Hello all, I am about pulling my darn hair out. I thought this would be easy to find an answer to. What I would like to have the option to do and btw I did do it accidently so I know it can be done. Anyway all I want to do is save a picture as a gif from my digital camera instead of a jpeg. The way I have to download pics to my pc from camera is take the smartmedia card and put it in this usb device that turns to drive E in microsoft Picture it. Anyway I do end up with a picture in my pictures folder but it's always a jpeg. Well, awhile back I got this awesome picture of a humming bird drinking out of a feeder, anyway I ran it through picture it and saved 2 copys. The thing I can't figure out is one copy is a gif and it's a lot larger than the jpeg but it looks better as a gif. The reason I ask this question here is I'm using windows me and don't know anyone else to ask. Thanks for any input, John...

Open an image. Click File>Save as select GIF from file type dropdown menu. I'm using ACDSEE for image editing. What editing program do you use? Get another if it doesn't have file conversion capability.

John, Irfanview will do what you want. Google will tell you where to locate it. It's FREE! free tutorial at: http://www.teachers-connect.net/MAS... Another, supposed to be even better is called Xnview. Get it at: http://www.xnview.com/ also free! HTH. Ed in Texas.

Richard59 has it in one. When you save the picture, a report will say 'a file with this name already exists, do you want to over-write it'. Don't over-write the picture but give it a name slightly different to the original e.g. humming bird.jpg to humming bird1.gif This way, both images will be next to each other, making them easy to open and compare the quality. .jpg's are compressed to 1/10 the size of a .bmp file but the quality is sometimes not as good. You will have to look hard to spot the differences. I have only seen .gif files as tiny adverts on web pages. Experiment with different file formats.

You can insert the image into MSPAINT and then save it in the format you wish to change it to !