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hobo man445
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i wanted to make myself an avatar, so i made on on paint. i went to change it and it says that i can only upload files .png or .jpg . atm i found i had file saved as .bmp
how can i change it to work?

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open it in paint, click on "Save as...". Under the edit field where you can enter the name, there should be a combobox (FileType:). Chose PNG or JPEG

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And in case you're wondering, here's the main differences between PNG and JPG.
• PNG - higher quality images, big file size
• JPG - medium/low quality images, smaller file size

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@Hardstylehunt3r:
PNG image files are compressed with the DEFLATE algorithm, and so therefore are only a little bit larger than JPEGs, but it's worth the KB or so of extra space taken because PNGS are lossless.

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user DannyDeth has written
@Hardstylehunt3r:
PNG image files are compressed with the DEFLATE algorithm, and so therefore are only a little bit larger than JPEGs, but it's worth the KB or so of extra space taken because PNGS are lossless.

aka better quality.

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wait guys.. the quality of .jpg is better(more colors)..
then there is .gif with less colors and shit quality but very small size file..
and at least we come to .png wich only has the best of both, low size file but good quality only bad on it that some old browsers cant read .png files
sry for offtopic but correct me if im wrong

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@M-n-M:
PNGs became popular at around 1994 after LZW compression ( used in GIFs ) was patented, mainly because they would have to pay a fee to use GIF format for their images. So, PNG was created, it was also better than GIF because it is lossless ( ie there is no change to the actual picture ).

EDIT: PNGs also support tranparency where as JPEGs do not.

So you see where I'm going here? If not: use PNG!

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user DannyDeth has written
@Hardstylehunt3r:
PNG image files are compressed with the DEFLATE algorithm, and so therefore are only a little bit larger than JPEGs, but it's worth the KB or so of extra space taken because PNGS are lossless.


Just say they have the alpha layer. PNG has it's own use--transparency, jpegs are the best file type if you don't need the transparency.
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