How did you do it?

That would be awesome, but we have

- 3 main menu background
- 2 difficulty backround
- 2 load/save background
- 1 settings background

How did you do it?

2 hours of Photoshop.

I'll do them one at a time...just tell me the names of the files.

Btw.: You never said anything about the splashscreen I send you via mail :(

I mean this one:

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/6994/oig.png

open-ig-images-*.zip

generic/start_1.png
generic/difficulty_1.png
generic/options_1.png
generic/setup.png

I'll keep my splashscreen, and somebody else offered me to redo some part of 
it. I didn't want to use one of the IG1 boxart for the splash due the IG2 DLC.

I think that image might be still copyrighted by a single artist and contains 
affiliations.

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Improved Start1:

http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/9711/start1.png

Setup is a real pain in the *** :)

Setup first draft:

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/7880/setupc.png

Another one bites the dust:

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/4509/difficulty1.png

Difficulty no 2:

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/3088/difficulty2.png

Thanks. They look great.

Second start:

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/4393/start2a.png

The last start screen:

http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/1640/start3ln.png

Start2 finally has it's spaceship in the upper right corner restored instead of 
this ugly composed "something" I created before:

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/4601/start2ow.png

I HATED this one (took definitely too long):

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/3241/options2u.png

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Thanks. Excellent work!

Sorry. Deleted the comment. Once again:

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/6798/options1.png

Done. Thanks. Will be available in the next release.

Just to be sure: open-ig-0.94.366 doesn't include the changes does it?

Release 0.94.366 does.

oh...I thought you would remove those grey boxes at least on the start menus :(

The menu colors and the background colors sometimes conflict. If I only put 
darkening around the menu text only, it doesn't feel better:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/713/openigmenuclean.png/

Why did you even needed a new cleaned background for this one:

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6979/java2012042921491786.jpg

The way it's being used your background was totally fine...you don't actually 
see much of the image anyway.

Just look at DOS IG. It can work:

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/9275/dosbox2012042921522794.jpg

DOS IG's main menu is hard to read that way. Lots of light-light collisions are 
in the menus, it's hard to do it without black boxes. Usually, such screen 
graphics are designed with the menu location in mind 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NC_HhWUDFOI#t=8s).

The cleanup had its reason from start: we might show more one day.