i have a comic idea, buthow can you convert a bmp. to gif. or jpg.? If there are any conversion things, can you tell me if they're free?

well...you could just open your image up in paint then click file then save as. And then there at the bottum should say bmp in it and just click on the arrow so there's a drop down menu and then you should have a option on whether it be gif or jpg. Hope that helped:P

You can do a search for them on google. There's a lot of free ones :).

This one (http://www.etrusoft.com/graphic-converter/) looks pretty good.

Originally posted by co0kied0ugh
well...you could just open your image up in paint then click file then save as. And then there at the bottum should say bmp in it and just click on the arrow so there's a drop down menu and then you should have a option on whether it be gif or jpg. Hope that helped:P On my paint program when i click the arrow there is only an option to save it as a bmp not a jpeg, gif or any other format but at school there is the opeion for jpeg, gif and others.. Why do some computers have different options to others??

The differences in Microsoft Paint have been brought up before- the reason is probably that different versions of the program were included with different distributions of Windows- either in different versions (95, 98, 98 Second Edition, ME, XP, 2000, NT, etc.) or in type- either retail or OEM (the version that a computer manufacturer would get). some of it may have to do with licensing issues- I know that the .gif format is controlled and usually you have to pay for licenses to use it (the reason the free edition of Serif PhotoPlus no longer includes the ability to save as .gif)- so some versions might have the ability while others don't if for some reason the licensing issue prevented it

To convert images i use LView Pro 1.D2/32 (It's Shareware)

It is disigned for Windows 3.1 & 95 but works on anything above. The main reason why i use it rather then anything else is because you can do a lot more then what you can do in paint such a smooth images, crop images, adjust brightness, blur and omg there's just tooo many to list. I also like it beacause it doesn't use up practicly any of ur systems recources..

Some of the conversion it can do include

JPEG (*.jpg)
Windows (*.bmp,*.dib)
OS/2 (*.bmp,*.dib)
GIF 87a (*.gif)
GIF 89a (*.gif)
TARGA (*.tga)
PCX (*.pcx)
PPM (*.pmm,*.pgm,*.pdm)
TIFF Uncompressed (*.tiff)
TIFF Compressed (*.tiff)

LView Pro 1.D2/32 also allows u to choose how u save each image too... eg. 5% compession to 95% compess for jpegs, how many colors you wish to save in a gif aswell as a transparent color in gif.

There is a newer version out but i wouldn't bother with it.. LView Pro 1.D2/32 can do all you need and as i mentioned above runs on no system recources!

Download LView Pro 1.D2/32 here (http://www.the-force.demon.nl/Software/Download.html)..

Or (of course) there is the open-sourced GNU image manipulation program (GIMP) which also supports all PS filters, script-fu language programming and bmp-c-source-fits-hrz-jpeg-pat-pcx-pix-png (my fav) pnm-psd-postscript-sgi-tiff-xcf-xwd and gzip compression.

A tad tricky to use, well worth it though, specially when you start script-fu'ing

http://www.gimp.org