View Single Post
  #11  
Old 04-17-2006, 04:10 PM
MarcFou's Avatar
MarcFou MarcFou is offline
PA Super User
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: AZ. - USA
Posts: 201
Thanks: 0
Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts
Lightbulb

Creating nice looking toolbar images can be difficult. What I normally do is work with transparent PNG's.

After I put together a toolbar in PNG format I save it as a BMP. Open the file back up and re-color the alpha channel white.

This method works fine unless the image (button) is a round shape. Then I convert the alpha channel pixels to grey. I use RGB values of: 128, 128, 128 and also 192, 192, 192.

I attached an zoomed example showing alpha channel converted to the grey colors I mentioned.

Hope this helps.
Attached Images
 

Last edited by MarcFou; 04-17-2006 at 09:41 PM.
Reply With Quote