First Submission Problems

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mlavanish

New member
Hi. Need some help here. I tried to post my first mini image and I\'m getting errors. My image is in gif format and is less than 600 pixels width and about 80k. This fits all the parameters that I could find. I am getting these errors:

Warning: imagecreatefrompng: \'/home/coolmini/www/pics/pics3/img3e6ea2fc45380.gif\' is not a valid PNG file in /home/coolmini/public_html/thumbnail.php on line 159

Warning: imagecopyresized(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /home/coolmini/public_html/thumbnail.php on line 176

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imagecreatefromgif() in /home/coolmini/public_html/thumbnail.php on line 37

Is it something I\'m doing wrong, or is the page screwing up and I should just try again later? Thanks for your help.
 
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mlavanish

New member
Thanks Katie. I was trying to avoid that because of the poorer image quality, but in the end that\'s all that seemed to work. The FAQ says you can post Gifs. Guess I\'m just not doing it right.
 
Chern Ann

Chern Ann

Only when they're green
Staff member
I\'ve recently upgraded the graphics library, and we no longer support GIFs. Haven\'t gotten round to updating the FAQ yet.

GIFs do not have a higher image quality, it merely is a non-lossy compression format BUT it only supports 256 colours maximum. While 256 colours is perfectly fine for line art, it is particularly bad for displaying photos, and since this site is primarily photo based gifs are not recommended.
 
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