Custom Splashscreen wrong color

Fuganater

It won't let me upload a .bmp. I just converted these to .bmp in paint.

wilriker

@Fuganater I am not sure if the forum scaled your images but non has the required exact size of 800x480. That by itself will already be a problem.

You can attach the BMP if you put it into a ZIP file first.

rathorp80

@wilriker I did some for @Fuganater with this image but as bmp and he had same result

rathorp80

@rathorp80 wouldnt let me upload .zip of bmp

Phaedrux

@rathorp80 said in Custom Splashscreen wrong color:

@rathorp80 wouldnt let me upload .zip of bmp

to upload either you would have to change the extension unfortunately.

Please try the tool linked by @Jacotheron

Make sure your image is exactly 800x480

Fuganater

@Jacotheron

While I did get this to work. The image still shows up blue. I also tried just a b/w image and it was very spotty. I may try to remake it at some point but I just don't have the time right now.

I really wish this was easier to do.

Phaedrux

@Fuganater well you can share the actual bmp file so we can see what format it's actually in.

Generally the image will look a lot better when you can match the reduced color pallet of the screen, so try setting your color pallet to 16 colors.

wilriker

To add to what @Phaedrux said (and correct a little): The splash screen does not have to adhere to the 16 color palette used for icons but it should work well within 16-bit color space (RGB 5-6-6).

Re spottiness: all of your images here contain a lot of compression artifacts. So I guess they all have been saved as JPG (or any other lossy-compression format) before being converted to BMP. This means all compression artifacts will end up in the BMP as well. And based on the 16-bit color space these will be more or less visible thereafter. So to create a clean splashscreen save the raw image (as created by whichever drawing application) as BMP (or at least PNG). This will avoid compression artifacts.

Fuganater

@Phaedrux said in Custom Splashscreen wrong color:

@Fuganater well you can share the actual bmp file so we can see what format it's actually in.

Generally the image will look a lot better when you can match the reduced color pallet of the screen, so try setting your color pallet to 16 colors.

I'll have to do some googling because I have no idea how to do that.

Phaedrux

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