11-14-2003, 06:20 AM -
"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime."
-- Ancient Chinese Proverb
Instead of doing it for you, I'll teach you how to do it yourself using Paint Shop Pro. This way you can change the colors to whatever color you like, whenever you like.
1. Open digits.png in PSP. Make sure you aren't using this skin at the moment.
2. In this case, you'll notice that it's black and white, and that those are the only two colors available to use. To fix this, we need to increase the color depth. Go to "Colors", then "Increase Color Depth" and click on "16 Million Colors (24 bit)".
3. We're going to be replacing colors, but first we want to pick the color we are going to replace. Select the color picker tool (the eye dropper, between the magic wand and the paint brush). Now right click on any part of the numbers in the digits.png file. This "grabs" the black color and stores it as your palette's alternate color. To verify this, look at the two colors at the top of your color palette toolbar (usually docked to the right of your window). The one on the right should be black.
4. Now click your primary color (the one on the left). This opens up a dialog box where you can select your new primary color. This will be the color of your digits when we are done. Once you pick a color, press "OK".
5. To do the replacing, select the color replacer tool. It's the one that looks like a box, red on the left half, blue on the right half, with a red arrow pointing into the blue half. It's usually between the clone brush and the retouch tool.
6. Open up your tool options palette window. Change the size to 16 (the height of the image), the step to 1, and the density to 100.
7. Now the fun part: click anywhere in the image. Notice how the old color is replaced by the new color everywhere you "paint", but the background is unaffected? To make this even easier, you can just double click the image, and ALL the old color will be replaced with the new. We're almost done now.
8. To save system resources, we're going to decrease the color depth. Go to "Colors", then "Decrease Color Depth" and click "16 Colors (4 bit)". (We're only using 2 colors, but the 2 color option is only black or white.)
9. Select "Optimized Octree" and "Nearest Color" and click "OK".
10. Now save this file, overwritting the previous.
Your new skin is ready to use!
-- Ancient Chinese Proverb
Instead of doing it for you, I'll teach you how to do it yourself using Paint Shop Pro. This way you can change the colors to whatever color you like, whenever you like.
1. Open digits.png in PSP. Make sure you aren't using this skin at the moment.
2. In this case, you'll notice that it's black and white, and that those are the only two colors available to use. To fix this, we need to increase the color depth. Go to "Colors", then "Increase Color Depth" and click on "16 Million Colors (24 bit)".
3. We're going to be replacing colors, but first we want to pick the color we are going to replace. Select the color picker tool (the eye dropper, between the magic wand and the paint brush). Now right click on any part of the numbers in the digits.png file. This "grabs" the black color and stores it as your palette's alternate color. To verify this, look at the two colors at the top of your color palette toolbar (usually docked to the right of your window). The one on the right should be black.
4. Now click your primary color (the one on the left). This opens up a dialog box where you can select your new primary color. This will be the color of your digits when we are done. Once you pick a color, press "OK".
5. To do the replacing, select the color replacer tool. It's the one that looks like a box, red on the left half, blue on the right half, with a red arrow pointing into the blue half. It's usually between the clone brush and the retouch tool.
6. Open up your tool options palette window. Change the size to 16 (the height of the image), the step to 1, and the density to 100.
7. Now the fun part: click anywhere in the image. Notice how the old color is replaced by the new color everywhere you "paint", but the background is unaffected? To make this even easier, you can just double click the image, and ALL the old color will be replaced with the new. We're almost done now.
8. To save system resources, we're going to decrease the color depth. Go to "Colors", then "Decrease Color Depth" and click "16 Colors (4 bit)". (We're only using 2 colors, but the 2 color option is only black or white.)
9. Select "Optimized Octree" and "Nearest Color" and click "OK".
10. Now save this file, overwritting the previous.
Your new skin is ready to use!