Toolbar Tranparency?

Hello Aquaxp-Freaks, know anyone of you, how i can create my own shell32.dll toolbar. My prob is that im not become a transparent background with magic pink (255, 0, 255). Im working with PhotoShop 7. On HWG ive found a tut, but i don't realy understand it, it does not explain to become tranparent bg. What must i do, to become a transparent background on the toolbarimage? By Yztoolbar it is no prob to save it in Png format, but for shell32.dll the bitmap transparency backround looks ugly! look at screenie:

Please help with a functional tutorial source or explain it to me. thanks.......

#33132

You have Windows 2000 or Windows XP right? Only works with them. If you have it then i am sorry i cant help you

#33168

When those images were made, did you turn off antialiasing?

#33220

Ok, here you have:

1. Open Photoshop and put all your icon strip in a floating layer (no more than one layer, but most important, no background layer either!) and save it as standard PSD file.

2. Go and download THIS version of GMG: http://www.gamani.com/foricons/index.htm

3. Once installed, open your PSD file and go to main menu File -> Export As -> Individual Images...

4. Select BMP /DIB and check the 24-bit (with alpha) option

5. Choose a name and folder and you're done

Iceman.

#33225

Thanks a lot Iceman, I was just about to generate a post because of this matter.

#34106

Cool Iceman thanks so much!!! I'm verry depressed that i have no succsess!

#34190

Yeaph!!! thx again iceman! here's my work:

Iv'e modded following shell32 bitmaps: 135, 136, 204, 205, 206, 207, 214, 215, 216, 217, 225, 226, 227, 228, 230 and last but not keast 231.

My IE looks like this:

A Toolbar from scratch is a hard work!

#35246

Originally posted by th0re@Jun 24 2003, 05:17 PM

Yeaph!!! thx again iceman! here's my work:

Iv'e modded following shell32 bitmaps: 135, 136, 204, 205, 206, 207, 214, 215, 216, 217, 225, 226, 227, 228, 230 and last but not keast 231.

My IE looks like this:

A Toolbar from scratch is a hard work!

Hey th0re, where did you get the IE icon in this screenshoot?

P.S.: sorry for wrong place for this post.

#35253

Many are from Lynchknot's Safari Theme, some others found on Deskmod.

Are you an iconjunkie too?

#35305