Board Thread:Technical Help/@comment-25740071-20140424135820/@comment-4018164-20140426090705

Cool Pixels wrote: Penguin-Pal wrote: First of all you should probably use GIMP or Paint.NET to edit images before uploading.

For taking images in-game, the easiest way to do that is:
 * 1) Log in CP.
 * 2) Wear the item(s) that you want.
 * 3) Go to a clear and empty room, with a clear background (the Iceberg is really good for this purpose).
 * 4) Zoom in.
 * 5) Take a screenshot (for instance, the button Print screen" if you're on windows).
 * 6) Paste the screenshot in an image editor.
 * 7) Get rid of the background (create an alpha channel, select the background, and press Delete).
 * 8) Crop the image (in both GIMP and Paint.NET you can select only the penguin, and then use the "Crop to selection" method. In GIMP there's also an option of doing this automatically via "Image -> Autocrop Image".
 * 9) Save the image in the PNG format (for instance, Party Hat ID 413 in game.png).
 * 10) Go to Special:Upload and select the file from your computer.

For player card images, Hey.you has posted this short guide for how to do that- just follow the instructions. After you get the image of the penguin, crop the file and upload to the wiki. But, what about .gif? There are several methods for doing so, here some methods:
 * 1) Take screenshots/images for each frame and stack them to create a GIF animation.
 * 2) Record your penguin (using a screen recorder) and then convert the output to GIF using a convertor like this.
 * 3) There are some programs out there to convert SWF files directly into GIF animations. It would not do the work, of course, if you're interested in making an animation of a penguin wearing items.