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Development => General Development => Topic started by: bLiNdThInG on February 22, 2010, 01:10:19 PM

Title: how to make crosshairs?
Post by: bLiNdThInG on February 22, 2010, 01:10:19 PM
ok, well i have searched and all the other topics seem a bit vague, so i made a new one. well i have been trying to create my own crosshairs using photoshop cs4. to make them i create a layer and set the opacity to 0%. i then make a new layer. onto this i put the design and remove and white areas etc. using the magic wand tool and deleting to show the background with the design left. i then save it as a psd. and not tga, or pcx. as i had problems with them before. i then use pconverter to convert to tga. and also resize to 16x16 pixels, however the crosshair looks badly pixeleted (sry i cant spell), is it something i am doing wrong with the process or should i try using a different converter? or save straight from photoshop?. thanks
Title: Re: how to make crosshairs?
Post by: _burnt on February 22, 2010, 01:27:51 PM
ok, well i have searched and all the other topics seem a bit vague, so i made a new one. well i have been trying to create my own crosshairs using photoshop cs4. to make them i create a layer and set the opacity to 0%. i then make a new layer. onto this i put the design and remove and white areas etc. using the magic wand tool and deleting to show the background with the design left. i then save it as a psd. and not tga, or pcx. as i had problems with them before. i then use pconverter to convert to tga. and also resize to 16x16 pixels, however the crosshair looks badly pixeleted (sry i cant spell), is it something i am doing wrong with the process or should i try using a different converter? or save straight from photoshop?. thanks

Why don't you just create a transparent layer and do the artwork there? Then you don't need to remove any white areas etc :)

And save it straight from PS as .tga, i don't know why would you use converter.
Title: Re: how to make crosshairs?
Post by: bLiNdThInG on February 22, 2010, 01:47:48 PM
ok thanks jeejee. its just that when i saved straight as tga once the colours were all messed up, idk why it was weird, but ill try it like this, ty  :)
Title: Re: how to make crosshairs?
Post by: Aniki on January 05, 2011, 12:23:09 AM
when i try to make my own crosshair the white part still shows even tho i deleted it with that magic wand tool =S any ideas why is that?
Title: Re: how to make crosshairs?
Post by: ic3y on January 05, 2011, 12:35:36 AM
save as tga or pcx
Title: Re: how to make crosshairs?
Post by: Aniki on January 06, 2011, 06:17:17 PM
i did save it as tga, but it still doesn't work here's the original pic-

(http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m586/Gursharan_Gill/ch99.png)

and here's how to looks when i save it as a pcx-

(http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m586/Gursharan_Gill/jjjjj.jpg)

and this is how it looks like when i save it as tga-

(http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m586/Gursharan_Gill/omg.jpg)
Title: Re: how to make crosshairs?
Post by: CheMiCal on January 07, 2011, 09:47:45 AM
to get rid of the white square you gotta make sure that the backround in which ur ch is on is a transparent backround. best program for crosshairs is gimp.