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General => Off Topic => Topic started by: dxrom on December 29, 2012, 12:03:44 AM

Title: Magery Spellbook Icon
Post by: dxrom on December 29, 2012, 12:03:44 AM
Hey I tore this out of InsideUO and was wondering if anything could make the edges (black border) transparent. I wanna use it as an icon for a program I'm working on, but I don't want it too look dirty with a nasty silhouette. :>
Title: Re: Magery Spellbook Icon
Post by: KaliOfLS on December 29, 2012, 11:36:37 AM
I'm not at home to try it, BUT you might be able to use Photoshop (and if you don't own PS, then I suggest gimp) http://www.gimp.org/
A lot less intuitive or at least hard to translate if you've used PS before and then try to go right to gimp.  Anyway, you can pick a color to become a transparent.  I'm not sure how well that will work because if there is black in the book of the same value, it also becomes transparent.  You may be able to fill the exterior black with another color, and then turn that color transparent.  If you're interested in trying, I can see if I can dig up the tutorial I watched some time ago to do this with gimp.

Title: Re: Magery Spellbook Icon
Post by: The Ghost on December 29, 2012, 02:52:44 PM
if it just a pic of a spell book, you can use paint.  of just print screen UO and cut/paste ur spellbook.
Title: Re: Magery Spellbook Icon
Post by: dxrom on December 29, 2012, 03:51:19 PM
I'm not at home to try it, BUT you might be able to use Photoshop (and if you don't own PS, then I suggest gimp) http://www.gimp.org/
A lot less intuitive or at least hard to translate if you've used PS before and then try to go right to gimp.  Anyway, you can pick a color to become a transparent.  I'm not sure how well that will work because if there is black in the book of the same value, it also becomes transparent.  You may be able to fill the exterior black with another color, and then turn that color transparent.  If you're interested in trying, I can see if I can dig up the tutorial I watched some time ago to do this with gimp.



Yeah, I was afraid I'd have to do it myself :X Gonna fire up GIMP I suppose xD

if it just a pic of a spell book, you can use paint.  of just print screen UO and cut/paste ur spellbook.

Like Shaq, you completely missed the point.
Title: Re: Magery Spellbook Icon
Post by: dxrom on December 29, 2012, 04:24:41 PM
Alright, that was a lot less painful than I thought!

Here is completed .ico just incase anyone else has use for it :>