I'm just not getting it! I would really like to do some custom back panels like the Manga ones I've seen.
I converted some pictures in Photoshop 5.5 on the mac to greyscale, and then saved them as windows bitmaps, but I couldn't even get them into pronto edit.
Is there an idiots guide to this? Can anyone help put me straight?
Chris

Right here goes (this is via PS6 but I assume it will be similar for PS5.5):

1) Take your spangly, hellish full-colour photo/picture and convert it to greyscale
2) You need to setup a colour table which has the 4 Pronto-friendly colours:
black (0, 0, 0)
white (255, 255, 255)
light grey (170, 170, 170)
dark grey (85, 85, 85)
You can do this is PS by editing the "colour table" and then saving it as an .ACT file
3) Resize the image to 240 x 219 pixels (that's the max res of the standard Pronto)
4) Switch the image into "RGB mode" (if it isn't already) then into "Indexed Colour mode", this will popup a dialog which you can select a "custom" colour table (see step 3) and select dithering (diffusion, 100%)
5) save it as a bitmap (or if you want to save space, save it as a RLE bitmap, but this will be slower displaying on the Pronto)
6) Run up ProntoEdit, create a frame (or button) and load the bitmap as the icon! Et voila!!!

I've skipped a lot of detail here for brevity but I think I've covered the basics.

Make sure your windows bmt is in 256 color and make sure that the size of the picture is the correct size 240 x 219 just because you saved the picture in bmt you have it ture 16,or 24 bit which the pronto is a 1, 4, or 8 bit bmt.

Thanks for takeing the time out to answer, much appreciated, I got it working!!!
Chris