I asked my daughter for a clip art collection for Christmas so I could use it for my blog. I have the worst time finding what I want free on the web that's not copyrighted. Tif always likes for her mom to be happy so she sent me the ART EXPLOSION set with 300,000 images. Actually it wasn't really 300,000 cartoons. There were 100,000 vector (hunh?) images, 30,000 raster (HUNH?), 25,000 classic images (that was OK), 5,500 (didn't need it) backgrounds, and 57,000 (unnecessary) photographs on the DVDs. Somewhere in there were clip art.
HOWEVER, the files were all something called .wmf!!! What the heck! Blogspot refused to accept it.
Art tried to find a way to change the file to a .jpg, .gif, .bmp or .png that Blogspot said it could upload but when he tried changing it to a .bmp file it came out with a black background instead of white.
(Later) Art just reminded me that he did figure out that I could do it through Office Picture Manager but it required more steps than I was happy to do.
I was seriously ready to do something horrible. It wasn't the computer's fault but I didn't care.
Finally I remembered my brother advising me earlier about what I could do to change the file. 95% of what he said went right over my head at the time. I am NOT a computer geek. However, I did remember him telling me I could try opening it on Adobe Illustrator. I opened the Illustrator for the FIRST time since I've had this computer, got the clip art and saved it to .bmp. Same thing happened with the black background. And then I tried SAVING IT TO WEB and BINGO! It turned the clip art to a .gif file. Success! Yesssssssssss!
I wonder how many thousands of clip art I really have at my disposal now. Be prepared to see a few.
OK, I am prepared. Give us all ya got.
ReplyDeleteGood onya for figuring that out, Kay.
Clip away!
Hooray, Kay! As i was reading I was going to tell you to find a program on your computer that works with several different file types. I use publisher when I want to change something from what ever .xyz it is into jpeg for the web. Good job figuring it out yourself!
ReplyDeleteGREAT!!!
ReplyDeleteyou are learning lots I can tell. If you have photoshop you can open any image and save as another format like .jpg or .gif which the internet likes. good luck-have fun exploring
ReplyDeleteDina: I'm having so much fun! But... oops! I'm being called away. Sigh... My mom wants us to start the house cleaning.
ReplyDeleteQuilly: Hmmm... I didn't try Publisher.
Gigi: Happy New Year!
Lin: Sigh! Photoshop was the first thing I tried. It couldn't even open a .wmf file. Once I changed it to a .gif file, I was able to open it to Photoshop to modify whatever I wanted on the image itself.
Hooray!
ReplyDeleteI'm not a geek either and feel your pain. I'm delighted that you managed to salvage your daughter's thoughtful gift. Computers are great but sometimes they can put us crazy -- or in my case, crazier!
ReplyDeleteI look forward to seeing your clipart.
Well, you lost me with all of that. But have fun!
ReplyDeleteWhew. Too confusing for me I fear. I consider myself very lucky that I can manage to blog! But I am certain you will have fun with your Clip Art Kay.
ReplyDeletelooking forward to seeing all your new images, lol.
ReplyDeleteIt's always nice to get something figured out..a puzzle solved..
ReplyDeleteI think you are becoming a super geek!
ReplyDeleteThe pictures are so adorable!
I'm impressed!
Isn't it fun to finally figure something out and have it work? One way to make my day and I'm glad you got it all to work for you. Hooray! Enjoy!!!
ReplyDeleteSylvia
Good for you Kay!
ReplyDeleteWhat fun to have clipart to play with, but even better to triumph over it in the end! LOL
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to seeing what you've got!