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[johnbull]

Just confirming that I had no trouble logging in this afternoon. Made especially welcome by pretty little 205.

Off for a swim now.

[Dare]

tried using firefox and chat room works

[Dare]

 Anyone have a program to change jpeg to a  down loadable
 format for pictures.free would be better

 A short crash course wouldn,t be bad either

[Alianora La Canta]

If you've got a Windows PC, Microsoft Paint (built into Windows) will do it - at least from XP. Just load the file and save it into the GIF or PNG format you want. The place to change the file type is the bar near the bottom of the Save (or Save As) function.

If you've got a Linux PC, a Mac with MacOSX on it, or Microsoft Paint doesn't have enough options, download GIMP from the official site. It's free and has lots of options, but it's rather complicated. So I'll walk you through a conversion:

1. Load GIMP. It's not the fastest program to load...

2. Go to File, then Open (assuming the file is on your hard drive - internet files use a different opening system).

3. Find your file.

4. Click "Save a Copy" - this keeps your original file intact as well as giving you a downloadable file.

5. Click "Select File Type (By Extension).

6. If you insist on looking at all the different options to save the file into, grab a cup of coffee to revive yourself. I mean, who'd want to save a picture as C source code anyway?!?

7. Find either the GIF or PNG option.

8. If you're saving to GIF, click on "Convert to Indexed", unless you really, really want to submit a greyscale picture.

9. Studiously ignore all the options on the next screen and simply click "OK". You can always alter the comments when you submit to GPWizard!

[Alianora La Canta]

And now, here is a step-by-step for Microsoft Paint:

1. Load Paint.

2. Click "Open".

3. Find your file (and hope you've put it in a sensible place).

4. Click "Save As".

5. Look at your "Save As Type" (this is the bottom drop-down menu).

6. Click on the arrow and select either "GIF" or "PNG" (I believe either works in GPWizard).

7. Change the file name if that helps you remember the file.

8. Click "Save".

9. Use this file to download into the gallery.

[Dare]

Thanks Ali,you taught me more in a few
minutes than I tried to figure out on my
own in a year

[Ian]

Whooar, that lot went over my head about the height of Saturn, I'd have to get someone in. 

[Alianora La Canta]

dare, pleased to assist. If you have any more problems of this kind, feel free to ask me.

ian, would you like me to give you a more detailed explanation of how to put a picture in a format that GPWizard's gallery can understand? If so, I will happily provide one. Sorry for accidentally sending the whole thing to Saturn.

[Ian]

No thank you Ali, very kind but I honestly still would'nt understand, please believe me when I say I am a complete moron on these things.

[greener_09]

Hi being new to the site i was just wondering what the yellow/green stars under peoples names are? Theres also things like race winner/world champ etc. What does all this mean and how can i improve my qualified status. Cheers

[Wizzo]

Hi Greener

Welcome to our mad community. 

The stars under members names represent the amount of posts that member has made, this is also true of your 'qualified' status. Some forums have junior members and senior members etc, ours are all F1 related, so the longer you carrying on posting the higher your status will be.

Any other question then always ask, we are here to please. 

[Alianora La Canta]

Unless you rise to the exalted status of Administrator of course - anyone with responsibility for the website's upkeep has the same title regardless of how many posts they have or have not typed.

Welcome to GPWizard, greener_09. Hope you enjoy contributing to our community.

[Ian]

Actually Ali, I've just read your instructiond for 'paint' properly, it's good thanks, I even think I can understand them. 

[Alianora La Canta]

You're welcome, ian. Glad to be of help

[Dare]

I have a question for you Ali.

In your step by step method so I can understand
how can I download a picture on here from My
Pictures when the picture is too big?

Do you know of some software that I could use?