I can vouch for it, if that's worth anything - probably not
All thanks to JC though. I haven't listed my top 10 listens but if I did it would be up there, maybe even top 5.
Good solid album, a sort of New Order for the millenium.
Cheers
Mike
04-14-2004, 09:13 AM
Davey
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Originally Posted by Stone
I had a couple other things in mind but I found out that I'm pretty inept at shrinking larger images (or portions of them) down to 80 x 80.
It's really pretty easy to grab parts of images and do little things like resizing once you get the hang of it. Jim posted it before, but there is a great little piece of editing software available as freeware at http://www.irfanview.com/ that makes it all very easy. I'll show a couple screen shots below of the Blur cover edit (taken using the great little freeware screen capture program available from http://www.gadwin.com/ which lets you select and save what you want to capture, as opposed to just capturing the whole screen to the clipboard using the [prt sc] button). The first is just copying the cover image of the <i>Best of Blur</i> from amazon.uk to the clipboard and then pasting it into IrfanView. The second shows after cutting out just the part I wanted, clearing the IrfanView display and then pasting in that cut part and then opening the resizing option to reduce it to 80 pixels to use for my avatar here. Pretty simple, eh? Easier to do than explain :)
NP: Ugly Casanova's Cat Faces from that very cool Comp For Dad
04-14-2004, 09:24 AM
Stone
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Originally Posted by Davey
It's really pretty easy to grab parts of images and do little things like resizing once you get the hang of it. Jim posted it before, but there is a great little piece of editing software available as freeware at http://www.irfanview.com/ that makes it all very easy.
Yeah, here's the stupid thing. I have Irfanview downloaded and I forgot I even had it. I'll have to try that.
04-14-2004, 12:25 PM
Davey
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Originally Posted by Stone
Yeah, here's the stupid thing. I have Irfanview downloaded and I forgot I even had it. I'll have to try that.
Well, if you are running Windows you can do the exact same thing in Paint. IrfanView just has a little better designed user interface and has more options for screwing around with the file. And in Paint you have to specify the resizing in a percentage of the original size so you would need to use the calculator to convert to pixels unless you're good with mental math. But in the Blur example, the part I cut out was 147x147 pixels so if you wanted to resize it in Paint to 80x80 pixels you would input 54% in the horizontal/vertical stretch boxes in the Stretch/Skew window. Then save it as a gif file, same as in IrfanView.
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Originally Posted by Stone
That Blur guy does bear some resemblance. Interesting choice.
Hehehe, more in attitude than looks, I think. Although, maybe if I was rendered as a cartoon......