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    Posted: 13 February 2004 at 9:57am

ya.. PNG is the best!

 

just a pity that IE doesnt support Alpha pngs..

but have a look at this..

http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=8363

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 February 2004 at 9:49am

Make sure that it is actually a GIF that you want (do you need GIF 89a? - animation?). PNG might be better for what you need as it delivers a lot of what makes GIF good while maintaining all the good things about JPEGs. Most browsers support PNG now.

GIF is good for screen shots and cartoon type images where colors are limited. JPEG is good for perceptual compression where there are lots of colors. PNG beats them both.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 February 2004 at 11:38pm

I couldn't get Paint to keep the original colors. I think that Semikolon is right.

mattymatt79,

I didn't know that you could convert a .bmp file to a .gif file in Freehand. How do you do that? I don't have Photoshop.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 February 2004 at 7:13pm
Some programs just do a lousey job of converting between some file formats. Paint soes a pretty fair jog of converting bmp's to gif or jpg.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 February 2004 at 5:58pm
u can always try opening up the file in Windows Paint and saying "Save As" and then select a different file type
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 February 2004 at 1:01pm
if the bmp contains more than 256 colors its impossible..
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 February 2004 at 12:38pm
i know i can do that in photoshop with realitve ease, you should be able to do the same with free hand, as far as fireworks is concerned, i more or less just use that for easy creation of menus and slicing...
id try photoshop

if you want i can do it for you, just link the file
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 February 2004 at 1:13am
Is there any way to convert a .BMP file to .Gif in Fireworks without affecting the picture quality? I have imported a .bmp file in a new Fireworks document. That is how I've been converting .bmp files to .Gif files. But the picture becomes blurred. Does anyone know a better way for me to accomplish this?
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