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From:  Bill Reese
Date:  Mon Jul 30, 2001  5:28 pm
Subject:  Re: HOTMAIL: How to Attach Files

Val,

In making GIF's and JPG's I use Corel Photo House 2 in Windows 98 SE.
It's an easy program for me. I can crop and enhance pictures and also
change the basic properties of a picture. I can save in different
formats.

Two things I have noticed about working with picture files:

1. If I am saving as a GIF file, I find it best to change the picture to
using only a black and white color palette first then saving with no
transparency. Corel Photo House will not let me save the file as GIF
until I change the properties of the file to NOT use a color palette
greater than 256 colors (or grayscale).

2. Saving as a JPG (JPEG) file, I cannot save the file using the black
and white color palette. I need to change the properties to be at least
256 colors (or grayscale). For black and white pictures, it doesn't
matter if I use the 256 color or the 256 greyscale palette. I set the
compression to the best value. You can set compression to about 2/3's
compressed and still get decent quality pictures, but I don't think
signwriting files will be too large in size when setting them at the best
quality compression.

As an example, I did a screen capture of the first three liines of
Nancy's ABC story, reversed the colors to get it black on white
background then saved as GIF and JPG. Both files are attached.

Bill

Valerie Sutton wrote:

> SignWriting List
> July 30, 2001
>
> While we are still on the topic of making attached files, what is the
> software people use on Windows, to create GIFS or JPEGS?
>
> Stefan - What software do you use to create GIFs?
>
> There are many ways to make a GIF...that is why I am asking ;-)
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> Val ;->
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5379 Re: HOTMAIL: How to Attach Files Valerie Sutton Mon  7/30/2001

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