.
Rom Manic
May 4th, 2005, 13:57
I use Paint because...Well, I hate my CorelDraw for being so slow, Photoshop I don't even bother with (Same with Fireworks), and it's just easier for taking pictures off the web. Press the "Print Screen" button to snapshot, blah blah blah, you have a perfect quality image ready to convert using Imageshack.

Plus I do all my image editing in Paint. It kinda makes my work more appreciative when I do things like make glowing text by hand.
thakis
May 4th, 2005, 15:44
To take images off the web, you can simply rightclick the image and choose "save image as..." in your browser. To take images of the web, the "print screen" thing is ok, but there are tools out there that start even faster than paint and let you paste images and save them in any format you like ;)
Rom Manic
May 4th, 2005, 16:58
Of course, but Paint is very user friendly for lazy people like me. I dunno...It's just one of those things. I prefer Paint, so...Meh...I do like Fireworks, since it actually does what I want it to do, but Paint is just my thing. I like working pixel by pixel in paint.
Clements
May 4th, 2005, 19:29
You can save as PNGs in Paint if you want, and PNGs are lossless so there is no difference in quality between them and bitmaps and are a fraction of the size. It would therefore take you much less time to upload them.
Jaz
May 4th, 2005, 23:23
Am I missing the point here, or can you not save as a number of different image files from Paint?
Rom Manic
May 4th, 2005, 23:56
I have windows 98, which won't save PNG's with my version of Paint. It won't even open them.
Clements
May 5th, 2005, 00:14
I guess it's time to take the voyage into the 21st century and update to XP. Or download Infranview.
Rom Manic
May 5th, 2005, 00:28
You have no idea how much I want to...But "This computer does my business, you'll just have to adapt"...I need a job...
smcd
May 5th, 2005, 00:57
Yeah, well I agree with clements Irfanview rocks :)
Eagle
May 5th, 2005, 13:08
I hate Irfanview personally.
Trotterwatch
May 5th, 2005, 13:16
I hate Irfanview personally.

Why?

Personally I think it does what it does well.
ScottJC
May 5th, 2005, 14:48
Irfanview is just a picture viewer that can convert pictures from one format to another, what's to hate?
smcd
May 5th, 2005, 17:34
Irfanview is just a picture viewer that can convert pictures from one format to another, what's to hate?


It's small, fast, free, and works well? Damn those Austrian programmers! :P
Rom Manic
May 6th, 2005, 04:08
I still prefer Imageshack. But At least Ifranview will load my JPEG's and GIF's faster now. Thanks guys :)
Eagle
May 6th, 2005, 13:03
Why?

Personally I think it does what it does well.


It has a poor layout, it is pointless since I personally have to have Photoshop on my computer anyway for what I do, and its loaded with feature that don't work so well.
Trotterwatch
May 6th, 2005, 13:11
Poor layout? Looks great to me

And pointless because you have Photoshop.... I don't think they're aiming for the same market somehow.

What features don't work so well?

Just seems like you don't like it because it isn't Photoshop (nor does it pretend to be), it doesn't have a Photoshop style interface (which again it doesn't need) and the features that don't work so well, please name them :)
ScottJC
May 6th, 2005, 13:24
Well everyone is entitled to their own opinion I guess, Irfanview is just a picture viewer though.
zAlbee
May 8th, 2005, 05:37
i find IrfanView to be excellent for Win98, which doesn't come with the Windows Picture Viewer that XP has. Opens pictures instantly which is what I'm looking for. I use Photoshop to do all my image-editing but for viewing, IrfanView is very nice.
Rom Manic
May 8th, 2005, 06:24
My PictureViewer always seems to disappear. Seriously, I'll have it after reformatting, then a week later BAM, "Windows cannot locate PictureViewer.exe" when I try to open a JPEG or GIF.

I think it's because of CorelDraw...But I'm not sure...
dogdogwoof
May 9th, 2005, 06:33
i dont see why you dont all use Photoshop for everything :D
and bmp... got win3.11? :P
2fast4u
May 9th, 2005, 08:40
for simple picture resizing or browsing collections there is no point in using photoshop or another large scale program really. on windows i used acdsee, on linux there is gwenview (then again thats pretty much of a clone of acdsee) which is a lot speedier for that matter.
2fast4u
May 9th, 2005, 08:42
My PictureViewer always seems to disappear. Seriously, I'll have it after reformatting, then a week later BAM, "Windows cannot locate PictureViewer.exe" when I try to open a JPEG or GIF.

I think it's because of CorelDraw...But I'm not sure...

are you sure thats not just the file association pointing to the wrong app? see if you can locate the program on your hard drive at all.
Rom Manic
May 10th, 2005, 14:20
I've tried lookin for it, it disappears for some reason...