Hello,

I was wondering if anyone can help me, I am making some images for a forum skin. Its the first time I have done this and I have come across a problem.

I was told that the best way to add these images that I make to a forum skin is just to overwrite the original images and so therefor call the images the name they were originally so you do not need to change the coding. I understand this but the problem I am having is the images that are automatically there are gif and when I save my images as gif and replace them on the forum skin they are all pixelated. But there must be a way of having them as a gif image without them being pixelated as the ones that were there originally are not pixelated. And I have had a look at other peoples images that they are using on the forums and they are gif and not pixelated either. The kind of images I am talking about are ones for new topics, hot topics...basically a lot of the images used for the forum skin.

Can anyone help me? I know there must be a way of doing it, the program i use to make my images are photoshop and then i save a copy of the image as a gif from there.

Thanks for any help or advice you can give me

a gif has maximum 256 colors. So if the image you're saving has more than 256 colors (a lot of images do), then your graphics program will save it 'ugly.'

Also, I think most graphics programs let you optimize images, you may want to see if you can optimize an image before you save it as a gif, to get it to look the best you can.

Or you can use jpgs/png instead of gifs. You'll have to edit the macros and stylesheet if you change a lot of the image extensions though.