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Important Tip for Recoloring Themes
When your doing recolors you have to be very careful with some images, if you are extracting the images with a resource hacker like Restorator then a lot of the recolors will come out wrong.
With some images it is important that you edit them in WSB and then export the image checking the box "don't undo alpha premultiplication"
If you notice any colored image with transparency when exported and not checking that box will be brighter and more vibrant, this is because it represents the image as it was before it was added to WSB or as it looks when you use Edit Image in WSB, if you check that box though it will export the image as it saved in the msstyles.
This means if you are recoloring the images extracted using Restorator the images will end up dull when imported back in again, this can also lead to other sorts of problems if you have to edit one of the images again in WSB as when you save it back to WSB again it can become a different shade to the rest of your images in a start menu for instance.
Here is one such example:
Edited using Edit image in WSB
Edited using images extracted from the msstyles
As you can see the glow on the text has almost been removed in the one extracted from the msstyles, now this is not something you will have to do for all images, batch recolors are a great idea but even then those images have to be imported again within WSB or the alpha premultiplication will not take place and this can cause problems with the images and sometimes it will display a white square instead.
I hope these tips were helpful for you all and that you can continue to do great recolors in all of their glory.
Some info on Premultiplied alpha
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