how to make your own custom icons

it took me all day yester day to get them to work right but they do now so i was thinking i would share the info
in this tutorial i am using photo shop (i love that thing )

step 1. get your icon (i recommend this site if you want some premade http://www.iconarchive.com/index.php) or you can make one from scratch.

step 2. now that we have the icon we must resize it to do this just go to image on the topbar and select image size or canvus size depending on if you need to make the whole image bigger or just the border.

step 3. now that the image is the right size you need to make sure the background is a true black i do this by going to image on the topbar and then adjustments and then replace colour. select the background of the image and put the options to the left to get a true black (that will be the transparent part of the icon)

step 4. now set the colours to the correct setting. go to image on the topbar and than to mode (if it is in grey scale select rgb than go back into it and) than select indexed now in this screen set palette to system (windows).

step 5. now save the icon as a .bmp and name it the number corresponding to its place in the xmb

1.bmp = settings

2.bmp = photo

3.bmp = music

4.bmp = video

5.bmp = game

6.bmp = network

if you need any help making the Topmenu_plugin.rco check out "asddasit" tutorial here

[DarkPacMan77]

Great tutorial, but I think you guys should combine your threads/ delete this one.

-DarkPacMan77-

Dont expect this to be a sticky, theres too many and yes this should be merged.
Although it meets all expectations of a sticky (besides it being short) it looks pretty good.

[DarkPacMan77]

You should merge this and if you do, tell me and I will delete this.

-DarkPacMan77-

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