What would your "South Park" character look like?

[AdminOnline]

[url]http://images.southparkstudios.com/games/create/index.html[/url]




This is my design.

[Gigabitch]

[anachronistic]

[Marissa]

[Steve2004]

whaaaaat

[misombra]

aaaaaaaaahahahaaa.

[Illusional]

hrmm.. so how do you save it when you're done??

raverboy

[anachronistic]

screenshot, and then use photoshop/gimp/mspaint to crop it.

i wonder what loveadmin looks like in real life...

[anachronistic]

or GIF

i only use png if i want transparency... sometimes if you save it as a jpeg the file will be a lot smaller, however it will lose quality bigtime.

[anachronistic]

yeah, jpgs are best suited to actual photographs with high complexity & lots of detail, where as gifs & pngs are good for simple images with fewer colors & solid lines like cartoon drawings or pictures of text against single color backgrounds. PNGs win, imo, because they're lossless. pngs & gifs can be used for photographs, but either the filesizes are huge or the pictures have noticeable dithering.

correct in a certain aspect. i am a pixel artist, and i work with png and gif format often.

gif also has a lossless compression algorithm. the only real difference between png and gif that i have noticed is transparency option? also, you can have animated gifs but not animated pngs. is there something i am missing?

[Jimmy1218]

[anachronistic]

It's more likely that I'm missing something, between the two of us, you're the one doing the professional website development.

I do know however that I saved the cropped bitmap & in both gif & png formats, and the png ended up smaller with no dithering, while the gif end up larger with noticeable dithering. Dunno what exactly the difference was; I can only say that the same cropped, unchanged bitmap file was used for both.

i guess it depends on what program you're using. gif becomes dithered in mspaint by default. but i use photoshop and gimp, which do not do any dithering unless you select that option.

altogether filesize depends on the image size and number of colors. i recommend you atleast get gimp because it gives you a few options oh and it's open source.

[anachronistic]

jimmy that's an invalid attachment. you should get an image host.

[anachronistic]

I have photoshop CS2, but ms paint opens in 1 second, and is found on 99.9% of all windows installations, and though far less flexible, all available operations are much faster & less-involved.

iknow what you mean with photoshop... gimp only takes about 5 seconds to load completely even on an older machine. it's easy to install too, just something to think about. it's easier to use than mspaint, i find, so i use gimp more often. i don't even use windows other than vergeC development, and photoshop autoboots on startup on my work ibook.

[anachronistic]

heh, whatever suits you. i've just become so used to gimp and photoshop that i can rip up a screenshot much faster than i would with paint.