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  Jun 29 2008, 06:28 AM
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User Account logon picture/logo/icon whatever you want to call it.... How do we make it transparent?, ie I want say a circular picture and anything outside the circle to be transparent so that my custom logonui graphics show through the transparency. (Using custom visual style and editing logonui.exe with reshacker) I know it should be 48x48 pixels BMP (although GIF works too and probably JPG), initially I tried magic pink (RGB 255,0,255) and have tried Gif Movie Gear which seems to have limited success in re-mapping the transparent colour background (when displayed in the User Account dialogue the background of my picture is showing through the white of the dialogue background), however when I go to log in the background of my picture obscures everything underneath with black. O_o Does Logonui have its own palette different from windows (magic pink didnt work here either, it was just bright pink). And if so what software would you recommend I use.... I have paint.net (latest non-beta version) and gimp 2.4.6 installed (aswell as the 30 day trial of GIF Movie Gear). Edit: Moved topic from XP to the more appropriate forum. ~ Animal |
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Jun 30 2008, 01:28 AM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 284 Joined: 20-May 07 Member No.: 131,991 |
try a .png file format. I had something that was transparent, although i don't know if it worked...
if nothing else, you can just pick the color and change the background to that colour. -------------------- Q6600, 4GB g-skill, 8800GT, P5N-D motherboard  My art |
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Jun 30 2008, 05:27 AM
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.jpg will save with a white background
.gif will save with a white fringe .png is only format with a true alpha/transparacy layer --------------------  |
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Jun 30 2008, 11:13 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 55 Joined: 26-March 06 Member No.: 61,229 |
Okay tried .png, heres the result ....
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p263/al...goniconprob.jpg humph, white this time.  Just tried feeding this pic through gif movie gear aswell and selecting the white as the transparency colour.... still white on the logon screen. I tried googling through a couple of hundred pages varying keywords, but dont seem to be able to find anyone having tried something similar. I am starting to think this isnt do-able, oh well just have to settle for square and stop being so picky. This post has been edited by alt3rn1ty: Jun 30 2008, 11:48 AM |
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Jun 30 2008, 12:51 PM
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Member Group: Banned Posts: 90 Joined: 22-April 08 From: Doncaster, UK Member No.: 204,605 |
can you send me the pic? or post it here? i'll do it in photoshop for you,
P.S. look at my sig, that's a .png This post has been edited by splodge: Jun 30 2008, 12:53 PM -------------------- |
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Jun 30 2008, 01:50 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 55 Joined: 26-March 06 Member No.: 61,229 |
Splodge pm'd
 thank you.
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Jun 30 2008, 02:32 PM
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Member Group: Banned Posts: 90 Joined: 22-April 08 From: Doncaster, UK Member No.: 204,605 |
i guess you noticed by your sig it is already .png format, you need to ask the site admin at the site/forum you are trying to post it on to set permissions to allow .png, looks like they are only allowing .jpg and .gif, the defaults,
so where you living now? -------------------- |
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Jun 30 2008, 02:43 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 55 Joined: 26-March 06 Member No.: 61,229 |
Hmmm try going here, and right click image, save as, its in png format.
http://s130.photobucket.com/albums/p263/al...orlds_48x48.png I am pretty sure I have the right transparency, it just will not play ball on the logon screen. |
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Jun 30 2008, 02:54 PM
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Member Group: Banned Posts: 90 Joined: 22-April 08 From: Doncaster, UK Member No.: 204,605 |
avatar, sorry, i meant avitar, it is in .png format, full transparency, or it is for me
This post has been edited by splodge: Jun 30 2008, 02:55 PM -------------------- |
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Jun 30 2008, 03:14 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 55 Joined: 26-March 06 Member No.: 61,229 |
I think I may have just found something but its going to take a fair bit of reading, I have caught sight of the uifile in logonui.exe and references to transparency, will get back and let you know if I have found the solution....
http://bfarber.com/Part-1-Let-s-Begin-t6904.html and here for the rest of it http://bfarber.com/XP-Login-Screens-f65.html Edit: The more this goes on I believe I originally posted this in the right place, it is as I believed more an XP technical problem than a graphic manipulation problem @~Animal This post has been edited by alt3rn1ty: Jun 30 2008, 03:23 PM |
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Jun 30 2008, 03:36 PM
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Member Group: Banned Posts: 90 Joined: 22-April 08 From: Doncaster, UK Member No.: 204,605 |
wow! i'm sure the answer is in there somewhere, cant remember if .png is a bitmap or not, i know animated .gif's and .swf's are not all 3D formats to, but my sites and this site allow .png, so it should not be a problem
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Jun 30 2008, 06:28 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 55 Joined: 26-March 06 Member No.: 61,229 |
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p263/al.../Logon-Orig.jpg
I give in, tried mapping palettes from logonui.exe bitmaps into various different formats of my user account pic, and again re-trying magic pink (but the values set in bitmap 112).... getting tired. Its like the palette of the user account pic is mapped in a different way to the logonui bitmaps and just overlayed, or there is a 48 x 48 square blank graphic underneath the user defined pic which isnt transparent and needs locating. Thanks for taking time out to try anyway  , and for me at least I have learned a few things along the way... I may yet skin this cat a different way.
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Jul 3 2008, 11:15 AM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 284 Joined: 20-May 07 Member No.: 131,991 |
just pick the color of what it would be transparent looking of, and then stick that as the background color.
-------------------- Q6600, 4GB g-skill, 8800GT, P5N-D motherboard My art |
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