saving images from the net as a gif on XP

[Gordon Forbes]

I don’t get the same problem get the choice where it says .bmp press the arrow and I get gif or bmp have you tried that??

Goop

[Robert Lambie]

i get that too mate but not with animations.. 😕

[Gordon Forbes]

OK C what U mean

ooopppss

[Gordon Forbes]

Got it sussed right click on image save target as and it saves the gif where you specify

Hope thats what u wany

[Robert Lambie]

quote Forbie:

Got it sussed right click on image save target as and it saves the gif where you specify

Hope thats what u wany

just tried it mate.. doesnt allow me to.. :yikes:

thought you had the answwr there.. 😆 thanks for the help mate. much appreciated 😉

[Carrie Brown]

I just tried & just right clicked, copy .. then paste onto desktop 😀 But probably won’t work for you????

Carrie 😀

[Gordon Forbes]

right click and hold the button down and tap the spacebar once and see if that does the trick thats the way to get round images that have been disabled from saving don’t know about gifs though

[simplesigns]

Hi Robert,

What you need to do here is clear you Internet Explorer temporary files.
When your cache gets full it leads to IE5 or 6 doing some strange things,
one of them being only giving you the .bmp option.

To clear the temporary files go to “Tools/Internet Options” on the toolbar
and then click ‘Delete Files’ in the ‘Temporary Internet Files’ section.

It will take a couple of minutes but when done restart IE and your problem should be cleared.

Cheers,

Jason. 😀

[Nicola McIntosh]

first class jason!! 😛 😛

i did not know that, and it works a treat!! 😀 😀

you learn a new thing everyday!! 😀 😀 😀

cheers Nik :appl:

[Robert Lambie]

Jason… you are :praise1: THE MAN :thanks2:

.

[John Singh]

He’s not that simple is Jason from simple signs 😀

John

[simplesigns]

Glad I could help guys.

I’ll keep an eye out for this type of post. Before becoming a sign maker I was a software developer, software & hardware support engineer, PC builder….you get the picture.

So where I can be of help I will try my best for you. 😀

Jason.

[Robert Lambie]

thanks again jason, thats good to know mate..
😉

[Robert Lambie]

thank you for the comments outline, any further advice you would like to give me feel free to email me at anytime mate.. or just use the contact us form. 😉

as for the reason behind needing to save gifs as they are shown..
well, its not for signmaking for a start. its for this website actualy.
gifs are low rez compressed files purposely for the net. it allows pages load much faster than say a jpg or bmp files.
NOT all gifs are animated but the majority of the internets moving, flashing images etc are.
i can create my own gifs/animations and have recently purchased software to help me do this better for announcments, adverts, buttons and more on this site. a big help to me actualy.
from switching to XP i have found this a problem.. jason has advised on this and i can now do it again very easily. save gifs from the net that is.
as for web developers using them.. well i know many, even the one that works with me on this site that uses them day in day out.
so for signmaking, nah they are to low res to use for printing. but web development, they are a must.

if i have any part of this wrong and you would like to correct me on something feel free to email me like i have said.

😀