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Uploading very large images now works!

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Some of you couldn’t fully participate on WeGIF before, because the Flash Gif Creator just wouldn’t let you upload very large images (specifically image dimensions above 2880×2880 px). While it is still recommended to re-size images before uploading, since the transfer time to our severs will be much shorter, for some people this is not as easy to do as it sounds.

The Create page will now accept much larger image files than before and re-size them for you. If you happen to be someone with one of those new 12 megapixel cameras and take pictures on full resolution, and don’t know how to resize them, you can now still upload your files to WeGIF (as long as the file size is less then 10 megabytes) and create gifs.

If you know your way around Photoshop and iPhoto and wish to resize your images before upload, you can resize them to fit in a 500×500px box.

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3.7Design and AjaxLine Talkin Gifs

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Two articles on making animated gif menus using css.
3.7designs has an overview of using css and gifs to animate menus.
AjaxLine article talks about using CSS and animated gifs to animate menu.

“GIFs can still be a very powerful tool, and the fact that they have been long forgotten gives me an opportunity to brainstorm what you can do with them.” 3.7

“There was a time when the ability to animate GIF’s made web sites a little more fun… or horribly obnoxious. It seems that no one really harnessed the power of animated GIFs, and today the only place they seem to be used are in banner advertisements when flash isn’t available.” -AjaxLine

WeGif understands that no one really has harnessed the power of animated gifs and thats why we have created wegif.com.

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Troubleshooting Mac Computers with iSight

Friday, May 30th, 2008

We noticed on WeGIF.com that Mac computers sometimes do not select the built in iSight by default and instead of seeing yourself, you will see a white box. This is a very simple to resolve issue caused by the fact that the Adobe Flash Player camera setting on a Mac typically defaults to the DV camera instead of the USB (iSight or other webcam).

To get your camera working all you have to do is right-click (or command click) in the center of the flash area on the Create page. It may not be obvious where the flash area starts and ends so a safe way to do it is to right click on the Create From Webcam button, select Settings, then go to the webcam tab (look for webcam icon). On the webcam tab, there will be a drop-down with multiple options. Try clicking on the various options and look for something called USB or iSight, or maybe just recognize the brand of your webcam. If you are already on the create from webcam screen, the video should begin immediately.

Hope this helps. Feel free to post comments on your experience about this topic.

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