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Old 8th September 2012, 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Giraffe View Post
Yes, this is the downside of just stealing smilies from other places -- many of them are made for a specific background color, usually white, and don't look good on dark backgrounds.
Most of the buttons/icons are that way, since they're for the most part transparent GIFs. If you feel like messing around with Photoshop you can load in a GIF, switch the palette from Indexed to RGB, and then use the eraser to smooth out the edges. Then under "Save for Web" do a PNG-24 with transparency. You'd also have to switch all the places where the images are referred to, to make them ask for the .png versions, so that may be a bit much.

But it'd look a lot nicer.
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