BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 » Posting pics for dummies by the biggest dummy

sherlockskitty · July 23, 2012 2:17 am

janeCo-- over on lunapic.com, they have a tutorial on how to make gifs. These are called FRAMES. What you do, is you take a few frames of one pic, and put them into a slide show kind of thing, and then you put the speed on it, and that turns into a gif (moving file) Lunapic or mytheme.com will show you how. It's not that hard, but it's not very easy either. hope this helps. luna pic is the only program I have had experiece with. There's also GIMP, which I've tried, and Adobe Photoshop. I don't have experience with those 2, sorry.

JaneCo · July 23, 2012 3:34 pm

Thanks SKitty I think I'll give it a go

sherlockskitty · July 23, 2012 9:03 pm

you're welcome.

Sherli Bakerst · October 19, 2012 12:25 am

The black-and-white striped sweater (sorry, I'm American ) always reminds me of the uniforms worn by convicts in US prisons in the 19th century. For example, below is a photo I took of the clothes inmates at the Cripple Creek (Colorado) jail had to wear in the late 1800s. I think they're pretty similar!

veecee · October 19, 2012 7:30 pm

LOL

Davina · October 19, 2012 10:26 pm

Eek! I've actually managed to post a photo as part of my signature but it's only showing part of it and it's massive! What do I do to make it smaller?

tobeornot221b · October 20, 2012 6:18 am

There's an edit area which lets you change the size of your pic, Davina.

Mattlocked · October 20, 2012 9:27 am

Is it?
I always thought I have to take what I find in internet. Or take my own pictures, resize before saving it on photobucket (or wherever) and put it in here then.
I have to check.

Davina · October 20, 2012 9:31 am

Help? Where is this edit area of which you speak??

Harriet · October 20, 2012 10:15 am

If you cannot find the place, best would be to save it on your computer, re-size it with one of your image software tools and then send it back up to photobucket. (You could also pm me if you want.)

besleybean · October 20, 2012 10:16 am

But we like it BIG!

Harriet · October 20, 2012 10:17 am

Nah, not that

tobeornot221b · October 20, 2012 1:37 pm

Apparently, the edit section on imgur.com fails to achieve a satisfying result. The picture gets blurry. To give an example, I reduced your image, Davina, to 40% of the original size by using microsoft picture manager.
Here you are:

Harriet · October 20, 2012 2:09 pm

I have a little bit smaller version (560X350px), made with GIMP

Davina · October 20, 2012 2:18 pm

You seem to be labouring under the impression that I am someone who understands...sadly I am not! I am, to be blunt and to take the words from Moriarty's mouth, a doofus when it comes to this.

Harriet · October 20, 2012 2:19 pm

Do you want a smaller picture from us?

Davina · October 20, 2012 2:32 pm

I think Kazza is working on it for me. Not too small because otherwise you cannot read the text.

Harriet · October 20, 2012 2:35 pm

Ok, just asking. We'd be glad to help out

Davina · October 20, 2012 2:39 pm

I am not proud. I will accept help from anyone because I am clueless! I am still pleased with myself for having managed to even get an image on here.

Davina · October 21, 2012 7:48 am

Well it's a bit smaller, thanks to Kazza's help but there is still a vital ingredient missing...this is a work in progress.