Endless Paradigm

I posted this on PSP Hacks a while back.

For anyone who hasn't seen it, here's a quick and
painless way to let photoshop recolor all of your icons
using an automated script.

Adobe Photoshop has the ability to "record" changes made to an
image, as i will explain here. This will allow you to recolor
only one icon, and with one click,
let photoshop make all of the changes to
the other icons for you.

In this case, i will be editing RaiderX's blue psp suite icons.

1. Open your topmenu_plugin.rco in Zinga BuRgA's rco editor:



2. Create a folder where you want to extract the icons.
    Select extract all  

(after extracting, delete everything except the bitmaps
  you are going to recolor)




3. Browse to the folder where you extracted the icons,
copy and paste one of the icons to your desktop,
and open it in Photoshop.



4. In the History/Actions window,  click on the little folder
at the bottom of the pane. this will create a new set.



In this case, i will name the set "Recolor".



"Recolor" will now show up in the actions pane.



5. Now you will need to create a new  "Action"
   click on the icon to the right of the little folder in
   the history/actions pane.



In this case i will name the new action "Invert Recolor".



After creating the new action, click Record.

Photoshop will now begin "recording" any changes
you make to the icon.

In this case, i will invert the icon,
and change the Hue/Saturation to recolor it.



after making changes to the icon, save and close it.

6. In the actions pane, you will see your new set and action
    you created. it has recorded the changes
    you made to the icon (Invert & Hue/Saturation).

now you want to stop the "recording".

click on the little square icon all the way to the
left in the actions pane.



7. Now wee will let photoshop automatically recolor
    all of the icons for you. click on file, scroll down to automate,
    and click on batch.



8. In the top of the pane, you will see your set and action.
    now you are going to "play" the set and action
    you previously recorded.

choose your source folder (where you extracted your icons)
and your destination folder ( in this case I'm choosing the same folder,
since I'm going to overwrite all of the icons)



Now click ok.

Photoshop will now start "playing" the recording you made.  

It will open every icon in your source folder, invert it,
and change the hue/saturation for you.



9.The final step:

open the topmenu_plugin.rco you want to edit with
Zinga BuRgA's rco editor, select

"replace multiple"

browse to the folder where you just edited your
icons in Photoshop.



click ok, and you're done !!!!



In addition, this would also apply to any actions you create
(desaturate, selective color, color balance, brightness/contrast,
filtering, image resizing, etc.)

Lol , very good guide man . I was always trying to use the batch , but really never put effort on it . Thanks


Edit : great guide , all done in a minute.

gsmoke Wrote:Lol , very good guide man . I was always trying to use the batch , but really never put effort on it . Thanks

no problem gsmoke. It looks like a lenghty process, but once you get used to doing it,
it will take you under 5 minutes to complete the whole process.

Thanks for the guide.  Yeah batch processing is win :P

Thanks for the guide. This will surely be helpful for many out there.(^_^)

will this work on 3.71? 'cause i tried recoloring/inverting a topmenu_icon.rco and it gave me an invisible xmb. :(

cptnappy Wrote:will this work on 3.71? 'cause i tried recoloring/inverting a topmenu_icon.rco and it gave me an invisible xmb. :(

cptnappy,

It has nothing to do with your firmware.

You probably have Don't compress images and models (for some 3.7+RCOs)
unchecked in RCO Editor options. Make sure it's checked and then inject the images.

tried unchecking it. still the same results. it's either no xmb or the rco editor gives a runtime error

here's the scenario:
i extract the contents of the topmenu_icon.rco into a folder. i copy one to desktop. use the steps above to invert the colors. then i open the topmenu_icon.rco and then use replace multiple. but it either gives a runtime error with rcoeditor 1.15c or invisible icons with rcoeditor 1.12a

cptnappy Wrote:tried unchecking it. still the same results. it's either no xmb or the rco editor gives a runtime error

here's the scenario:
i extract the contents of the topmenu_icon.rco into a folder. i copy one to desktop. use the steps above to invert the colors. then i open the topmenu_icon.rco and then use replace multiple. but it either gives a runtime error with rcoeditor 1.15c or invisible icons with rcoeditor 1.12a

Use 1.15c, but don't replace multiple, replace them one by one. This tuts kind of old. RCO Editor crashes when replacing multiple if you have 0 size files in the directory. I haven't been able to replace multiple in the topmenu since 3.52 M33 without problems.

robs1968 Wrote:Use 1.15c, but don't replace multiple, replace them one by one. This tuts kind of old. RCO Editor crashes when replacing multiple if you have 0 size files in the directory. I haven't been able to replace multiple in the topmenu since 3.52 M33 without problems.

ok, thanks for the advice, I'll try that :)