Gif Import

[gusmus]

Hi Folks, I seem to be having a few problems with gif imports, namely , "quality". it doesn't really affect the program usage all that much but it's still a bit of a nuisance.If I take a jpeg for example and convert it to png and gif with a transparent bg then the png shows up in kool as a perfect representation of the original with transparencies, the gif on the other hand (even at 256 colour) comes out looking very pixelated and sometimes with odd flecks of transparency within the image itself. This is only occurring in Koolmoves and I've tried every image manipulation program I posess yet all with the same results (photoshop7,paintshop7,macromedia freehand and fireworks,xara x,photo impact 8). If I drop the images into a straight html, java or wysiwyg compilation they come out perfect, Why not in Koolmoves?.....Cheers

[FLASHPULSE]

I just tried a non-transparent and a transparent gif in KM and both seemed ok to me. If you wanna post your gif file and maybe I could try it here to see if maybe it's the file itself, but I wouldn't think so, since you tried a few programs.

[necromanthus]

No problems with GIFs import.
GUSMUS ... is a bad idea to convert a JPG into a GIF.
Use BMP instead of JPG and set the transparent color.
And another tip: transparent GIFs have 255 colors (not 256) !
;)

[FLASHPULSE]

Nice info there necro. If you save an image you created as a BMP and then a JPG, then do a close up like zoom on them. The pixels in the JPG will be, I wanna say blurred, in some areas and the BMP will not. As the BMP or a TGA file keep it's original creation they way you made it in a paint program, therefor the BMP being the closest thing to a GIF (although not compressed) and keeping it's original pixel information so to say, ... well you got the jist. Like necro said, use a BMP if you wanna convert to a GIF. :)

[gusmus]

Hmmm, Nice info there Necro indeed,seems that was the trouble all along, I was using an extra colour in the gif lol. Seriously, I've been at this game long enough to know that using any kind of lossey format isn't the ideal worksheet for conversions, subversions, inversions, insertions or even submersions, BUT!!! in most cases I didn't draw the original file or files, they may have come from an image bank, the clients favourite digital camera program or even scanned from the latest issue of Playboy, meaning that I have no control over the working format. What I asked was WHY can I convert a jpg and import it as a PNG to koolmoves with (near perfect) results and yet NOT get similar results when using exactly the same process on a jpg/gif conversion, I might add that this only occurs when creating tranparencies within the image, (a straight conversion from image to image with no graphical manipulation works fine.
P.S. I've just tried a conversion (with transparent manipulation) from TIFF to GIF, with the same results. Mind you,, this thread is more or less pointless as I'm quite happy to continue using png which works perfectly under all conditions,, Cheers

[Bob Hartzell]

Send me the gif - bob@koolmoves.com