hello everyone

first of all, great community i've learned alot from you

there's one thing i can't find out

in the tutorial that explains how to edit the oemlogo there's a line:

Its a good idea to keep it transparent so it blends into the colour of the System Properties window!

is it possible to make a bmp transparant??

grtz

Yes, with image-editors like photoshop....

Usually the transparent colour with bmp's is RGB(#FF00FF) or RGB(#0000FF), at least, that's the majority of ones that I've seen from MS.

Just make a 32 bit bmp (24-bit + 8 bit alpha channel) using Photoshop or similar, or take your favorite png and save it to bmp 32-bit. I havent tested that, but I pressume it will work.

If I remember correctly, the upper right (or left?) pixel is the one to determine the transparency. So if you have a pink background you want to be transparent, make sure the corner's pixel has this color

i can't find it :/

i've been looking on the net, and all i saw was: you can't make a bmp transparant

use paint shop pro 7

make your image (size 180x114)

convert it to 256 colors

from the menu select:

colors>set palette transparency

click on a color you wish to be transparent

confirm

save as oemlogo.bmp

copy it to system32 folder

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=22523

well there is a way to do it that ALWAYS work:

create a new bmp, be sure to use as background color 255,0,255 (or 0,255,0 or any other non-common color). the trick is that the 1,1 pixel of the image and the last 180,114 have to be of the same (transparent) color

draw inside or paste your favorite logo

save the image as 256 color bmp and it will work.

yess now it works

thank you all