I was playing with 3.0

If I do a blank then put something in it - when I save as a bitmap it gives me the option of 32bit - I have no familiarity with it, still trying to figure out PSP8 (but I can save/load alpha channels in that - just don't know what to do with them.)

If I got this right - I take your sample, change to zip, open, replace 128, rezip, rename back, then open with LS and apply? that right?

"A few times, they just ended up ripping one of mine and changing the wall."(reply#3)

For the most part, what you and Bichur are talking about is still a foreign language...

As a beginner I had only figured out a way to change the "wallpaper" on your "rippable" (guess that's not a real word!)logon, and that's where things went...um...awry! Back to the drawing board, but paying close attention to the conversation of those who know how!

Thanks for the help.

error at line 40

me thinks I should have followed the tutorial...

Bichur, once you have the Logon installed, you can go to the Logon Studio folder, make a copy of "My Very Own Logon" if you want, make your image, and overwrite the bmp 128 with your image. No zipping, unzipping or anything. Then open LS and apply the Copy of the logon.

The error is for the splash...not a true 32 bit alpha channel bmp.

arcturus, to change the wall in any of my logons, just open the wallpaper you want to use and save it as bmp 100 in the logon you want to replace it in, overwriting the existing bmp 100. Any size wall will work, it will size itself to your res.

Then just open the theme.ini, change the name and creator info, and upload it as your own until I catch you and have it removed.

OK...it's sounding a little less like Russian or Swedish or whatever language is was you were talking in earlier....

Give me a minute, or 100....

And I would ALWAYS credit the master - besides, everyone knows your work, and I'd never get away fast enough!!

No, you wouldn't.

besides, everyone knows your work, and I'd never get away fast enough!!

yep & nope

Deleted bitmap_100 in the "Very Own" folder, replaced with a new wall...

but only got a plain light blue screen with your user sign-in graphics.

Still tryin'!

Bichur, once you have the Logon installed, you can go to the Logon Studio folder, make a copy of "My Very Own Logon" if you want, make your image, and overwrite the bmp 128 with your image. No zipping, unzipping or anything. Then open LS and apply the Copy of the logon.

Okay, I'll give that way a shot after I figure out the Sphynx' tutorial

OK...so I MIGHT be a dumb as I look...

You actually have to USE A BITMAP!!!
(thought I was using one, but they say the eyes are the first to go...they do say that don't they, it's not something else is it??!)

Second try worked perfectly. Thanks muchly Boss!! You must be so happy and proud of helping us noobs/newbs (whichever!) rip off your work!

Thanks again for your help!!

You don't havt to USE a bmp, but you need to SAVE as a bmp. And yeah, it's not just .bmp 100, it's bmp_100, so it's actually easier to open the wall...jpg, png, gif, whatever in Paint and save it as a 24 bit bmp overwriting bmp_100. That's the easiest way I've found, because Paint opens really fast unlike Photoshop.

I DO enjoy helping people out. Sad to say, when I was trying to figure out how to make a splash and knew nothing about 32 bit and alpha channels and all that, nobody that knew and that I asked would tell me or reply to my email. Sphynx was the one that showed me how when I asked him, and then he posted the tutorial shortly afterwards.

It took me quite awhile playing around before I could make a halfway decent one, but at least I knew what I had to do.

I have been using paint.net (a freebie program to get started) and used it to save the wall jpeg as a bitmap, and the rest worked great! Mostly I have messed around with creating icons from existing images, and have now started creating images (like my avatar) and starting to think of creating in layers. So this gives me something else to "mess" with!!

I have just in the last few days started entering the forums, even though I've "hung around" WC for months. It generally seems the experienced people are helpful (maybe even a little more so after Brad's year-end article/rant!). I must say I have checked out as much of your work as I could find (all amazing, V Box in use right now!), mostly here and Deviantart, and had already noticed the help and encouragement you have offered people. It seems like whenever there is a logon posted you are there to comment! Like I said earlier, I don't expect to be able to necessarily be able to create masterpieces, but I do enjoy figuring out how things are created and work. Hopefully I'll be asking more involved questions soon!

Again, thank you for the time and help - it is greatly appreciated!

Mark

O.K.
My turn. I don't have PS. I have PhotoPlus 6.0, Paint.Net, and MGI PhotoSuite 4. I had Jasc PhotoShop, but a virus wiped that out before I got a change to even open it. When I brought my new all-in-one from Dell, I got the software disc, but it didn't work. I don't know if any of these will work with logons, but I will give them a try.