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why, everytime i try to make a skin, my windows live messenger does load the image in black&white? how can i make it load the image with the original colors?

i tried to change the formats, bud i didn't have success.... thx 4 the help!!

you have to add this below the picture id. <Metadata><Colorize><false></Colorize></Metadata>
If you want the picture to be colorized by the color of your selection then you have to replace false with true

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Originally posted by Oni MC
why, everytime i try to make a skin, my windows live messenger does load the image in black&white? how can i make it load the image with the original colors?

i tried to change the formats, bud i didn't have success.... thx 4 the help!!

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i had this problem initially

where are you trying to put the picture?

can you show us the code that you've used for inserting the picture in the style/definition file, as well as the section in the SkinInfo.xml

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Originally posted by Basilis
<Metadata><Colorize><false></Colorize></Metadata>

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Isn't it:

code:

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<Metadata>
<Colorize>false</Colorize>
</Metadata>

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But I dunno why, but I don't think this is the right solution anyhow...

As well as including the correct XML for a colorizable image, the original images must be pre-colorized to the default messenger blue color. When this color is selected they will be displayed as is with no colorization applied.