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From: bobo@pecan15.cray.com (Bob Kierski)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How does one make a GIF file?
Keywords: GIF
Message-ID: <095210.18790@timbuk.cray.com>
Date: 14 Jan 91 15:59:32 GMT
References: <1991Jan14.001809.29746@engin.umich.edu>
Reply-To: bobo@pecan15.cray.com (Bob Kierski)
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
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In article <1991Jan14.001809.29746@engin.umich.edu>, trammell@engin.umich.edu (James Trammell) writes:
|> 
|> Hello. I am posting to this newsgroup because I don't know where else to
|> post.  My problem is this:
|> 
|> I have some photographs that I want to scan so that I can create GIF files
|> to load on my screen.  
|> 
|> At my school, there is a color scanner and a b/w scanner. 
|> Both are connected to Macintosh IIx's.  I will be scanning the pics on a Mac,
|> but I will be loading the pictures on
|> to the screens of UNIX workstations like the Sun SPARCstation 1+ and DEC 5000.
|> 
|> With the color scanner, I scanned an image using Adobe Photoshop software.
|> There is an option to save the scan as a GIF file, but it is whited out.
|> There are other options, but they are unfamiliar.  There is also a TIFF option.
|> 

There is usually a PICT and PICT resource save option.  I don't have Adobe
Photoshop so I can't be sure.  You can save the picture as a PICT file, then
use some other tool to convert to GIF.  A good PD tool for doing this is
Giffer, and Gifconverter.  You can get both from stanford.

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Have a day,