Saving your work [Serious sticky this lol]

[Redmoon Evil]

Ok your works finished, your pleased with it (well done) now all you need to do is that simple file > save as, woa a new screen pops up (getting a tad nervious) below are your options.

Monochrome: This will change each pixel into eaither 100% black or 100% white totally demolishing your work.

16 colour: This will change each pixel into one of the 16 default colours that are typically at the bottom left of you MSPaint window.

256 colour: This will change the quality of your work alot, you can still tell what it used to be though it is pretty much rewined.

24 bit: Exellent for high detailed work although it doesn't do your storage space alot of good, I cannot remember what the number was but probabily something like 20million different colours/shades.

JPEG: no no no lately everyone is savng as JPEG? it's not good it bad very bad it will smudge your work, it should only really be used for photos.

GIF: This is easy to store although it doesn't have an amazing colour range it has about 300 but thats still enough, a good thing you get with GIFs is that you can make a colour transparent if you want to also you make made them animated.

TIFF: I didn't know this exist but now I do, anyway it just seems to be high quality and bad storage just like a Bitmap

PNG: perfect for saving pixel art, high quality images can be saved and they are still easy to store.

After you have figured out that you needed to save it as PNG or GIF you should then name your work then click save.

Job complete happy saving.

[Ekalb]

That's so true.
Maybe add a small bit about hosting/uploading and get a mod to edit it in.

"Once I've saved my work how can I show my friends on habbox?"

perhaps.

Although as a thread it may be suited to another forum but I think it's important that Redmoon's thread is stickied to many of the graphic forums.

[Redmoon Evil]

Don't we already have one of those somewhere?

If there is it should include not to use the onsite upload system as people canot see it later when you have deleted it.

[Ekalb]

Don't we already have one of those somewhere?

If there is it should include not to use the onsite upload system as people canot see it later when you have deleted it.

I think some image hosts like imageshack and tinypic die after a while too.
I haven't seen a photobucket image die though unless it was deleted from the album.
rep for the thread too.

[Scrubs]

Also in addition to .png is that if you use firefox or opera it can make things transparent, but not for IE

[Ekalb]

Also in addition to .png is that if you use firefox or opera it can make things transparent, but not for IE

...
please explain.

[RedFlagWaving]

nice tut, but you forgot to add that if you save as PNG, your alt gets a bit darker. +rep though

[UDunKnow]

Great Help, That's True. Rep+

[Redmoon Evil]

nice tut, but you forgot to add that if you save as PNG, your alt gets a bit darker. +rep though

never noticed, i just thought it was when I uploaded with imageshack