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Old 09-29-2008, 07:20 PM   #196 (permalink)
jasonandre
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Originally Posted by NA for now View Post
i used one of the " splash screens" from Navigation Splash-Screen Hack Tutorial - 6.11C and that screen worked perfect. I opened that exact pic in paint, edited it ( so dimensions remained, saved it, and tried it, and it didn't work ( black screen ) i noticed in the properties that mine is saved by ms paint as 24 bit and everything says to make it 16 bit, but when i do that, it's degraded HORRIBLY... also.. the pics that you can downloand and use right off the tutorial, are in 96 dpi ( matrix ) or 32 bit ( red ice florish ) so im wondering how important those parameters are.
All of the pictures must be 16-bit. MS Paint is not capable of converting a picture to 16-bit without it horribly degrading. That is why I suggest everyone use Adobe Photoshop or a similar program.

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Originally Posted by NA for now View Post
Can I email you my pic and have you convert it to 32 or 16 without it degrading in quality ? or make it work in whatever way its not right,

Thanks in advance.
Sure, feel free to PM me your email address.

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Does anyone have this picture file? When I originally hacked the start screen in 2006, I used this. I just got the updated Nav DVD (6.62) and want to do it again, but I can't find the picture again
I believe that was custom-made by someone else. Sorry, but I don't have it.
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