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This feature was rejected 6/11/2007: BMP are too big. Resave the picture as a JPEG. If you need tips to do this post them in the new user section. march

DarthVader_13

bmp pictures not allowed...only kind i can find

18 years ago

BMP pictures are the only kind pof pictures Ican find. HELP!

riley

chocobot

bmp pictures not allowed...only kind i can find

18 years ago

Hey Riley If your using a PC. Save the picture that's a bitmap, and open it up with paint. It should be in your accesories if your using windows 95 to xp and probably vista as well. Then go to save the picture you opened up in paint (go to save as not save. Underneath the save title you'll find the file format . I think this site accepts gifs amd jpegs. Whatever the smaller file size the better. . I hope that helps

DarthVader_13

bmp pictures not allowed...only kind i can find

18 years ago

i'll try that. Thanks chocobot.

riley

Sethaniel

bmp pictures not allowed...only kind i can find

18 years ago

or you could download an image resizing utility (like mihov has a free one that converts between bmp, jpeg, and gif and can also make the file smaller so it'll upload)

October

bmp pictures not allowed...only kind i can find

18 years ago

There are two solutions to this problem.

1. What chocobot recommended earlier. Save the pictures to your computer and open them in paint. From there on in you click on "File" and go down to "Save As". When you are saving it, make sure that it is saved as a .gif or .jpeg file. You can find the part where you change it from one type of file to another just under where you type in the name you want to give the picture on paint.

2. Second you can just use the picture address altogether by using the html:

<img src="URL HERE" alt="MESSAGE HERE*">

* The message in the alt is pretty much what comes up when you hover your mouse over the picture. For example, when you hover the mouse over the Choose Your Story logo, it'll come up with "Logo".

Of course, this would be taking the picture directly from the website's bandwith (or some internetty word like that) which means they would have to pay more. So if you would rather save that person some money and you some trouble, save the picture into paint and then upload it to an image hosting service on the internet (such as Image Shack) and then use the html from there.

October

bmp pictures not allowed...only kind i can find

18 years ago

I forgot to mention this. If you choose to put the html in, in the Rich Text Editor you can click on the text saying "Source" and you put it in there. Or if you find it easier you can just switch to the Basic Text Editor.