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GUI bitmap voodoo?

by Maddermadcat · in Constructor · 06/16/2008 (7:25 am) · 2 replies

I'm trying to make my own theme for constructor (one's ugly in my opinion and the other is too bright), and it went well until I got to some of the weirder images - when I try to open them in fireworks, in the preview I see the usual - an image divided up by red lines. When I open the image, however, I don't see any red whatsoever. Tried it in photoshop too, still nothing. Exporting these images results in some extremely weird stuff in constructor - disortion or failure to load. Any ideas as to what they've done to these .pngs?

For example, osxDropDownSmall.png - left is the preview, right is the thing in fireworks.

img175.imageshack.us/img175/6633/osxesk4.png

#1
06/16/2008 (7:52 am)
Looks like the image has an alpha channel... it shouldn't. In Photoshop, just add a layer beneath the buttons and fill it with pure red (255,0,0). Save the new image as a .png (just overwrite or rename the old one) and you should be good to go.
#2
06/16/2008 (1:01 pm)
That did the trick, thanks Ryan. :]