Creating perfect cursors in Revolution

[Jim Ault]

Excellent contribution.
I am sure that many have done battle and given up.

Thanks
Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On 6/5/06 10:11 AM, "Stgoldberg at aol.com" <Stgoldberg at aol.com> wrote:

> For the past two years I've benefited greatly from advice given through this
> forum, so I'd like to give something back in return.   Creating cursors in
> Revolution has been problematic. Despite creating 16x16 images in black and
> white, sometimes the cursors do not show up correctly on both platforms.
> Sometimes 
> there is only a white square or a black filled-in image.   The following
> method shows how to   produce perfect cursors every time for both Macintosh
> and 
> Windows (qualifier: I used Mac OS X, Revolution 2.7 and Photoshop 7.0 to
> create 
> them, and I'm not sure how other versions would work):
> 
> Directions for making cursors in Revolution:
> 1.   Open Photoshop. Name the image, Mode being RGB color, Background
> Transparent, and width and height 16 pixels.
> 2.   Change Image/Mode to Indexed Color, using the defaults for indexed color
> (Palette: Exact; Forced: Web; Transparency checked; Matte: none)
> 3. With image maximally magnified, used the pencil tool to insert black or
> white pixels.   Enclosed areas can be filled with white or black if desired
> and 
> pixels can be erased if desired.
> 4.   Save as PNG.
> 5.   Bring the PNG image into Revolution and note it's ID number (it may be
> 1003 for instance).
> 6.   In the script to call the cursor write:
> on mouseUp
> set lockcursor to true
> set the cursor to 1003 -- if that's the ID number
> end mouseUp
> 
> It is interesting that sometimes there can two identical pictures in
> Photoshop, one of which will show up cursors correctly and the other will show
> up only 
> a white square or a black filled image, even though all the parameters in
> Photoshop seem to be the same!!   I don't know why this should be the case but
> it 
> implies that there is something different about the two images even if not
> apparent.   This can be easily corrected either by creating a new Photoshop
> 16x16 document, carefully duplicating the pixels of the defective image, or
> more 
> simply, just pasting the defective image into the new Photoshop document.
> The 
> cursors should then appear fine.
> 
> I plan to attend the Revolution conference next week in Monterey and will
> bring 25 cursors I've created for those interested in using them.   Perhaps
> they 
> might be incorporated into a future version of Revolution.
> Steve Goldberg
> President, MedMaster Inc
> stgoldberg at aol.com
> www. medmaster.net
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