Editing Your Graphic

To edit your graphic

  1. In BitEdit, open Palette.bmp. When you open the file, BitEdit prompts you to reduce the colors to 236 colors. Keep this number in the edit field.

  2. On the Options menu, click Palette. PalEdit starts, displaying the palette to which your file has been indexed.

  3. On the Palette menu, click Make Identity Palette. PalEdit adds 20 Windows colors to the first and last 10 indices of the palette.

  4. Save the palette as Palette.pal.

  5. Switch to BitEdit, and open your original background file.

  6. Save the file with a different name, such as Bgnew.bmp, in the CIE\Bitmaps folder.

  7. Open the renamed background file. From the Options menu, click Color Reduction. Then click Palette File and select Palette.pal. BitEdit dithers your background to the common palette.

  8. Save this file.

  9. Repeat steps 4 through 8 for the button file.

Note
The custom backgrounds and buttons are displayed only on computers with 256-color (8-bit) display capabilities. On computers with 16-color (4-bit) display capabilities, a standard low-resolution background bitmap and button set are displayed.