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How to Make a Dynamic PS3 Background

The Sony PlayStation 3 Xross Media Bar, or XMB, is a customizable menu interface system. The font, menu icons, sound effects and background images that make up the XMB can be edited using an official Sony application. The creation of dynamic themes, however, requires an unofficial Windows application. Existing PlayStation 3 dynamic themes are edited with the Dynamic Theme Editor program to create new animated backgrounds. Dynamic background asset files are unique and can only be opened and edited with Adobe Photoshop.

Things You'll Need

Adobe Photoshop

Instructions

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  Download the Dynamic Theme Editor application from the PS3 Themes website. Install the 64-bit version of the program only if your computer has at least 4 gigabytes of random access memory, or RAM. Otherwise, install the 32-bit version of the application.
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  Run the Dynamic Theme Editor program. Click on one of the five available theme tabs to select your starting template. The background that you make will be based on this existing template.
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  Click the "Open" button in the "Edit the DDS Files" section of the template menu. Browse to the background graphic that you want to edit.
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  Open the file in Adobe Photoshop, and edit the background image to your specifications.
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  Click on "File" in the main Photoshop tool bar and select "Save" from the drop-down menu.
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  Exit the Photoshop application and return to the Dynamic Theme Editor.
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  Click the "Browser" button in the "Select a Save Destination" section of the template window. Select the desired save destination for the dynamic background file. Click the "Start" button to save the completed file to your computer.

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