This is for Xrystal! (Requesting Sticky, please.)
I'm using
Paint Shop Pro 8 for these directions.
Open your finished
2560x512 image. Make sure that your background layer is transparent. Go up to
Layers,
Merge,
Merge Visible.
Go up to
View, click on
Toolbars and then click on
Web. This will give you a new web toolbar. On the new toolbar, click on the
Image Slicer (shaped like a stop sign cut into 4 quarters).
A new window will open and this will be the Image Slicer.
In the Image Slicer window under the
Format listing choose the
PNG option. Click on the
Optimize Cell button and then choose the
Transparency tab. Choose
Alpha Channel Transparency and Existing Image or Layer Transparency. Click ok. Tick the box for
Apply Optimization to Whole Image.
In the Image Slicer window under the Tools heading click on the Tic-Tac-Toe image. There's a big box up top of the Image Slicer that has your image inside of it. Click your mouse once on the image and another smaller window will open. This is the Grid Size box. You want
0 Rows and 5 Columns. Click on Ok. You're almost done!
Click on Save As. Name it index.htm (this assumes you've already created an empty folder to place the images). Your images are in the folder, and you can delete the index file.
You will need the image converter
located here on WoWI. Drop the exe file into the folder where your sliced images are located. Now (with your mouse) drag one png file at a time over the top of the BLP2PNG.exe file and it will convert it to a blp file. Do that with your remaining png files and you're done converting your images