WindowBlinds Wallpaper can't use .gif?

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Hiya,

I'm trying to use some images I have stored on my computer as .gif as wallpaper but they don't show up in the Wallpaper Changer in WindowBlinds at all. I've had to go in and save them in .jpg in a graphic program for them to show up at all in the Wallpaper listings of WindowBlinds.

Is this supposed to be this way? And is there any way I can get the .gif to show up? I sure don't want to have to go in and convert all these graphics just for this since I use them for many different things.

I sure would like to be able to use them right through WindowBlinds Wallpaper changer setup.


Another problem I'm having (I'm sure it's just some setting somewhere that I can't find) But I can't find a way to override the Wallpaper Changer in WindowBlinds unless I use the graphic directly from the internet (by right clicking the graphic and telling it to be my background image). To go into the Windows Desktop setup I cannot get it to put any other wallpaper on the computer except the one that I have chosen in the WindowBlinds program.
Any ideas what setting I have to change to make it editable no matter where I am changing it?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The quality of GIF's makes them not suitable for wallpaper usage.
From Wikipedia,
The format uses a palette of up to 256 distinct colors from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of 256 colors for each frame. The color limitation makes the GIF format unsuitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with continuous color, but it is well-suited for more simple images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The standard Windows wallpaper format is jpg and bmp, not gif ...so you'll always have to change the image type [gif] to one of those....;)
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I just put a gif image up for wallpaper. Animated flames, looks pretty cool.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Sorry took so long, I've been gone on vacation and just returned.

Well hmm, I have a lot of .gif files that are very suitable for backgrounds, what about giving us the option at least to use them if 'we' want to rather than choosing it for us? :P

Seriously though, there are so many it would take me hours to just constantly load them each up into a graphics program just to save them into .jpg format for usage. Isn't there some way to give us this option? Let us at least see what it looks like so we can decide if we want to use the graphic or not.

I agree animated ones can be a real pain and definitely cpu hogs so those aren't the ones I'm interested in. I dunno why the ones I have are in .gif format, but they aren't all animated and I would say I have over 100 of them that I'd have to convert lol.

Having said that, does anyone know if there is a graphics converter out there that can do mass files? If so then that would solve the problem completely lol.

Thanks for the responses guys, most appreciated whether we agree or not :)
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
How about if in a folder irfanview batch conversion done in no time
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
can you explain what that means, it sounds familiar, but I haven't worked with a lot of batch conversions in a very long time, probably since not long after getting into windows and out of dos lol. what is irfanview?

**EDIT** I googled it and found the software, thanks so much I'll give this a try and see how it goes, if this does what the site says it will do, this will solve the issue completely. Thanks :)
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
if this does what the site says it will do, this will solve the issue completely.
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it will
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It worked perfectly, thanks so very much for that program tip, I now have tons of backgrounds that I won't have to do manually :)