Making own car symbol using pic

[maca2]

I am sure I read somewhere that you can use a picture of your own car & convert it to a bmp file so you can use it on the TT as the car symbol.

Any pointers as to how you can do this ?

[Privateer]

Hi maca2,

You mean TomTom Custom Cursors. Have a look at the PocketGPSWorld article, here. The instructions for creating and installing your own Custom Cursors can be found towards the end of the article.

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[maca2]

Thanks for the link.

The problem I have is that in MS Paint on Vista when I click re size it just make a small part of my pic 80x80 pixels & does not shrink the who pic of me car. Can anyone show me how to re size a pic of me car to 80x80 pixels ?.

I can do the rest like remove the background & make it red it's just this re size bit that has me stumped.

[Pocketgps]

[GerryC]

First make the image square with the car in the middle. You then have to "stretch/skew" (in Paint XP anyway) and use the % controls to resize the image.

You'll need to use 80/current image size*100 - eg if it's currently 250x250 it's 80/250*100=32, shrink the image to 32% on both vertical and horizontal. This will make it 80x80.

I suspect you have been changing the image attributes which just cuts the result from the top-left corner.

Paint is more than capable to do this.
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[maca2]

Great thanks

[Andy_P]

For a long time the team at Pocket GPS World were offering to make the icon for you if you sent them a picture. I don't know if the offer is still open.

One hint, take the picture from behind (obviously!) but also from above if possible (e.g. from a first storey window). It looks much better when it's on the TT screen.

[maca2]

Managed to convert one pic of my car last night with great success, but it was a pic of the front end of my Outlander so it looks like I am very good at driving backwards at speed.

Thanks for the info, I will get round to taking a pic of the rear end slightly from above over the weekend.

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