The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #19209   Message #202516
Posted By: Helen
28-Mar-00 - 04:00 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Six Ribbons (Jon English, Mario Millo)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: after words to the song 'six ribbons
Bob,

It is a GIF file - I avoided using a JPEG because I know it loses definition with the compression, but I didn't know what resolution (dots per inch) would work best and I saved it first as a grey-scale file at 1200 dpi but it was huge. Then I scanned the Line-Art/B&W file at 600 dpi but that was huge too, so I scaled the size down to get 203K - the line-art one was 23,000K to start with - mega-huge.

I'll have to play around with it and find a clear definition which isn't too large in file size. But, I'll probably still type it into Noteworthy and make a Midi file - that's a lot easier all round.

Which graphic program do you use? I am struggling between Corel Photo-Paint and the Microsoft Picture-It program which came with my computer a few years ago. I'm more comfortable with graphics programs on the Amiga but it is packed away in a corner at the moment, and then I have to do complicated disk swappings between the PC & the Amiga.

Helen