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- title 'Welcome to Image Mode!'
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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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What is Image Mode?
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Image Mode has two main features:
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1. **Save images of your pets!**
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On supported browsers, you will see a "Download" button. Clicking it will
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start downloading a PNG image file to your computer.
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2. **No more Flash!**
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In Flash Mode, your browser downloads several Flash files and layers them
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on top of each other. In Image Mode, we layer images, instead.
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How do I use it?
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Start using Dress to Impress normally: type in a pet name or choose a
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color/species combination from the home page. Then, to the left of the pet's
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image, you should see Flash highlighted.
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**Click on the word Image.** Congrats, you're in!
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What does "Waiting on X images" mean?
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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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How do I download an image?
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Just click the Download button beneath the Flash/Image switch. If all goes
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well, a download should begin automatically.
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I don't see any Download button.
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Downloading currently only works for modern browsers that support the new
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canvas feature. It is, however, supported in the latest versions of,
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* [Google Chrome](http://www.google.com/chrome)
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* [Mozilla Firefox](http://www.firefox.com/)
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* [Opera](http://www.opera.com/)
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* [Safari](http://www.apple.com/safari/)
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* [Internet Explorer](http://www.microsoft.com/ie)
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However, Internet Explorer currently is having trouble running Dress to
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Impress in general, so is not recommended.
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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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Thanks again! Enjoy Image Mode!
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