Windows 7 Media Center is a great way to organize and enjoy your TV shows and movies, but it can be a bit bland without some added visual flair. If you’re looking for ways to spruce up your Media Center experience, check out the following tips. One way to add some pizzazz to your Media Center is by adding TV channel logos to the Windows 7 interface. This is easy to do and requires no special software or hardware. All you need is a photo editor such as Adobe Photoshop or GIMP, and some creativity. To add a TV channel logo to your Media Center screen, first find a photo of the logo that you want to use. You can find logos for many popular TV channels online, or you can take photos of logos that are displayed on physical media such as DVDs or Blu-rays. Once you have the photo that you want to use, open it in your photo editor of choice. Next, select the area of the image that will be used as the logo’s background. In Photoshop, this will typically be the top left corner of the image, while in GIMP it will be located in the lower left corner. Next, choose either the “Copy” command (Photoshop) or “Ctrl+C” (GIMP) from your keyboard’s menu bar and then paste the logo into this selected area. You can now save your edited image file with whatever name you like and use it as needed in future Media Center projects! ..
Download, extract, and run the installer file.
When the install is finished, go to Start \ All Programs \ My Channel Logos to open the application. As you run My Channel Logos for the first time, it will proceed to download your regional logos to your PC.
After the Logo download is complete, the My Channel Logos windows will open. Click the Auto Populate Logos button to automatically assign logos to your channel listings.
When finished you will see a pop-up window indicating how many logos have been assigned. Click “OK.”
Under Merged Channel Listing, click to expand Channels without logos to see which, if any, of your channels are missing logos.
If you have some missing logos, you can choose to manually assign your own custom 96×42 pixel .png image. To assign a custom logo, click to highlight the channel, then click on the the dark blue box under logos.
This will pop up a browser window to allow you to browse your computer for a logo. When you’ve selected your .png image, click “Open.”
Your new logo will now been added to the channel listings.
Close out of My Channel Logos and open Windows Media Center to The TV listings guide and check out your new logos.
That’s it! Sit back and enjoy the new rich, colorful appearance of your channel listings.
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