Creating Alpha Icons

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   Hello,

I need some help with converting an existing 24bit icon strip to a new one with alpha support. (I don't have Adobe PhotoShop installed or any other fancy tool). 
Thanks.

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Tim Horst Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 30 July 2004 Status: Offline Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote Tim Horst Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Creating Alpha Icons Posted: 29 January 2005 at 4:56pm
	Hello, I need some help with converting an existing 24bit icon strip to a new one with alpha support. (I don't have Adobe PhotoShop installed or any other fancy tool). Thanks.

Ark42 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 20 October 2003 Status: Offline Points: 291	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ark42 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 January 2005 at 1:25am
	Get this: http://ark42.com/freeimage/alphahlp.exe You can convert a 24bit bmp plus an 8bit greyscale bmp to a 32bit bmp from the command line: alphahlp -fbmp -j color24bit.bmp grey8bit.bmp alpha32.bmp It can do other things too like convert between formats, split and join image strips into single images 1 per file, and split and join single images into .ico files too.