you know.. the picture in my computers properties.. i read how to do it but it did not work, also i could not make a transparent bitmap.. can anyone point me in the right direction?

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**** u mct. i clicked on the link hahhahah u got me there.

ya ya search.. spent half the day doing that already, all i need to know is how to make transparent bitmaps, and why when i test my oem.ini and oemlogo.bmp it does not show in sys properties after i copy them to my system32 folder..

i used the directions from

http://unattended.msfn.org/advanced/cosmetics/oeminfo.htm

i made my logo in photoshop but it wont let me save bitmaps with transparent backrounds..

So you must've found this topic: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=36999 (6th result when searching for oemlogo.bmp). And you ini should be called oeminfo.ini, not oem.ini (also seen in the guide you posted).

I wish MCT would make a guide on how to make a Transparent Bitmap. hint hint. Using Photoshop CS or Corel Draw 11

with streaming video.. hint hint wink wink MCT. LOL

lol & why should i make a guide

Aren't u the doctor or Graphics?

come on it wont take that long to make it.

that link that Tsunami gave is so hard to grasp I want a spoon feeding.

NO! not that kind of spoon. Get your mind out of the gutter. LOL

lol perv negative on the graphics thing i know basics, thats it lol

lets bug simonsays i believe hes good with graphics

Hey Simon! where are you?

can u pls make a guide? on how to make a transparent bmp?

i wonder if we can make a batch file convert in to a transparent bmp?

I searched google and found these

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistan...0758101033.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/bitmap/trans_cimage.asp

http://support.installshield.com/kb/view.a...ticleid=Q103849

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q79212/

most of it's greek to me, but maybe it will make sense to you smartiepants

isn't making it transparent as simple is setting the 0,0 and the far bottom-right pixel to FF00FF ? Then just use that color for whatever you want to be transparent.

Hi, im trying to do this atm, but its not going transparent.

Im going by Allanols, and SiMonSaYs idea of the 0,0 px and opposite corner colour being the ones representing the transparent colour and saving as 32bit bitmap.

Anyone have ago for me? or tell me what i need to do?

http://www.meknet.co.uk/oemlogo.psd

@Alanoll, 0,0 pixel and the last pixel f.e. 150x150 have to be of the same color to be transparent. it also needs to be saved as 256 colors.

edit: if you want the image to be 32bits you'll need to create a new alpha layer. search google for tutorials.

Edited February 17, 200521 yr by SiMoNsAyS

search for half life spray guides, they use bitmaps with transparancies -true blue colour = transparant iirc