Question about making homescreens

[heres2football]

I was looking at all the homescreens and a lot of them i seen looked really nice. I want to know what program(s) i need to start making my own homescreens

thanks in advance

[eko]

You need an image editor (I use photoshop, Gimp is free I believe and have heard its good) and some sort of text editor. (I use notepad)

[PacoJr67]

I believe there's a tutorial sticky in the homescreen sub-forum. A good place to start would be mad beetle. It can get you most of the way to a good homescreen. Once you get better with xml you could use notepad (or I believe eko uses visual studio)

[rudeboy]

read through this post, there is software but the great ones just use Notepad, any plain Jane ascii editor will work..

[PacoJr67]

ok, retract the last statement since she beat me to it...

[rudeboy]

ps. when it comes to a graphic app... i would suggest Paint.NET, free and kinda PhotoShop a like..

[eko]

yeah thats how gimp is as well, Ive never heard of paint.net but do know people who use GIMP and it is basically a open source photoshop either way photoshop reigns supreme

[rudeboy]

Originally Posted by eko

yeah thats how gimp is as well, Ive never heard of paint.net but do know people who use GIMP and it is basically a open source photoshop either way photoshop reigns supreme

while i agree for the most part... the major factor for coolness is the creator in my eyes, not the software (even though of course it plays a role)

[eko]

Originally Posted by rudeboy

while i agree for the most part... the major factor for coolness is the creator in my eyes, not the software (even though of course it plays a role)

true just makes it more efficient with better software

[heres2football]

Well i tried with mad beetle and gimp and its just too hard to make it look like the ones i have seen so i guess im just gonna have stick with making request but thanks for the info