picture to non-picture advice needed. warning! semi-big file

[Matt Brown]

okay, first I'd like to say I'm sorry for posting a bmp. I saved this file as a gif and a jpeg, and it got all messed up. the picture is tiny anyways. I hope


right, here is a sprite from the game I'm making. I'd like to change this horrible picture into a more orginal-looking sprite without the photo. Can anybody help me? any particular way of going about this? (

the bigest thing is to make the head normal sized, yet still kinda looking that way.

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/othersidematt1.bmp

EDIT: whoa, didn't know that was gonna happen. sorry, call me stupid. if there is way to save it in a smaller format and have the colors stay close to normal, could somebody let me know? I dont want to suck up bandwith or anything

[12431]

hey! that kinda looks like trapezoid!

[Matt Brown]

but...it isn't

its me.

[SLaMgRInDeR]

so ur putting urself in your game? cool! anyway, it looks great!
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[Matt Brown]

yeah, check out the granville cronicles in the games in development forum

[Trapezoid]

I don't see the resemblance, m0ds...

[Matt Brown]

what does m0ds got to do with this?  

[Trapezoid]

Ok, I meant 12431. They have similar color schemes on their avatars.

[wOoDz]

save it as a jpg it'll keep all its colours, looks good BTW

woodz

[BOYD1981]

save it as PNG,it doesn't mess up the picture with compression artifacting, gif will only mess your picture up if it's more than 256 colours

[Matt Brown]

can I import a PNG file into AGS as a background?

[Gilbert]

Nope, use BMP or PCX instead. But when you post a picture on the internet, better use "web-friendly" formats like JPEG, GIF or PNG.

[Matt Brown]

okay, gotcha. thanks!