Advisory Board, LJ Policy and Question

[kennahijja]

Everybody and their dog knows, but... legomymalfoy won the LJ Advisory Board election. Congrats. That could've gone worse ;). Though I still think that if that post had any real importance, it wouldn't exist.

The election itself... after, what, about ten years of vote-counting duty and 21 years of voting in RL, I admit that the screeches of "our candidate not winning is proof for election fraud" stymied me - a lot! ('specially after *not* voting with the two 'sockpuppet' journals I do have...). Well, it's the Internets...

*grins at rfachir, who knows why*

That said, I've been an outspoken critic of LJ since Strike/Boldthrough (oh, stop yawning, you lot!), but the new policy announcement truly impressed me. Improved clarity? Turnaround on the censorship agenda? Now I want to see how this plays out over the next two years or so, not wanting to be gullible ever again, but yeah - impressive. What d'you think?

Um, finally, a technical question thingy... some time back a kindly soul directed me to a tool for making animated icons, which is working with *.gif images... It's brill, but does anyone know of something that handles higher-resolution images like jpg or png or bitmaps? I'm trying to work with some pictures and turning them to gif is practically ruining them.

Comments

[snorkackcatcher]

There's the slight problem that animation isn't actually part of the spec for those other image file formats, while it is with gifs. That's why you need to use them, :) It's not the resolution as such that's the problem, it's the number of colours -- with a gif you're limited to 256 in an image, so if there are lots of subtle gradations in colour they don't come out very well when you only have 256 total to play with.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Thanks - obviously I'm clueless, and I guess it wouldn't look quite as bad if I had a decent photoshop/editing tool instead of fiddling around with the paint function :). Thanks again!