User's Manual

Tips for Attractive Boot screens (Windows XP only)
For technical reasons, all boot screens in Windows XP may only have 16 colors, of which some are pre-
scribed (e.g. black). TuneUp Styler therefore has to reduce the full range of colors in your composition (nor-
mally 16.7 million) to a very few when you click Save boot screen.
TuneUp Styler uses a sophisticated algorithm for this to automatically determine the best 16 colors for your
picture. If the image contains too many different colors, the results of this conversion may not be sat-
isfactory.
Experience has shown that the best boot screens are those that use only a few different colors. This means
that an image that consists predominantly of different blue shades and only a few contrasting colors will
probably make an attractive boot screen.
Set the foreground color of the progress bar to a color that is contained in your image. This way, you do not
use one of the precious 16 colors in the progress bar only. Wherever possible, avoid skin tones in your boot
screen. Images with skin tones normally cannot be displayed correctly with only 16 colors (ask any graphic
artist). Of course, you may be lucky. The best thing to do is try!
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