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Valerie Sutton Date: Wed Oct 27, 1999 6:18 pm Subject: Re: Creating .GIF Files | |
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>Wayne writes: > Well, I don't have paintbrush, but I did find something called Paint, >and thanks to what Valerie said about Alt-PrintScreen, I was able to capture >the screen and it showed up in Paint just fine, where I inverted the colors >and cropped what I wanted to crop. Not having PhotoShop, I looked around >and discovered PhotoDeluxe (you can tell I don't use these programs very >much). I finally figured out how to transfer the Paint file to PhotoDeluxe. > Then I finally figured out how to convert the image to a GIF file in >PhotoDeluxe. If all of this has worked, you should be seeing "Taiwan Sign >Language" and "Hello!" in Taiwan Sign Language below. Here's hoping! > > - Wayne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ok...Here is what happened - an exciting first start, Wayne!! You created a good .GIF. It shows up in the Archives, but it is very grey. The reason? I think you created a transparent .GIF, and what is fascinating about that...when a person creates a transparent .GIF, it comes in as a separate attached file OK, but it doesn't seem to show up as a picture inside email messages - or at least it is sporadic at best. So if you want people to see your writing inside their email message, it is best to use a Web format, but not transparent - there are many forms of .GIF, which of course makes life complicated!! But other than that, you did a .GIF!! Congrats! So if others could not see the .GIF that Wayne created inside their email message, just go up on the Archives to view it - you will know that it is a transparent .GIF because it is completely grey in color. The ones that are not transparent, have a grey box around them, but the image itself is white....they are the ones that show up inside email messages :-) We are all learning :-))) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Val ;-) Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite...Lessons Online https://www.SignWriting.org Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA |
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