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Default Re: New images for docs? - 30-04-2004

Well, we can always argue about the layout once the content is there - as long as the document structure is ok, it's no big deal to change the look of menu buttons and things like background / font colour.
And yes, we will need new screenshots- partly to demonstrate some of the new features, partly to show the new (visible) flags, and I'll also make some new ones for the "common errors" section because I might add one or two points there.
Huntkillaz, get ACDSee (you might be able to get an older version, like 2.xx or maybe even 3.xx, totally legal and for free - it's a great tool for viewing and archiving image collections, and you can easily read TGAs with it and convert them to JPG (adjustable settings). Once you've found a good setting, you can even easily batch convert a whole bunch of files, and there's also a very neat batch rename function.
However, IMHO Photoshop would be the best choice to create all necessary images - it allows for the best tweaking to ptimal size / quality / web compatibility. The logo, for example: I suppose it's a JPG right now - an 8-Bit PNG reduced to no more than those colours that are actually needed could result in a crisper but yet smaller image... The same applies if we want to make close-up screenshots of the bot menu or waypointing menu instead of writing that stuff down... whenever there's something written in an image, JPG is not the ideal choice - some GIF or PNG formats are usually better for that purpose.



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