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Offline Cooper

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Converting 300 gifs to png
« on: February 06, 2025, 12:22:08 am »
I have more than 300 gifs in Alien Takeover that i want to convert to png.

What would be the fastest way of doing this?

Is using this which is good, but as it cant read gifs (edit: seems like it reads gifs after all, not sure why it did not work last time), i’m just renaming the files to png before uploading them. Is that even a good idea?

Also, a few pictures looks very strange after converting, requiring even more time to manually fix.

Any suggestions?
« Last Edit: February 06, 2025, 07:15:08 pm by Cooper »

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Re: Converting 300 gifs to png
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2025, 07:32:29 am »
I use Aseprite. It keeps the palette untouched and saves me that extra step.

I still have to convert each file one at a time using the 'Save As' tool and then manually add .png. I managed to convert approximately 750 files in about two hours… definitely a hassle, but so far, it's the safest method I've found.

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Re: Converting 300 gifs to png
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2025, 11:18:45 am »
I've looked around and it seems XnConvert will do the trick for you, tested it with some images from a mod converting them to GIF, then back to PNG and the palette looks untouched when I open them in LibreSprite.

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Re: Converting 300 gifs to png
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2025, 11:52:12 pm »
IrfanView has a batch conversion tool under its File menu ...

not sure what it does to the palette tho,

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Re: Converting 300 gifs to png
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2025, 12:44:50 am »
I ended up using a free program called mtPaint. Finally something that just works!
« Last Edit: February 09, 2025, 01:01:04 am by Cooper »