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muffin-brownie

Join Date 12/2007

my bootskins aren't working

i've tried evrything

i have created my first bootskin,
it has a windows royale kind of theme but there's 1 problem
bootskin doesn't recognise it (

this is my bootskin
i tried evryting but the program doesn't recognise it
so i've downloaded an other bootskin and pasted mine over it in photoshop
so i had the sizes and evryting perfect,
The skin i used
the weird part is that the skins are saved in the programfiles folder?
so can anyone tell me what is wrong with my skin.

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Fuzzy Logic

Join Date 05/2002

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The bootskin images you have are full colour. They need to be 16 colour only, and from the same colour palette.

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i did save them as 16 color bmp i actuly cut the loading image from the background psd so i dont think they have different colour palettes or am i wrong ????

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Fuzzy Logic

Join Date 05/2002

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The images I downloaded were full colour

You need to be working on a bmp image not a psd.

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Cavan1

Join Date 08/2004

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i did save them as 16 color bmp

You have them as a 16bit bitmap, they must be a 4bit bitmap, 4bit is 16 color.

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Cavan1

Join Date 08/2004

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so i've downloaded an other bootskin and pasted mine over it in photoshop
so i had the sizes and evryting perfect,

That does not work.

Here is a bootskin tutorial using PhotoShop WWW Link

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Cavan1

Join Date 08/2004

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but there's 1 problem
bootskin doesn't recognise it

There are 3 reasons that bootskin will not recognize a skin

1) wrong color depth for screen image (this is problem you have)
2) wrong size for screen image
3) wrong name info for screen image in the .ini file

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ok i understand the problem now
so i saved it as a 16 color bitmap
and it looks awfull isnt there a trick to change the system so you can use at least 32 colors or more ???

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Cavan1

Join Date 08/2004

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isnt there a trick to change the system so you can use at least 32 colors or more ???

Nope.

so i saved it as a 16 color bitmap
and it looks awfull

The trick to creating bootskins is to start with images that do not have a wide range of colors. In yours the 2 windows flags are using different colors, if they where the same flag as far as colors the image would look better at 16 color.

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isnt there a trick to change the system so you can use at least 32 colors or more ???

nope.

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