Custom Border Art

[Peter]

When I try to use a 19KB .GIF image as custom border art, I get an error message, "The image is too complex to be made into a border" message.

The image has 4 colors and would appear to my eye to be less complex than some of those images already in the clipart file.

Suggestions? How can I "simplify" the image. I use Photoshop. Thanks

 

[Ed Bennett]

After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message

When I try to use a 19KB .GIF image as custom border art, I get an
error message, "The image is too complex to be made into a border"
message.

This is not due to the complexity of the image, but the format of the image.
A .gif image is a raster or bit-mapped image. This means that it is stored
as a set of pixels, with some sort of compression applied to save space.
These are traditionally made with paint programs.
BorderArt requires a vector image, which consists of lines, curves and
fills. These are made with draw programs such as CorelDraw.
You need to find a draw program, recreate your image there, and save it as a
vector file (such as WMF)

 

[Peter]

Thanks Ed however I get the same message with both .WMF
and .EMF file types (created by Flash). /Peter

 

[Ed Bennett]

After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message

Thanks Ed however I get the same message with both .WMF
and .EMF file types (created by Flash). /Peter

How many objects/paths are in the saved file?
Or did you just put the GIF file in Flash and save it as a WMF?

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MS MVP]]

Hi Peter ([email protected]),
in the Microsoft® newsgroups
you posted:

|| Thanks Ed however I get the same message with both .WMF
|| and .EMF file types (created by Flash). /Peter

Can you post the gif here please?

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[Jim Harkins]

You can get a great freeware draw program here called DrawPlus.
That will allow you to make a VECTORISED picture file format, export it as *.WMF and use that for your BorderArt.

It's always nice to find ANOTHER Serif fan...