BlackBerry Themes & Animated Graphics

[koyanorei]

so now that i know where the icons that i need are located...

how do you edit icon .png's and maintain image fidelity? i tried opening and editing the images in mspaint.exe so i could achieve the right size for the look that i want, but mspaint.exe doesn't retain the image transparency surrounding the individual icons that make up the whole of the icon list image, for example, "phone-volume-icons-xxx.png". i don't think any of the programs i have will do that. so the question is, once again, what is the best image editor (or .png specifically) for editing icons for themes?

thanks!

[boardical]

You need a more advanced graphics editor that supports palette transparencies and the png format. I personally like Paint Shop Pro, but if you're looking for free, check out GIMP for Windows (http://www.gimp.org), often called the "Free Photoshop". Learning curve is steep, so you could also try PhotoScape (http://www.photoscape.org), which is earning high marks for a free photo editor (I have not personally used this, but it looks like it will do the trick and is probably more straightforward than GIMP). Good luck.

[micjenks]

Gimp takes some getting used to but works very well, especially since it's free.  Eventually I stepped up to photoshop but I used Gimp with great results for over a year.