loading screen question

Hey I noticed your custom loading screen for the generic background for the humans. I extracted the human picture and realized that for the right side it was bout a megabyte for the picture. Is there something you did that made the picture smaller or how does that work? And is there any special tricks for blending the picture like you did into the old screen and tricks on how to get the loading screen to work?

Thanks, I would appreciate the feedback and help.

I used Photoshop to remove the grillwork from the top and bottom of the original right panes and overlaid it on my screenshot. I placed a layer of a tan color very similar in composition to an average of the colors used on the parchment of the original panes between the grill and the screenshot, and then changed the opacity until it made the screenshot look like an extension of the parchment.
I overlaid the text lastly, and then flattened it all and cut it into pieces of the appropriate sizes to be the right two panes of the original screen and converted it using War3Viewer over and over until I found the greatest level of compression that I was comfortable with (where compression and image quality are in competition) and imported the panes in the locations of the panes for the human loading screen.

Sorry I didn't answer sooner; I didn't see your thread right away.

Thanks so much. With your description it sounds like a ton of work. I will probably just try to get it on there and then later try to make it look nice. I don't have photoshop so refining it would be difficult. Thanks for the reply.

-Tiger
Legions of Hell Aos
Loh.zapto.org

excellent i got it to work =)
I will probably change it later but for now i just edited the mountain king picture for the huamn mplayer screen and put the text over it. Text is better than nothing. Thanks for the help.

P.S. Wish i saw ur map online more, its chill.