Bootskin

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I was just wondering if anybody can explain to me why bootskins that I make don't work? I've looked at other ones and made mine the same way and for some reason they don't want to work. Any suggestions?
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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I used skin studio to prepare image as bootskin and it didn't work, then I used paint shop to prepare image and it worked. Go figure.....
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I got it to work but the picture looks real bad, I mean it's all red and just looks plain lousy...
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I use PhotoShop for all my graphic stuff other than ray tracing. The thing that helped the most with bootskins was using an "adaptive" palette. It looks at all the colors in the picture and chooses the 16 that are most prevalent. That way when the number of colors is reduced it looks the closest to the original. The Skin Studio uses a fixed palette and you end up with with a really grainy result. The other trick is to be sure when you save the bmp file to make sure it is saved in 4 bit depth, not 8.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Anbody get this error trying to open a BootSkn zip?

Cannot create folder Program Files\Stardock\BootSkin\Skins\DeadTree\
Cannot create a file when that file already exists.
Cannot create folder Program Files\Stardock\BootSkin\Skins\DeadTree\
Cannot create a file when that file already exists.
Cannot create folder Program Files\Stardock\BootSkin\Skins\DeadTree\
Cannot create a file when that file already exists.