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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 11:39 AM
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PC Experts: why does my computer do this?
When I want to save a picture to my c drive sometimes it saves as jpegs and others as bitmaps. Even when the address ends in .jpg it still saves as a bitmap. I want jepegs because the other takes too much memory.
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Ready4Change Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 11:43 AM
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1. What method of saving are you using?
Right clicking in a browser? Using "Save As" in a program of some sort?
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Rooktoven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 11:46 AM
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2. Saving an image doesn't allow you to change its format
You need an image converting program for that.
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CrownPrinceBandar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 11:49 AM
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3. I've had this happen to me..................
the "save as" option only gives you a .gif option, as opposed to the .jpeg format that you want to save it. I figure this is some proprietary process in Windoze. When this happens I just pull the image into MS Paint or PS and change the format there.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 12:24 PM
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4. The Save As function saves the graphic as whatever the
Edited on Mon Feb-21-05 12:24 PM by RC
graphic is. Jpeg are saved as jpeg, bmp are saved as bmp, etc.
gif are quite often in motion.

Irfanview is a good free program for converting graphic files from one format to another

http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm

Don't forget the plug-ins.
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Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 02:00 PM
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5. Insh'Allah... nt
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Branjor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 02:11 PM
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6. I've had images save
as bitmaps, but if you then put the bitmap image in an e-mail and send it to yourself, the e-mail image will save as .jpeg. Strange, but true.
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Spirochete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 02:24 PM
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7. Sometimes you can fix that
by clearing out your browser cache. It often works for me, anyhow.
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