Working with GIF images

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-07-23 02:09am

Forgive my all-consuming ignorance in matters of photomanipulation, oh great masters of Photoshop, but I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how in the hell to get my computer to open GIF files for alteration. Specifically, I need to cut this:

cut down to proper size to use in a sig; that is, I need to get rid of all the white border. However, my computer refuses to open the damn thing even to view, much less cut on. [size=0](And then I'll need hosting, but one thing at a time...)[/size]

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-07-23 02:20am

Rogue 9 wrote:Forgive my all-consuming ignorance in matters of photomanipulation, oh great masters of Photoshop, but I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how in the hell to get my computer to open GIF files for alteration. Specifically, I need to cut this:

cut down to proper size to use in a sig; that is, I need to get rid of all the white border. However, my computer refuses to open the damn thing even to view, much less cut on.

Just use GIMP, open the GIF file, do a contiguous-region select on the white image, invert the selection, copy it, paste it to a new image, and then save as a new GIF. Easy as pie. Alternatively, just eyeball-crop it.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-07-23 02:49am

Yeah, that's what I thought. My problem is mainly that my computer refuses to recognize it as a picture file at all. All my image programs refuse to open it on the basis of it being an invalid file type, even though its a gif and I know for a fact that I've worked with gifs before. I think AOHell is just screwing up the pics I try to save. Man, I can't wait to get back to school and a real Internet connection...

Edit: Though I solved the problem in another way; had one of my friends do it and then put it on my Photobucket account direct from his site. Its good, but its annoying that I had to resort to that.

Meh. Picture quality's down, though. I'll have to run the LAN cable to my other computer, which can and will cooperate with me when I manipulate images...

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-07-23 02:53am

Of course, you could always try a screenshot...

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-07-23 02:58am

Yeah, I'll try that. I'm sure you know who this is for, ver.

Full Quiver Mission's getting the anti-Confederacy smackdown treatment, at their own boards this time.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-07-23 02:58am

Rogue 9 wrote:Yeah, that's what I thought. My problem is mainly that my computer refuses to recognize it as a picture file at all. All my image programs refuse to open it on the basis of it being an invalid file type, even though its a gif and I know for a fact that I've worked with gifs before. I think AOHell is just screwing up the pics I try to save. Man, I can't wait to get back to school and a real Internet connection...

Let me guess: you're using Internet Exploder?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-07-23 03:05am

No, not at the moment, though I've never had any of those horrendous problems people tell me about when I do...

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-07-23 03:15am

Rogue 9 wrote:No, not at the moment, though I've never had any of those horrendous problems people tell me about when I do...

So you're using some other browser and you can't just hit "save as" on an image?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-07-23 03:20am

No. I saved it like that, as I have done many times before (using IE, and it worked fine then), but the file was corrupted. I saved the picture as a gif at first, then tried it again as a jpeg, but the computer failed to recognize it in either format. In conclusion, I hate AOL and wish my parents would wise up and get a different ISP. Either way, the problem's solved now.

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-07-23 06:06am

Rogue 9 wrote:Yeah, I'll try that. I'm sure you know who this is for, ver. Full Quiver Mission's getting the anti-Confederacy smackdown treatment, at their own boards this time.

How could I NOT know who it's for?

I've only known a select few people that that could apply to, and the margins narrow when we're talking people we both know.

Cyborg Stan · Post by **Cyborg Stan** » 2004-07-23 12:59pm

Hmmm....... original was in GIF and now there's JPG.... here's it in GIF and PNG format, both which don't lose information from the original. (The PNG version is only 36 bytes bigger than the JPG as well.)

GIF version (10,555 bytes)

PNG (8,446 bytes)

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-07-25 02:44am

verilon wrote:
Rogue 9 wrote:Yeah, I'll try that. I'm sure you know who this is for, ver. Full Quiver Mission's getting the anti-Confederacy smackdown treatment, at their own boards this time.
How could I NOT know who it's for? I've only known a select few people that that could apply to, and the margins narrow when we're talking people we both know.

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