Bootskin blahness

They are not 256 colour, but 16 colour....and at this stage you cannot go higher....

Nope, not yet.......Stay tuned thou

well that just sucks. So basicly if I wanted to make one in photoshop and save it as a .png or .bmp file at 16mil I couldnt eh?

Don't blame the proggy....blame Microsoft....that is their limitation....not ours....

Of course you could save it in 16mil colours as .png or .bmp, you just couldn't use it in that format or colour depth when creating a bootskin. But that's what sets most bootskin authors here apart, they know how to create/manipulate fantastic looking images with minimal loss to the overall original effect.
BootSkin does not have the capability of displaying more than 16 colours at this point, but then what other software can you use to legally apply bootskin images without having to hack into a Microsoft system file? Who else is working on displaying more than 16 colours on a bootskin?

I know who I'm sticking with on this issue.
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System booting is handled by a default VGA driver component inherent in all systems, cards and monitors [except fixed frequency ones]....and will be therefore 640x480 res and 4bit colour [16 colour palette].

When the Win OS loads the SVGA driver or these days the wizz-bang 3D thingie with the heatsink and high price tag, then you get 24, 32bit support at 100+ hertz and resolutions beyond 1600x1200.

But not before....

Oooooh... wouldn't that be nice. A boot sequence fully animated and rendered in 3D.

/me drools all over the keyboard.

Yair......somethin' to stare at while ya system takes even longer to load....

reminds me of the days when i drew in MS Paint ....figures....lol

I hope that when truecolor bootskins come out that the bootskin library doesn't become a wallpaper library clone..

It makes you wonder why linux can have a 24 bit bootscreen and windows can't.

Linux would have to load the vid card drivers first before booting to be able to be 24bit....so it'd be a bit arse-about as a 'boot sequence'...