Created header in MS Paint

[FCB]

Newb here. I created a header in MS paint. In paint the border colors are
nice and clean. When I apply my new header to Frontpage2003, the border
colors look blotchy and pixilated (mainly in the corners). How can I keep
the exact same image in paint to look as clean in FP2003? By the way, it's a
color issue, the pics look fine. Most people would never notice it, but I'm
a perfectionist and it's driving me crazy. Thanks.

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

What kind of image file did you save it as? If I remember Paint doesn't give you many choices.

What other image editor do you have? Paint is very limited.

 

[Andrew Murray]

did you export/save as a jpg or gif? \


or save as a bmp (bitmap) which would explain the pixelated image.

 

[FCB]

Yes, I saved it as a gif. I may try saving it to .bmp to see what happens.
Thanks.

 

[FCB]

I saved it as a jpeg. And paint is the only image editor I have.

What kind of image file did you save it as? If I remember Paint doesn't give
you many choices.

What other image editor do you have? Paint is very limited.

 

[p c]

Try saving as GIF or use web safe colors in the image and then save again.

An alternative is to save it as BMP then use a GOOd conversion utility
to convert the BMP to GIF. IAZA does a good job.

http://iaza.com/

....PC

 

[FCB]

You said the key phrase: "web safe colors" My guess is that I am using a
custom color that isnt supported of most monitors; therefore trying to
imitate the color and getting blotches that should not be there. Looks like
I'm going to do some color changes and see what happens. Thanks.

 

[Mike Mueller]

Seeings you are using Paint (which I won't knock as I use it
alot) the best thing to do is to save the original image as
a bmp and then save (for the web) as a jpg. Paint is really
bad at the GIF thing. PNG is also a good format,but may not
be supported by all browsers.


: You said the key phrase: "web safe colors" My guess is
that I am using a
: custom color that isnt supported of most monitors;
therefore trying to
: imitate the color and getting blotches that should not be
there. Looks like
: I'm going to do some color changes and see what happens.
Thanks.
:
: : > Try saving as GIF or use web safe colors in the image
and then save again.
: >
: > An alternative is to save it as BMP then use a GOOd
conversion utility to
: > convert the BMP to GIF. IAZA does a good job.
: >
: > http://iaza.com/
: >
: > ...PC
: >
: > FCB wrote:
: >
: >> Newb here. I created a header in MS paint. In paint the
border colors are
: >> nice and clean. When I apply my new header to
Frontpage2003, the border
: >> colors look blotchy and pixilated (mainly in the
corners). How can I keep
: >> the exact same image in paint to look as clean in
FP2003? By the way,
: >> it's a color issue, the pics look fine. Most people
would never notice
: >> it, but I'm a perfectionist and it's driving me crazy.
Thanks.
:
:

 

[Morbius]

Well, I'm confused...in your second post, you told someone you had saved
the file as a JPG file. In your third post you said you saved it as a
GIF file?!?

If you did actually save it as GIF, that could certainly be the cause of
your problem...GIF files can only have a maximum of 256 colors in them,
so unless your image is very simple and has no gradients or anti-aliased
edges in it (not sure these are even possible to create in MS Paint?),
you may have exceeded that number, and so saving it to a GIF file
attempts to reduce that number down to 256 and you end up with blocky
colors in some areas.

If you save it as a JPG file (which I still can't tell if you did or
not), then you can have a maximum of 16 million colors in the image,
which should normally look pretty darn good...assuming the system you're
viewing this on has it's video driver set to show 16M colors or more.

A link to the site and graphic that you're having this problem with
would go a long way to explaining what's really happening!

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

Here's a link to a free photo editor (they also have a draw program)...pretty cool. It is a large dl though..but it's not crippled.

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/default.asp

 

[Trevor L.]

And here's a good one also
www.irfanview.com

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Cheers,
Trevor L.
Website: http://tandcl.homemail.com.au

Here's a link to a free photo editor (they also have a draw
program)...pretty cool. It is a large dl though..but it's not
crippled.

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/default.asp

I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you?
http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html

 

[FCB]

Sorry, it's a jpg.