DIY a beautiful XP system startup screen

        There are many people who like to change the WinXP splash screen. I hope that I can use my own map as the startup screen. However, many people always get a black screen when they use their own pictures as the startup screen. What is going on? Very simple, because the picture does not meet the requirements of the WinXP startup image.

basic requirements

use their own plans to replace WinXP boot screen, you must first understand the basic requirements of this image should have. This image should be 640 x 480 pixels in size and use any 16-color BMP image. After

key issues

looked basic requirement, it is not that simple? However, the pictures made by many friends cannot be displayed normally at startup. Why is this? Because the 16 colors used in this image must be the index color. Here's how to make such a picture through Photoshop, so that interested parties can refer to it.

Step: Run Photoshop, Click "File" → "New", enter a name (FIG. 1) in the Open dialog box, such as the Boot, selected width (640 pixels), height (480 Pixel), the color mode uses the default 8 bits, click the "OK" button.

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Step 2: Click "Image" → "Mode" → "Index Color" (Figure 2), click the "OK" button to continue to the next step. FIG


Step two: Open your favorite pictures, if the picture size of 640 × 480 pixels is not to be clicking "image" Photoshop main window → "Picture size" (FIG. 3 ), then make adjustments.

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Step 4: Copy your favorite pictures to the picture created above, click “File” → “Storage”, select BMP in “Format”, click “Save” The button is saved. Next, set the “Depth” to 4 bits in the open BMP options window (as shown in Figure 4), and click the “OK” button to save.
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In this way, a picture that meets the requirements is obtained, put it under the C drive and set it as the splash screen. The whole production process is very simple, but the key is to use the color must be the index color, otherwise it can not be displayed normally at startup.