Gregory Matteson said:
:
:        Ryo-oh-ki asked why .bmp?  First because I am working in windows;
:anyway I wanted to send it in an editable, no loss, 24 bit color format, and
:.bmp makes it easy for the unwashed masses of wintel users. (so eunuchs and
:Mac people think I'm a philistine: it is hard to do build it yourself with
:Mac parts)

    If you could send me a copy, I'll change it into a TIFF or
    maybe lossless JPEG.  Seriously.  ^_^

:And, yes, despite the lack of gaudy colors, that picture has
:very fine tonality and detail, that is one of it's strengths.

    I noticed this as well with the background image of the
    house/shrine and the rest of the outdoor scenery.  I myself
    can read BMP files, but BMP is a Wintel format (much like
    PICT is a Mac format), and I was thinking of a more open
    format like TIFF (or even GIF) that more people could read.

:        Finally, I did this out of love for the story and appreciation of
:y'all, even the ones who give me an occasional bicker. In the following way
:I don't know what I'm doing: Lets see, I get up, go to work all night in a
:mainframe DP shop, come home, snap on the PC and spend an hour or so online
:or fiddling with balky hardware, take care of home and living business, eat,
:sleep.  Wah...when do I get to watch anime?  I really don't mind, but I was
:amazed how long it took to distribute just one picture to a handful of
:people, (it takes my ISP over 5 minutes to upload each letter, on a 28.8

    Assuming you max out at 3KB/s, that's around 900 KB for the
    image...!

:connection, dare I ask why?), and almost no-one, myself included, puts their
:address at the bottom of their postings.


___/^_^\___ Eugene Lee
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