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  Friday, March 14th, 2008 at 7:17:11 PM #1107
Toasty
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Images
PNGs are the best to submit out of any image type. These are starting to become the de-facto standard of the internet, and the have excellent color retention.

GIFs and Animated GIFS are not recommended at this point. The "YouN00b" overlay tends to corrupt animated images, and it doesn't overlay right onto GIF images. Also, adding the color palette changes what is called "Indexed Colors", which is what GIF images are based on. This will usually degrade the coloring.

JPGs usually work, but there is a slight issue with those images. That, and besides images that aren't directly designed for JPEG format usually look pretty distorted.

Videos
Currently, we only support Videos posted on YouTube. To post a video from youtube, copy the "v=" number off of the URL to the video.

For example:
http://www.youtube.com/?v=a13b94dc

You would put this:

a13b94dc

In the video area.

Also, in the future, I'll be supporting videos from Break and MySpace.

If you have a video that doesn't work, have an admin or mod delete it for you and repost an updated version of it. This will keep content fresh, and will allow you to gain more points.

Stories
Too the point and interesting. BBCode is supported. Click the Help link at the bottom of every page to learn more about BBCode.


How-To
This doesn't have to be just pranks, just "n00bish" events. Post how to fix a computer, how to clean a VCR, whatever you know how to do that you think might be useful to other people, post 'em in there!

Tools
Similar to the Software and Applications forum, these ones are rate-able. Try to keep down redundancies between the Tools forum and the Tools Submissions.


I've modified the rating system so it's impossible for a CRSF vote to occur, so the system is a little more secure now.

Any other tips for other members, post 'em here.

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  Friday, March 14th, 2008 at 9:52:20 PM #1110
Darkharbinger
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well that explains why the sonic wins pic I posted didn't play

I have tried to upload several .jpegs but it keeps coming up "error"

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  Sunday, March 16th, 2008 at 7:17:07 AM #1167
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Quote:
PNGs are the best to submit out of any image type

ie doesnt support the alpha layer of png

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  Sunday, March 16th, 2008 at 10:14:23 AM #1172
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thats cuz ie sucks. firefox ftw!!
  Friday, March 21st, 2008 at 1:43:34 PM #1312
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agreed

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