Comment 39618

Comment ID 39618

Aug 7, 2006, 1:57:43 PM UTC on [Art] Photoshopping Traditional Art

Small crit for this- if you want to lower the colours to black and white, threshold is beter than saving as a gif. Thresold converts to pure black and white rather than decreasing the colours.

Secondly, if you made the picture 256 colour (like with a gif file) PNG format is FAR superiour than GIF, and is supported on this site. It's algerithm means that the way it compresses it is lossless- like a gif, but as small as a JPEG. It also alowes for transparencys and layers. One day it'll totally get rid of GIF. Till then- I suggest using it. I do all my digetal pics in gif. I hated the bleeding

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themusicdied
Aug 7, 2006, 9:27:15 PM UTC
Thank you so much for the help, Arkillian!! I really appreciate it. :nod:

I'm no good at digital work but some of my friends from SheezyART keep asking about it. XD
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- ArkillianDragon
  Aug 7, 2006, 10:08:36 PM UTC
  It's funny- I get the opposite. I give out so much advice that people rarely ask it. I've been using PNG for a while now. My brother introduced it to me when I complained about saving stuff as a jpeg bleeding the buggery out of my pics. He origanlly suggested gif, then when I got into proper Digital colouring where cutting the colours destroyed the pic, he suggested png. Nowdays, I only save as a jpeg if it doesn't matter or if it's a pencil drawing. Never as a gif. It's outdated ^^
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  themusicdied
  Aug 9, 2006, 6:28:21 AM UTC
  lol See, I never give advice unless I'm very close friends with the artist. I've seen so many helpful people get flamed for trying to help someone get a little better that I just shy away.
  
  Trust me, I appreciate it!
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