Skinning/ paintshop pro quest???

Monday, February 16, 2004 by NightTrainthedark | Discussion: Stardock Software

I am making an attempt to learn skinstudio. When I try to edit certain skin parts such as "special pane up" or "special pane down" in the task panel I can't edit using the normal pallette colors. It says that gradient patterns can only be used on 24 bit or greyscale items. I use paintshop pro 7 and the usual color pallette changes to only the colors that make up the image I am trying to edit.... Anyone have any advise besides me not venturing into skinning.

Thanks for any help!
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kongit
Reply #1 Monday, February 16, 2004 3:22 PM
look at the image that you are trying to make. get its size and create a new image with the same size. make it look like you want and save it as a bmp. then import it into skinstudio. I think that will work.

NightTrainthedark
Reply #2 Monday, February 16, 2004 4:04 PM
Thank you kongit, i will try that.

eieio
Reply #3 Monday, February 16, 2004 4:32 PM
You can also increase the color depth for the graphic prior to editing.

NightTrainthedark
Reply #4 Monday, February 16, 2004 7:26 PM
Thank you pictoraus. That was the solution!

Koasati
Reply #5 Monday, February 16, 2004 7:54 PM

I see you've found some help. You really didn't need to start a new thread in the Help section, as you question falls under the skinning category I would think.

Anyway, I want to suggest another option to you. Actually it's the same one as kongit's, but I would start the image on a transparent background, and use anti-aliasing, and save as png. Import that and set it use the Tranlucency Switch. You'll have a little more freedom with what you can do with the image that way.





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Koasati
Reply #6 Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:15 PM
#4 by Ingui - 2/17/2004 11:33:42 AM
In PSP7, on the toolbar go to Colors > Increase color depth > 16 million colors. That will give you the pallette you need to use gradients. The default images for those particular buttons your working on are .tga files. Check out the other thread in this section "I need help with .TGAs" (Skinning section) for an explanation of how to set up SS to simplify your life when working with .tga files. Particularly, replies #2, #4, #7 and #10. Hope I got all that right and good luck NightTrain

I'm moving this comment here, and closing the other duplicate thread before things get too confused.  





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NightTrainthedark
Reply #7 Tuesday, February 17, 2004 3:38 PM
I apologize again for the repost. You have been a big help Koasati. I hope I can count on you in the future.

Koasati
Reply #8 Tuesday, February 17, 2004 6:44 PM

No problem NightTrain........ hopefully I'll be around for a long time to come. 





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