File conversion

Ok, I have a bit of a problem. Long story short I need a way to convert Bitmap images into something els, like PNG and the sort. How the fuck do I go about this?

I'v heard there are programs out there that do this, and I'v gotten some random likes, but I dont understand ANY of it.

So if someone we be so kind as to link me to whatever program is used for doing stuff like this and them tell me how to use it.

irfanview

psp will  do it also, only reason I ever used it any way.

Jesus, even mspaint can do that.

>>4
word

How the hell do I do it then? How do I turn a bitmap image into a PNG or JPEG with MSPaint?

File > Save As

Go sell your computer to someone who knows how to use it.

I do the same thing as >>2.

If you need to batch a large number of BMP -> PNG (or any other format), Irfanview is a good choice. It's free, and the PNG converter is both fast and excellent. At least for grayscale, I've never seen pngcrush beat Irfanview-converted PNG. Even advpng has a hard time.

Just stay away from the Irfanview's colour-reduction, if you ever need it, because it stinks.

If you really do need to do a large batch, look into ImageMagick.  Command line tool and open source.

just get photoshop and be done it with it forever

Using photoshop to batch convert is a pain. You have to set up actions, and then select a directory. At least in 7.0, you can't select multiple files within a directory, just the directory. Gay.

More importantly, photoshop has fuck awful PNG support. If you use photoshop to convert to PNG, you either need a third-party plugin, or you'll need to use pngcrush or advpng after.

>>1
Yeah, Photoshop sucks, avoid.

Use BMP2PNG, a command line utility found in the PNG utils:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/pngutils.htm

>>11
PS CS and CS2 have much improved PNG support.  You barely gain anything from running pngcrush/advpng on CS/2 PNG files.