# Photography Section #

I had a couple of photos I wanted to share but I'm having trouble converting them to gif on my new MacBook.

I'm puzzled why this website insists on GIF files?

I don't convert jpeg to gif.  I just rename them as gifs. 

I wondered why I couldn't upload pics to this site any more.    GIF - that's the worst format possible - only 256 colours  - what is this?   1992?

Is this just the latest in site 'improvements'?

A real gif file below.

A PNG file renamed as a gif below.

A JPEG renamed as a gif.

Surprise surprise. All three work.

i agree,,  as a tester,,,,,,  its shows what happens without testing

yes - it's back.    This is really rubbish on a 'professional' website.

I agree, it's strange having to rename file extensions.

When I use Windows to rename jpegs/jpgs to GIFs, I get a warning message from the system that programs may be unable to open these files.

Renaming file names is routine, but changing file extensions is dangerous because extensions usually indicate the file type.

I'm going to try to upload an actual GIF file to see if it works.

no it is there its a tiny icon and when clicked on there are 3 people and a bid wolf

interesting - my photo has disappeared from the wolf thread - more incompatibilities?

Just did the re-name file thing to upload a pic - it works - but how can that work?    They are totally different technical formats -  What a cludge.

the file validation may be just checking the filename extension and isnt checking it contents so once it gets past the validation it is added and the rest of the software is ok with it.

I'm confused.  

I am uploading .jpg files which I have just renamed .Gif .  But they are still jpeg files.

The programs I used are either Fastone and windows itself.

Fastone still tells me that it is still a JPEG file, despite the .gif extension.

The following is a renamed gif.  Fastone says it has 211,312 different colours, file size 351kb

When I actually converted  it to gif, the colour count went down to 256 and file size to up 1,800kb.

I'm confused.  

I am uploading .jpg files which I have just renamed .Gif .  But they are still jpeg files.

The programs I used are either Fastone and windows itself.

Fastone still tells me that it is still a JPEG file, despite the .gif extension.

The following is a renamed gif.  Fastone says it has 211,312 different colours, file size 351kb

When I actually converted  it to gif, the colour count went down to 256 and file size to up 1,800kb.

A real gif file below.

A PNG file renamed as a gif below.

A JPEG renamed as a gif.

Surprise surprise. All three work.

i agree,,  as a tester,,,,,,  its shows what happens without testing

yes - it's back.    This is really rubbish on a 'professional' website.

I agree, it's strange having to rename file extensions.

When I use Windows to rename jpegs/jpgs to GIFs, I get a warning message from the system that programs may be unable to open these files.

Renaming file names is routine, but changing file extensions is dangerous because extensions usually indicate the file type.

I'm going to try to upload an actual GIF file to see if it works.

no it is there its a tiny icon and when clicked on there are 3 people and a bid wolf

interesting - my photo has disappeared from the wolf thread - more incompatibilities?

Just did the re-name file thing to upload a pic - it works - but how can that work?    They are totally different technical formats -  What a cludge.

the file validation may be just checking the filename extension and isnt checking it contents so once it gets past the validation it is added and the rest of the software is ok with it.