


Notice that this was opened with Paint and it loses it's transparent background and fills it with black in it's place. Here I have opened my terrain.png file in Gimp and drawn a large "T", I used the first brush I could find, but for more detail use the smallest brush with which you can draw pixel to pixel. (2) Let's say for some reason, you want to put a giant "T" on your sand blocks. Notice that this was opened with Gimp, and so it retains its transparent background. (1) Here is my terrain.png before editing. Be sure to move your finished texture packs into the "texturepack" folder in your. To keep it in a separate texture pack from the default, save a copy of the default and edit that instead. Use the smallest brush, which should be the size of a single pixel. For utmost detail, zoom in until the image becomes pixelated.Pumpkin, for instance, has four unique sides. Keep in mind some blocks occupy more than one cube in the png. Use the brush of your choice to edit each individual block.To change the textures, simply zoom in on a block, and use whichever brush you choose to change its color and shading.For example, instead of tall grass you'll end up with ugly gray squares on your lawn. Opening with Paint is NOT recommended, as it will not recognize empty space. png file you want to edit using any photo editing software, such as Gimp or Photoshop. From there go to minecraft/bin/mincraft.jar. When "run" appears open it and in the Run search tab type %appdata%. To access your terrain.png, open your start menu and type "run" in the search bar.

There are several files you can edit, but the one most commonly edited is the terrain.png file, which determines the textures of all blocks, chests, fire and water.
