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Programs Needed:
**Photoshop or Paint .NET (Similar programs with layers also work)
**Alpha Converter (Get it Here)
Step 1:
Create your desired image in your photo-editing program (Photoshop, etc.)
Usually the background of your image will be transparent (like the start button for example).
Step 2:
Save your image as a PNG file.
Step 3:
Open Alpha Converter and set the conversion to BMP.
Step 4:
Drag your image saved as a PNG into the Alpha Converter window.
Step 5:
Open the BMP created by Alpha Converter in your image-editing program.
Step 6:
Open your original PNG along with already-open BMP.
Step 7:
Copy the PNG over the BMP and make sure they are exactly aligned with eachother.
Step 8:
Select All (Ctrl+A) and select the background (Ctrl+Right Click).
Step 9:
Press the Delete key (Del).
Step 10:
The background (BMP) should now just be white. Now choose the Paint Bucket tool and use it to make the background black.
Step 11:
Save and overwrite the BMP without making any changes to the settings.
(It should be a 32 bit BMP)
Step 12:
Open Alpha Converter again, and set the conversion to PNG.
Step 13:
Drag the newly saved BMP into the Alpha Converter window.
Step 14:
You're done!
The resulting PNG is now Aero-Compatible (transparency with white boxes).
Hope that's not too confusing, but it really shouldn't be...
Sam
Edited by lhel1te, 12 January 2008 - 09:42 PM.
