How to : Menu Backgrounds, Tutoiral

Hey duders, it seems like many people are interested in making Main Menu Backgrounds, so I very carefully made this tutoiral for everyone.

---(((YOU NEED EITHER PHOTOSHOP , or PAINT SHOP PRO (or some program that can resize images by pixel) )))---

Download! ( Game Graphic Studio COMES with Download! All pictures shown below, and a Ready to use title.dat)

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Tutorial : (All these pictures come with download)












If you did all the steps correctly , This should be the results:



I hope this helps!

I keep on getting an error when reducing color depth, my picture is here.

And my error looks like this

Also you might want to update your thing caus the title.dat is edited with a drffrent picture.

Oh is It? I meant to make it original, I must have copy and pasted the wrong Title.dat , I have like 30 of them in a folder

As for the error, Lemme look into this, I think I know what the problem is. I see you made it a BMP file, so that is good, ill get back to you soon

Hmm.. From the error you got, it looks like the Program can't find a file that it needs, or a code line in a file , Meaning it isnt "installed' correctly.

Some programs like I did with this one, can work fully ANYWHERE in the computer, from a simple copy and paste, but others NEED to be installed with the programs ... Installer that you download, for it might put a file somewhere else in the computer other then just that folder.

So what it looks like is I need to update all my downloads with the game stuido Installer, instead of just the raw files


Oh and red : It works fine for me , it must be the problem the is explained above .. I'll try and make sure this is the issue and get it fixed


Example for you red :

sweet!!! thanks wizard this is a big help

Yeah this will help alot.

For the most accurate representation, the image should be saved using an 8-bit bit depth, not 32-bit. Otherwise you get those edges where the color changes, as you can see in the first post.

If your source image is a not an 8-bit image, you can do "Save for Web", save it as a 256-color GIF, choosing the best resulting quality palette and dithering method during saving, then reopen the GIF image in Photoshop, and resave it as an 8-bit BMP.

Ok, I'll get the posts fixed up with this , giving the credit to you for the tips. Thanks

sorry,I can't follow your step8
how to replace a different picture for the #80?
I have try many times


I had get the 8 bit bmp 512*256px.but next step how to do that?

I also don't know how to save the edited title.dat.......

because my poor english I can't to express that very well.....


thanks

You don't want a pic over #80 , only 77,78,and 79.

no , you don't understand my meaning
look my picture I used biohazard 4 not re4,so the title.dat's size is 3.29mb.
it should be different from your re4's title.dat
I just want to say this step "simply left click on the picture and drag it over...."
but there not any changed....I though if I do some wrong thing..

Oh, yes there is a reason for this, Took me a bit to figure out

Right click on your Title.dat , click on "Properties" and make sure "Read only" IS NOT Check marked, Then click "Apply" then Ok.
If it is check marked, it will not allow any editing to the file.

Example:





I hope this helps

yeah I have succeed

thank you very much!

No problem, I'm very glad to be helpful on the forums.

(facepalm) my attempts didn't work because it had a 'read only' attribute on it?? now i feel stupid.