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    Default Tetris999's easy make the damn black background in xmb icon go away guide

    As ive been asking about five gazillion times (with other users) is that many of our icons we had made were in theory supposedly were correct.

    anyway when we flashed our xmb icon the damn black background was still there even when we copied the SAME color as everybody ELSE!! (wtf!), making the icon hideous, I plunged through a list of useless information on how to resolve this and i finally found the way out, and it wasnt hard to explain really....

    (ONLY FOR PHOTOSHOP)

    first to start off we gotta make a 64 by 64 picture, and colour the whole thing with a selected colour use black

    the hexcode for it is easy, 000000

    so you get a icon that looks like this



    a no brainer, fill the icon in with black, now make a new layer

    now on this layer, put your icon, make sure to get rid of the surronding background behind it



    now onto getting that black background to... DISAPPEAR!

    Now go to indexed color



    after doing this do ok to everything

    now you should have your icon there ready to go so save it as a .bmp and with 8 bit color

    Now when you flash your icon the background of the damn icon (the blackness surronding the icon) will not be there anymore!

    Thanks for reading my guide, also post comments or problems below

    May you make some awsome icons now!

    Tetris999

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    Cool guide Tetris. I just use this:

    www.icon-maker.com


    It's pretty n00b friendly.

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    Awesome guide though Tetris999 ;-)

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    still things can be made via photoshop in this one, i tried the icon maker it does a very crappy job getting the colors right most of the time ure picture will be in grey and white

    and photoshop rules!

    also this guide is pointed at ppl making the icons via photoshop one of the best image editing proggys and wanting to save them and flash them without those annoying backgrounds

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    Yeap there you go thats what i was talking about but i though you need it for paint

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tetris999 View Post
    photoshop rules!
    True that.

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    i lost my skills in photoshop, thats y i dont have a small banner in my sig..

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    Quote Originally Posted by xg917 View Post
    i lost my skills in photoshop, thats y i dont have a small banner in my sig..
    i got this kirby animation i made myself

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