Pictures in AIM profile

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Originally Posted by Robopol

how do u put a black and wite (or color)pic on ur profile? does it have 2 b a specific extension?

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Originally Posted by Plasma2002b

nope.... the AIM progile thing cant show pictures at all. What your seeing is regular scaces with a different background color.

ya gotta use a program that will do it for ya.

heres what ya gotta do......

first you gotta make your images small. ya do this in photoshop or sumthin. But just remember that its gonna look huge in the AIM profile. If its an actual picture, then you should reduce the amount of colors in it so it looks better in the AIM profile and doesnt take as long. (a good way of doing this is just simply to make it black and white) But if its a simple GIF image, then it shouldnt be a problem.

But after you make it small, save it. Now here comes the key part. You need a program that will convert the image into html. A good one is FBImage. Its made by Wicon Software. (the same guy that made AIM Filter). It is available here.

http://www.schwippy.com/fbimage.zip

After you download this, just open the picture you made with it and select how much of the image you want to be seen. (click in a part of the picture and you will see how the box works)

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If the image in the box is too big to be seen then i can tell you right now that you made the image way too big.
After you got the right size, click CREATE.... and BE PATIENT.

look at the faded gray text and you will see its counting. When its done, you will have a lot of html on your clipboard that you can past into an HTML file.

Just upload the html file and link to it in your profile (just make sure you put target="_self" in the link so it will open in the same window)

And thats it. If it looks like it goes blank after some of the picture, then that means you used too many colors. Reduce the amount and try it again.

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What is a clipboard and how do you get to it? I'm not good with computers as you can tell.

[Anthony]

The clip board is part of the system.

[Example:]

Press reply
highlight "Schwippy Forums"
press ctrl+c (or right click on the highlighted text and click copy)
go to the post box and press ctrl+v (or right click in the box and press paste)

You have now just used the clipboard

You have now just copied and pasted

[/Example]

You can also cut the text of some things (it makes it go to the clip board and removes if from where you "cutted" it.

[Example]

Go to the post window
Highlight something in your post
Press ctrl+x (or right click and press cut)
Now press enter a couple of times (to go some where else in the post window)
Press ctrl+v (ctrl+v pastes any text on the clip board)(or right click and press paste)

[/Example]

[Plasma2002]

lol.... yeah, he gave a pretty acurate description of how to work it.........


think of the clipboard as just a part of your computer that you dont see, but its always there........ when you COPY something, wether it be text, a file, a picture, or whatever, it puts it on the clipboard so you can move around in your computer without having the stuff you just copied get lost.

Now, when you PASTE, basically it just takes whatever is on the clipboard and spits it out to wherever you are pasting it to.

See the above post on how to copy and paste, but thats basically how the clipboard works...... its not really anything you SEE, rather a definition of something inside your computer

[Anthony]

I see it. I have Windows 3.1 (I really do). Also with Office XP they step back towards seeing the clip board.

Also the clip board does not "spit" it out but instead copies it (You can use the same thing unlimited times in unlimited spots as long as you don't copy something new (except for in Office XP where you can select one of the older things you copied).

EDIT: Bad grammer

[Plasma2002]

.........i was trying to be as undescriptive and unconfusing as i could be :wink:

[Matt]

I knew what a clipboard was since I had the old Macs where it had the program "clipboard" and when you opened it, it showed everything you had there (from what you copied-pasted).

[Plasma2002]

in Win 3.1 there was the cliboard viewer also....... but in 95, it got lost....... aclauser says its in XP, but ive never seen it

[Anthony]

Not XP... Office XP. It may only work if you copy/cut/paste in Office though.