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Creating Alpha Icons

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Topic: Creating Alpha Icons

Posted By: Tim Horst
Subject: Creating Alpha Icons
Date 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.

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Posted By: Ark42
Date Posted: 30 January 2005 at 1:25am

Get this:
http://ark42.com/freeimage/alphahlp.exe - 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.