update image mode faq for public release
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- title 'Welcome to Image Mode!'
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:markdown
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Thank you so much for helping to support Dress to Impress! From the data on
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the site to the funds that keep it running, none of it happens without you.
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Here's a quick breakdown of Image Mode, its beta status, and what that means
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for you.
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Yay! Image Mode! Our servers can handle Image Mode because of [your generous
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donations][donate]. Thanks for all you do.
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What is Image Mode?
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This means that some of the images you're trying to view haven't been
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converted yet. They're waiting in line to be converted, and, in order to keep
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the site stable, **the server will not convert any more images until the
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upgrade is ready**. So, in actuality, waiting will do you no good.
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**Once we're out of beta, however, that message shouldn't stay up for very long at
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all.** Once the images are done converting, they will appear, and the message
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will disappear. Once we finish converting the thousands of Flash files
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already in our database, the conversion line will almost always be very short.
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The main reason that Image Mode is not ready for the public yet, and the
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reason we're raising money for a server upgrade, is that **we're not done
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converting all of the customization Flash files to images**. There are over
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100,000 to convert, and each one can take up to 10 seconds or so. We have,
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however, converted a lot of them already. However, we've also discovered that,
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when we do the conversion process, we have unacceptable amounts of downtime.
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You may have run into some of it during the past few weeks. So, the converters
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are off until the upgrade.
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**Remember, this is just a preview of Image Mode.** You pretty much won't have
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all of the images you want until the upgrade is all done.
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converted yet. They're waiting in line to be converted. These days, that line
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is pretty darn short, so the message shouldn't stay up for too long at all.
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Just wait patiently for the magic SWF converters to run, and you should be
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good to go :)
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How do I download an image?
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Impress in general, so is not recommended.
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This image doesn't quite look right.
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If part of your image looks a little off, like something is missing or is
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transparent when it shouldn't be, hit the "Broken image?" link beneath the
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Flash/Image mode switcher. Choose the image that seems broken, and report it.
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The SWF converters will get on it as soon as they can. Thanks for your help!
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Please note that, because our SWF converters use open-source software instead
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of Adobe's software, some SWF files that use more complex features may not
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come out right, no matter how many times we convert them. Usually this involves
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fancy blur effects: Ghost pets, for example, have a sharp blue silhouette behind
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them instead of a blue glow. There's not much we can do about that for the
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time being. Most of them are okay, but if an image is just plain unusable…well,
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that's what Flash mode is for!
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What do I do if I find a problem? Have a suggestion? Just want to talk?
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Email me at <webmaster@openneo.net>. Report Image Mode problems and broken
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images, ask questions, give me cool ideas, or just say whatever you want.
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That's what I'm here for.
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Email me at <webmaster@openneo.net>. Report Image Mode bugs, ask questions,
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give me cool ideas, or just say whatever you want. That's what I'm here for.
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Thanks again! Enjoy Image Mode!
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[donate]: #{donate_path}
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