Custom Start Menu Button Collection

gladson1976 said:

Looks nice. :)
Did you check out the Alpha Image Converter tool?

Thanks.. I think it came out nicely for my first orb.

I didn't use the converter for this one though; in all honesty, I prefer to work in PhotoShop's own format and save directly to the format I want to use in the end, I try avoid converting wherever I can.

Only transparency issues I'm having at the moment is trying to determine what colours / areas of the orb Windows makes transparent and what it doesn't. I thought at first that anything black was made transparent, but now I'm not too sure. Since I keep the PSD files of all my work, I'll try saving as PNG and using the converter, I don't really see how, but perhaps that would make a difference.

If I get it to work tonight, amongst others I'll have a 'Happiness and Cyanide' orb tomorrow...

I stuck my Tattoo Start Orb collection on deviantARt, have a look:


And I managed to work my way around the transparency issues, so... As promised, Cyanide and Happiness:

Ok, sorry to double-post like this..... But out of curiosity, is Minotar still watcing this thread?

DocBrown said:

I am sure Minotar will see thes posts. He is in the Great Britain / Ireland Time Zone !

Of course, yes... I wasn't trying to be rude, I just noticed that he hadn't posted in this thread since the 14th of Jan, so I was wondering if he'd moved on to bigger and better things..

love this thread

Another set of simple looking orbs; I find these work well with those 'minimal' style themes as the orbs have no logos or pictures.

Link on deviantART