A wonderful new toy!

[olde_fashioned]

Look what midenianscholar found!

Regency dress-up doll

This is waaaaay too much fun...

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[enchantinglight.livejournal.com]

That's what I did too. I must confess, though, that it took me a while to figure it out!

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Me, three! I couldn't get the code to work, either.

Although if you save it as a JPEG rather than a PNG the quality goes down. ;-)

[enchantinglight.livejournal.com]

It does indeed. I save everything as I do as a PNG for that very reason.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Ditto!

[untasted.livejournal.com]

But we saved ours as JPEG, and they look just fine! You did save yours as JPEG, right?

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Yes, I did save that first one as a JPEG, but it's still not as crystal-clear as a PNG would have been. Here is another one I made, saved as both a PNG and a 100% quality JPEG. Tell me if you see a difference.

PNG (http://s127.photobucket.com/albums/p153/olde_fashioned/?action=view&current=regencydoll_3.png) vs. JPEG (http://s127.photobucket.com/albums/p153/olde_fashioned/?action=view&current=regencydoll_3-1.jpg)

[untasted.livejournal.com]

Oh, hm, yes. I see a very slight difference in the coloring. The coloring of the JPEG is a bit duller than the PNG, particularly with the headbands. I wonder if that's why the colors of my icons never save correctly. (I can't save them as PNG, though, in Photoshop.) I always have to take the contrast up a bit more than I want to take it in hopes of having the coloring not be so dull after I save the icon.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Well, if you copy and paste both images as layers exactly on top of each other, then toggle the top layer off and on, you'll be able to see how much sharper and cleaner-looking the PNG is.

Using JPEGs is kind of like cross-your-fingers-and-pray-they-stay-nice! *lol*

[untasted.livejournal.com]

I still don't see much, other than the brightness/dullness of the colors, which I see most in her hair and headbands. But maybe it's because I'm on a laptop rather than a desktop computer.

True, it is a bit like crossing your fingers and hoping they stay nice. (: Though, I don't usually have too many problems. I just wish Photoshop would let me save images as PNG. I don't know why it doesn't. *Pouts*

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Oh well. Maybe it is your laptop, maybe I'm too picky. ;-P

WHAT?!!? PS doesn't allow PNGs??? Are you sure?

[untasted.livejournal.com]

Not as far as I can tell. Unless there's a different name for it...? These are the options I see:

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd91/lessthanfivepercent/photoshop.png

):

PS. You'll notice I saved that as PNG. But I used my "Preview" program. Maybe I should just settle on a different program for icons, heh.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Will it let you type in "whatever.png" where you give the file a name? That's how I have to do mine. It's default setting is to JPG but I just change it.

[untasted.livejournal.com]

Nope. That didn't work for me. ):

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! Phooey.

[airehen.livejournal.com]

O-kay, great, but which key command or which program did you use to do that? (still stumped)

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

It's not a program -- if you hold CTRL and press PRINT SCREEN that should capture whatever's on your screen, and then you can crop away the extra stuff with whatever you use as a graphic editor, and upload it onto your hosting site. :-)

[airehen.livejournal.com]

[CTRL] + [PRNT SCRN] = (oh, that's what that button's for}...

lol ^_^;; *sheepish laugh*

~ THANKS ~

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

:-) Hey -- we all have to learn it sometime!!