Picture in Signature

wicked · Post by **wicked** » 01 Jun 2004 18:14

How do you get a picture in your singnature. hyperlink.

Spadrick · Post by **Spadrick** » 01 Jun 2004 18:28

Is that a question or a comment?

wicked · Post by **wicked** » 01 Jun 2004 18:52

question?

Chris Hanratty · Post by **Chris Hanratty** » 01 Jun 2004 18:53

It's [*img]http://location.com/image.jpg[*/img] for example, but take the *'s out.

wicked · Post by **wicked** » 01 Jun 2004 18:54

gracias amigo

Chris Hanratty · Post by **Chris Hanratty** » 01 Jun 2004 18:57

You're very welcome

wicked · Post by **wicked** » 01 Jun 2004 18:57

ill have to make it look better. that white clashed with the grey.. does anybody know the color code to match that paticular grey?

bigdirtyfoot · Post by **bigdirtyfoot** » 01 Jun 2004 18:58

Yeah it looked like Goosebumps by R.L. Stein.

Spadrick · Post by **Spadrick** » 01 Jun 2004 19:00

The thing is, there are two types of Grey/Blue colors used on modified, to get past this issue, simply make the background invisible and save it as a gif.

Take a look at .Hack//Signatures. They work with all backgrounds.

Chris Hanratty · Post by **Chris Hanratty** » 01 Jun 2004 19:03

I don't understand that... how do some .gif sigs look so good when .gif's only support 256 colors? I haven't done much .gif work at all, so I'm not knowledgable in it.

Spadrick · Post by **Spadrick** » 01 Jun 2004 22:14

I was going to write out all my knowledge about GIF and JPG comparision, and how they work and the best ways to utilize each format, then i realized it was 2 in the morning, so I copied an explanation from WebMonkey.

I'm lazy, and I'm sorry.

The standard compression formats are GIF and JPEG (compression, by the way, doesn't shrink the dimensions of your graphics, it just reduces the size of the file).

But is GIF or JPEG the better format to use? The resounding answer to this question is: It depends. It depends on the type of image you're working with, how small you want your image file to be, and the way you want your graphic to download.

One of your primary considerations is the type of image you're working with. Photographs and graphics with lots of color fields, and particularly colors that blend and fade into one another, are best served by JPEG. For example, an unnerving picture of your co-worker waiting to sing "Yankee Doodle" in a Club Med talent competition should be formatted in JPEG (see below). If, on the other hand, your image has flat color fields, like the talent show poster, it will compress well in the GIF format.

The reason for choosing JPEG for images with more complex color patterns is that this format enables you to save images with millions of colors, whereas the GIF option restricts you to 256 colors.

Another important issue is file size. JPEG permits a greater degree of compression than the GIF alternative, enabling quicker downloading times for larger graphics. And JPEGs appear to retain almost complete image quality for most photographs. As a demonstration, this photo showing the producer of Webmonkey at a staff meeting has been compressed as a JPEG (above) and as a GIF (below). Those dots you see in the GIF are called "dithering," and they come from that format's characteristic adjusting of pixels within a graphic to simulate the display of colors not in the GIF's color palette.

But don't write off the GIF just yet. For one thing, the JPEG format does not work well for graphics that contain large fields of color - these color fields can break up and fragment and look terrible.

Furthermore, an image's compression format shapes the way a browser can download it, and browsers can do several things with GIFs that JPEGs don't support. One of the advantages to a GIF is that you can interlace it. Interlaced GIFs appear first with poor resolution and then improve in resolution until the entire image has arrived, allowing the viewer to get a quick idea of what the picture will look like while waiting for the rest. JPEGs can only arrive linearly, from the top row to the bottom row.

Another plus is that the background of a GIF can be made transparent, so you see the background color of the browser window you're in.

Finally, GIFs can also be animated, like the little fellow you see below. Poor old JPEGs just have to stand still.

- John Wutzel
WebMonkey

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