I Got Simpsonized!

I tried the Simpsons movie-related website, Simpsonize Me, which is sponsored by Burger King. Here I am coming out of the Kwik-E Mart.

If you would like to use this site to turn yourself into a Simpson's character, step one is to follow their photo guidelines (a head shot against a white background) that is or has been resized to 640 X 640 pixels. The first pictures I tried were too big and I kept getting a message that the site was busy. Once I resized the pictures, the site worked quickly to "Simpsonize" them.

I saved my created character pictures on my PC but the file format is not a JPG or GIF and I could not view the picture until I uploaded it here on Blogger. I think that it is an image that is only viewable with a flashplayer.

The website has a feature where you can order merchandise with your Simpson character on it. Perhaps not allowing the image to be saved in an easily reproducible format like JPEG is a way of ensuring that site users don't produce their own items with the images on them and are pushed to buy the site's merchandise.