I googled the hell out of this, and tried many things, this is a last resort.

>>27
Hello!

You need to get photoshop first and learn how to use actions.

After that I can give you a step by step process on how to do it.

Someone actually cares to help on the internet... This place is a murderous heaven of sea-cats after all! T_T (Happy tears. >_> The parts of the internet I started out on were full of trolls. :P)

Sure, lemme get photoshop, I can follow instructions pretty well, and know the interface decently from previous use in the past.

>>30
Okay, I'm gonna do what I normally do, then write down the steps of the process and put them up here. So be patient until then.

*Drools*

Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatboooooox
I may possibly be hyper right now.

*Sobers up from the wierd-session*

Ok ok, thanks Astaroth-Sakutarou. I really appreciate it. Just installed Photo-shop.

>>32
1. Open file
2. Set foreground color to white and background to black
3. Click on the rectangular marquee tool
4. Select the entire area where the sprite (not the mask) is. That includes all the black in the background, but make sure not to select the white area of the mask cutout.
5. Cut the selection. The background should be black if you changed the colors.
6. Go up to the image menu, and click Trim
7. Choose Top Left Pixel Color
8. All the black should be cleared away
9. Paste down the sprite, which should be centered over the mask and obscure it completely.
10. Select and cut the background layer (the mask)
11. Delete the background layer
12. Select the sprite layer and click the Add Layer Mask button
For the next step, the action command won't work properly, as far as I know. You'll have to do these next steps manually.
13. Alt-click the picture of the sprite in the layers panel.
14. Paste the mask in. It should appear in the little mask panel adjacent to the picture in the layer panel.
15. Invert the colors of the mask layer (ctrl-i)
16. Right click on the mask picture in the layers panel
17. Choose Apply Layer Mask
18. Use the trim command to trim away the transparent parts

That should be it!

Thanks! I won't forget your kindness. I'll pay you back 3 times at some point this year, under a different name!.

>>33
Oh, actually the last step is this : save as a .png. You might be able to make an action script for that one.

Just one last question, there's no way to automatize the other parts as well (Lazy man's conundrum). If that's the case, would you possibly know where to download the sprites? (hundreds of sprites is gonna hurt, and I plan on usin' em too. :3)

In the past, maybe around early 2010/late 2009 I found a package of sprites from this website, before it was taken down, would you happen to have those, or know who put that up? (I know I'm going a little rapid, but I'm desperate, and ashamed I even lost those sprites in the first place.)

>>37
I'm inquiring about it right now.

Thanks. ^_^"

These packs only have the new sprites from episodes 7-8. The complete one from episode 6 (that also includes all the old sprites) is too big to upload to mediafire, but if it's needed too maybe I can upload it to megaupload or something.

http://www.mediafire.com/?xuapqiy0xumypl9
http://www.mediafire.com/?24p1m7bb4qfi814

>>40
Don't worry, I got that one covered.

Thank you guys so much.

Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?705i5zehyheskw7
Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?1ve8a29gksl32wu
Part 3: http://www.mediafire.com/?rh51t40a5avpj23

Download all three, then run the first one and it should extract normally.

I've decided then, if the community here is even close to the kindness you have shown me, then I'm in. I also wanted to share some of my gameboards that are in my head, maybe even put them in sound novel format. :)

Thanks Astaroth-Sakutarou. :)

>>44
No problem, happy to help~