#GRAPHICS
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Help for a graphics novice, please ?!?!
I have downloaded some graphics from one ofthe art sigs, and would like to
view it. The only graphics package I have so far is Deluxe Paint II.
The graphics are GIF, (Graphics Interchange Format, right?). If I try to load
them into DPII, I get an error message informing me that the picture isn't
IFF. Is there a method of loading the pictures, or re-formating them to IFF
or am I out of luck until I learn more about Amiga graphics?
Thanks…
Dwayne Smith
First off, you need a GIF decoder. Steve Bennett's HAMGIF should be here in
DL16, or in PICS in DL1, and is probably the best for the job.
Now, you need a capture program that will take the displayed GIF image and
convert it into an IFF image. I use SAVEIFF, but most of my pictures are HAM
images, which won't work with DPII anyhow. (I use PhotonPaint or DigiPaint
for these.) Maybe some other kind soul can give you a better capture program
name for straight IFF images.