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Phil or whomever,

I have been trying to rebuild my photogallery but every time I try to upload a .gif pic the program tells me it's not in an acceptable format. It seems to be taking the entire file name, including the .gif extension, then adds .gif on the end again and rejects the pic. Any thoughts? My apologies if this is a simple thing but I'm still trying to navigate here after having been away for a while and I am on medication for a wicked back injury. Which has its upside and downside...obviously. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

BB

Hey BB,

Good to see you back!!

It appears that photo uploads are restricted to JPG format. I just tried a very small GIF and it gave me the unacceptable format error.

You could change your GIFs into JPGs.

One very good program for this is PaintShopPro.

You could also try Graphic Workshop Professional...
from a company called Alchemy Mindworks.

If I may jump in with my graphics and web design experience...

It probably limits you to JPEGs because they're better for "continuous tone" images, specifically photos. The compression algorithms are better suited to that type of image.

GIF format images are better for abstract graphics with large areas of flat color, like a logo or those images that were kicking around for the patch design. GIFs might also be blocked because of some licensing issues that cropped up a few years back, but I doubt it. IIRC that only affected companies that created software that saves images in that format (Adobe, et al).

The problem I have with that is that the next time we start posting images for a patch design or something that is perfectly suited to the GIF format, we might be forced into using the JPEG format, which is inferior/inappropriate for that type of graphic.

Hope that made sense.

I agree, we use .gif's versus .jpg to send/transfer company logos. They are generally of a higher quality and yield better results.

Phil,
Thanks for the reply and thanks for the welcome back. I did have success with the jpg format and will modify my pics. Thing is I had all of them changed FROM jpg. TO .gif so I could load them to the other board. Now I gotta start all over...whine, whine, whine. I tried uploading the .gif format ones because the photomaster file said, .gif was an acceptable format. Anyway. Glad to be back and VERY glad our efforts to get the upgrade for Robert paid off. I like the new format even though it's taking me some time to explore. Very cool.

BB