hey im trying to skin those bars in my explorer but when i convert the image to bmp and put it into shellstyle.dll when windows shows it it has some of the color chopped out and replaced with white? do i need to use less color if so how many colors are supported?
pleasssseeee help
before and after images below
btw im using fireworks
Full Version: need help, trying to skin explorer
Is that part supposed to be transparent? If so, did you save it as a 32-bit bitmap, because only those have an alpha channel.
Quote - (hdood @ Apr 15 2009, 17:49) 
Is that part supposed to be transparent? If so, did you save it as a 32-bit bitmap, because only those have an alpha channel.
no its not suppost to be transparent, it has a white backdrop like the second image
it was fireworks, i opened it in photoshop and saved it as 32 bit bmp and it worked fine. why cant i save it as a 32 bit bmp in fireworks it only goes to 24 bit. and im wayyyy more familiar with fireworks
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