Unfortunatly Omnigod is in this moment "outta there" It will take a while til he add this to the Apolyton database. Therefore I gave Galdan of http://www.ctp2.de.vu access on it. (It is a german site. But you should able to download the stuff from there witout speaking any german.)
The unit images can be found at: http://www.solarisproject.de/cgi-bin/down/down.pl

Look for Advanced Image Mod für Einheiten

There are also the building images Advanced Image Mod für Gebäude

And the tech images are also there: Advanced Image Mod für Technologien

By the way the advance image pack contains already some unit tgas, because Activision used some CTP1 unit images for advances.

I create an pure black alpha mask of the Captured tgas or try to replace the black color with another color. I had problems to change the black color of the captured avis. Therefore I didn't used them. And I found also some CU0XX.rim files without an video. I was able to get these images into the Great Library by changing the uniticon.txt.

By the way if avi captured are good I would already use them and made some images by using the avi files.

The background of the *.avis is pure black, but where the blackness meets the unit, there is a few pixels of "dark".
I have managed to make a blank unit background by pasting selections of beige over an existing unit background, but then any transparent paste from an avi capture comes out blurry because of the dark pixels.

the ID numbers are 76, 77 and 78.

I made already an image pack for CityMod2. It is working without modifying any textfile.

Now how I made this pack: I used Paint Shop Pro 4.15(, because it was cheap). Than I took CTP1 Great Library screenshots. Afterwards I made for the screenshot a mask of pure black alpha. Everyone who created a unit or city sprite know how to make the alpha channel working.
For those who don't know here is a quote from HOW TO MAKE CTP UNIT GRAPHICS.rtf:

quote: 4. Then to make the Alpha channel, from the top menu, click on "Masks", "New", "From Image". It may tell you that there is alreday an alpha image and ask if you want to replace it. Click on yes. That will bring up another window. On this one select "Any non-zero value" and click "OK".

This alpha mask make your work much easier.

Now you can edit the mask therefore go to the top menu, click on "Masks", "Edit Mask". Now you see the mask: Everything that is black is also black in the original image. Everything that is white is not black in the original image.

How to separate the images from the Great Library:

That can be also done with the alpha mask: Make of the screenshot of the CTP1 Great Library an alpha mask. Edit the mask. Now make everything within the image black. Now click with the magic wand on the black image rectangle. Finish editing the mask and the image is selected. Now you can copy it to a new image. Now you have to look up the name for this picture in the according CTP1 *icon.txt or/and compare it to the *.avi files in order to give it the correct name. And final save it as *.tga file. Make shure there are no masks in the *.tga files and it has the correct size. It should have a size of 160x120 pixels or approximate 38.418 bytes. That are two bytes more then the original *.rim files.

I done this work already for techs, buildings and units. >It can be downloaded from:
http://www.solarisproject.de/cgi-bin/down/down.pl

Part2: How to make good CTP2 images:

I already described using alpha maskes. Now make an alpha mask of a CTP1 image. Edit every part of the mask that should be appear black on the CTP2 background. The black should be changed to white. Then use the magic wand to select every white part of the mask. Finish editing the mask and copy the selected part of the image to the CTP2 background. Put it on the background.

Now you have to make the shadow:

Therefore go to the top menu, click on Image, Effects, Drop Shadow.
That will bring up a window with some options for the shadows. Color is black, opacity is 197 and blur is 9. Vertical offset is 3 and horizontal is -9. You should play with these variables not for every picture are these the correct ones.

But that is not the last part to make good images:

Now you have to blur the edges of the coppied area, therefore use the retouch tool, blur mode, the smallest size and go over every edge pixel with the tool.

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I've also included in another folder on my site a zip file with a basic TGA background for a land unit, and a sample of the Spearman unit with the new background and drop shadow in place. The tga for the Great Library looks very good, and background color matches the color of the other entries. However, the tgas for the army managers and the units within the game look lighter than the existing ones - but all I did was shrink them down from the larger TGA size. Nevertheless, they are more consistent with the overall package.

I used Photoshop to alter them from the existing files.

The images were created in Photoshop - I do not know if they can be read in PaintShopPro. I do know that Photoshop is very flexible in cross platorm artwork, but I do not know if PaintShopPro has that flexability, having never worked with it.

The images are all RGB, Targa (tga), 16 bit, all flattened - (I just rechecked the files), and the tgas have the following size (in pixels)
UPUP158L.tga - 160 x 120 pixels - Great Library image
UPUP158A.tga - 32 x 24 pixels - Purchase image
UPUP158B.tga - 24 x 18 pixels - Army image

The file 'land.tga' is the background that I used. It is set at the largest size (160 x 120 pixels). When creating the tgas, I work in the largest size and reduce the file for each of the different tgas, since they are all proportional to one another.

Since most of the fan created tgas had black backgrounds, I used a magic wand tool to select the black background, inverted the selection and then cut and pasted the image over the background - I also soften black edges with a blur tool. Photoshop also has a feather tool allowing to create soft edged shadows in a separate layer - then all I do is flatten the image.

I also had created all of the files last Friday and had replaced the old ones with the new ones. I did run some playtesting this week with no problem, but I will recheck this Spearman file if I get a chance tonight.

I do not know what your setup is like, but the tgas have to be able to link up with an entry in the uniticon.txt file, so check and make sure that a unit in that file has the numbers

UPUP158L.tga
UPUP158A.tga
UPUP158B.tga

for it's entries in that file

This one has got me stumped. It may be an incompatibility issue between Photoshop and PSP, since I created the images in Photoshop - that is my only guess at this point in time.

The zipped file was corrupted in some way, because when I downloaded the images this morning, I couldn't open them either. I had zipped them from my Mac computer with a program called Zipit. Zipit is supposed to be compatible with Winzip (I use it all the time to unzip Winzip files), but somehow the file format got changed.

I have rezipped the files off of a PC with Winzip, uploaded them, redownloaded them and unzipped them now without any problem, so they should (knock on my wooden head) work.

The background was saved as a 24bit file, as this is what Photoshop defaults to. I would cut and paste the background into each tga file that I would work on, then after I was done flattening it, I would save the tga as a 16bit file.