WindowBlinds question

What color depth had you used originally, and what did you reduce it to? Im my very limited experience it is very difficult to reduce the color depth and still have images look the same as when you were using unlimited colors. Try starting out with a more limited palette.

I had started out with 24bit color, however many of my images used 40 or fewer colors and thus I was able to reduce by quite a bit.

Are you saving it as an RLE BMP? I think that would cause WB to not recognize the images.

I just noticed you lost the colors for the desktop color settings too. (pays to read more carefully) It sounds like WB enforced a limited color pallet, just using the colors in your images and not allowing the Windows pallet to work. A reboot should have cured it...

Jobeleca, I wouldn't worry about color depth so much as the physical dimensions of images.

Your MDI and dialog backgrounds and your start panel places list image, for example, are pretty large (maybe 200x200 pixels) and they are just a solid color. They really only need to be a pixel or two to get that solid color to tile.

The start panel user pane (top panel) is also much wider than is necessary to tile it.

Finally, make sure you delete Windows XP's thumbs.db file from your zip. It is generated by XP when you view a folder in thumbnail view, and it is a pretty large file.

I hope that's helpful. Keep on skinning!

Thanks for the tips

4 meg off?...blimey, how big WAS it?...

, 5.something MB

I have switched off the 'store thumbnail data' option in XP to avoid such problems. You often see the 'thumbs.db' in uploaded themes and graphic-zips expanding them unnecessary...