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.PNG Graphics converter needed.
It seems that these .PNG images are being uses more and more lately on
the web. They normally load fine in a web browser, but if I save them, and try to open them in a graphics editor, they either dont loadf at all, or load and are all scrambled. I dont have the latest graphic editing software (nor do I want it, because most is too bloated). What I do have, is Photoshop 5.x Paint Shop Pro 4.x Paint Shop Pro 7.x I'm running these on either XP or Win98se. I can load .GIF, .JPG, .PCX, .BMP, and many other formats, with no problems. But these .PNG files can and mostly do load in some scrambled manner, or wont load at all. Is there some free software I can download that will convert these images to another format? (BMP or PCX is my desired format choice, because JPG is too lossy for editing). Batch conversions would be preferred, but even if I have to do them one by one, that's ok. The software needs to run on XP (Or Win98). I dont have anything newer. |
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On 5/11/17 9:38 AM, Tim Slattery wrote:
wrote: It seems that these .PNG images are being uses more and more lately on the web. They normally load fine in a web browser, but if I save them, and try to open them in a graphics editor, they either dont loadf at all, or load and are all scrambled. I dont have the latest graphic editing software (nor do I want it, because most is too bloated). There you go. The PNG (Portable Network Graphics) standard probably debuted after your ancient software. Why is it used? Because unlike GIF or JPEG it's not proprietary or patented, but open to be freely used by all. And PNG supports transparency. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.11.6 Firefox 53.0.2 (64 bit) Thunderbird 52.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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On Thu, 11 May 2017 08:46:26 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote: On Wed, 10 May 2017 22:26:37 -0400, wrote: It seems that these .PNG images are being uses more and more lately on the web. They normally load fine in a web browser, but if I save them, and try to open them in a graphics editor, they either dont loadf at all, or load and are all scrambled. I dont have the latest graphic editing software (nor do I want it, because most is too bloated). What I do have, is Photoshop 5.x Paint Shop Pro 4.x Paint Shop Pro 7.x I'm running these on either XP or Win98se. Get IrfanView. It can read most graphic formats and save them as many others. It isn't bloated, and can do most of the editing I want. Ok, it seems everyone recommended Irfanview. I installed it, and it does a fast and easy batch conversion. It seems to work pretty well as an image viewer too. (I have been using ACDsee for many years). I dont really care too much about using Irfanview as a graphic editor. I have always used Paint Shop Pro, and that is what I like. Sometimes I use Photoshop too, but PSP has always been my preference. So, once these files are converted to another format, I edit in PSP or Photoshop. I installed IrfanView 4.33, (from 2012), because that is the last version that runs on Windows98, and I do all my graphic work on my Win98 machine because it's faster, and unlike XP, does not hang from graphic overloads. I am quite impressed by IrfanView, except one thing. For some reason, I had about 25 PNG files that I saved, from a clipart website. They are all pics of animals on a white background (on the web). When I open them in IrfanView, the background becomes black on all of them. I converted them to .JPG and to .PCX, and all of them continued to have the black backgrounds. To make matters worse, something like a shadow on the ground, which in a picture I tried to edit, had a very light gray shadow, against the white background. That very light gray turned a very dark gray, not far from black. I can open these same saved files in Firefox, and the background is still white like it should be. This I do not understand. |
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